Lillian Olive Foxcroft

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Lillian Olive Foxcroft

Family/Spouse: William Smith. William (son of George Smith Dowse and Sarah Jane Langley) was born on 8 Jan 1882 in Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Grace Smith
2. Madge Smith
3. Kathleen Smith
4. Ralph Smith

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: James Foxcroft

James married Elizabeth Ann Cockcroft on 2 Jun 1871 in Shrewsbury Chapel, Peddie, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Elizabeth (daughter of Mark Cockcroft, 1820 Settler and Elizabeth Ann Purdon, 1820 Settler) was born on 24 Nov 1845 in New Bristol Farm, Lower Albany, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 3 Apr 1846; died on 19 Jun 1923. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Elizabeth Cockcroft

Notes:

Look at EA Cockcroft married to Thomas Purdon

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1868
• Name: Robert Foxcroft 1820
• Occupation: Salford farm, Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Hayhurst's party on the John

Robert married Mary Murray, 1820 Settler on 18 Jul 1836 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Mary (daughter of James Murray, 1820 Settler and Margaret, 1820 Settler) was born on 14 Apr 1816 in Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland; died on 27 Dec 1879 in Salford farm, Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in 1879 in Fredericksburg Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 586
• Name: Mary Elizabeth Ann Murray
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Hayhurst's party on the John

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 164
• Name: Mark Cockcroft 1820
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

In the war of 1846-7 Mark Cockcroft was initially Field-Commandant, Willson's Location, then Commandant Trappes Valley Station, being constantly in action. In the war of 1850-3 he took part in the attack on the rebel Hottentots on the Kap River. (Morse-Jones 102)

Faku's kraal was situated on Mark Cockcroft's farm. (Port Alfred museum notes)

Settler:
Wainwright's party on the John

Mark married Elizabeth Ann Purdon, 1820 Settler on 23 Aug 1832 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Elizabeth (daughter of John Purdon, 1820 Settler and Mary Clifford Harrison, 1820 Settler) was born on 4 Dec 1812 in Cawnpore, India; died on 18 Nov 1888 in Dordrecht, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Dordrecht, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 671
• Name: Elizabeth Ann Purdon 1820
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
• SCHL: School Attendance: 19 Mar 1828, Bathurst School, Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Notes:

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Notes:

Married:
Terry C has the date as 31.12.1832

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1864
• Name: Robert Foxcroft 1820
• Occupation: a Plasterer
• Occupation: 1820; a Farmer
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
• Occupation: 1854, Bishopton farm, Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

Notes:

MD Nash has is age as 38, ie born approx 1781

Settler:
Hayhurst's party on the John

Robert married Ann Cumberland, 1820 Settler on 30 Sep 1798 in Lancaster Church (St Mary's), Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Ann (daughter of Thomas Cumberland and Ann) was born in 1769 in England; was christened on 9 May 1770 in Lancaster Church (St Mary's), Lancaster, Lancashire, England; died on 23 Jan 1861 in Bishopton farm, Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried on 26 Jan 1861 in Fredericksburg Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1871
• Name: Ann Cumberland 1820
• Birth: 1779, England
• Baptism: 9 May 1779, Lancaster Church (St Mary's), Lancaster, Lancashire, England
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

MD Nash has her age as 40, ie born 1779

Settler:
Hayhurst's party on the John

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 582
• Name: James Murray 1820
• Occupation: a Farmer
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

1820 Settler, Hayhurst's Party, where he is described as "Farmer".

"... The Acting Governor, Sir Rufane Donkin, upon whom the task ofsettling the new arrivals devolved, considered that it would be inexpedient to send at one time the whole body of settlers to the empty territory assigned to them, and as we have seen, he dispatched five Irish parties to Jan Dissel's Valley, near Clanwilliam, about a hundred and forty miles north of Cape Town, and four other parties to the Sonderend River, about a hundred miles east of that city.
While the Irish parties proceeded from Simonstown to Saldahna Bay by sea in the Fanny and the East Indian to disembark there, the leader of one of those parties, W.Parker, an ex-mayor of Cork, together with D.P. Francis, a member of Scanlen's party, rode overland to Clanwilliam to inspect the Jan Dissel's Valley where the parties were to be located, and their investigations convinced them that the locality was altogether unsuitable; water was scarce, grazing was poor, and very little of the ground was suitable for agriculture. On meeting the settlers at Saldahna Bay and apprising them of the true position,consternation and anxiety took the place of the former hope and enthusiasm, but it was decided to give the location a fair trial and the five parties accordingly made their way to Clanwilliam. Parker, however,refused to return with them, shamelessly deserted his party, and remained at Saldahna Bay for some time with a few followers attempting to establish a fishing industry and to found a town to be called New Cork -both projects soon proving complete fiascos.
The position at Clanwilliam was found to be no better than Parker had described it, and the plight of the settlers was clearly hopeless. On realizing his mistake, Donkin immediately offered to transfer the five parties to the Zuurveld - as had been originally intended - at the Government's expense, and to supply them with free rations until they could manage to support themselves. Several persons decided to move to Cape Town to seek employment there, and two of the leaders, J. Ingram and Captain W. Synnot, together with some members of their parties, elected to remain at Clanwilliam, Synnot becoming deputy-landdrost of that village in the following year. The Rev. Francis McClelland also remained at Clanwilliam, being appointed by the Government as minister to the small body of settlers who had elected to remain. The great majority,however, accepted Donkin's offer, and, re-forming themselves into parties under Captain T. Butler, D.P. Francis, J. Latham, and W. Scanlen, moved overland or by sea to the Zuurveld, most of them sailing in the East Indian which reached Algoa bay on 24th July, 1820.
The other four parties under Captain Duncan Campbell, Lieut. V.Griffiths, Lieut. T. White, and J. Neave, who had been sent overland fromCape Town to the Sonderend River, found conditions there very little better than at Clanwilliam, and on Donkin's offering to transfer them to the Zuurveld on the same conditions as had been offered to the Irish parties, they also were moved thither, except two of the leaders,Griffiths and Neave, who remained with a few members of their respectiveparties."

Page 173

" ...Settler members of the House of Assembly ( the Lower House ) duringthe same period were ....... R.W. Murray, .., C. Pote, ...."

" APPENDIX A
ROLL OF HONOUR
1820-1853
... ON THE CAPE FRONTIER

Seventh Kaffir War, 1846-7:
....
Murray, James
.... "

Translated quote from S.H.Pellissier's book
" The eighth child, a son, stayed behind in England and would follow later." ***

S.H. Pellissier states in his book about his father the missionary :
" Towards the end of 1831 in Graaff Reinet Rev. Murray married a certain Mary Jane Murray, a daughter of one of the Irish group of the BritishSettlers of 1820, to a certain John Norval. This Mary Murray had a younger sister Martha who was very likely present at the marriage ceremony and who had demonstrated a very religious attitude from her early childhood. The Murray family were at that stage living on a farm called Hartfell. This farm is on top of Bosberg, a large mountain immediately behind ( on the northern side of ) the newly established town of Somerset East. It is difficult to reach this farm unless one deliberately uses a difficult road up the mountain. We suspect that Pellissier acting on the recommendation of Rev. Murray, travelled the nearly eighty miles From Graaff Reinet to Somerset East in order to make the acquaintance of this young lady, and he would not have left there before he had won her over. The late Mrs. Charlotte Kleynveld of Bethulie, a daughter of Martha Murray, told me what her mother had shared with her regarding this visit of the French missionary to Hartfell. TheFrenchman, so she told me, would not take any beating about the bush or no for an answer. He followed Martha all over the yard - out of the front door, around the house and back in the back door. Eventually she agreed.Further detail is not known but the marriage register of Graaff Reinet reflects that Rev. Andrew Murray married John Peter Pellissier to Martha Murray at Graaff Reinet on 22 April 1833.

According to S.H. Pellissier in his book, James Murray, " late of the County Meath, Ireland " stayed at Clanwilliam for about a year where a small patch of ground was given to him by Mr Bergh, the then deputy landdrost. He had missed travelling to the Zuurveld with the rest of the party as his wife had been ill. He then moved to Cape Town at his own expense in order to look for work in the business he had been bred to,namely Gardening and Agriculture. After a considerable time there " at great expence " he engaged to work at Chelsea farm near Port Elizabeth,for Captain Ward. He eventually submitted petitions to the Governor,commencing with one dated 26 December 1823 from Chelsea Farm. In this he mentioned that Captain Ward had signified his intention of " disposing again of that Farm." in all, James worked at Chelsea Farm for in excess of four years. His last petition was submitted from Hartfell, near Somerset East, in the middle of 1830. he had finally been allocated ground in neutral territory, probably on the border of ' kaffirland ',but with conditions attached that were unacceptable to him. Without the assistance of his two older sons who were practising their trades in PortElizabeth, he did not see his way clear to occupying the ground and providing four armed guards fulltime at his expense as required.
Pellissier states that James Murray never received ground and assumes that he continued to live on Hartfell due to the kindness of Robert Hart,until his death on 31 May 1836. The first indication of his eighth child's name was from his Will in which Alexander is specificallymentioned with the other children.

Pellissier draws attention to the fact that a great-granddaughter of Oloff Marthinus Bergh married Samuel Pellissier, the only son and youngest child of the French missionary, in 1878. This great-grand daughter accordingly became the 'stammoeder' of the present Pellissier family in South Africa. When the Murray family lived at Clanwilliam in 1821, and received protection and and help from Oloff Bergh, they did not realise that Bergh's 21-year old daughter, Mathilda Egberta, and Martha Murray, the seven year old daughter of James Murray,would become the joint ' stammoeders ' of a generation in South Africa.Martha Murray later became the spouse of Jean Pierre Pellissier, the missionary. Her only son Samuel married Elise Roux 57 years later in CapeTown. Elise was the daughter of Pieter Roux of Three Anchor Bay who, inturn, was the only child of Mathilda Bergh.

Pellissier and his wife tried to find the graves of James and his wife Sarah both in Somerset East and on Hartfell, without success.
He believes that they lived on Hartfell from 1827 - 1836.

*** M.D. Nash states in her book " The Settler Handbook " ( page 80 ) "According to E. Morse Jones a son, Ralph, was born at sea to the wife ofJames Murray." This actually refers to the other James Murray who sailed with Hayhurst's Party aboard the ship John.
Our James Murray was with Parker's party. " ... the East Indian finally left Deptford for Cork late in December 1819 with 48 men of the party andtheir families on board, ... " "... The transport sailed from Cork for the Cape on 12 February 1820, after 27 more men ( including Parkerhimself ) with their families had embarked, making up a total of 75men.... "

Settler:
Hayhurst's party on the John

James married Margaret, 1820 Settler about 1808 in Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Margaret was born in 1781 in Ireland; died on 6 Nov 1854 in Mount Donkin, Bathurst district, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 31
• Name: Mary 1820
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

maiden name possibly O'Boyle - 1808 Belfast marriage record found by Lyn Ploos van Amstel.

Settler:
Hayhurst's party on the John

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 163
• Name: Charles Cockcroft 1820
• Occupation: a Cloth Dresser
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Charles 35 & Harriet 36 arrived 13/1/1820 aboard the John with Wainwright Party, departing Liverpool. Thomas 13, William 9 & Mark 7. Charles was a cloth dresser.

Excerpt from COCKCROFT GENEALOGY: A GENEALOGY OF 1820 SETTLERS CHARLES AND HARRIET COCKCROFT by Keith Nicol of Constantia, Cape, South Africa:
"Charles Cockcroft, a cloth dresser from Leeds, Yorkshire came to South Africa in 1820 with Wainwright's Party on the ship, "John". The "John" left Liverpool on 13th January, 1820, reached Table Bay on 19 April, Simon's Bay later in April, and Algoa Bay in May, 1820. Charles who was 39 years of age at the time, was accompanied by his wife Harriet, 36, and children Thomas, 13, William, 11, and Mark, 7. All three sons married 1820 settler girls and many of their descendants also married into other settler families. "

In the cemetary of the Methodist Church, Shaw Park, we find the grave with the following tombstones :

Grave No. 19

Sacred to the memory of THOMAS COCKCROFT Who entered into rest at Port Alfred, 30th November, 1881, in his 76th year. Peace, Perfect Peace.

also CHARLES COCKCROFT who departed this life, December, 1875, in his 96th year. A British Settler of 1820.

and THOMAS I COCKCROFT, who fell asleep February 13th 1907, in his 72nd year. His end was peace. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.

Settler:
Wainwright's party on the John

Charles + Harriet Farrier Bailey, 1820 Settler. Harriet was born in 1784 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; died on 19 Jul 1836 in Myrtle Grove farm, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Clumber Methodist Cemetery, Clumber, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 23
• Name: Harriet Farrer Bailie
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Wainwright's party on the John

Buried:
"In May [1867] the Building Committee authorised him [Rev. Ebenezer Hepburn] to ask Thomas Cockcroft what repairs his family wished to have made to the grave of Harriet Cockcroft which had been damaged in the course of building, which was now in hand."

'In Aug 1881... It was arranged that Harriet Cockcroft's grave-stone be placed erect."

Clumber: The story of a Settler Church 1825-1967 - E Morse Jones

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 673
• Name: John (Sgt) Purdon 1820
• Occupation: an Army Pensioner
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Willson's party, sailed aboard the La Belle Alliance from The Downs on 12 February 1820 and arrived in Table Bay on 2 May 1820 and then Algoa Bay end of May 1820.
Name of Settler Purdon, John - age 40
Name of Wife Mary nee Harison - age 34
Name and ages of children William (11), Henry (9), Elizabeth (5), Charles (2).

According to a transcript of their marriage certificate:

"....John Purdon, Drum Major of His Majesty's 53rd regiment of Foot,
and Mary Harrison of the City of Dublin, spinster..." Dated 13th
October 1802.

MILI:
Description: 53rd Regiment of Foot

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

John married Mary Clifford Harrison, 1820 Settler on 13 Oct 1804 in Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Mary was born in 1789 in Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland; died on 22 Nov 1874 in Beaufort Vale, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 300
• Name: Mary Clifford Harrison 1820
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Notes:

According to a transcript of their marriage certificate:

"....John Purdon, Drum Major of His Majesty's 53rd regiment of Foot,
and Mary Harrison of the City of Dublin, spinster..." Dated 13th
October 1802.