[1] He married and emigrated to South Australia, arriving in Adelaide around 1854 and started working as a carpenter for Beeby & Dunstan, millers, of Grenfell Street, and had a residence in the city.
He worked on a wide range of prestigious projects, frequently for architect Daniel Garlick: Each year he held a Christmas get-together of his workers, usually 20 or thirty men, for lunch with their families.
[22] He invested heavily in land during the boom with some success at first, later lost a great deal, and quit business.
[26] His son enlisted with the 1st AIF on 5 October 1915, giving occupation as "Master Plumber", served with the 43rd Battalion, gunshot wound January 1917 rendered him paraplegic, died at 7 AGH, Keswick, South Australia on 6 September 1917.
Their son Private Alfred George Chapman (born 1899) died of wounds 18 April 1918.