Eileen Hope Eva

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Eileen married Charles Aurett Metelerkamp on 8 Apr 1926 in Shangani farm, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Charles (son of Peter Carl Metelerkamp and Johanna Elizabeth Maria Rex) was born on 6 Jul 1888 in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 13 Feb 1970 in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); was buried in West Park Crematorium, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Desireé Suzanne Metelerkamp
2. Roger Metelerkamp
3. Ada Lynette Metelerkamp

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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Mortimer was a farmer in the Shangani district, Rhodesia. They had 9 children of whom 5 became of age.

Mortimer married Ada Gibbens Edwards on 27 Jun 1894 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Ada (daughter of Charles Richard Edwards and Anne Gibbens) was born on 30 Apr 1873 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 16 Nov 1959 in Shangani, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: Baker and farmer

William married Martha Allwright on 4 Feb 1845 in Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Martha (daughter of Richard Walker Allwright and Mary May Brooks) was born on 7 Oct 1829 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was christened on 15 Feb 1831; died on 10 Aug 1911 in Allanwater, Whittlesea, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried on 13 Aug 1911 in Whittlesea, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

11 children.
Martha was the only daughter of Richard Allwright and Mary May Broocke. The entry in the records of St George's Cathedral, Cape Town reads: 1831 Feb 15th - Martha, daughter of Richard and Mary, his wife, born 7 Octber 1829, privately baptised. The date 7th Octber 1829 could be a mistake as three birthday books belonging to members of the family record her birthdate as 7 September 1830.
D/N MOOC 6/9/674 2362 seems to confirm that her birth year is 1930. (DWA)

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Married:
Martha married William Denham EVA, son of James Jay EVA (1820 Settler) and Elizabeth DENHAM (1820 Settler), on 4 February 1845 in dwelling house of Mr Henry Windell, Fort Beaufort, South Africa
Witnesses to the marriage was Mr Henry Windell & Catherine Windell. It is also stated that her father was absent at her marriage

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

Charles was a founder of St Andrews Church in Chilton built in 1873. James and Maria Edwards were married there and Violet May Edwards was christened there.

Charles married Anne Gibbens on 11 Jul 1852 in Winterberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Anne (daughter of George Gibbens and Margaret Field) was born on 21 Jan 1827; died on 9 Jul 1908 in Stiutterheim. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2209
• Name: Richard Eva
• Occupation: Baker
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Osler's Party on the Weymouth

James + Elizabeth Denham, 1820 Settler. Elizabeth was born in Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2208
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Osler's Party on the Weymouth

Notes:

"Richard Walker was the sixth child and third son of Thomas Allwright and Martha Hobson.
It is generally claimed in the Allwright Family that the original immigrant, Richard Allwright arrived in Cape Town in the S S Nautilus in 1817. This is not true as the Nautilus first left Gravesend on 3rd December 1819 and the earliest mention of him in Official Records in South Africa is a letter, dated 9 Jan 1815, stating that he is fifteen years of age and asking for permission to do an apprenticeship with a Mr. Townsend as Gold and Silversmith in Cape Town. This letter also states that he was born in Westminster, London and his current address at the time was Plein Street No 16, Cape Town (Cape Town Archives CO 3901, no 48). How he came to South Africa is not known.

The next document states that he arrived in 1814 asking permission to stay in the Cape Colony as he has completed his apprenticeship with Mr. Townsend. This letter was signed by a 'W' Allwright though and dated 17 September 1822. We gather that he did receive his Colonial Passport which was granted by His Excellency Lord Charles Somerset. (Cape Town Archives CO 3923, NO 301) On the 30 September 1822 Richard wrote another letter to Lord Charles Henry Somerset asking permission to marry Mary May Broocke (spelling in document- could be correct or incorrect. We established that it is Brookes as their daughter, Martha was christened Angelina Brooks Eva). (Cape Town Archives CO 3923, no 355)

The next document shows that on 11 November 1822, he married Mary May Brooks, who arrived in Cape Town from England. The marriage was performed by the Rev. George Hough, the Colonial Chaplain in Cape Town (A 1939, 1/1/1/2) and witnessed by John and Sarah Windell. They even named their son, Richard Allwright Windell born 1816 and died 11 April 1842.
Richard was a small man +/- 5 feet 4 inches tall, of fair complexion with brown hair and light blue eyes. Strangely no description could be found of Mary May Brooks. She was said to be a Medical Doctor's daughter.
Richard was a Silversmith and Jeweller by trade as we know, but found this unprofitable in the Cape Town of those days with a total population of 15 000 people. He therefore turned to masonry and building to make a living.
Richard and Mary continued living in Cape Town until at least December 1837, when a son, James, was baptized. Sometime after that date, he and his family, except the eldest son, Thomas, gravitated towards Somerset East where they apparently settled down to building and farming. On the way to Somerset East Richard and his family apparently spent some time at George where he became acquainted with the writer, C. J. Langenhoven. This acquaintance appears to have inspired C. J. Langenhoven to write an amusing one-act play entitled "Die Kys about the Forro."
It is included in C. J. Langenhoven's "Ons We Deut Die Eire" and is written in phonetically -spelt Afrikaans- English. In English the title would have been "The Case about the Furrow". It concerns a complaint brought before a Meeting of a Town Council about "Aalryt" diverting water from the river by a furrow situated at a point in the river above that from which the Town Council's canal supplying the town with water, was drawn.
Richard died in the house of his son -in- law, William Denham Eva, atWhittlesea on the 20 December 1847 at the age of 49. (Cape Town Archives MOOC 6/9/48, no 325). His wife had died from a stroke in their home in Somerset East in about 1842. His body is said to have been buried with hers in the same grave. Her Death Notice has not been found.

Somerset East: The first settler in this area was a man called Willem Prinsloo. He settled under the Bosberg, very close to where the Museum is today. Prinsloo was the unofficial veld cornet of the district where at least 20 other families had settled in 1774. They send a famous petition to Cape Town asking for the establishment of a Drostdy and a church in the area. This is however Graaff- Reinett was established. At some stage Prinsloo gave up parts of his farm and a farmer called Otto moved into the corner now known as Bestershoek. The Trichardt family followed, as well as the Besters. Lord Charles Somerset, taking up the ideas promulgated by Cradock and Caledon that there should be a settlement on the Eastern Frontier, initiated a plan for an experimental farm in the area. American botanist, Dr. Mackrill, was given orders to find a suitable farm, and was told to look at three places, the Gamtoos Valley, the Swartkops Valley and Bosberg, which he naturally chose. The farm was established in 1815, for the purpose of improving stock breeding in the Cape Colony and providing produce for the soldiers at the Frontier. It was called "Somerset Farm". Ten years later, in 1825, the project was cancelled, a new Drostdy was declared, and the town of Somerset was established. The "East" was only added on 30 years later."
Descendants of Richard Walker ALLWRIGHT
Produced by: Darryl W. Allwright

Richard married Mary May Brooks on 11 Nov 1822 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Mary was born in 1800 in Yorkshire, England; died in 1842 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2674
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Residence: 1822, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

James married Ann Thomas, 1820 Settler on 12 Feb 1817 in St Dunstan's, Stepney, London, England. Ann (daughter of Stephen Thomas and Sarah, - wife of Stephen Thomas) was born on 15 May 1795 in Kent, England; was christened on 25 Dec 1795 in Ivychurch, Kent, England; died on 21 Jul 1881 in Whittlesea, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2676
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Residence: 1822, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Notes:

from The Fort Beaufort Advocate and General Advertiser of 1881

5 August 1881
Died at Welcome House at the residence of her son M C K Edward, near Whittlesea, on Thursday July the 21st 1881, Ann Edwards, widow, aged 85 years and 7 months, late of Post Retief, being one of the settlers of 1820.

posted by Carl kritzinger on Facebook, 2 Oct 2015:
Born Ann Thomas in 1795 Kent , England she married James Edwards in London in 1817. Their first baby James died just before they joined the Sephton Party aboard HMS Aurora to sail to South Africa in 1820.
Ann gave birth to her second child while aboard Aurora and her first four children were to die young . She went on to have a further six children of which her youngest son James Edwards jnr was my ancestor .
Deserting their initial land grant at Salem in Albany ( Eastern Cape Colony ) they travelled the Eastern districts of the Cape Colony extensively mainly occupied with trading in Xhosaland – the ceded territory between the Fish and Keiskamma Rivers .Through their association and friendship with Pieter Retief the Edwards family came to settle in the Winterberg in 1835 .
When Piet Retief left his Winterberg farm to trek with 30 wagons to an unknown future beyond the constraints of the the Cape Colony the Edwards family - James , Ann and four young children accompanied Retief on his ill- fated Great Trek to Natal. The Edwards family escaped murder by Zulu Chief Dingaan at Mgunmgundhlovu and escaped miraculously back to the Cape after a 3 month single- wagon ordeal through the untamed Transkei to King William’sTown. The family returned after a brief recuperation to acquire Piet Retief’s farm Post Retief on which stood the Post Retief Barracks , the most northerly of the line of stone fortifications along the contested Eastern Cape frontier. Having survived all he had in his short life by such short odds, 1820 Settler James Edwards died in a horse riding accident in Fort Beaufort in 1840 leaving illiterate Ann a widow with six young children . Widow Edwards continued to farm with the assistance of her five sons and became the leading landowner in the Winterberg with her rights to the Post Retief Barracks and all its buildings located on her farm, she also had a trading store within the fort during peace years and her own farm house close to the old Retief house on the farm ( a single red clay wall remains ) , she built a mill and ground corn , had extensive orchards and constructed a furrow with the aid of her eldest son John Edwards over three kilometers long which still runs almost two centuries later.
Ann Edwards was mentioned a few times in literature – Thomas Baines journal , Wilmot-A Cape Traveller’s Diary , Isaiah Staples and Charles Bell knew her well and Thomas Baines , South Africa’s most famous 19th Century artist featured Ann Edwards’ farm Post Retief in an oil painting ( Post Retief and the Great Winterberg 1853 , a watercolour and numerous pencil sketches including “making riempie”in the Oppenheimer’s Brenthurst Collection .
Ann Edwards and the family played a pivotal role in the 8th Frontier War and narrowly survived to continue to prosper with business interests in the Winterberg. She added the four orphaned children of her sister in England ,bringing them out in the mid 1850s to her own brood of six children .
Ann Edwards amassed a very large fortune in her life time as trader , land owner and farmer dying at the age of 86 years she is buried in the Whittlesea Cemetery with her son Alfred Steven Edwards who drowned tragically before her death in the same area . Ann Edwards considerable estate was equally divided between her 5 sons and one daughter although only her youngest son James Edwards jnr continued to farm in the Winterberg and came to own all the Edwards land in the Winterberg.

Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

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Married:
London Metropolitan Archives:
James EDWARDS, bachelor, of the hamlet of M.E.O.T. [Mile End Old Town] married Ann THOMAS, spinster, of the same hamlet, on 12 February 1817
James EDWARDS (signed)
Ann THOMAS (X)
Witnesses: George FIELD and Sarah FIELD (X)
{ transcribed by Sue Mackay - eGGSA.org}

George married Margaret Field about 1822. Margaret (daughter of Field) was born on 13 Jan 1800 in Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]