Charlotte Ann Biddulph

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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her DN has marriage at Jacobsdaal in the Free State.

Charlotte married Philip Aunjer PennyHopetown, Northern Cape, South Africa. Philip (son of Philip Penny and Marianne Stillwell) was born in 1847 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 28 Aug 1929 in Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Frances Davies Penny
2. Gilbert Philip Penny was born in 1881.
3. Jessie Olive Penny was born on 23 Dec 1883 in Newton, Kimberley, South Africa; died on 21 Aug 1917.
4. Aubrey Penny
5. Effie Penny
6. Irene Penny
7. Hilton Penny was born in 1896 in Klerksdorp, North West, South Africa; died on 28 Apr 1917 in Arras, France.

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Gilbert married Frances Ann Dyason, 1820 Settler on 27 Apr 1848 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Frances (daughter of George Dyason, 1820 Settler and Frances Ann Hutchinson, 1820 Settler) was born on 14 Mar 1819 in London, England; died on 27 Jul 1894 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 221
• Name: Frances Ann Dyason 1820
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Settler:
Dyason's party on the Zoroaster

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 970
• Name: John Burnet (Mid) Biddulph 1820
• Occupation: a Naval Officer
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Residence: 22 May 1826, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Occupation: 1828, Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

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Midshipman, Royal Navy. He was born in the village of Wigginton, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, the fifth son of Simon Biddulph and his wife Ann Burnet. He served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy for five years and was discharged from the service at the peace of 1814 without qualifying for a commission. He emigrated to the Cape of Good Hope with his parents and four of his brothers and sisters. On reaching Algoa Bay the Biddulphs separated from the rest of Bailie's party, and Simon Biddulph was granted a farm adjoining John Bailie's, as well as a building erf and ten morgen of land at Bathurst. J.B.Biddulph's request for a separate grant of land was not acceded to. In October 1820 he surveyed and sketched the Kowie River mouth, and recommended to the colonial authorities that it be brought into use as a harbour for Albany. In 1823 he purchased a farm at Kaffir Drift Post from the widow of Captain George Scott, but the land was subsequently requisitioned by Government and he was granted the Old Kap River Farm in exchange. In 1824 he negotiated for a government contract to provide a mail service from Uitenhage to Grahamstown and the Kowie, but the scheme fell through because of financial difficulties. His attempts to obtain a government loan and a further grant of land were unsuccessful. He married Wilhelmina Theodora Elizabeth Wahlstrand at Graaff Reinet in 1825. In 1826 he made the first of a series of profitable trading expeditions beyond the colonial boundaries, travelling north as far as Dithu-baruba in partnership with A.G.Bain. He made three expeditions to Natal between 1828 and 1830.
Continual stock thefts by Xhosa marauders caused J.B.Biddulph to leave the exposed Old Kap River Farm and rent Harewood, adjoining his father's farm Birbury, in 1828. In 1832 he offered his property in Albany for sale and moved to Graaff Reinet to set up in business as a commission agent. He became a dealer in gunpowder, and erected a private gunpowder magazine under government licence in 1834. He was appointed Captain in the Graaff Reinet Municipal Force in 1835, during the Sixth Frontier War. He died at Graaff Reinet in 1837 after a brief illness, leaving his wife and five young sons, Gilbert Burnet, Ernst Wahlstrand, Edward John, Thomas and Charles Henry. His estate included two farms in the Graaff Reinet district, his house on the Market Square, Graaff Reinet, and erven in Graaff Reinet and Colesberg, as well as household furniture. His widow died at Birbury in 1843. { M D Nash }


Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

John married Wilhelmina Theodora Elizabeth Wahlstrand on 2 Apr 1825 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Wilhelmina was born est 1802; died on 11 Apr 1843 in Birbury farm, Bathurst district, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Grahamstown Journal CO53/15 National Archives, London
Transcribed by Sue Mackay
Thursday April 13 1843
Died on the 11th instant at Birbury, near Bathurst, at the residence of T.J. BIDDULPH Esq, Wilhelmina Theodora Elizabeth BIDDULPH, widow of the late John Burnet BIDDULPH Esq of Graaf Reinet, aged 36 years, after a long and painful illness, borne with exemplary patience, leaving five orphan children to deplore her premature death.

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 222
• Name: George Dyason JP 1820
• Occupation: a Wine Merchant and Postmaster
• Residence: Ramsgate, Kent, England
• Residence: Old Cavendish Street (No:12), London, England
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
• Occupation: 1828, Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Chief Clerk to the Magistrate

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Mr. George Dyason, head of Dyason's London party of settlers, arrived at Torrens River in June 1820. Originally they were to have shared a location with Wait's party, however they remained at Lushington, which Dyason named after Dr Lushington the MP for his constituency in England.
By September Rev William Boardman, the Anglican Chaplin had started a school in a loaned marquee at Bathurst and the Dyson children were among the first to attend.
In March the following year he was among the first people to acquire a stand in the newly formed Bathurst when he took transfer of lot 44.
By May he had been appointed Field Cornet for Bathurst and shortly after he also took on the position as Postmaster. He held these duties until the beginning of 1822 when he resigned. However as it was found difficult to find a replacement Dyason was re appointed to both posts a month later. George Dyason was among those who had stated their desire to form "The Kowie Navigation Company" at the Kowie.
By February 1824, Dyason was Field Cornet of Grahamstown as well as being postmaster for the town.
At a sale held at Port Kowie in March 1824, he purchased one of the 25 building lots that were offered for sale, thus becoming one of the first property owners in the new township.
On 15 December 1826 George Dyason was granted land which he called Rokeby Park, after Lord Rokeby in Kent, England.
In September 1836 he took the position as Resident Magistrate at Bathurst at £100 per annum.
In March 1842 George Dyason offered Rokeby Park and Lushington for sale.

Settler:
Dyason's party on the Zoroaster

George married Frances Ann Hutchinson, 1820 Settler on 27 Jul 1816. Frances was born in 1791 in England; died on 29 Aug 1828 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Port Elizabeth Church (St Mary's), Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 364
• Name: Frances Ann Hutchinson 1820
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Settler:
Dyason's party on the Zoroaster

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 972
• Occupation: a Farmer
• Residence: Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Residence: 1822, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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He was the son of Walter Biddulph and his wife Mary Adcock of Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire. He married Ann Burnet, daughter of Captain Thomas Burnet RN, and lived at Tamworth and Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.
He emigrated with his wife and five of their surviving 11 children, and a capital of £500. They withdrew from Bailie's party on arrival at Algoa Bay, and Simon Biddulph was granted a separate farm which he called Birbury, as well as a building erf and ten morgen of land at Bathurst. He built a house and general store at Bathurst on land belonging to Henry Ellis, which was more centrally situated than his own, but he suffered heavy business losses when the magistracy was removed to Grahamstown, and he was forced to sell his cattle and breeding mares to pay his creditors. When Bathurst was evacuated at the outbreak of war in 1834, Simon Biddulph and his wife lived in Grahamstown for two months before moving to Graaff Reinet where their son John Burnet Biddulph had established himself. After the latter's death in 1837, Simon Biddulph was appointed storekeeper of his gunpowder magazine, but subsequently returned to Bathurst where he purchased a house from John Morris in May 1840. He died at Bathurst in January 1842, leaving his wife, three sons and a widowed daughter (Mrs Edward Roberts) living in the Cape Colony, a son and a married daughter living in New South Wales, and three married daughters in London. His estate included Birbury, his house at Bathurst, a mortgaged house at Graaff Reinet, and an erf at Bathurst given him by Colonel Bird, in addition to movable property and a trust fund that had been established for his children at the time of his marriage. Mrs Ann Biddulph died in 1844.

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

Simon married Ann Burnet, 1820 Settler on 11 Jul 1785 in Halesowen, Worcestershire, England. Ann (daughter of Thomas (Capt) Burnet, RN and Mary Hinchley) was born in Aug 1765; died on 10 Feb 1844 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried on 12 Feb 1844 in Bathurst Church (St John's - Anglican), Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 968
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Residence: 1822, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Thursday February 15 1844
Died at Bathurst on the 10th instant, in the 79th year of her age, Ann BIDDULPH, widow of the late Simon BIDDULPH Esquire, formerly of Tamworth in the County of Staffordshire.
She was the only daughter of Thomas BURNET Esquire, Captain and Commander in the Royal Navy, and great granddaughter of the celebrated Gilbert BURNET, Bishop of Salisbury and (upon the death of her brother the late Major General John BURNET) became sole legal personal representative of that learned Prelate.
From the Grahamstown Journal CO53/15 National Archives, London
Transcribed by Sue Mackay

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

Joseph married Susanna Strivens on 5 Apr 1779 in St Laurence, Ramsgate, Thanet, Kent, England. Susanna was born on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
First name(s) Joseph
Last name Dyason
Name note -
Marriage year 1779
Marriage date 05 Apr 1779
Marriage place St Lawrence
Spouse's first name(s) Susannah
Spouse's last name Strivens
Residence St. Lawrence, Kent, England
County Kent
Country England
Record set England Marriages 1538-1973
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Marriages & divorces
Collections from Great Britain