Thomas Call (1748 - 1788)

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Died 12 Dec 1788 at about age 40 in Indischer Ozean, Rückreise von Calcutta nach London

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Biography

Thomas Call was born about 1748.

In 1784 he married Miss Blackburn, daughter of John Blackburn.

On the 5th of February last was married at Calcutta,- in the East-Indies, Capt. Thomas Call, of the Engineers, and Surveyor General of Bengal, to Miss Blackburn, daughter of John Blackburn, of. New-Malton, Esq; Capt. of the Fox East-Indiaman ; a most agreeable and accomplished young lady. ^[1]

Thomas married Bethia Blackburn in February 1784 in Bengal, India. ^[2]

Thomas is included in the 1787 list of staff working for the Eat India Company in Bengal, listed as Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Call Chief Engineer. ^[3]

Thomas died on 12 December 1788 in the Indian Ocean on his way back to England. ^[4]

Occupation: Practical Engineer. Agency: East India Company. 1771 Calcutta General Surveyor. Agency: East India Company. 1777 Calcutta Chief Engineer und Lt. Col. Agency: East India Company. FROM 1786 TO 1788. Calcutta
Children: Child: Sarah Preston. ^[5]
Died: 1788 Indischer Ozean, Rückreise von Calcutta nach London. Cause: vermutl. Malaria.
Buried: Exeter
Will: 1788 Note: Er bedenkt seine illegitime Tochter Sarah mit 4000 Pfund. Calcutta

Note

John Blackburn, his father-in-law, was the captain of the "Fox". See the Three Decks website entry for John Blackburn

Sources

1. ↑ Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 24 August 1784 Accessed from the British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000236/17840824/008/0003 Accessed by Trevor Pickup on 21st April 2022
2. ↑ Marriage: "India Marriages, 1792-1948"
   Citing FHL microfilm: 498608;
   FamilySearch Record: FGKM-YYQ (accessed 21 April 2022)
   Thomas Call marriage to Bethia Blackburn in Feb 1784 in Bengal, India.
3. ↑ The Bengal Calendar for the Year 1787 (1788); Including a List of the ... East India Company's Civil and Military Servants on the Bengal Establishment, Etc. (1787). India: John Hay. Accessed from Google Books https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Bengal_Calendar_for_the_Year_1787_17/0p9nnB5BDesC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=thomas+call+engineer&pg=RA2-PA59&printsec=frontcover Accessed by Trevor Pickup on 21st April 2022
4. ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Call-1655 plaque in Exeter Cathedral
5. ↑ Source: #WEBTREES http://familie.susanne-geck.com/family.php?famid=F162&ged=Geck_Guder

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