PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Kapura,
descendant of Jaisal, founder of the principality of Jaisalmer in 1156,
founded in 1643 the principality of Kot Kapura which, in 1763, split
into
two states: Kot Kapura which was conquered by the Sikhs of Lahore in
1807,
and Faridkot, which remained with the Jaisal dynasty. Ancestors and
Rulers
were....
- Sangar, married and had issue.
- Bhallan, died 1643.
- Lala, married and had issue.
- Chaudhuri Kapura Singh, born 1628, founder of Kot
Kapura in 1643,
married
and had issue. He died 1708.
- Chaudhuri Sajja Singh 1708/1710, died sp 1710.
- Chaudhuri Sukha Singh 1710/1731, born 1681, married
and had issue. He
died
1731.
- Chaudhuri Jodh Singh 1731/1767, married and had
issue. He
died 1767.
- Chaudhuri Tegh Singh of Kot Kapura 1767/1806,
married and had issue.
- Chaudhuri Jagat Singh of Kot Kapura 1806/1807,
married and had issue.
He
died 1825.
- Rani Pratap Kaur, married 1825, Maharaja SHER
SINGH of Lahore. She died
23rd August 1857.
- (A) Thakar
Singh, born about 1843,
adopted in 1847, son of his mothers
cousin, Gajja Singh.
- Sardar Karam Singh of Kot Kapura in 1807,
incorporated into Nabha in 1807, he had living descendants
after 1870.
- Sardar Jit Singh, died 1767.
- Sardar HAMIR SINGH (see below)
- Sardar Vir Singh
- Sardar Makhu Singh, ancestor of the families of Rori
and Matta.
- Sardar HAMIR SINGH 1763/1782, married and had issue. He
died 1782.
- Sardar MOHR SINGH (qv)
- Sardar DAL SINGH (qv)
- Sardar MOHR SINGH 1782/1798, married and had issue. He died
1798.
- Sardar CHARAT SINGH (qv)
- Sardar Bhupa Singh
- Sardar CHARAT SINGH 1798/1804, married and had issue. He
died 1804.
- Sardar GHULAB SINGH (qv)
- Raja PAHAR SINGH (qv)
- Sardar Sahib Singh, died 1831.
- Sardar Mehtab Singh
- Sardar DAL SINGH 1804, died 1804
- Sardar GHULAB SINGH 1804/1826, born about 1797, married
Sardarni Dharam
Kaur, and had issue. He died 5th November 1826.
- Sardar ATTAR SINGH 1826/1827, born 1823, died August
1827.
- Raja PAHAR SINGH 1827/1849, Raja [cr.1846], born 1800,
married and had
issue. He died April 1849.
- Raja WAZIR SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumar Dip Singh, died 1845.
- Rajkumar Anokh Singh, died 1845.
- Raja WAZIR SINGH Brar Bans Bahadur 1849/1874, born 1828, he
built new villages and introduced several reforms in
the land revenue system; he supported the
British government in the suppression of the 1857 rebellion for which
he was granted the title of Brar Bans Raja Sahib Bahadur and a
salute of
eleven guns; married and had
issue. He died
22nd
April 1874 (#1) at
Kurukshetra.
- HH Farzand-i-Saadat Nishan Hazrat-Kaisar-i-Hind Raja
BIKRAM SINGH Brar Bans Bahadur (qv)
- HH Farzand-i-Sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind Raja
BIKRAM SINGH
Brar
Bans Bahadur 1874/1898, born January 1842; married the daughter
of
Raja Nahar Singh of Balabgarh and had issue. He died 8th August 1898.
- HH Farzand-i-Sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind Raja
BALBIR SINGH
Brar
Bans Bahadur (qv)
- Kunwar Gajindar Singh, married and had issue. He died
1900.
- HH Farzand-i-Sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind Raja
BRIJINDAR SINGH
Brar Bans Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married, HH Shri
Maharajah Sir Vrijendra
Sawai Kishan Singh
Bahadur
Jang, 12th Maharajah of Bharatpur.
- HH Farzand-i-Sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind Raja
BALBIR SINGH
Brar
Bans Bahadur 1898/1906, born 30th August 1869, died February 1906.
- HH Farzand-i-Sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind Raja
BRIJINDAR SINGH
Brar Bans Bahadur 1906/1918, born 1896, married HH Rani Mahinder Kaur
Sahiba, and had issue. He died
22nd December 1918.
- Lt. HH Farzand-i-Sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind
Raja Sir HARINDAR
SINGH Brar Bans Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumar Manjitindar Singh, born 22nd February 1916,
married Kunwarani Jagdish Kaur, educated at Queen Mary's School,
Lahore, an artist and a swimming, hockey and tennis champion; and had
issue.
He died 1996.
- Lt. HH Farzand-i-Sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind
Raja BHARAT INDAR
SINGH Brar Bans Bahadur [Prince Mickey] (qv)
- Kanwar Dashmesh Indar Singh [Prince Victor], born 1947,
died unmarried
1992.
- Kumari Devinder Kaur [Princess Wendy], born 1942,
married 1965 (div.),
a Greek gentleman, and has issue, one daughter, born in 1967
(unmarried).She died 6th January 2009 (Chandigarh,
India)
-
 Lt.
HH Farzand-i-Sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind Raja Sir HARINDAR
SINGH
Brar Bans Bahadur 1918/1989 , K.C.S.I., born 29th January 1915,
educated
at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore; Honorary Colonel Sikh LI, Colonel
Bengal Engineer Group, MLA Pepsu LA, Member of National Defence Council
of India, Member of the Standing Committee of Chamber of Princes, past
Grand Master (Hon.) 1974, OSM 1971 Grand Lodge of India, District Grand
Master for North India 1977, United Grand Lodge of England, married
1933,
HH Rani Narinder Kaur Sahiba, and had issue. He died 16th October 1989.
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
- Maharani Deep Inder Kaur [Princess Bunty], born 17th July
1936, married
1959, Maharajadhiraja
Bahadur
Dr. SADAY CHAND MAHTAB [Prince Henry], Maharaja of Burdwan, and has issue, one son and one
daughter.
- Tikka Harmohindar Singh Brar [Prince David], born 22nd
October 1937,
educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, and later at
Oxford
University, England,U.K., died vpsp 1981.
- Rajkumari Maheep Inder Kaur [Princess Anne], born 19th
September
1944,
educated at Tara Hall, Simla (passing out in 1960), and in New Delhi,
died
unmarried, 26th July 2001 at Mashobra in the Faridkot complex near
Shimla,
cremated at Sahi Samadhan in Faridkot.
- Lt. HH Farzand-i-Sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind Raja
BHARAT INDAR
SINGH Brar Bans Bahadur "Prince Mickey" (see above)
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