Hello Listers,
I have strayed in from the Thompson List with the forlorn hope that a
Capstick researcher has been drawn off into a "wife's" lineage.
My enquiry concerns Amy Adelaide Capstick (1868 - 1954), who married
Edmund Capstick (1868 - 1956) in September 1890 at Holy Trinity Church
Karachi
(was then in India but now in Pakistan). Edmund worked for the Anglo-Indian
Telegraph Service and after retirement, he settled in England, ending his
days at Worthing West Sussex.
Amy and her sister Mary Maud (my father's mother) were the daughters of
James Adlan (or Allan) Thompson - "Unlucky Jim", because when aged about 40
in 1870's, he was killed by "tribesmen". His widow, with her young girls
fled from a dangerous situation in Persia (now Iran) to Karachi.
Edmund's 2nd. son Eric (1897-1969), told me that he was taken to a
museum in Karachi to be shown a sword presented to James Thompson.
Having contacted all current living descendants of Amy and Maud I cannot
find out any more about the Thompson family. Any further information would
be greatly appreciated by,
Michael Pierce