Valentine Bisset

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Frederick married Amy Maria Gardner on 27 Jul 1885 in Modderpoort, Bloemfontein district Free State, South Africa. Amy (daughter of Hezekiah John Gardner and Margaret Shelver) was born about 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: George Bissett

Notes:

from "http://www.ovk.co.za/Data/OVK_Nuus_Maart_2007_1056.pdf" page 51:
Van die eerste inwoners van Clocolan distrik was die Bornmans op die plaas Conovium, gevolg deur talle boere wat aan die oorloë deelgeneem het en wie se nasate nog op die plase woon.
Een van die eerste Engelse inwoners was George Bisset, wat die plaas Evening Star in 1870 gekoop het. Hy is op 11 Junie 1878 oorlede en is in die begraafplaas langs Black Watch Koppie, langs sy skoonma, Sarah Susanna Behrens (gebore 1800), begrawe. Omstreeks 1880 het nog Engelse, soos Stockdale, Newberry, Rudman en Sephton plase in die distrik gekoop.

George married Johanna Catherina Behrens on 19 Nov 1843 in Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Johanna (daughter of Martinus Casparus Johannes Behrens and Susara Susanna Snyman) was born on 26 Oct 1826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 2821281

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Methodist Parish Records
Salem/Albany Christenings: 1820-1859
Microfilm #1560874
Item 12
Entry #479
Child: Hezekiah John GARDNER
Parents: Hezekiah and Hannah Jacoba Gasparina?
Born: No Entry
Baptised: 21 Mar 1841

Hezekiah + Margaret Shelver. Margaret (daughter of Jonathan Shelver, 1820 Settler and Amelia Dickason, 1820 Settler) was born about 1840; was christened on 3 Jan 1841 in Salem, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 89
• Name: Alexander (Lt) Bissett 1820
• Occupation: a Naval Officer
• Residence: Long Acre, London, England
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
• Occupation: 1 Jan 1825, Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Post Master

Notes:

Wilson's party on the S.Belle Alliance. The family lived at Fairfax near the Kowie, and the settler is buried at Bathurst. Alexander Bisset had joined the Royal Navy in 1796 at the age of 12 as a midshipman and took part in many engagements under Nelson and other Admirals. He was a Lt. when he retired.

Alexander BISSET, aged 32 (Lt. R.N.) was in Willson's party of the Belle Alliance with his wife Alicia (28), dau. of Admiral Edward Tyrrell SMITH, and their three children. They lived at Fairfax near the Kowie and Alexander is buried at Bathurst.

Died at his residence, Graham's Town, on Wednesday 12th July 1848, Alexander BISSET Esq, Commander Royal Navy, aged 61 years.
[Saturday 15 July 1848 Ght. Journal]

b1. Alexander Charles, b. 1816 m. Sarah, dau of Capt. LAMONT, n.f.
m2. 3 sons and 2 dau.

"However, on this site and on Ancestry I note that Alexander Bissett's wife is given as Alicia Tindal Smith born in London. From my own research I would suggest that the Alicia Smith who married Alexander Bissett in 1812 was not Alicia Tindal Smith and the marriage took place in London not in the Channel Islands. There is a marriage Licence allegation dated 26 August 1812 and Pallots Marriage Index shows Alicia Smith m Alexander Bisset 1812, St Pancras, Middlesex.
Alicia and her sisters, daughters of Admiral Edward Tyrrell Smith and Louisa Birkenhead, were born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and baptised at St Chad's Church. [IGI and Parish record transcript fiche]
I am descended from one of Alicia's half brothers who settled in Chatham, Kent
Some of the Admiral's other children emigrated to Australia where there is quite a proliferation of descendants
Hope this is of interest and of use. Regards Linda "

From Some Frontier Families by Ivan Mitford-Barberton:
BISSETT

Arms: Azure, on a bend argent three mullets gules.
Crest: Out of a stump of a tree eradicated and erased a single branch proper.
Motto: REPULLULAT (I spring afresh.)

a. ALEXANDER BISSET, aged 32 (Lt. R.N.) was in Wilson's party of the S. Belle Alliance with his wife Alicia (28) daughter of Admiral E.T. Smith, whom he had married at Jersey, Channel Islands, and their three children. They lived at Fairfax near the Kowie and Settler Alexander Bisset is buried at Bathurst. Their family is as follows:
b1. Alexander Charles, born 1816, married Sarah, daughters of Capt. Lamont. No family. Married (2) in 1880 and had 3 sons 2 daughters.
2. John Jarvis born 1818, married (1) Charlotte, daughter of Dr. A.B. Morgan, surgeon to the 58th Regt. – 4 sons, 4 daughters.
c1. Alexander, married Ella Barron, in England. family. 3. Christian, Jack & ?.
2. Walter married Frances, daughter of John Frank and his wife Ann Eliz. (born Bowker). 2 sons, Frank married Beryl Schultz (issue) Egerton married Eileen Wynne, no family.
3. Cecil married Constance Gaye, at the Cape.
4. Sidney, d.y.
5. Alice married (1) Sidney Carlisle, family. Mary, Sybil, Thomas, married (2) St. John Carr.
6. Helen married Theophilus Shepstone, son of Sir Theophilus Shepstone C.M.G. of Natal. He also had a distinguished career. 1 daughter 2 sons – Eva, Sydney, Frank.
7. Amy married C.H. Master – family. Charles, Arthur, Herbert, Amy.
8. Charlotte, born 1865. married in England, 1888 to Frank Euston.
2. John Jarvis married (2) Frances, daughter of Thomas Bridge, at Reigate, in 1888.
3. George, married -- Behreus, large family.
4. Charles R. Walter, unmarried.
5. Sarah Maria married P.W. Lucas, manager of the E.P. Bank in Grahamstown. He had been educated at Christchurch (Blue Coats) School. Came to S.A. with parents.
6. Harriet married (1) Capt. Fred Alcock.
c1. Alicia married Capt. Gould of the 13th Regt.
2. Fanny married Capt. Martin of the 2nd Queens Regt. Son of Fredk Martin.
3. Fred Alcock married Amy Franklin.
Harriet married (2) J. Jameson, a merchant of Australia.
7. Alicia Honor married F.J. Mills, large family. One, William Mills
emigrated to America.
The Bisset family can be traced back to the time of William the Conqueror, when they obtained large estates in the Inverness area, while in 1230 Sir John Bisset founded the priory of Beaulieu in Ross Shire.
Settler Alexander Bisset had joined the Royal Navy in 1796, at the age of 12, as a midshipman and took part in many engagements under Nelson and other Admirals. He was a Lt. when he retired. His son Alexander Charles farmed in the East London area and was quite well-known as a painter.
Of John Jarvis's family, his eldest son Alexander was educated at Wellington College, England, then in Canada, where his father was in command of troops before being transferred to Gibraltar. Alexander finally settled in Natal as a farmer. The second son Walter was educated at Diocesan College, Cape, then at Cheltenham, England. Farmed in Natal and finally became a mine manager in Johannesburg. Cecil was educated with Walter, was an engineer on the first Railway works in Natal. Was in the Natal Carbineers under Shepstone and served through the Zulu War (1879) with credit and distinction as a Lt. He was then appointed to the Cape Infantry Regt and was with it till disbanded about 1887. Went to the Gold Fields.
Alice's husband Sidney Carlisle, was a solicitor and High Sheriff of the Eastern Cape. Moved to Kimberley and died on an expedition to the interior. Charlotte born 1865, lost her mother at birth and was brought up by her mother's sister, wife of Col Randall, C.B. b3. John Jarvis Bisset (later C.B., K.C.M.G.) wrote of his first patrol in the Sixth Frontier War 1835:
"We proceeded to some farms on the Kareiga River south of Grahamstown, to give warning or assistance to the scattered homesteads. On arriving at Botha's Farm, we found the Dutch women running from house to house with children under their arms, screaming that their husbands were surrounded by Kaffirs some ten miles away. We rode very fast in the direction of the firing and found three Dutchmen encircled in a small clump of bush by some hundreds of Kaffirs. They kept hurling assegais, but were afraid to rush in as the Dutchmen kept up a rapid fire from their two guns. The third man had no gun. We came up just as they exhausted their ammunition. The natives dispersed after having captured their waggons and oxen. The men were in a sad plight, one having received nineteen assegai wounds and the other twenty-two. The clump of bush resembled a porcupine, for it bristled with assegais sticking in every tree."
After serving through the Sixth Frontier War as a lad of 17 he decided to make the army his career. He obtained a commission as Ensign and Lieutenant in a battalion of native infantry. In 1842 he was Field Adjutant to a division of troops in the Colesberg area. He served throughout the Seventh Frontier War (1846) where he held the appointment of Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General. He was present at the battle of Gwanga and several minor affairs with the Xhosas, and finally was appointed Brigade Major of British Kaffraria.
At the outbreak of the Eighth Frontier War (1850) he was severely wounded at the Boomah Pass in the Amatola Mountains. General Sir John Bisset was the author of "Sport and War" which, in
addition to hunting experiences, gives an interesting personal account of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Frontier Wars. For many years he commanded that famous old regiment the Cape Mounted Rifles and retired with the rank of Lt. General. From 1865-7 he held the post of Lt. Governor of Natal, receiving the Order of C.B. in 1867 and K.C.M.G. in 1877.
A close relation of the Settler Bisset was James Bisset (Senior), J.P., Mem. Inst. C.R., M.N.S.I., who came out to the Cape in 1858 with a party of railway engineers to build the first railway from Cape Town to Wellington (55 m.) and at the same time another section from Cape Town to Wynberg, a distance of 9 miles. Mr. Bisset also took a leading part in the construction of the railway from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage, and from East London to King William's Town. Major James Bisset married in 1862 Miss E.M.C. Jarvis, daughter of the late Hon. H.C. Jarvis, M.L.C. of Cape Town, by whom he had six sons and one daughter. Two sons were Barristers at Law, two were Attorneys and Notaries, and two were Government Land Surveyors, leaving many descendants in the Cape.


Alexander BISSETTand his wife Alicia were the witnesses at the marriage of Walter CURRIE to Ann LOWE, which also took place in Jersey , Channel Islands.

It would appear, from what I can discover, that Walter and Alexander had become friends in the navy, and were lifelong friends. Walter CURRIE and his family also travelled to the Cape Colony in Willson's party with the BISSETT's.

In fact Alexander BISSETT had made an application to bring his own party to the Colony, and this party included the entire CURRIE family, as well as some of Walter CURRIE's cousins from his mother's side. Their surname was PATERSON. However, this application was not successful.

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Alexander married Alicia Smith, 1820 Settler on 29 Aug 1812 in St Pancras, London, England. Alicia (daughter of Admiral Edward Tyrrell Smith and Louisa Birkenhead) was born in 1792 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; died after 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 720
• Name: Alicia Tindal Smith 1820
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

It seems that although Alicia was baptised as simply "Alicia" she may have also been given the second name of Tindall in memory of her aunt Alicia Smith born in Barbados in 1733, married Thomas Tindall in Bristol in 1766 and died in 1764.



Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Notes:

London Metropolitan Archives:
Alexander BISSET of Croydon, Surrey, bachelor, and Alicia SMITH of this parish, spinster were married by Licence on 29 August 1812 in St.Pancras Church, Camden.
Both signed their names.
Witnesses: G. HAMP and Susan SMITH

Martinus married Susara Susanna Snyman on 4 Oct 1823 in George, Western Cape, South Africa. Susara (daughter of Jacobus Snyman and Sara Elizabeth van Wyk) was born in 1800; died in Clocolan, Free State, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1755
• Name: Hezekiah Gardner 1820
• Occupation: a Farmer
• Settler: 16 Mar 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Hezekiah Gardner was the son of Edward Gardner, Leader of Gardner's Party No.50. They had sailed from England in the Sir George Osborn, the last of the settler ship to arrive in Simon's Bay on 17 June 1820. It was this ship that was used by the authorities to transport those settlers located at Clanwilliam to Algoa Bay.

Settler:
Gardner's party on the Sir George Osborn

Hezekiah married Maria Jocoba Casparina Behrens on 10 Mar 1834 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Maria (daughter of Conrad Wilhelm Behrens and Catharina Johanna Hansen) was born est 1817; died in 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Maria Jacoba Casparina Beherens

Notes:

names Hanna, Maria, Mary, Jacoba, Casparina seen in Salem Baptismal Register

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 714
• Name: Jonathan or John Shelver 1820
• Occupation: a Wheelwright
• Occupation: Wheelwright
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, Cork, Co Cork, Ireland

Notes:

Jonathan Shelver, Wheelwright. b.21 April 1793, England, died at his home in Alice,Victoria (between Fort Thompson and Fort Hare) on 8 May 1863 aged 70 years. As a settler, he had been a member of the group under David Polley Francis that had embarked on the East Indian at the Thames River port of Deptford. For administration purposes, this group came under the overall leadership of William Parker. Following the misadventure of being located at Clanwilliam, those who chose to do so, were moved to the original intended destination of Albany.Of these settlers and as latecomers, only William Scanlan's party was to be settled on the defensive arc of settlement by being placed at the Kap River . The others, Capt. Butler, D.P. Francis and Joseph Latham were to be allocated land in the western rear of the settlement.
Francis maintained that the Boer transporting his party had erred in selecting the particular site where his party were placed. He made many representations about this to the authorities, to no avail. Francis then left his allotment and returned to England where he made representations to his Member of Parliament.
In the meantime, the Commission of Inquiry into the settlement had visted the allotment. Finding that virtually nothing had been done to improve the land, the verbal protest by Jonathan Shelver, as agent for D.P.Francis, was ignored notwithstanding that another settler, George Tilbrook, confirmed Shelver's declaration that Francis had not permanently abandoned the land allotment. The outcome was that Francis was to forfeit his land allotment. Jonathan Shelver, along with the remnants of this party, were obliged to hire themselves to labour on the nearby land allotments at Seven Fountains.
Jonathan Shelver married on 19 August 1833 to Robert Dickason's only daughter, Amelia, born in Newington, then in the county of Surrey, on 8 March 1805. Amelia together with her brothers, Frederick Alfred and Henry had accompanied their father, a widower, when he had embarked on the East Indian in Deptford.
Jonathan and Amelia were to have nine children, five daughters and four sons.

Settler:
Parker's party on the East Indian

Jonathan married Amelia Dickason, 1820 Settler on 19 Aug 1833 in Grahamstown Church (St George's - Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Amelia (daughter of Robert Dickason, 1820 Settler and Mary Claybrook) was born on 8 Mar 1805 in High Street, Newington, Surrey, England; was christened on 3 Nov 1805; died on 23 Dec 1875 in Fort Peddie, Albany, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2321
• Name: Amelia Dickason 1820
• Religion: the Church of England
• Settler: 16 May 1820, Cork, Co Cork, Ireland

Notes:

Name Amelia DICKENSON in Marriage Register

Settler:
Parker's party on the East Indian

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Married:
Description: Rev John Heavyside