Born in Newton, Prince Edward Island
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Compton
and Mary (Martin) Compton
Sister of
Anna Priscilla (Compton) Murchison, Louisa Jane (Compton) Reynolds, John Martin Compton, Mary Elizabeth (Compton) Murchison, Henry Compton, Sarah Compton, Caroline Astor (Compton) Mackenzie, Margaret Betts (Compton) Fulmer, Cartney William Compton, Peter Daniel Compton and James Edwin Compton
Wife of
John Stymeist
— married
1881 in Prince Edward Island, Canada
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 50
in Murray River, Kings, Prince Edward Island, Canada
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| Created 15 May 2015
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Biography
Emily was born in 1858. Emily was the child of William Compton and Mary Martin. Emily passed away about 1909.
Emily inherited the Spinning wheel pictured above from her grandmother, Emily Louisa (Compton) Martin . If you click on Compton-1560, you will see Emily Compton Martin at this very wheel. This wheel remains in the Stymeist family to this day.
She married John Stymeist in 1881 on Prince Edward Island. [1] At the time of their marriage, John was from Summerside, and Emily from Compton's Mills, Lot 61.
John Stymeist and his wife Emily Compton Stymeist had 7 children: 1)Mary Jane Stymeist b. 1882 m David Lowe, 2)William Amos Stymeist, b. 1882 m. Sarah Hume, 3) Sarah Emiline Stymeist, b. 1890 m. Garfield MacArthur, 4) Caroline Ester Stymeist, died young, 5) Donald MacDonald Stymeist, b. 1895, 6) James MacDougall Stymeist, b. 1895 m. Christine Horton, 7)Mabel Louise Stymeist, m Colin Acorn.
Emily died in 1909. [2]
Research Notes
This is a known family member and this profile is NOT UNSOURCED
Date of birth from 1901 Census, Lot (township/canton) 63 O-2 Page 8, entry for Emily Stimas
Sources
- ↑ Groom's Name John Stymeist Groom's Residence Lot 17 Groom's Status Bachelor Bride's Name Emily Compton Bride's Residence Lot 61 Bride's Status Spinster Source RG19/s3/ss5: Marriage bonds, 1881
- ↑ Stymeist, Mrs. John Summerside Journal - 26 May 1909, page 8 At Murray River, May 18th, 1909, Emily, wife of John Stymeist, aged 50 years
- Harold S. MacLeod, “The Loyalist Comptons of Prince Edward Island”, published in Canada, All Rights Reserved Copyright October 28, 1996. Page 13
THIS IS A SOURCE Please do not add to the unsourced category since it is sourced in an extensive published genealogy of the Comptons of PEI,.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Emily by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Emily:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Emily by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Emily:
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~12.50%
~25.00%
Bruce Barnes 
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bdbarnes744
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~6.25%
Peter Compton :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member peterdcompton
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~3.91%
Doug Martin :
23andMe
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~2.34%
Brian Haskins :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch 471 [compare], Ancestry member bhaskins53
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Compton-1602 and Compton-1744 appear to represent the same person because: I added a duplicate for a person already on WikiTree.
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Rejected matches › Emily Compton (1856-)
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