Hartley Thomas Hartley

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• Name: Hartley Thomas Hartley

Hartley married Ethel Maria Dicks on 29 Mar 1904 in Tylden Church (Methodist), Tylden, Cathcart District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Ethel (daughter of Benjamin Dicks and Emily Elizabeth Fletcher) was born on 23 Oct 1882 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 7 Dec 1959 in Clachan, Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Spring Vale, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Ray Hartley was born on 11 Feb 1905.
2. Bernard Benjamin Hartley was born on 21 Mar 1906; died on 31 Jul 1973 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
3. Oliver Warwick Hartley was born on 13 Jan 1910 in Salem farm, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 1 Nov 1966 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
4. Phyllis Gertrude Hartley
5. Ivy Marion Hartley

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

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William married Sarah Anne Kemp on 24 Jun 1857 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Sarah (daughter of - husband partner of Martha Kemp and Martha Kemp) was born on 12 May 1832 in Sittingbourne, Kent, England; died on 31 Mar 1916 in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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There is some evidence that Sarah Ann was the illegitimate daughter of Martha, who she brought from England with her.

She did indeed marry William John HARTLEY on 24 June 1857 in Bathurst. She was described as being 25 at the time. Her DN states that she died on 31 March 1916 aged 83 and was born in Kent, parents unknown. All this would seem to tie in with the baptism you quote below in Sittingbourne, Kent on 1 July 1832 (birth 12 May)

BUT, James KEMP was Martha's brother and not her husband! There is something in the Hartley Story which says that Martha was seduced by her employer and that Sarah Ann was the result. Now it may be that James let his name go on the baptism register to preserve Martha's good name and that they then both high tailed it out of the country and headed for Grahamstown. I don't know exactly when Martha or James KEMP arrived in SA. Apparently James KEMP was a gardener, but there were three James KEMPs in Grahamstown in the 1830s, which doesn't help. James the gardener apparently advertised fruit trees for sale in the Grahamstown Journal of 1834. He died aged 77 in 1868 at Philip HOBBS' house and in his will left everything to his "sister Martha HOBBS, wife of Philip HOBBS"

SARAH ANN KEMP Pedigree :
Birth: 12 MAY 1832
Christening: 01 JUL 1832 Wesleyan, Sittingbourne, Kent, England
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Father: JAMES KEMP Family
Mother: MARTHA
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SARAH ANN KEMP Pedigree
Birth: 12 MAY 1832 , , England
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Death: 31 MAR 1916
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Father: BEN HOBBS Family
Mother: MARTHA KEMP

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Witnesses: Robert LAMPLOUGH, Emma Elizabeth HARTLEY

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 309
• Name: Thomas Hartley 1820
• Name: Thomas Jackson Hartley
• Occupation: a Blacksmith
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Thomas married Mary Ann Kidson, 1820 Settler on 13 Dec 1828 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Mary (daughter of William Kidson, 1820 Settler and Anna Maria Parke, 1820 Settler) was born on 22 Aug 1808 in England; died on 3 Jul 1867 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried on 6 Jul 1867 in Bathurst Church (St Mary's - Methodist and Wesleyan), Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 379
• Name: Mary Anna Kidson 1820
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

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Description: Rev William Carlisle

Witnesses: J Cawood, Elizabeth Hartley

- + Martha Kemp. Martha (daughter of James Kemp and Mary, - wife of James Kemp) was born in 1802 in Kent, England; was christened on 11 Jul 1802 in Rodmersham. Kent, England; died in Aug 1887; was buried on 10 Aug 1887 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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poss dau of John KEMP 1820 Settler, as witnesses at wedding could be father/brothers (HS)
Sue Mackay wrote on http://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/additional-information/k-surnames/2141-kemp-james-extra-data : "It is not clear whether the James KEMP in Erith’s Party is the same as James KEMP the gardener, who was the sister of Martha KEMP, third wife of Philip HOBBS. The Death Notice (Cape Archives) for James the gardener says he was a childless widower and suggests a birth of around 1791. The death took place at the house of Philip HOBBS and Martha (nee KEMP) signed the certificate. His will (Cape Archives) leaves everything to his sister Martha, whom failing her two children Sarah Anne HARTLEY (nee KEMP) and Benjamin HOBBS. James the gardener was known to have been at the Cape in 1834, as NAAIRS has a memorial asking “that he be allowed to continue his superintendence of the Drostdy garden”. Martha had a daughter Sarah Ann KEMP born in 12 May 1832 in Rodmersham, Kent and baptised in Sittingbourne Wesleyan Chapel on 1 July 1832, supposedly the daughter of James KEMP and his wife Martha. Martha’s maiden name was KEMP, and she was baptised in Rodmersham on 11 July 1802, the daughter of James and Mary. I suspect that she pretended that her brother James was the father at the baptism of Sarah Ann, but I do not know whether James was at the Cape at that time or whether they both went out after the birth of Sarah Ann."

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 310
• Married: Nottinghamshire: - Register of Marriages, 1559-1812
• Occupation: 1820; a Blacksmith
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 1822, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Opened up the Pig and Whistle in Bathurst, South Africa's oldest licenced public house.
The name Pig and Whistle was given to the hotel by members of the South African Air Force during World War II as a result of its famous pub.

Main executor of his will was William Monkhouse Bowker.

East London's Dispatch
24 May 2008

SOUTH Africa's oldest pub has finally closed its doors after a record 175 years in business.
By David Macgregor, Port Alfred Bureau

Bathurst's historic Pig and Whistle Hotel opened for the last time a month ago - leaving residents of the village in a froth over the closure of the popular watering hole.
A second attempt yesterday to sell the 11-room national monument and adjacent supermarket, bottle store, and several cottages proved even more disappointing than a previous bid in December.
Originally called the Bathurst Inn, the first buildings were built in 1831 by 1820 settler Thomas HARTLEY as a one-stop accommodation and provisions centre for ox wagons passing through.
SOURCE: http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=205574


1820 Settler - Arrived 13th Feb 1820 - aboard .. - Calton's Party - a Blachsmith - Address - Liverpool on the Albury.


THE CALTON PARTY 1820 SETTLERS
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=7c6dc456-c793-479b-8d05-79f7d1219cd8&tid=9918126&pid=4672

Thomas Hartley Snr
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=dc2ced0d-6d5b-495c-8ee1-b6da7e748cce&tid=9918126&pid=4672

HARTLEY 1820 Thomas Leaving England
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=76cea56e-2b39-41b0-8199-fb1ea9364f22&tid=9918126&pid=4672

HARTLEY T - THE CALTON PARTY 1820 SETTLERS
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=053748b4-71a3-4abf-bb83-e3626f5f50d2&tid=9918126&pid=4672

HARTLEY HOPKINS FIELD - Memorial Plaque
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=7c30e574-0450-4ba6-82bf-91ab1612db7b&tid=9918126&pid=4672

HARTLEY - Thomas Snr 1820 Settler
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=356ea7b9-4333-41e5-98fd-84c105e0b8a5&tid=9918126&pid=4672

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Thomas married Hannah Hopkins on 31 Dec 1795 in Norton Cuckney, Nottinghamshire, England. Hannah was born on 27 Jul 1776 in Norton Cuckney, Nottinghamshire, England; died in Jan 1811 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Alphabetical guide to gravestones in smaller cemeteries in South Africa", as quoted by [6], gives "Sarah": this could easily be a mistranscription of "Hannah".

HARTLEY HOPKINS FIELD - Memorial Plaque
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=7c30e574-0450-4ba6-82bf-91ab1612db7b&tid=9918126&pid=4671

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 381
• Name: William Kidson 1820
• Occupation: a Farmer
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
• Occupation: Between 1826 and 1827, Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Dealer in Cattle
• Occupation: 1829, Beaufort Vale, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

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Carol Gainsford writes in the EGGSA Genesis magazine no 56 of August 2017:
One of the family visited Bathurst, and met an old resident, named Mr. Armstrong, who had lived in the village all his life, and was then 84 years of age. In his time he had been the undertaker, builder, carpenter, farmer, etc. He remembered Thomas Hartley Jnr., from whose store he had made purchases as a child.
He took him to the old Hartley homestead and to the cemetery where he could photograph the Kidson grave. The old man said that about the year 1912, he and his father were commissioned to renovate the Settler graves, in both the Anglican and Methodist churchyards. The Kidson grave was found to be in a lamentable state of dilapidation – the inscriptions on the tomb were faded and illegible, a tree having grown right through the crypt, dislodging the bricks and breaking the plaster.

The tree was chopped out and the damage repaired, and when digging down to the roots, they discovered the grave was not the orthodox type, but in fact a vault, or subterranean room, to which admittance could be gained by removing a stone trap-door and leading down some steps. On the floor of the vault were little platforms, upon which had rested the remains of William and Anna Kidson, the one on the right, directly below the tomb, had upon it a lead sealed coffin containing the body of William, the outer wooden shell had long since rotted away;whilst on the left rested the body of Anna – completely exposed as the wooden coffin had rotted away and she had not been placed in a leaden shell. The amazing part of the discovery was that she had not suffered the ravages of time, having been so well embalmed that after some 70 years, she was still perfectly preserved – the features perfect, her red hair lying in a tumbled mass about her head and the skin unmarked.

The article continues to inform the reader that the Settler William Kidson and Morris Slowman (or Sloman) spent a month in Gaol – 14 days on bread and water and 14 days on normal Government Prison rations. Their crime? Leaving their allocated locations with goods bought from the Government Stores at Bathurst and travelling further afield in the hope to sell these goods so that they could better provide for their families.

Even though they had permission from the Rev. William Boardman who was the eventual leader of the Willson Party, they were charged on the 1st April 1822 by the unpopular Harry Rivers (Landdrost of Albany) who was acting for the Governor Lord Charles Somerset.
Our Settlers certainly lived a miserable life under these conditions and seem to have been treated as criminals rather than settlers.

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Bruce Webber has 16/1/1785

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William married Anna Maria Parke, 1820 Settler about 1807. Anna (daughter of Joseph Parke and Elizabeth Tollemache) was born on 18 Apr 1788; died on 18 May 1843; was buried on 23 May 1843 in Bathurst Church (St John's - Anglican), Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

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James + Mary, - wife of James Kemp. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]