Alice Mabel Ackhurst

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Family/Spouse: D W Bishop. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas + Henrietta Eleanor Hutton. Henrietta (daughter of John Edward Hutton and Isabella Jane Sephton) was born est 1853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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Family Bible http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=1482804 Newspaper Cutting - "Fallen asleep - At Zeerust, Marico, on Sunday 13th February 1887, JOHN EDWARD HUTTON, age 60 years 4 months 2 days. The bereaved widow and children thank all friend for their kindness and sympathy.
It is my painful duty to have to record the death of our fellow-townsman, Mr John Edward Hutton, senr. which took place at his residence, at Zeerust, on Sunday morning, the 13th inst. A few days before his death he visited Malmaanie Goldfields, with some members of his family. While there he had an apopletic fit, but nothing serious wa expected until he received other similar attacks on his arrival at Zeerust, the day before his death. Deceased was one of the oldest residents of Zeerust, and is very properly called "the father of Zeerust" by most people in this district. He was much esteemed by everyone, and in him the village and district have lost an enterprising, hospitable and good man, such as is rarely met with in this country. At his funeral the Landdrost addressed a few words to those assembled, in which he sketched the past history of Mr Hutton, stating that he had been the friend of everyone, black and white, rich and poor, the stranger and the citizen. Many who have visited Zeerust, and are now far away, will not for the hospitality of our late fellow-townsman and the good-heartedness of himself and his family. The gathering at his funeral was the largest that had ever taken place here. His death has caused a vacancy in the community which will long be felt. He leaves a widow and a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn his loss. R.I.P."


Description: Rev John Heavyside

John married Isabella Jane Sephton on 15 Feb 1848 in Platberg, Ficksburg, Free State, South Africa. Isabella (daughter of Thomas Hezekiah Sephton, 1820 Settler and Sarah Clarke Prynn, 1820 Settler) was born on 13 Jul 1827 in Platberg, Ficksburg, Free State, South Africa; was christened on 26 Aug 1827 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 19 Feb 1860 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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Married:
Description: Rev Richard Giddy

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2525
• Occupation: a Farmer
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 13 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Occupation: 1842, Brack Kloof; a Sheep Farmer

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MD nash has his age as 22 , ie born 1798

Settler:
Pigot's party on the Northampton

John married Jane Sephton, 1820 Settler on 12 Jan 1826 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Jane (daughter of Hezekiah Sephton, 1820 Settler and Jane Hardy, 1820 Settler) was born in 1808 in England; died on 2 Aug 1851 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2766
• Name: Jane Sephton 1820
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Deptford, London, England

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Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

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Married:
Description: Rev Thomas Ireland

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2768
• Name: Thomas Hezekiah Sephton 1820
• Occupation: a Carpenter
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Deptford, London, England
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

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He was taking "Blue Pills" which we now know is a mercury compound. He then broke a leg due to the bone softening effect of the mercury, and was bedridden for about a year before he died. According to AA Roberts he died in the evening, after a long and protracted affliction which he bore with exemplary patience and resignation.

Educated in England came to South Africa with the 1820 settlers, was one of the Sephton party led by his father Hezekiah. As he was morethan 18 years of age at the time he was considered an adult and came under his own name not as part of his father's family. He was granted an erf on the bank of the Assegai River and was the Southern boundary of the village where it adjoined Cornelious van Schalkwyks farm- ( afterwards bought by the Wesleyn Society and turned into a mission station by William Shaw and named Farmerfield.) Only one erf lay between Thomas Sephton and van Schalkwyk, that of Thomas Selom-King still owned by Kings decendants and known as " Kingston ". After his marriage they lived in Grahamstown for a time, their eldest child was born in Bathurst street. . He joined the Wesleyan missionaries and became associated with Rev. James Archbell at the Platberg Wesleyan Mission Station south of the Vaal River near to Kuruman which was North East of Bloemfontein, there he laboured with Rev Edwardson the mission station established by Rev Archbell.
The tribes there (Baralong and Korrana) were being harassed bytribes from the North and after a plague of smallpox, which descimated them (whole famillies died and the huts were closed up,) Thomas cared forthe sick and also took the disease and was very ill. The missionaries then persuaded the remnant to move East and they eventually settled nearTabaN'chu, the area having been purchased from the Basutho chief Mosheshe though the efforts of Richard Giddy. Thomas was then sent to Ratabane , North of Thaba'Nchu, to open a mission station and subsequently to Umpukani. After Thomas died Richard Giddy (who had married Thomas' eldest daughter) took Thomas' 5 childrenas he had promised Thomas he would and they were brought up with his own children by their sister Sarah Jane.
A visitor at Thaba Nchu in 1839 reported on his return to the Colony" Thomas H. Sephton is a quiet steadfast worker and a great deal of good work has been done. No man ever devoted himself to a worthy cause with more zeal and consistant perseverance".

Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

Died:
Description: a severe & protracted affliction.

Thomas married Sarah Clarke Prynn, 1820 Settler on 10 Aug 1825 in Grahamstown Church (Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Sarah (daughter of William Prynn, 1820 Settler and Jane Clark, 1820 Settler) was born on 12 Jan 1809 in England; died on 23 Dec 1840 in Coranna Station, Lesotho (Basutoland); was buried in Grahamstown Cemetery (Settlers), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2743
• Name: Sarah Clarke Prynn 1820
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

She died three days after the birth of her ninth child, Charles Edward Sephton and her husband took her body to Grahamstown by oxwagon for burial because she made him promise that she would not be buried in "the wilds of Africa".
According to AA Roberts she died at 2 o'clock pm at Coranna Station,Bechualand

Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

Died:
Description: at 2pm

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Married:
Description: Rev Thomas Ireland