Henrietta Alexandra Amos: British 1820 Settlers to South Africa

Generation: 1

1.	Henrietta Alexandra Amos was born on 20 Nov 1872 in Peddie, Eastern Cape, South Africa (daughter of Charles Henry Amos and Emma Esther Cairns). Other Events and Attributes: 1820 Lineage: Yes Family/Spouse: Smith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Generation: 2

Charles Henry Amos was born about 1844 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (son of Edward Taylor Amos, 1820 Settler and Maria Catharina Froneman); died on 9 Mar 1920 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Other Events and Attributes:

1820 Lineage: Yes

Charles married Emma Esther CairnsAberdeen, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Emma (daughter of James Alexander Cairns and Eve Catherine Aletta Potgieter) was born about 1853 in Alexandria, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 24 Apr 1915 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma Esther Cairns was born about 1853 in Alexandria, Eastern Cape, South Africa (daughter of James Alexander Cairns and Eve Catherine Aletta Potgieter); died on 24 Apr 1915 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Children:

Catherine Elizabeth Amos was born on 17 Oct 1871 in Peddie, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
1. Henrietta Alexandra Amos was born on 20 Nov 1872 in Peddie, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
James Alexander Amos was born on 8 Apr 1876.
Charles Henry Amos was born on 5 May 1880.
Ethel May Amos was born on 4 May 1882.
Eira Mary Emma Amos was born on 27 Aug 1885.
Gordon Vernon Amos was born on 25 Dec 1890 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 16 Jul 1965 in Bloemhok Farm, Haenertsburg, Northern, South Africa.
Norman Albert Erns-Cliff Amos was born about 1889 in Peddie, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Avril Alice Amos was born about 1891.
Harry Clifton Amos was born about 1895.
Henry James Amos was born on 8 Apr 1876.
Jessy Hope Amos was born on 27 Mar 1884.

Generation: 3

Edward Taylor Amos, 1820 Settler was born in 1813; was christened on 18 Jul 1813 in St Peter, Swingfield, Kent, England (son of Henry Amos and Elizabeth Ambrose, 1820 Settler); died on 4 Jul 1873 in South Africa.

Other Events and Attributes:

1820 Lineage: Yes
Settler ID: 56
Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Menezes' party on the Weymouth

Edward married Maria Catharina Froneman on 24 May 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

5.
Maria Catharina Froneman
Children:

2. Charles Henry Amos was born about 1844 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 9 Mar 1920 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

6.	James Alexander Cairns was born about 1826 in Kowie, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa (son of James Alexander Cairns and Maria Johanna Nortje); died on 28 Jun 1904 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. James + Eve Catherine Aletta Potgieter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eve Catherine Aletta Potgieter

Children:

3. Emma Esther Cairns was born about 1853 in Alexandria, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 24 Apr 1915 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Mary Johanna Cairns
Catherine Agnes Cairns
James Alexander Cairns was born on 14 Jun 1854 in Tyumie, Eastern Cape Colony, South Africa; was christened on 23 Jul 1854; died on 12 Jun 1900 in Glennifer, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Susanna Elizabeth Cairns
Hester Magdalene Cairns was born about 1870 in Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 24 Aug 1936 in Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Henrietta Adelaide Cairns
Nina Alice Cairns was born about 1874 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 26 Aug 1927 in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

Generation: 4

Henry Amos was born about 1780 in Kent, England; died about 1818.

Other Events and Attributes:

Name: Edward Ames
Name: Edward Amoss

Notes:

National Archives, Kew, London
ADM 103/468 PART 2 Register of British POWs Prisons L-V, France, 1787-1820
Edward AMES captured from the Tixel 24 October 1810

Henry + Elizabeth Ambrose, 1820 Settler. Elizabeth was born about 1784; died on 19 Jan 1854 in Kariega, Eastern Cape Proince, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth Ambrose, 1820 Settler was born about 1784; died on 19 Jan 1854 in Kariega, Eastern Cape Proince, South Africa.

Other Events and Attributes:

1820 Lineage: Yes
Settler ID: 19
Name: Elizabeth 1820
Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

There was a Richard BOWLES * 1784 Dover, Kent d. 1879 Grahamstown married to (1) Elizabeth (see below) * 1784 Folkestone, England d. 19 Jan 1854 at Kariega. They came to South Africa with the Menezes' 1820 Settler Party aboard the 'Weymouth'. They had the following children:

1. Esther * bet 1809-1810 Dover, Kent d. ??
2. Jemima * 5 June 1819 (I also have her as Jemima Weymouth which I don't think is correct as the birth date I have is from her baptism and says she was born in England and the connection to the ship Weymouth was only in 1820). She died bet 1851-1855.
3. Richard * 10 May 1822 at Rietfontein, Albany District d. 18 Mar 1851.
4. John * 4 Sept 1823 at Grahamstown d. 17 Jul 1904 E Cape.
5. William Charles * 4 Sept 1823 Grahamstown d. 14 Oct 1887, E Cape.
6. Joseph * 13 May 1826 Albany d. 26 Jan 1916 Grahamstown.

Richard was also married on 14 Mar 1856 at the Ministers Home, Grahamstown to Ann BOWKER born ROWNEY formerly married to 1820 Settler John William GREEN who died 21 September 1834, and Thomas Bowker (not related to Miles and Anna). She was 68 and he was 79 years of age. I have conflicting dates of death for her but the one date of 1855 can be ruled out leaving her death either in 1861 or 1865.

Richard's wife Elizabeth was also married to Henry AMOS * abt 1777 in
England and who died abt 1817 in Dover, Kent. They had the following
children:

Henry * 1803
Eliza * 1806
Charlotte * 1807
Rebecca * 1810 d. 25 Aug 1890 at Uitenhage.
Thomas * 1812
Sarah * 1813
Edward * 1815

Henry was a soldier in the Napoleonic wars and went missing and was presumed to be dead and as such was declared dead. His wife, Elizabeth, then married Richard in about 1808 and they had Esther. Lo and behold, the missing and presumed dead husband, Henry made his reappearance and Elizabeth went back to him and they had four more children before he died leaving her free to once again marry Richard, which she did in 1819 as above. Thus you have the large gap between their children.

Elizabeth's husband, Henry Amos, with whom she had 7 children, went missing in the Napoleonic Wars, so she married Richard Bowles and had a daughter. Then Henry Amos reappeared so she returned to him. They had 4 more children before he died. Then Elizabeth remarried Bowles and had two more children.

Settler:
Menezes' party on the Weymouth

Children:

Rebecca Amos, 1820 Settler was born on 7 Sep 1808 in Svensfif, Dover, Kent, England; was christened on 2 Oct 1808 in St Mary the Virgin, Elham, Kent, England; died on 25 Nov 1890 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Sarah Amos, 1820 Settler was born in 1811; was christened on 10 Feb 1811 in St Peter, Swingfield, Kent, England.
4. Edward Taylor Amos, 1820 Settler was born in 1813; was christened on 18 Jul 1813 in St Peter, Swingfield, Kent, England; died on 4 Jul 1873 in South Africa.
Thomas Amos, 1820 Settler was born in 1816 in England; was christened on 18 Feb 1816 in St.Peter and St.Paul, River, Kent, England; died about 1900.

12.

James Alexander Cairns

James married Maria Johanna Nortje on 6 Oct 1825 in St George's Cathedral, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Maria was born on 10 Apr 1781 in Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 2 Nov 1850 in Olifant's Hoek, Albany didstrict, Easter Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

13.

Maria Johanna Nortje was born on 10 Apr 1781 in Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 2 Nov 1850 in Olifant's Hoek, Albany didstrict, Easter Cape, South Africa.

Notes:

Died:
Kruis Fontein

Grahamstown Journal – 1850 – October – December
https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/grahamstown-journal/98-gj-1850-oct-dec
Saturday 2 November 1850
DIED, on the 14th inst. At Kruis Fontein, Oliphant's Hoek, the residence of her Son, Mr P.J. WOEST, Maria, the beloved wife of Mr. Alexander CAIRNS, aged 69 years, 6 months and 4 days. Deceased was first married to Mr. Hendrick WOEST, by whom, and by her present bereaved husband, she leaves a numerous family, deeply to regret the loss of a beloved and affectionate parent. Her end was peaceful, as she was enabled, by the Divine aid, confidently to rely for Salvation on the merits of a crucified Redeemer.

Children:

6. James Alexander Cairns was born about 1826 in Kowie, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 28 Jun 1904 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.