Hi Donald
Thanks for your mail. I much appreciate you sending me the war memorial inscriptions.
I have been on the Liverpool list for a long time however I re-post my interests
regularly.
My Capsticks came from Dent and Sedbergh, Yorks and Crosby Garrett in Westmorland. I was
on the Capstick list for ages but very rarely received any postings so I unsubscribed.
The Liverpool connection for my line appears to have started in 1835 when an Edmund
Capstick ( my 2xgt grandmother's 1st cousin) was living at 72 Castle St. His children
Mary and Edmund were baptised at St Peter's church. A whole raft of relations made
their way to the city and I am trying to find the descendants who may still live in the
Merseyside area. I have trawled through the 1881 and 1901 censuses and downloaded all the
Capsticks either born in the city from 1830 onwards or who were Yorkshire and Westmorland
"strays"
By chance, I found my 2 x gt grandmother's nephew and his sons, who were baptised in
Liverpool, on the US 1880 census in Brooklyn, New York and I know some more emigrated to
Australia and New Zealand.
I have my Capstick line going back to 1619 in Dent thanks to the efforts of my 5th cousin
Edmund ( Bob) Capstick in Australia. He has his own website and very interesting it is.
If you send me the name of your gt. aunt's husband I will check to see if he is on
either mine or Bob's GEDCOM file.
Incidentally, I also have Kerr in my line. My great great grandmother was Margaret Agnes
Kerr born in Stirling, Scotland and married James Scott in 1828 at Falkirk.
The name has been passed down through the generations.
Look forward to hearing from you
Regards
Margaret Greer nee Scott
Ashton in Makerfield, Lancs,
formerly ( a lifetime ago) of Anfield
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Craig
Sent: 11 November 2002 19:57
To: CAPSTICK-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CAPSTICK] Lest We Forget
Hi Margaret, I am Donald Craig, living in LIverpool, whose great aunt married a Capstick.
I have not seen you on site before but I have been in contact with Joan capstick several
times. I think maybe you would like the following information, if you have not got it
already :
The following Capsticks were killed in the First World War :
Charles Craig Capstick
Born ****, son of William Kerr Capstick and second wife, Mary McClellan Craig
Died in action in France on 1 July 1916, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The names of Charles Craig Capstick and his brother, William Richard Capstick, are
recorded in the books of remembrance in the Scottish War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle.
Lance Corporal, Royal Scots Regiment
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France
Grave Reference and Panel Number: Pier and Face 6 D and 7 D
William Richard Capstick
Born ****, son of William Kerr Capstick and second wife, Mary McClellan Craig
Died in action in France on 1 July 1916, on the first day of battle.
Sergeant, Royal Scots Regiment
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France
Grave Reference and Panel Number: Pier and Face 6 D and 7 D
Location: The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73,
off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929).
On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south,
thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive
on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt. Despite a
preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German
defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly
fierce resistance. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal
advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure.
In the following weeks, huge resources of manpower and
equipment were deployed in an attempt to exploit the modest
successes of the first day. However, the German Army resisted
tenaciously and repeated attacks and counter attacks meant a
major battle for every village, copse and farmhouse gained.
At the end of September, Thiepval was finally captured.
The village had been an original objective of 1 July. Attacks
north and east continued throughout October and into November
in increasingly difficult weather conditions. The Battle of the
Somme finally ended on 18 November with the onset of winter.
In the spring of 1917, the German forces fell back to their newly
prepared defences, the Hindenburg Line, and there were no
further significant engagements in the Somme sector until the
Germans mounted their major offensive in March 1918.
Hugh Capstick
Born ***, son of William Kerr Craig and his first wife, Dorothea Patrick
Died
"Hugh was reported killed in Mesopotamia early in 1916. Eventually however, he was
traced, terribly unjured, to a military hospital in the far east where his identity was
unknown." Joan Capstick 25 March 2002
All of the above were sons of William Kerr Capstick
William Kerr Capstick
Born 1857 at New Cumnock, son of Anthony Capstick and Janet Kerr
Died 31 August 1934, aged 64, at Morton
On the death in action of his sons, William wrote to his brother, "The Germans have
emptied my house of my sons." (Information from Joan Capstick, 25 March 2002)
Married
1 Dorothea Patrick
2 Mary McClellan Craig
In 1881, William Kerr Capstick lived in Great Jackson Street, behind Knott Mill Station,
Deansgate, in an area now totally occupied by industrial buildings.
Described as Draper on the marriage certificate of his daughter, Isabella Capstick's
marriage to Willilam Young, shepherd, on 2 July 1897
His death certificate shows that he died at Carronbridge, and that he was a Commercial
Traveller whose usual residence was 9 Park Avenue, Longsight, Manchester. He had been ill
with broncho-pneumonia for eleven days before suffering cardiac failure.
On 30 March 2002, an email from Joan Capstick showed that at the time of the 1881 Census,
WILLIAM KERR CAPSTICK was living at 30 Great Jackson Street, Hume, Manchester with
DOROTHEA, 27, his wife, and ANTHONY,1, his son.
.
Great Jackson Street is situated on the left as one approaches the Mancunian Way from
Deansgate, just beyond Knott Mill Station.
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