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Gerald Lennox Impey

Male 1895 - 1970  (74 years)


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  1. 1.  Gerald Lennox Impey was born on 31 Aug 1895 in Maclear, Eastern Cape, South Africa (son of James Gordon Impey and Harriet Gretchen Kett); died on 22 Feb 1970 in Welkom, Free State, South Africa.

    Gerald married Inez May MeredithBenoni, Gauteng, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Rona Inez Impey
    2. Wanda Geraldene Impey

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  James Gordon Impey was born on 26 Dec 1851 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa (son of Richard Pulman Impey and Hanna Tamplin Hart); died on 10 Jun 1923 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Occupation: 1897, Comet Gold Mine, Boksburg, Transvaal, South Africa; Compound Manager

    James married Harriet Gretchen Kett on 25 Apr 1886 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Harriet Gretchen Kett
    Children:
    1. Hirell Neale Munro Impey was born in 1888 in Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    2. Ruby Grace Tamplin Impey died on 18 Aug 1981 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; was buried on 15 Sep 1981 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
    3. William Waldeck Impey was born on 6 Nov 1889 in Maclear, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 10 Jul 1958 in Warmbaths, Northern Transvaal, South Africa; was buried in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
    4. Ethel Daphne Impey
    5. Urith Letitia Impey
    6. 1. Gerald Lennox Impey was born on 31 Aug 1895 in Maclear, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 22 Feb 1970 in Welkom, Free State, South Africa.
    7. Ultima May Impey was born on 12 May 1897 in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa; was christened on 10 Jun 1897 in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
    8. Althea May Impey was born on 3 May 1898 in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa; was christened on 29 May 1898 in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
    9. Victor Austin Pillman Impey was born on 24 May 1905.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Richard Pulman Impey was born on 30 Oct 1829 in Bootham School, Whitby, Yorkshire, England (son of George Impey and Ann Frances Patton, son of Ann Frances Patton); died on 20 Oct 1920 in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Richard P Impey

    Richard married Hanna Tamplin Hart on 16 Jul 1849. Hanna (daughter of Lieutenant James Hart and Maria Susanna Wilhemina van Aardt) was born on 3 Aug 1831 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 7 Aug 1831 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 8 Jun 1908. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Hanna Tamplin Hart was born on 3 Aug 1831 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 7 Aug 1831 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa (daughter of Lieutenant James Hart and Maria Susanna Wilhemina van Aardt); died on 8 Jun 1908.
    Children:
    1. Charles Lennox Impey was born on 18 May 1850; died in 1876 in Middelburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
    2. 2. James Gordon Impey was born on 26 Dec 1851 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 10 Jun 1923 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
    3. Richard George Impey was born on 10 Nov 1853 in Glen Avon farm, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 21 Oct 1918.
    4. Dr. Samuel Patton Impey was born on 11 May 1856 in Glen Avon farm, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 4 Jul 1928 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Maitland Cemetery, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    5. Maria Susannah Wilhelmina Impey was born on 23 Apr 1858 in Hopewell.
    6. Robert Hart Impey was born on 4 May 1860 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 24 Oct 1942 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    7. George Grey Impey was born on 4 Aug 1862 in Greytown, British Kaffraria ?; was christened on 28 Feb 1863 in Peddie Weslyan Church, Peddie, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    8. Ann Frances Letitia Impey was born on 4 Mar 1864.
    9. Hannah Tamplin Impey was born on 5 Dec 1865; died in Apr 1898.
    10. Emily Beatrice May Impey was born on 18 Jul 1867 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    11. Agnes Grace Isabel Impey was born on 3 May 1869.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  George Impey was born on 21 May 1795 in Bishopsgate, England (son of William Impey and Sarah Deane); died on 9 Jul 1866 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: George Impey 1844
    • Residence: Whitby, Yorkshire, England

    Notes:

    GEORGE IMPEY (source 'Impey of Barton-in-the-Clay)
    George IMPEY (1795 - 1866) of Whitby and South Africa, grocer, sailmaker, schoolmaster, Bank Manager, was the second son (and 5th child) of William-the-Baker' of Bishopsgate, London and Sarah DEANE his wife.
    George moved from London with his parents to Stanstead when he was five and lost his father that same year. When he was ten school began in ernest for him at Ackworth Friends' School in Yorkshire at that time a very austere establishment of limited educational standard. The long stage-coach journey to the north would be made in company with one of his sisters, and later he would be in charge of his younger brother Joseph (Joe). It was customary to stay at school from September to the end of June in the following year and then go home for two months holiday. George spent five years at Ackworth and then when 14 was apprenticed to John Rowntree, a grocer, of Scarborough. On this occasion his home Monthly Meeting of Thaxted, Essex sent a note to Pickering Monthly Meeting which covered Scarborough notifying Friends of the apprenticeship and recommending young George (now doubly orphaned) to the affectionate regard and oversight of the Pickering Friends.
    George was described as a youth of good abilities and three years after serving his time at Rowntrees he was able to establish himself independently as a grocer in The Flowergate, Whitby where he continued for 20 years. (His marriage Certificate describes George as a draper so there may have been a drapery side to the grocery - very common in those days).
    In about 1838 George rather speculatively moved into a new business as a sailcloth manufacturer and flax-spinner at Hope Mill in the same town but this failed in 1842 leaving george without financial resources.
    George had become more and more atively interested in Wesleyan Methodism and there is a record of a visit to brother William at Earls Colne where George, his fame having gone before him, preached at the local Chapel to a packed house.
    Fanny, like her father, had a boarding school education at Ackworth Friends' School.
    William, Samuel and Richard were at Bootham Friends' School in York where teaching and scholarship were both at a considerably higher level.
    William, the eldest son, was ordained under Wesleyan Methodist auspices and went in 1838 as a Missionary to Bechuanaland in South Africa. After George's sailcloth business at Whitby came to its untimely end in 1842 he was invited by the Mission to re-open their mixed boarding school at Salem near Grahamstown, in the south-west of the Cape of Good Hope and decided to follow William to South Africa with the rest of the family. Following this momentous decision and with some monetary help towards fares from the Mission George and Ann prepared to set sail from London on the 31st December 1843 in the sailing ship HORWOOD.
    Their party consisted of husband and wife, Fanny aged 23, unmarried (all expecting to teach at the Mission school), Sam aged 16, Richard aged 15 and Sarah nearly 10 years old, Ann and George (the twins) aged 8 and two maidservants who emigrated with them.
    While the party was waiting in rooms at Wells Close Square, London Dock to embark George's sisters came up to say goodby, but determined to avoid introducing his erring brother 'poor Joe' to his young people. George went by train to Kelvedon to take leave of him.
    The sea-journey to Port Elizabeth took 85 days. After about a week in Grahamstown our party went by ox-wagon to Salem and took up residence in the badly dilapidated 20 roomed schoolhouse which was to be their home for the next four years.
    The School opened with 9 pupils, of which Sarah was one. In a years time there were 40 pupils and with staff and servants the household amounted to 56. When it was realised that a large part of what concourse ate, both animal and vegetable, had to be produced on the spot, some idea will be gained of how desperately hard George and Ann had to work in order to cope with the new regime.
    In 1848 his worn-out wife died. It was decided not to re-open the school.
    The family then moved to Grahamstown where George contrived to make a living as an accountant.
    In 1849 three of his sons and a daughter, Ann, married.
    George himself married again to widow Grace STEPHEN.
    In 1850 a son was born to George and Grace. They named the infant H. Albright after the chemist brother-in-law recently acquired back in England.
    In 1860 a daughter, Gracie S.C., George's 12th child, made her debut.
    Described by her father as 'the sweetest child that ever was born' she grew up familiar with some dozen nieces and nephews who were all older than herself. George was already a J.P. and well settled in the Cape Colony when he made his final move to King William's Town on his appointment in 1861 to the British Kaffrarian Bank. As he crossed the threshold of this very fine new building as Bank Manager the bakery at Bishopsgate must have seemed a very long way off.
    He died in 1866 aged 71 years.
    Information received from Ellen Stanton 8 March 2005:
    "I found a little snipped about the death of George Impey in one of my books so I transcribe it for you:
    Transcribed from 'Christian Adventures in South Africa' by Rev. William Taylor, New York, Nelson & Phillips, 805 Broadway 1876 Chapter VIII, King William's Town Pages 99 - 101.
    "I visited Mr. George IMPEY in his last illnes, the father of Rev. William IMPEY. The dear old man had been confined to his room for four years, suffering from paralysis. He had been a resident of the colony for twenty-two years, and of King William's Town for seven. He was for some years manager of the British Kaffrarian Bank, and was, as I learned from them, who knew him long and well, a consistent, cheerful Christian and a Wesleyan Local Precher of superior abilities. He was not able to converse much when I saw him, but was steadfast in faith and his victory over sin and satan complete.
    I sang to him the dying sentiments of Bishop McKendree:

    "What's this that steals, that steals upon my frame?
    Is it death? Is it death?
    That soon shall quench, shal quench this vital flame,
    Is it death? Is it death?
    If this be death, I soon shall be
    From every pain and sorrow free,
    I shall the King of Glory see!

    Weep not, my friends, weep not for me;
    All is well, all is well.
    My sins are pardoned, pardoned I am free;
    All is well, all is well.
    There's not a cloud that doth arise,
    To hide my Saviour from my eyes,
    I soon shall mount the upper skies;
    All is well, all is well.

    Tune, tune your harps, your harps, ye saints in glory,
    All is well, all is well.
    I will reherse, rehearse the the pleasing story,
    All is Well, all is well.
    Bright angels are from glory come,
    They're round my bed, they're in my room,
    They wait to waft my Spirit home,
    All is well, all is well.

    Hark! Hark, my Lord, My Lord and Master calls me,
    All is well, All is well.
    Adieu, adieu, my friends, adieu,
    I can no longer stay with you.
    My glittering crown appears in view,
    All is well, all is well."

    All through the singing of this hymn, which has given expression to the triumphant joy of multitudes of dying Christians to whom I have sung it, the face of this dying patriarch was covered with smiles and streams of tears, and his hands were waving, as though, in the rapture of his soul, his dying body could not wait its appointed time, "to whit, the redemption of our bodies" but would fain mount up and fly, and at once accompany its immortal teneant to its "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens!. For a time he seemed hardly to know whether he was "in body or out of body!, but his acute bodily sufferings soon reminded him that the mortal struggle was still pending. He then grasped my hand and with tears exclaimed:
    "Oh, my brother, my dear brother, it will not be long! All is well".
    He lingered a few weeks and then sank to peaceful rest".

    George married Ann Frances Patton on 31 Mar 1817 in Whitby Parish Church, Whitby, Yorkshire, England. Ann was born on 5 Jun 1792 in Redcar, Yorkshire, England; died on 24 Jan 1848 in Salem, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Salem, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Ann Frances Patton was born on 5 Jun 1792 in Redcar, Yorkshire, England; died on 24 Jan 1848 in Salem, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Salem, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Ann Francis Patton 1844

    Children:
    1. Gordon Everton Impey died in Salem, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    2. Reverend William Impey was born on 22 Feb 1818 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England; died on 25 Sep 1896 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    3. George Impey was born on 14 Nov 1819; died on 23 Dec 1819.
    4. Frances Impey was born on 22 Jan 1821 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England; died on 18 May 1917 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    5. Sarah Impey was born in Jan 1823 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England; died in Feb 1823 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England.
    6. Mary Ann Impey was born on 29 Mar 1826 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England; died on 17 Jan 1873 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    7. George Impey was born on 29 Mar 1826 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England; died on 31 Jan 1890 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    8. Samuel Patton Impey was born on 10 Jun 1828 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England; died on 23 Jul 1851 in Koonap Heights.
    9. 4. Richard Pulman Impey was born on 30 Oct 1829 in Bootham School, Whitby, Yorkshire, England; died on 20 Oct 1920 in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa.
    10. Sarah Catherine Impey was born on 12 Aug 1834 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England; died on 20 Jun 1921 in Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

  3. 10.  Lieutenant James Hart was born on 21 Nov 1811; was christened on 27 Dec 1811 (son of Robert Hart and Hannah May Tamplin); died on 29 May 1876 in Umtata, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

    Notes:

    DEPOT VAB
    SOURCE MHG
    TYPE LEER
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    REFERENCE H175
    PART 1
    DESCRIPTION HART, JAMES. EGGENOTES SUSANNA WILHELMINA VAN AARDT EN MARTHA LOUISA (GEBORE KLOPPER).
    STARTING 18760000
    ENDING 18760000

    James was involved in a dispute with a Cornelius van Rooyen over the debt of a saddle. The dispute ended with James stabbing van Rooyen who died, and ending up in prison for 10 years.
    ###############
    James was appointed Mayor of Queenstown.

    James was jailed for stabbing his second wife's lover to death.

    RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF CRIMINAL CASE CIRCUIT COURT OF ALBANY. THE QUEEN VERSUS JAMES HART, MURDER. STARTING 1845 ENDING 1845.

    In the Supreme Court of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope filed on Friday the seventh day of march 1845.
    The Queen on the prosecution of Her Majesty's Attorney General James HART was charged with the Crime of Murder.
    Upon reading the Affidavit of Daniel Jacob Cloete, Esquire, Clerk of the Peace for Cape Town and Cape District it is Ordered that the above named Criminal Action or Suit e removed from this Court for trial at the next ensuing Circuit Cout to be holden in and for the Division of Albany.

    By the Court J.H. BOWLES, Registrar of the Supreme Court.

    15.

    Filed of Records in the Supreme Court of the Colobny of the Cape of Good Hope the fourth day of March 1845.

    J.H. Bowles Reg. of the Supreme Court.

    William PORTER, Esquire, Attorney-General of Our Sovereign Lady the Queen within the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, who prosecutes for and on behalf of her Majesty, presents and gives the Court to be informed:
    That James HART, now or lately an Agriculturist, and now or lately residing at Roode Wal on the Great Fish River in the division of Somerset is guilty of the crime of Murder - In that upon the eighteenth day of September in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-four and at Roode Wal aforesaid, the said James HART did wrongfully, unlawfully and maliciously assaul Cornelis van Rooyen in his lifetime an Agriculturist and residing at Vet Kuil in the Division aforesaid, and did then and there, with a knife, wrongfully, unlawfully and maliciously strike and stab the said Cornelis van Rooyen, by such striking and stabbing, one mortal wound, of which mortal wound, so inflicted as aforesaid the said Cornelis van Rooyen then and there died and thus the said James HART did wrongfully, unlawfully and maliciously kill and murder the said Cornelis van Rooyen.
    Wherefore upon due proof and conviction thereofe the said Attorney-General prays the Judgment of the Court against the said James Hart, according to Law.
    H. Porter,

    Attorney General.

    Circuit Court, Graham's Town 15th April 1845.

    It is ordered that this case be removed in the Supreme Court and is hereby removed accordingly,

    G. Groman.

    To the Supreme Court,

    Colony of the Cape of Good Hope,

    In Queen in the prosecution of Attorney General against James HART charged with the crime of Murder.

    Daniel Jacob Cloete, Clerk of the peace for Cape Town, Cape District that the aforesaid James HART is charged with having on or about the Eighteenth day of September in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty four committed the crime of Murde at Roodeval in the Great Fish River situate in the District of Somerset.

    Attorney General has instituted for Criminal Actin against the said James Hart for the said crime and has filed the Honourble Council that it is more expedient and will be less expensive to the Government and be held in the Court of the Court of the District of Albany and not in the Supreme Council

    before me David J. Cloete this fifth day of March 1845.J.H. BOWLES.

    15.

    Circuit Court, Graham's Town

    15th April 1845

    Before this Court

    James HART - Murder

    being arraigned pleaded Not Guilty.

    The Jury which found him Guilty of Culpable Homicide not Murder consisted of:
    1. John Talbot
    2. Thomas Berry
    3. William Bartlet
    4. Robert Blackbeard
    5. Joseph Wilmot
    6. Joseph Bradfield
    7. William Upton
    8. George Belfelds
    9. Richard Bradfield.
    The Circuit Court decided to refer the case to the Supreme Court.

    VERDICT: NOT GUILTY OF MURDER but GUILTY OF CUPABLE HOMICIDE.

    Judgement of the Court:

    To be imprisoned in the gaol of Graham's Town or such other place as the Governor shall appoint for ten years with hard labour.
    G. Cromer, Registrar of Court.

    As it turned out he didn't serve the 10 years in gaol. For some reason he was sent to Robben Island (then a leper colony and insane asylum) and appears to have been released after about 4 years.

    His 2nd wife Martha Louisa KLOPPER gave birth to Richard Tamplin (Dickie) HART on the 15th Novbember 1850 so he must have been out of gaol at least 9 months before that date.

    Transcribed by Tombi Peck

    James married Maria Susanna Wilhemina van Aardt on 28 Aug 1830 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Maria was born on 24 Dec 1813 in Jagersdrift, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 21 Dec 1839 in Bruintjes Hoogte, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Maria Susanna Wilhemina van Aardt was born on 24 Dec 1813 in Jagersdrift, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 21 Dec 1839 in Bruintjes Hoogte, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Maria Susanna W Van Aardt

    Notes:

    the VAN AARDT family are still on the same farm they occupied when James married Maria...their farm is 'Goede Hoop' which is about 12 miles from 'Glen Avon'.

    Children:
    1. 5. Hanna Tamplin Hart was born on 3 Aug 1831 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 7 Aug 1831 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 8 Jun 1908.
    2. William Adriaan Hart was born on 3 Nov 1832 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 1 Jan 1833 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 6 Feb 1888 in Hartfield, Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    3. Maria Susanna Wilhelmina Hart was born on 23 Sep 1834 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 31 May 1922 in General Hospital, Pretoria.
    4. Robert Scotland Hart was born on 9 Oct 1837 in 'Block Drift', Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 10 Dec 1837 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 29 Mar 1883 in Thomas River, Cathcart district, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Thomas River Historical village cemetey, Cathcart District, Eastern Cape, South Africa.



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