Sandra and willsy: Many thanks for all your information which has tied in the family.
Unfortunately I can’t seem to get into
http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html without a password.
The 1851 Census – Liverpool:
The ages of the parents and children all add up to what I know. (The only exception is their eldest child, Alexander Thompson, who should have been 15 or 16 in 1851 and was probably away from home.) Their last child was born in 1852 and the mother died soon after.
- Mary E K Thompson later married J C H Bachmann in New York (which ties in with Sandra’s post about Mary McCammon Thompson’s passport application) JCHB was born in Germany but became a naturalised US citizenship in 1871 (William C Thompson was a witness)
-William Hyslop Thompson drowned at sea in 1880; he had married Charlotte Ellen Kemp in 1874 in Liverpool. To make things confusing, they had a son born about 1877 who they named William Corscaden Thompson (presumably after his grandfather ?)
-Kate McCammon Thompson (Sandra found her buried in the same plot as her father – Lot 11895, Section 179)
-Sarah Sands Thompson (named after one of the vessels her father was captain)
Willsy has found the death of Margaretta Hyslop which links in with Alexander Thompson. Now I have her name, I can try to find where she was born.
Willsy also found the notice in the Belfast newsletter of the death of Alex Thompson, which also ties in.
As some of the family were ship's captains, they were quite mobile, which makes things a little complicated, but with all these leads, they are coming together. Again, many thanks.
Jean
P.S. While I have been writing this, Sandra has posted the link to the family's connection to ships. Thanks - I'm a bit confused about posting links.
