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'GENEALOGY WORLD' NEW ITEMS:
Natal Nuggets - Durban Water Police
Natal Passenger Lists - 1863 'Norman' and 1864 'Rubens'
Anglo-Boer War - List of Useful Web Site Addresses
Anglo-Zulu War - Mentioned in Despatches
1820 Settler Matters - The Carlisle Family
Diary of a Natal Mole - Don't forget your date with the Mole!
Main Menu - Questions and Answers ...
An exciting discovery made by UK visitor to Natal, Mrs Eira MAKEPEACE,
during March, has led to the acquisition by the Campbell Collections,
Durban, of the original
Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Register for Verulam, 1859-1872.
In pristine condition, this volume presents a list of names which
reads like a roll-call of the early colonial families of that area, many of
whom came to Natal under the auspices of the Christian Emigration and
Colonization Society. The scheme was arranged by W J IRONS, in partial
co-operation with the entrepreneur Joseph BYRNE, and about 400 people were
settled on the Cotton Lands at Verulam on the Natal North Coast. The
register also shows baptisms of black members of the Wesleyan mission
community.
We all know the helpless feeling experienced when looking at unidentified photographs tucked away in old family photograph albums. I suggest you read the information now added to 'Tracing your Boer-War Ancestors' by Rosemary Dixon-Smith.
Any family history researcher knows how one has to hone one's detecting skills if any headway is to be made in researching a Family Tree! Recently I have spent time investigating the 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE'. A regular researcher at the Durban Family History Centre introduced me to this additional source of information. Thanks to his enthusiasm we now have a large collection of 'Gentleman's Magazine' films in the Durban FHC dating from 1799 - 1848.
We all discover sooner or later that information can be found in round-about ways. I was looking at the above Magazines in the hope of finding out more about my great-grandfather, Captain William Michael Tollner, who was sent by the British Army first to the Crimea and then to South Africa. Tollner's father had married twice. I am descended from the second wife. However - I have found out more about the family by investigating the first wife! This lady's father was a prominent musician at the time of George III and George IV. Therefore he was to be found in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' and other reference books.
If you are not familiar with this Magazine .. and feel that some of your folk might be mentioned in it from time to time .. it is well worth a scrutiny - especially as it has a typed index! We hope to collect many more of these films in due course. - If you are interested in this project, please contact me.
I am introducing a new 'QUESTIONS & ANSWERS' section in the Main Menu of 'Genealogy World'. Quite a few subscribers write in asking specific questions. Reading the questions and replies hopefully will benefit many researchers and not just one enquirer. Obviously full replies to the questions would cover a vast area of expertise .. therefore it is impossible to supply ALL the answers. However, the new section hopes to at least point a researcher in the right direction!
In 'Questions & Answers' a recent question asked concerned East Griqualand.
In the 1980s I jotted down some of the names and information on the tombstones in the Kokstad Cemetery .. by no means all the names! If you recognise any of the following surnames, send me an e-mail and I will look up the entry in my notebook for you:
WEBSTER, FRYER, BROWN, GRANT, ROBINSON, MacKENZIE, PATERSON, SHUTTLEWORTH, HUGHES, CONWAY, PRIOR, JACKSON, McKAY, BUCHANAN, McGREGOR, SATOW, TROLLIP, WEDDERBURN, JORDAN, DOBROWSKY.
For those of you interested in the SHUTTLEWORTH family, Byrne Settler: Henry Shuttleworth's tombstone is included in the above Kokstad Cemetery list. He rejected the land he was allocated in the Richmond area of Natal as it was rocky and unsuitable for farming and he moved to the Eastern Cape. One of his sons, Joseph (also among the names listed above), was born in Port Elizabeth in 1854.
The original arrival in Natal of this Shuttleworth family as Byrne Settlers is already in the 'Natal Passenger Lists':
ARRIVAL OF THE EMILY - 1850.
Thanks to Rosemary we now have a new entry to accompany this:
ARRIVAL OF THE NORMAN - 1863.
Among the passengers listed arriving in Natal aboard the 'Norman' were a Mr and Mrs Shuttleworth and family.
My mother, who was the great-granddaughter of Settler Henry Shuttleworth, was sure this marked the date of the return of Henry and his family to Natal. They lived in the Newcastle area for some years. In 1906 when Henry died on the farm of his son, Walter, he was buried in Kokstad. His widow, Eleanor, died in 1907 at the home of her daughter, Emma James, in Newcastle.
Three of Henry and Eleanor Shuttleworth's children married three James siblings - who were the grandchildren of 1820 Settlers: Samuel Taylor James and Esther Trollip; and James Weeks and Maria Ann Shepperson. Three of these four grandparents travelled on the 'Weymouth' - see the Log and Muster Roll of the 'Weymouth' and the letters written by Samuel Taylor James (as leader of the James Party) in 1819 to the Colonial Department in London. To view these items: click on 'The 1820 Settlers' (Main Menu).
That's all for now,
Kind regards,
Delyse Brown
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