William Nautilus Mandy, 1820 Settler

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 560
• Name: William Nautilus Mandy 1820
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

MANDY - Old Colonists at home will regret to hear of the death of Mr. William MANDY, at his farm in Lushington Valley, in the 67th year of his age. He was born on board the Nautilus when on her voyage to Algoa Bay with a party of the British settlers of 1820. Mr. Mandy had seen active service in several South African wars, and had held the position of Commandant of Burghers. So highly did he stand in the opinion of the late Sir Walter Currie that on his organising the Frontier Armed and Mounted Police, Mr. Mandy was among the first chosen by him to take command of a troop, a post which after some hesitation he eventually accepted. Though for many years past Mr. Mandy has lived a retired life on his farm, there are few people in the Colony by whom he was not known and respected. -
Colonies and India 04 March 1887

Settler:
Mandy's party on the Nautilus

William married Anne Cawood on 16 Apr 1850 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Anne (daughter of John Cawood, 1820 Settler and Ann Ynes Murray, 1820 Settler) was born on 14 Jan 1827 in Cawood's Post, Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 22 Apr 1832 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 24 Apr 1903 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Bathurst Church (St John's - Anglican), Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Cawood Mandy was born on 11 Feb 1850 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 6 Aug 1921 in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
2. Amelia Ann Mandy was born on 11 Feb 1853 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 27 Jun 1933 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Bathurst Church (St John's - Anglican), Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
3. William Penny Mandy was born on 13 Feb 1855; died on 3 Aug 1944.
4. Stephen Day Mandy was born on 25 Mar 1860; died on 19 Jun 1931.
5. David Cope Mandy
6. Alice Jane Mandy
7. Rebecca Mandy
8. George Cope Mandy was born in 1868; died on 21 Jan 1945 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried on 22 Jan 1945 in Bathurst Church (St Mary's - Methodist and Wesleyan), Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
9. Walter Henry Mandy was born on 18 Apr 1870 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 8 May 1870 in St John the Evangelist, Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 26 Nov 1935; was buried on 28 Nov 1935 in Shaw Park, Bathurst District, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
10. Agnes Cawood Mandy was born est 1874.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 557
• Name: John Penny Mandy 1820
• Occupation: a Carpenter
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Residence: Lambeth Marsh, Surrey, England
• Residence: Foots Cray, Chislehurst, Kent, England
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

London Metroplitan Archives:
John Penny MANDY of St.Mary le Bow, London, bachelor, married Mary Ann DAY of Greenwich in the County of Kent, spinster, by Licence on 20 April 1813 in St.Mary le Bow.

Both signed their names.

Witnesses: Sarah WOLFINGFORD? and William SARD Jun.
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A widower on marriage to Mary Dougherty

Newspaper cuttings from the Eastern Cape.
Herald, June 1970

1820 Descendant with a difference.
Settler Grandpa born at sea. Part I

At 63, Mr. Gray MANDY of Port Elizabeth must be one of the youngest grandchildren of an 1820 Settler in the Eastern Cape. For his grandfather was one of the babies born at sea on the way from Britain to South Africa. Mr. MANDY, a well-known Port Elizabeth business manager, could not attend today's 150th anniversary celebrations. He is holidaying in Durban. but the elder brother, Mr. Baden MANDY, will be here for the festivities. During a visit to Port Elizabeth he is standing in for Mr. Gray MANDY as a manager of an accommodation centre during his absence. Before he left, Mr. Gray MANDY and his brother told me about their "baby Settler" grandfather.

LETTER

Their great-grandfather, Mr. John Penny MANDY, was the leader of a party which sailed from the Thames in the Nautilus in December, 1819, reaching Algoa Bay in April the following year. John MANDY and his wife, Mary Anne, left England with two sons, John Wilkinson, aged six and Stephen Day, aged five.

Two weeks before the ship reached Cape Town their third son was born. He was named William Nautilus - his second name, of course, being after the vessel.

The letter which John MANDY wrote to his mother in Kent and posted from Cape Town telling of the baby's birth, was presented to the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, but was destroyed in a fire in the 1920's However, Mr. Baden MANDY has a copy of it. This is how his grandfather's birth was announced:

"I have the pleasure to inform you that on the 1st March, Mary Ann was put to bed with a fine boy in latitude 18 degrees, longitude six degrees."

MANY MANDYS

John, who was a carpenter, and Mary Anne settled at Bathurst, where he built the Drostdy. After their home was burnt down during one of the Frontier Wars, they went to the farm Lushington Valley, between Grahamstown and Bathurst. They had five sons after settling in South Africa. Several of their eight children had large families, so there are many MANDY of Settler descent in the Eastern Cape Province, Mr. Baden MANDY pointed out.

John's unmarried brother Joseph also accompanied him on the voyage out. Joseph, a wheelwright, is believed to have gone to Harrismith in the Free State, later with the Voortrekkers - possibly with Louis TRICHARDT or Piet RETIEF.

SPORTSMAN

Mr. Baden MANDY and Mr. Gray MANDY are members of a large and closely knit family. The father, the late Mr. Stephen Day MANDY, of Bathurst, married twice. He had six sons of his first marriage and seven children of his second. On the first half of the family, three brothers are still living. They are Mr. Lawrie MANDY, 84 of Margate, a survivor of Delville Wood and Mr. Douglas MANDY, 77 and Mr. George MANDY, 75, both of Bathurst.

Mr. Baden MANDY, 69 is the eldest of the second half. Since retiring as postmaster of Krugersdorp, he and his wife Corrie, who is of French Huguenot descent, have spent most of their time caravanning. They have been in Knysna for the past year. Mr. Gray MANDY, a former Border sportsman, was manager of a big Port Elizabeth hotel, then managed a club before taking up his present position. His wife, Jo, incidentally, is the granddaughter of the Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik POTGIETER.

The other three brothers, Mr. Stephen Day MANDY, 68, Mr. Aubrey MANDY, 66 and Mr. Claude MANDY, 61 who were all prominent Eastern Province and Border sportsmen, now live in Durban. The youngest member of the family, 58-year-old Mrs. Mary WARRENDER, lives in Salisbury. The other sister died some years ago.

Of the 11 brothers in the two halves of the family, five brothers served in World War I. (The other died before the war) and four survived during World War II - the remaining one, a police detective, being kept back for internal security work.

Settler:
Mandy's party on the Nautilus

Buried:
Description: grave AL125

John married Mary Ann Wilkinson Day, 1820 Settler on 20 Apr 1813 in St Mary le Bow, London, England. Mary (daughter of Stephen Day and Lydia) was born in 1790; was christened in Feb 1790 in Fetter lane Independant, London, England; died on 13 Feb 1826 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2
• Name: Ann - wife of John Mandy
• Name: Mary Ann 1820
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Settler:
Mandy's party on the Nautilus

Buried:
Description: Rev William Geary

John married Anne Abbot on 3 Apr 1781 in Chiselhurst, Kent, England. Anne was born est 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen + Lydia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry + Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]