Alexander Gordon Selwyn Maynard

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

He was appointed an ensign, by purchase, on 28 May 1858 and was posted to the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot, which Regiment subsequently became the 1st Bn. The East Surrey Regiment in 1881.
Gordon became Lieutenant, by purchase, on 31st January 1860 and his promotion to Captain, also by purchase, was dated 23rd March 1867


Died:
died 29 Jan 1870 also in Ipswich at 12 Northgate Street, the home of his father in law Christopher Mercer Durrant

Alexander married Emma Sophia Christina Durrant on 22 Oct 1868 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: merchant

Charles married Georgina Biggar, 1820 Settler in 1827 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Georgina (daughter of Alexander Harvey Biggar, 1820 Settler and Mary Straton, 1820 Settler) was born in 1807 in England; died on 22 Jul 1847 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1060
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

She died 22 Jul 1847 as per
Extracts from the Cape Frontier Times July - September 1847
Tuesday 27 July 1847

We mention with deep regret the sudden illness and death of Mrs. MAYNARD, Wife of C. MAYNARD Esq, of Graham’s Town. The deceased took cold a few days ago which, unfortunately, terminated in inflammation of the lungs, of which disease she died on the night of last Thursday, the 22nd inst. During the short period of her illness, only nine days, she endured much physical suffering, but some hours before her dissolution she was freed from all pain, and in a soft, gentle sleep her spirit “returned to God to gave it”. She was in her 41th year. Her death will leave a void in the social circle that will not easily be filled, and fling a shade over it that will not soon wear away. As a long tried and affectionate wife to her husband; as an intelligent, fond and dutiful mother to her children, her death will not be replaced in this world. She was buried on Saturday, and her funeral was attended by the personal friends of the bereaved family; by
the principal civil and military authorities of the town, long resident on the frontier, and by a very large number of the townspeople, who swelled the mournful train, and deeply sympathised with the chief mourner and his numerous young and motherless family in the distressing bereavement with which it has pleased Him who is able to bring good out of evil, to afflict them; who, by saddening visitations like these, speaks in loud and solemn tone to all who, unmindful of eternal things, cling to the perishable things of life, indifferent alike to the frowns or smiles of their Maker: reminding them, as it is said in the beautiful and affecting language of the burial service, that “in the midst of life they are in death”, that man “cometh up, and is cut down like a flower”, and fades away suddenly like grass which is green in the morning and growth up, but “in the evening it is cut down, dried up and withered”.


Settler:
Biggar's party on the Weymouth

Thomas + Dorothy Nourse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1057
• Occupation: Captain 85th Regiment
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

From The Settler Handbook, M D Nash: "Alexander Biggar of 79 St Aubyn Street, Plymouth, Devon, a Captain of the 85th Regiment of Foot on half pay. Biggar had been paymaster of his regiment, but his active career in the army was precipitatedly ended in May 1819 when a General Court Martial found him guilty of embezzling £1300 from War Office funds and suborning a clerk who was to give evidence against him. He was cashiered and ordered to repay the money. The Cape emigration scheme provided a timely opportunity to put this disgrace behind him and make a new begginning."

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE ANDER ARGIEWE
VOLUME_NO 6/9/15
SYSTEM 00
REFERENCE 3291
PART 1
DESCRIPTION BIGGAR, ALEXANDER. DEATH NOTICE.
STARTING 1839
ENDING 1839

Further information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggar_family


Settler:
Biggar's party on the Weymouth

Alexander married Mary Straton, 1820 Settler on 2 Mar 1799 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland. Mary was born in 1781; died in 1855. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1067
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/69
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 2987
PART 1
DESCRIPTION BIGGAR, MARY. DEATH NOTICE.
STARTING 1855
ENDING 1855

Settler:
Biggar's party on the Weymouth

Notes:

Marriage in Brechin, Angus, Scotland
2 March 1799
Lieutenant Alexander BIGGAR of His Majesty's 15th Regiment of Foot and Miss Mary STRATON, daughter of the Rev Mr. George STRATON, Episcopal Clergyman in Brechin, were contracted in order to marriage; and their banns having been published three several times and no objection offered were married the 3rd current.