The chaplain of the British church at Dinard, near St-Malo, from 1873 until his death in 1884 was Rev Anthony Francis Thomson. In 1888, Rev Thomson's oldest son, Anthony Standidge Thomson married Alethea Isabella Evans Davis.
Now it's Alethea's father that interests me, because in 1878 the Reverend Frederick Davis fled the UK after being charged with molesting a girl in a train compartment. I had thought that he fled to his continental home in Bruges, but it turns out he was buried at the British Church at Dinard on May 6th 1883.
So what was the relationship between Rev Thomson and Rev Davis? Had Thompson sheltered him there in the final years of his life? How do I find out?
Now it's Alethea's father that interests me, because in 1878 the Reverend Frederick Davis fled the UK after being charged with molesting a girl in a train compartment. I had thought that he fled to his continental home in Bruges, but it turns out he was buried at the British Church at Dinard on May 6th 1883.
So what was the relationship between Rev Thomson and Rev Davis? Had Thompson sheltered him there in the final years of his life? How do I find out?
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