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Author: koldis1
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Hugh Capp ran the Flower Pot pub in Bethnal Green from 1830 until his death in 1835. His
first wife was Charlotte nee Lewis. They had 8 children;all bar Charles are mentioned in
his 1835 will, after he remarried to Esther Sharpe.After his death Esther remarried and
did not live with her step children who seem to have scattered.
I am trying to trace his daughters in particular. Charlotte born 1820, Ellen Sarah Pheobe
born 1824, Mary Ann born 1825, Catherine Rosetta born 1828 (married James Bell 1845), Emma
Henrietta born 1832.
I believe one was murdered in Melbourne Australia in 1856, because a copy of Hugh
Capp's 1835 will was found in the deceased's bedroom. The will set up a trust for
the children and I believe the woman had it for the purpose of proving her entitlement.
In the 1860's Hugh's son Edward Henry James Capp (who had left for Canada in 1854)
put an ad on the front page of The Times trying to locate his brother Hugh William,who
would learn 'something to his advantage'. The ad noted Edward's Toronto
address and also their 'Aunt Fisher' in Bermondsey London. Henrietta Capp,
probably Edward's sister (being 18 as @ the 1851 census)was visiting Fisher the night
of the 1851 census.
The murdered woman used the name Elizabeth Lewis when she left London in June 1855, giving
her age as 24, and the names Annie and Sophia Lewis in Melbourne. Witnesses thought she
looked about 30 at the time of her death.
I am trying to determine if my theory is correct by tracing and accounting for the Capp
daughters after 1856.
Any information about them would be much appreciated.
regards
Ken Oldis
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