Percy Edgar Shone

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Percy Edgar Shone

Percy married Stella Mary Wedderburn on 13 Sep 1923 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. Stella (daughter of Alexander John Ennis Wedderburn and Susanna Alice Cawood) was born on 25 Dec 1892 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 1 Dec 1902 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa; died on 31 Dec 1960. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Residence: 'Chestnut Grove', Bedford, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Notes:

In 1876 he bought the farm Chestnut Grove from William Dods Pringle.

John married Sarah Goldswain on 5 Jan 1859 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Sarah (daughter of Jeremiah Goldswain, 1820 Settler and Eliza Debnam, 1820 Settler) was born on 9 May 1839 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 9 Jun 1839 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 26 Nov 1900 in Bedford, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Chestnut Grove, Bedford, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

see https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVZ-YSYX-V?i=1716&cat=305287 for list of children with birthdates as a source.

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 718
• Name: Thomas Shone 1820
• Occupation: a Labourer
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• MOVE: Moved: 30 Jun 1824, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa

Notes:

Thomas Shone, a Labourer aged 31 aged 31 and his wife Sarah Phillips, 25, emigrated with their children George 7, Thomas 4 and Sarah 1, with Scott's party in the "Nautilus". Thomas Shone lived at Newington, Surrey (now part of Greater London). The party's location in the Kap River Valley was named Scott's Bottom.

Settler:
Scott's party on the Nautilus

MOVE: Moved:
Description: Henry Shepherd's allotment

Thomas married Sarah Phillips, 1820 Settler on 23 Oct 1814 in St Mary's Newington, Surrey, England. Sarah was born in 1793; died on 26 Dec 1837 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 632
• Name: Sarah Phillips 1820
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Settler:
Scott's party on the Nautilus

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 281
• Name: Jeremiah Goldswain 1820
• Occupation: a Sawyer
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

OCCUPATION: Sawyer
SHIP: Zoroaster left Downs on 12 Feb 1820, reached Simon's Bay on 30 April. Her charter terminated here and was completed by Albury, which arrived Algoa Bay on 15 May 1820.
LEADER: William Wait, wine merchant from Middlesex.
LOCATION: Source of the Ghio stream, near Bushman's River. First named Raven Hill and later Belton.

THE CHRONICLE OF JEREMIAH GOLDSWAIN:
(Jeremiah is on board the Zoroaster and has resisted attempts by his parents to get him to abandon his resolve to go to the Cape of Good Hope, he gets very ill..)
He writes:
"We were froze in for about three weeks: our vessel was lying some distance from the dockyard, but inside of a large hulk, and the Belle Alliance laid outside of her. The name of our vessel was the Zoroaster and she was not able to get out into the stream so soon as many other ships.
Before we left Deptford, one morning we saw a little coal smack that was going down the river without ballast with a slight tide, but against the wind, and as she was on one of her tacks she went clean over on her side: she was so near the opposite side of the river so that we could just see the least bit of her side. There were only three men on board of her. Two were on deck and one below. The two men that was on deck could swim and they soon swam toward the boat that went to their assistance and the poor fellow that was between decks we saw creeping up on to her side. As soon as the tide was down they got her righted and the first tide took her off.
As soon as it was possible they cut us out and we dropped down to Blackwall. We had no sooner dropped the anchor when a merchant vessel coming down with a strong tide and a stiff breeze she ran right across the stern of the Zoroaster and took away the Captain’s gig but did not do any damage to the vessel more than to the gig, which was soon recovered without much damage.
The following morning I joined a party to go over to see the gibbets. Quite unthinking, I put on a damp shirt: the next day I found that I had caught cold, and while we lay at Gravesend I was making some lobster sauce and was taken so ill that my messmates were forced to put me into the berth. I laid there several days before I would allow anyone to inform the Doctor. When he came he found me in a most dangerous state. He bled me and took from my arm eighteen ounces of blood and then had me removed into the sick bay. At this time I began to feel the want of my poor mother. I had no-one to take care of me but one of my mess-mates, James Barter, who was very kind to me, but it was not my mother: no man can nurse a sick person as a woman can.
When we were at Deptford we all supplied ourselves with a store of crockery and placed it on the shelves over our berth. Just as we got to the downs, about the middle of the night, the wind rose, the vessel rolled, the crockery flew off of the shelves; not one article was left. The captain had ordered all the settlers to fill all their vessels with fresh water: they obeyed and filled all their tubs and at the same time the decks were quite deluged with water and such a lamentation the next morning for all their water was gone and Captain Brown had promised them that they should not have a drop of fresh water for three days.
I could recollect nothing more until we came within two days of the Canary Islands. We anchored at Madeira for two or three days. I was taken on deck to see the place. Some of the men went ashore and brought me a little soft bread, but it was so black and sour that I could not eat it. I was so ill that I was but once on deck until we were within three weeks of Simon’s Bay. Just before this the Doctor came into the sickbay and then went back to Mr Wait’s cabin and informed my master and mistress that they must make up their minds to part with me as he thought that nothing could save me. He returned to the sickbay and took some blood from my right arm. Soon after this, as the Doctor was standing by I opened my eyes and looked around me. This was the first time for several days. After being bled I began to get better.
Up to this time I knew nothing of the voyage and at this time my sides were quite raw and everything clung to me, for my bones appeared to be quite through my skin. At this time I thought more of home than ever I had done before for I had no mother to wipe off of my forehead the cold damp sweat or to make my bed or to soften my pillow.
I was lying in one of the lower berths and someone, after fumigating the ships, had put the fumigating pots in the berth over the one that I was lying in and in the night a breeze sprung up and in the night one or more of them fell over and upset the contents on to me. My bedclothes and my shirt that was on me was burnt and fell all to pieces but it never touched my body...."



Extract from "The Settler named Jeremiah Goldswain" by Pauline Goldswain -
Pages 21 & 22:
Jeremiah by sheer hard work and economy, despite the setbacks, was able to go ahead with his wedding plans and the date was set for 21st October. He did not want to disappoint Eliza. To him the procedure for matrimony under South African law seemed very complicated. The banns had to be published and displayed on the landrosts' office door for two weeks in case anyone disputed the forthcoming marriage. To make application both parties had to present themselves before the landrost in Grahamstown. Eliza not being of age had to have her father's consent, written or verbal. They walked to Grahamstown, thirty miles there and thirty back to comply with the requirements. But only Jeremiah was required to return fourteen days later with the fifteen shillings, the cost of the licence fee. This he did and accounted for one hundred and twenty miles being covered on foot to fulfil these preliminary requirements. Back home he walked five miles to Bathurst to purchase a few necessities for the wedding feast.

On Monday, the day of the wedding the family set out on foot for the Anglican Minister's home which was ten miles away. They missed Rev Boardman by half and hour as he had left for Grahamstown on horseback. They had no alternative but to return home very disappointed and downcast. They then thought of the Rev Kay the Methodist minister. Jeremiah mounted Eliza's
horse and rode to Mr Hartley on the chance of finding him there. Not finding him there, he left a message and returned home to the wedding group. After lunch he set out again, determined to locate the minister. He eventually did, but was caught in a heavy downpour and drenched to the skin.

The Rev Kay was willing to perform the marriage service but said he wanted a congregation to whom he could preach to at the same time. Jeremiah, confident and determined, promised he would organise this request, and knew he could rely on at least sixteen people. So Rev Kay cancelled an appointment and rode with Jeremiah as far as Mr Trollips where the services were usually held. The time fixed was for 7 p.m. and the wedding party had to be there at 6.30 p.m. that very evening. It was a distance of six miles that they had to traverse to the Trollips, Jeremiah and Rev Kay riding together and calling on farmers on the way, the Ford and Hyman parties being the largest. A lovely flat area of ground was seen and it struck Jeremiah that this place would be very suitable for a racecourse. He voiced his thoughts and the reaction was complete silence. Jeremiah felt so guilty that he involuntarily reigned in his horse and the jerk nearly caused him to be thrown backward.

He left Rev Kay resting at the Trollips and rode back home still calling on settlers and asking them to attend the evening service. He was caught in a second downpour before he reached home. It was so late that although he was offered refreshment he had not time or appetite to partake of same. The party just made it. The bride was beautiful but the bridegroom was still in his drenched clothes and thoroughly uncomfortable. After the marriage service came the full church service closing with a prayer at 8.30 p.m. They had to sit patiently till the end, and then home to the reception.

Jeremiah summed up the time and mileage covered to enable him to be married. That very day, 21st October, he had been on the go from 5.30 a.m. until 8.30 p.m. The distance was forty miles mostly on foot and through two thunderstorms, and an agitated state of mind. This did not include the one hundred and twenty miles necessitated in acquiring the licence. He told all and sundry that he hoped he would never ever have to marry again.

Grahamstown Journal, 4 december 1871:

MR. J. GOLDSWAIN
Mr. Jeremiah GOLDSWAIN’s whose death we recorded on Wednesday, and whose funeral obsequies took place last Friday, was a native of the county of Buckinghamshire, England, and arrived in this country with the British Settlers in 1820. He was located in the neighbourhood of Bathurst, and subsequently became by purchase the proprietor of what is known by the name of “Freestone Farm”, situated in a beautiful country at the eastern base of the Bathurst hills. This property was originally granted to Mr. AUSTEN, father of Mr. AUSTEN lately Magistrate at the Wittenbergen Reserve, and was then known as “Tiger Spring”. Here Mr. GOLDSWAIN settled down with his family, and was well known to the country round for his social disposition and general hospitality to all comers. The free-stone quarry upon the property afforded him an agreeable change of occupation, and was a source of no little profit. While here deceased was conspicuous for his active exertions in the defence of the country against the incursions of the Kafirs. Few have done harder service or have been more unceasing in their endeavours to protect and improve the country of their adoption. It may be averred probably that the years spent on “FreeStone Farm” were not only the most stirring, but the most successful of his career. Circumstances however induced him to part with this property: and from that time to his decease his life was a chequered one, in which disappointment and misfortune were largely mingled. For some years he was an active sheep farmer not very remote from this city, but Kafir wars, and native pillage were overpowering, and he was compelled to succumb to circumstances which were quite beyond his power of control.
The name of Jeremiah GOLDSWAIN will be affectionately treasured up by a large circle of friends, while his memory will be regarded by all who knew him as a Colonist who deserved well of his country.
It may interest many to learn that for a long period Mr. GOLDSWAIN kept a journal of his proceedings and experiences in this country. This journal is rather voluminous, and we doubt not will be found to contain many striking accounts of the struggles and privations incident to the life of a Settler on this exposed Frontier.
https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/grahamstown-journal/1329-grahamstown-journal-1871-4-october-to-december?fbclid=IwAR2qxWsTdCXDLGkdrpEOPhiB0MVFFpZZoTDt7uPYELPrWcdrDCbQ_rBc-nk

Settler:
Wait's party on the Zoroaster

Jeremiah married Eliza Debnam, 1820 Settler on 21 Oct 1822 in 'Standerwick', Reed River, Port Alfred (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. Eliza (daughter of Isaac Debnam, 1820 Settler and Mary George, 1820 Settler) was born on 2 Aug 1800 in Frome, Somerset, England; was christened on 30 Aug 1800 in St John the Baptist, Frome, Somerset, England; died on 20 Jun 1879 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Grahamstown Cemetery (Wesleyan/Methodist), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 186
• Name: Eliza DEBNAM then DEDMAN 1820
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

SHIP: Weymouth

LEADER: Charles Hyman of Short Street, Westbury, Wiltshire.

LOCATION: Right bank of the Lynedoch, called Standerwick.

DEADMAN in Matrimonial Court Minutes
name also given as Eliza DEBHAM

County Somerset
Place Frome
Church name St John the Baptist
Register type Parish Register
Baptism date 30 Aug 1800
Person forename Eliza
Person sex F
Father forename Isaac
Mother forename Mary
Father surname DEDMAN

Settler:
Hyman's party on the Weymouth

Thomas married Mary Beck on 20 May 1777 in St Andrew's Church, Holborn, London, England. Mary was born in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Ann Wakeling on 31 May 1792 in All Saints, Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 188
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

OCCUPATION: Weaver

SHIP: Weymouth
LEADER: Charles Hyman, labourer of Westbury, Wiltshire.
LOCATION: Standerwick on right bank of Lynedoch River.

Eliza's Death Notice has their surnames as DEADMAN

OCCUPATION: Weaver
SHIP: Weymouth
LEADER: Charles Hyman, labourer of Westbury, Wiltshire.
LOCATION: Standerwick on rght bank of Lynedoch River.

"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPPP-P8B : accessed 20 August 2015), Isaac Debnam, 15 Nov 1772; citing OLD MEETING HOUSE PRESBYTERIAN OR UNITARIAN,WARMINSTER,WILTSHIRE,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 0816602 (RG4 3768A).

Settler:
Hyman's party on the Weymouth

Isaac married Mary George, 1820 Settler on 26 May 1799 in St Mary, Somerset, England. Mary was born in 1783 in Elm, Somerset, England; died on 27 Oct 1843 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Alexandria, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 33
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Hyman's party on the Weymouth

Notes:

Married:
County Somerset
Place Elm
Church name St Mary
Register type Parish Register
Marriage date 26 May 1799
Groom forename Isaac
Groom surname DEDNAM
Groom parish of this parish
Bride forename Mary
Bride surname GEORGE
Bride parish of this parish
Witness1 forename Joseph
Witness1 surname GUNING
Witness2 forename Daniel
Witness2 surname COOMBS
Notes Banns