The Descendants of Jacques Julien Chopelin

NO, we're probably not related to the great Frederick Chopin. Or at least, if we are, the common ancestor is way back in the Middle Ages or beyond.

Jacques Julien CHOPELIN **
+Jeanne ELUARD du Plessis, born 8 July 1751 Saint-Malo; married 21 July 1768 Port Louis, Ile de France (Mauritius); died
│ about 1806 Toulouse.
│
└──John Francis CHOPIN, Born 1 January 1774 Port Louis, Mauritius; died 22 December 1835 Calcutta. Writer & Assistant, East
India Company; & Indigo Planter.
+Eleanor Ann DUNN, married 14 September 1806 Calcutta; died 1849.
│
├──Charles Francis CHOPIN, born 27 September 1807 Calcutta; died 6 November 1807.
│
├──Eleanor Ann CHOPIN, born 3 September 1809 Calcutta.; married 27 March 1825 Berhampore, India; died 10 January
│1888 Calcutta.
│+James CHESTERMAN, Indigo Planter.
│
├──William Henry CHOPIN, born 23 June 1811 Calcutta; buried 5 February 1812 Fort William, Calcutta.
│
├──John Howatson Smith CHOPIN, born 19 March 1813 Calcutta; buried 25 March 1840 (suicide), Assistant,
│Judicial Revenue Dept.
│+Isabella Alice Whitworth JONES, born 1816; married 20 May 1837 Calcutta; died 18 December 1840 Calcutta.
││
│├──Charlotte Alice CHOPIN, born 2 March 1838 Calcutta; married 5 August 1865 Calcutta; buried 14 April 1868
││Calcutta.
││+Capt. Charles Henry Ricker
││
│└──John Francis CHOPIN, born 29 October 1840 Calcutta; died 26 February 1908 Tuscany
│+Elizabeth Bridget HEARNE, born 19 August 1852; married 24 January 1870 St Paul's Cathedral, Agra; died 19
││November 1921.
││
│├──Francis St. John Charles CHOPIN, born 2 November 1870; died 26 November 1875
││
│├──Mary Alice CHOPIN, born 21 March 1872 Allahabd; died 24 November 1875
││
│├──Ernest Achille Louis CHOPIN, born 19 December 1873; died 22 January 1874 Allahabad
││
│├──Ernest St. Clair Louis CHOPIN, born 9 February 1875; died 1947 East Norbury, Surrey *
││+Helen Mary
│││
││├──Ernest Ferdinand CHOPIN *
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││├──Elvira Mary Antony CHOPIN, born 24 April 1908, baptised Lahore
│││
││├──Mario CHOPIN, born 1909; died at 8 months of bronchopneumonia 10 February 1910,
│││buried at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Lahore.
│││
││├──Galleazzo CHOPIN *
│││
││├──Louise CHOPIN *
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││└──Others *
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│├──Mary Alice Eleanor CHOPIN, born 29 April 1877; married 8 January 1898 Agra Cathedral; died 17 February
││1958 Agra. *
││+George Anthony JOHN, born about 1860. Merchant of Agra & Papal Knight of St Gregory.
││
│├──Francis Charles St. John CHOPIN, born 5 November 1879 Rawalpindi; Died 1942 Surrey. Flour mill manager.
││ Canadian Expeditionary Force WWI.
││+ Mary May Elizabeth GREEN, born 24 January 1892 Mooltan; married 4 June 1907 Mussoorie.
│││
││├──Francis Clairemont St Jean CHOPIN, born 26 August 1908 Delhi
│││
││├──Maurice Anthony Kenneth CHOPIN, born 20 August 1910 Howrah, Bengal
│││+Edna Phyllis FRANSZ, born 2 September 1911; married 22 January 1936 RC Church, Howrah.
│││
││└──Maria Edna Georgette Marguerita CHOPIN, born 4 November 1911; died 27 April 1931 *
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│├──Josephine CHOPIN, born 4 July 1880; died 19 October 1880 *
││
│├──Joseph St. Aubyn CHOPIN, born 26 August 1881; died 3 September 1881 *
││
│├──Eleonore J. L. CHOPIN, born 27 March 1883; died 29 March 1892 *
││
│├──Frederick Joseph CHOPIN, born 6 December 1884 Lahore; died 14 July 1886 Lahore.
││
│├──Charles St Aubyn de Labouisse CHOPIN, born 20 December 1886 Lahore; died 7 November 1889.
││
│├──Stillborn twins *
││
│├──Aloysius James CHOPIN, born 24 June 1889 Lahore; buried 22 March 1955 Notre Dame des Neige
││Cemetery, Montreal; Civil Engineer.Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force WWI.
││+Nellie HOLMES, born about 1893 England; married 23 August 1914 St Mathew, Pointe-St-Charles, Montreal.
││
│├──Elizabeth Hilda Mary CHOPIN, born 11 December 1891 Lahore
││+Carmilo TRIOLO *
││
│└──Eleanor Agnes Muriel CHOPIN, born 29 July 1894; married 1 May 1912 St Ann's Church, Mazagaon, Bombay
│+Russell Martin YATES.
│
├──Esther Frances CHOPIN, born 17 September 1815 Calcutta; died 17 March 1889 Calcutta.
│+1) John George CROWE, born about 1811; married 17 September 1835 Calcutta; died 25 April 1850 Calcutta;
│Examiner, Judicial Department.
│+2) Henry Theophilus Blythe CRITCHLEY, born about 1812; married 15 October 1850 Calcutta; died 3 September 1858 │Calcutta
│
├──Louisa Margaret CHOPIN, baptised 24 August 1817 Fort William, Calcutta.
│
├──James Michael CHOPIN, born 3 January 1819 Fort William, Calcutta; died 1 October 1887 Howrah, Bengal. Writer, East
│India Company.
│+1) Annie Matilda NORTHAM, born about 1823; married 9 October 1840 Old Church, Calcutta; died 21 March 1843
││Calcutta.
││
│├──Emily Phipps CHOPIN, born 5 August 1841 Calcutta; died 2 September 1842 Calcutta.
││
│└──James Phipps CHOPIN, born about 1843; died 20 July 1845 Calcutta.
│
│+2) Cecilia Leonora RODRIGUES, born 17 August 1827 Calcutta; married 19 September 1850 Calcutta; died 16 August
││1894 Nagpur.
││
│├──Emily Cecilia CHOPIN, born 17 September 1852 Fort William, Calcutta; married 8 October 1867 St. Mary's
││Church,Jamalpur, Bihar; died 12 Aug 1875 Jamalpur.
││+Andrew ANNETT, born 25 October 1840 Battersea Fields, London; died 28 May 1912 Fort William, Calcutta.
││Guard, East Indian Railway. †
││
│├──Ida Constance CHOPIN, born 6 June 1854 Calcutta; married 4 November 1867 Jamalpur. †
││+John Danford LEWIS, born about 1840. Guard, East Indian Railway.
│││
││└──Claude Vincent LEWIS
││
│├──Amy Maud CHOPIN, born 15 Apr 1856 Calcutta; married 5 May 1870 St Thomas' Church, Howrah,
││+Francis ANNETT, Fireman, East Indian Railway
││
│├──James Cecil CHOPIN, born about 1857; died 27 May 1918 Calcutta
││
│├──Edgar Clarence CHOPIN, Born 25 February 1860 Calcutta
││
│└──Evelyn Claude CHOPIN, born 31 October 1863 Benares, Bengal.
│+Alice Julia (--?--), born about 1861; died 21 July 1932 Calcutta
││
│├──Ivy Evelyn CHOPIN, born 31 August 1890 Howrah; married 27 July 1912 Calcutta
││+George WARD, born about 1883.
││
│├──Evelyn Meroin CHOPIN, born 27 August 1892 Asansol.
││
│└──Elsie Cecelia CHOPIN, born about 1895; died 11 July 1897, Howrah.
│
└──George Philip Jones CHOPIN, born 7 April 1822 Fort William Calcutta; remained a bachelor; died 25 May 892
Allahabad. Civil servant.

* Details kindly provided by Aradhana Gupta

** Further information about Jacques and his family can be found here.

† Margaret Ward, great-granddaughter of Ida Constance, kindly provided images of the church register entries for Emily and Ida and tells me that, according to her grandmother, "Chopin" was pronounced "Shaffeen".