Valentine Russell Marillier

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

died as an infant

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Francis + Eleanor Maude Marillier. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: William Henri Marillier

William + Ellen Hart. Ellen (daughter of Robert Hart and Johanna Christina Meintjes) was born on 2 Jan 1841 in Glen Avon farm, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 24 Jan 1842 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 3 May 1898 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: Farm name Hillendale.; a Farmer

Notes:

Info from Trevor has marriage 3-may-1854, Somerset East

Frederick married Ann Margaret Hart in 1857. Ann (daughter of Robert Hart and Johanna Christina Meintjes) was born on 6 Dec 1837 in Glen Avon farm, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 7 Jan 1838 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 26 Feb 1899 in Hillandale, Kei Road, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Hillandale, Kei Road, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 515
• Name: Philip Richard Marillier
• Occupation: Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Magistrate
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Installment #2
Microfilm #1886513
Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Marriage Licenses: 1821 - 1884
Albany/Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa
Item 7

Dates follow American convention of MMDDYY

Entry #1A
Husband: George SCOTT, Staffordshire, 34, Bachelor, Christelyke
Wife: Elisabeth HART, 19, Kent, England, Spinster, Christelyke
Date: 9/10/1821

Entry #1B
Husband: Philip Richard MARILLIER, 28, Widower, Middlesex, England, Christelyke
Wife: Frances Jane Clarissa FORD, Spinster, 16, Essex, England
Date: 9/10/1821

He was the second son of a Swiss businessman, Jean Frederick Marillier, who emigrated to England in 1783, married an English wife and settled at Homerton, Hackney, near London. Philip Marillier was employed in a family business in London, and decided to emigrate to the Cape after the death of his wife and child. He joined Bailie's party in company with the family of J.E.Ford, with whom he lodged, and a young surgeon of their acquaintance, probably Edward Roberts. Marillier married Ford's eldest daughter Frances Jane in 1822, and in the same year applied unsuccessfully for a separate grant of land in Albany. He was granted a share of the party's location in 1825. In 1827 he was appointed clerk to the Landdrost of Albany, and became clerk at Somerset a year later when the two districts were combined. He remained at Somerset in badly-paid junior civil service posts until his eventual promotion to Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate in 1842. He resigned in 1844 after accepting a private offer of employment that failed in the event to materialise. A subsequent business venture in partnership with his son-in-law resulted in bankruptcy. Mrs Frances Marilller died at Somerset East in 1865, leaving eight children: Frances Louise, Harriet Elizabeth (Hart), Frederick James, Ellen Sarah, William Henry, Emily Jeannette (Wienand), Richard Edward and Caroline Jane (Miller). Philip Marillier died in 1881 at the home of his daughter, Mrs Robert Hart jr, in Paulet Street, Somerset East. Letter of P.R.Marillier, 15.11.1819; CO 8452 no.128, n.d. (December 1822); CO 8541, Hayward's notes; LG 524 no.83, 8.2.1837; LG 541 no.1369, 4.6.1844; MOIB 2/1049 no.ll; MOOC 6/9/113 d.n. 2283/1865.


Microfilm #1886513
Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Marriage Licenses: 1821 - 1884
Albany/Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa
Item 7

Dates follow American convention of MMDDYY

Entry #1A
Husband: George SCOTT, Staffordshire, 34, Bachelor, Christelyke
Wife: Elisabeth HART, 19, Kent, England, Spinster, Christelyke
Date: 9/10/1821

Entry #1B
Husband: Philip Richard MARILLIER, 28, Widower, Middlesex, England, Christelyke
Wife: Frances Jane Clarissa FORD, Spinster, 16, Essex, England
Date: 9/10/1821

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

Phillip married Frances Jane Clarissa Ford, 1820 Settler in Apr 1822 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Frances (daughter of James Edward Ford, 1820 Settler and Frances Stransham, 1820 Settler) was born on 19 Apr 1805 in East Ham, Essex, England; died on 5 Dec 1865 in Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 439
• Name: Frances Clarissa Jane Ford
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Arrived with 1820 Settlers on the Chapman in Baine's party on 3/12/1819.

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Robert Jnr Hart

Notes:

Grahamstown Journal, Saturday 12 February 1853

A DANGEROUS PICNIC

A party of juveniles, about 50 in number, attended by 10 gentlemen, went out on a picnic excursion to the waterfall at Mr. HART’s house at Glen Avon. Tho of the gentlemen, Messrs. W. BOWKER and R. HART, having their guns with them, proposed going a little further up the kloof to look for a bush buck, but they had gone only a few yards when they found the fresh spoor of Kafir.
Following it in silence for some distance they saw a Kafir seated about 40 yards from them, occupied in brushing the flies off his face. BOWKER was going to shoot him at once but HART persuaded him to try and get a little nearer, and in doing so the Kafir caught sight of them and instantly bolted.
At this moment perceiving that there were two Kaffirs, both armed with guns, BOWKER fired, and heard one of them fall heavily to the ground, while HART fired and wounded the other. On reaching the spot where the man had fallen they found that he had got up and made off. After following his spoor a short distance, HART turned into a hole under the krantz, where the Kaffirs had made an almost inaccessable lurking place by piling up immense quantities of wood; only one person could get in at a time, and then had to climb up a very steep place, so that two or three fellows could have defended this stronghold against a host. Nothing daunted by his surprise at unexpectedly finding such a place close to his father’s homestead, HART climbed the steep pathway which terminated in a sort of cave, and there discovered, comfortably wrapped up in his kaross and fast asleep, a huge Kafir, whom he instantly shot dead. We presume this picnic party terminated rather abruptly, and the following day a different party visited the spot, and led by BOWKER and HART they followed the blood spoor of the wounded men for about 3 miles, to a place where an ox had been killed by them, but could not trace it any further. The whole number of Kaffirs seen on the previous day amounted to six, whereof two were wounded and one killed. We much require a rural police to assist in routing out such nests of thieves and murderers.

Robert married Johanna Christina Meintjes on 14 Sep 1831 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Johanna (daughter of Stephanus Jacobus Meintjes and Cecilia Magdalena Vorster) was born in 1813 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 18 Jul 1841; was buried in Glen Avon farm, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Extract from the Grahamstown Journal, July 1841:
Died at Glen Avon, Somerset on Sunday 18th inst Johanna Christina MEINTJES, wife of Robert HART Junior, at the age of 28 years and 6 months, leaving six young children, deeply lamented.

Also known as Cecilia, per her inscription on the Vault at Glen Avob