Doris Whitfield

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Family/Spouse: Jack Mack. Jack was born on 6 Mar 1890 in Cape Colony, South Africa; died on 28 Aug 1974. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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Married Georgina Ewels.

Wallace + Georgina Ewels. Georgina was born about 1870 in Cape Colony, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 1849, Harewood; a Farmer
• Occupation: 1851, Myrtle Grove farm, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

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Born at Swartkops. "Died of cancer after being poked by an ox (Daddy said)"

Died:
Description: Cancer

Leo married Mary Dodgson Phillips on 1 Nov 1841 in Cuylerville, Bathurst district, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Mary (daughter of John Phillips, 1820 Settler and Sarah Hayhurst, 1820 Settler) was born on 3 Nov 1823 in Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 8 Dec 1829 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 22 Oct 1903 in 69 Durban Street, King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Debe Nek, King William's Town district, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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see also : https://pelejab.page.tl/NEW-_-Charlotte-h-s-grave%2C-Fort-White%2C-Debbie-Nek%2C-Gum-Grove.htm

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 127
• Name: John Brown 1820
• Occupation: a Fisherman and Trader
• Settler: 13 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

An 1820 Settler who came to South Africa together with his wife, Anne, and 2 daughters as part of the Clark Party. He apparently had business interests in Jamaica. On arrival in the Eastern Cape he dumped Anne and took up with Charlotte Whitfield. He died in action in the 1835 Xhosa War. John's party was allocated land at the Clay Pits near the Fish River.

He apparently had business interests in Jamaica. On arrival in the Eastern Cape he dumped Anne and took up with Charlotte Whitfield. He died in action in the 1835 Xhosa War. John's party was allocated land at the Clay Pits near the Fish River

"Dear Mrs Rainier
I trust you have now settled down in East London, a town of which I am very fond. I remember once going to a meeting at the Town Hall I think it was the local historical society's meeting.
In your last letter to me you mentioned what became of Mrs Brown (Anne Cane), Elizabeth and Anne. The little I have is as follows:
Anne Cane. Born London 16-5-1790. Married John Brown at St Anns Westminister on 26-10-1812. 4 children, Elizabeth, Anne, Christianna and George. The last 2 born 1821 and 27 respectively. Died 19-2-1857 in Grahamstown.
Elizabeth Brown. Presumably born London 18-2-1815. Married Edward Chapman Leonard who died in 1892. 3 children. Died 7-6-1859.
Anne Brown. Presumably born London 17-9-1817. Married Henry Francis Fynn. Died at Swarts Kei when her husband was serving at Tarka's Post. 30-6-1839. I do not think there was issue.
Henry Francis Fynn. (1803 ? - 20-9-1861) was as you may know one of the founders of Natal along with King & Farewell. On the death of his wife Ann, he married Christianna Brown. he died at Fynnlands which I understand is on the Bluff at Durban.
You will see that John Brown had 4 children, this being apart from the 5 children he presented to Charlotte Whitfield between 1822 - 1829.
You mention in your letter about property of J.B. in Germiston (???) I understand that when he died he did have property there but I feel there must have been another JB as the deal between Lt Col Prentice and JB took place on the 28.2.1820 ie long before the 1820 Settlers arrived.
I am awaiting an answer from Mr Morse Jones on a place called Tiger Spring. I do know that there was an article in Looking Back Vol ! Part 2 about this place but unfortunately I do not have a copy.
JB purchased Tiger Spring from a Richard Austen although I do not think he lived there, and the deeds of Transfer are dated 1840 some 5 years after John's death. This place I understand was very near Bathurst, one boundary being on Bathurst Commonage. I have also been told that Tiger Spring was a place on the NE part of Mahoneys location which I believe was in the Coombs Valley near Clay Pit.
P?ts. I wonder whether the two places are one and the same.
In my quest for the birth place of Charlotte Whitfield in London 1790 I am now enquiring into the records of Spanish Town, Jamaica where her brother died in 1824. She presumably went to London in 1827 (along with JB) in consequence of her brothers estate.
Should you require further details on JB I can let you have the note. I was recently given a portion of a genealogical table of the Fynn family which dealt with the Brown family. I know that Christianna Fynn had a son Henry.
I trust you are well and that the weather is kind to you. Here it is beautiful at the moment.
Yours sincerely
Frank Newnes

Settler:
Clark's party on the Northampton

Died:
Description: in Military Action, 6th Frontier War (1834 -1835) [Hintsa's War]

John + Charlotte Whitfield, 1820 Settler. Charlotte (daughter of John Whitfield and Mary Lane) was born in Feb 1789 in London, England; was christened on 17 Mar 1789 in St. Paul’s Church, Covent Gardens, London, England; died on 21 Jun 1875 in Gum Grove, Fort White,Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 839
• Name: Charlotte Whitfield 1820
• Settler: 13 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Residence: 1820, Clay Pits, Coombes Valley, District Grahamstown, South Africa

Notes:

On a London newspaper, the Morning Chronicle, dated May 21, 1806, Charlotte Whitfield had an advertisement for a clothing store. She would have been about seventeen years old. (Issue 11547)
“Miss Whitfield’s Rooms on 151 New Bond Street. The numerous favours that Miss Whitfield has experienced from the Nobility and Gentry inducing her to solicit their future patronage and to offer for their inspection the TURKISH ROBE AND HAT, which in elegance, she flatters herself will surpass every wished for idea, including a variety of new millinery.” Also included was a notice to hire an apprentice and person of improvement.
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1820 Settler (Clark's Party). Travelled unaccompanied. Became common law wife of John Brown after he dumped his wife Anne. All 5 of their children retained the surname Whitfield. Charlotte's descendants were mainly traders and farmers in the Eastern Cape and Transkei. They have since spread throughout Southern Africa and to places like Australia, New Zealand and England.

WHITFIELD - Charlotte Whitfield went to the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope in 1820 and was married in or about the year 1836 at Gahamstown to William Henry TURKINGTON, and died at Fort White, Cape Colony on 21st June 1876
- Lloyds Weekly 22/05/1898

Travelled unaccompanied. Became common law wife of John Brown after he dumped his wife Anne. All 5 of their children retained the surname Whitfield. Listed as BROWN, but believed to be Charlotte Whitfield who settled near John Brown and bore him 5 children between 1822 and 1829.
She and John Brown were not married.
Described as Spinster on Marriage to TURKINGTON

Charlotte Whitfield 1790 - 1875
Born in London during Feb 1790. A son Leo Africanus was born to her near Zwartskop River in 1822, a daughter Mary Margaret in 1825 and another daughter Charlotte Belinda was born at Bathurst in 1826. (D/N 264/1897)?? [perhaps 204/1897]
On the 16th Jan 1827 Miss Charlotte Whitfield was granted permission to leave the Cape Colony (got off records Permits to leave the Country 1826/7). On the 9th Feb 1827 Charlotte sailed in the English Schooner "Ann" bound for Rio de Janeiro (got off Records Ships Arrivals & Departures). Another son was born to her on 28th Feb 1828 in London. (D/N 204/1897 & John's D/N 2677).
She left England from the "Downs" on the 12th June 1828 in the "Barbara" and arrived at Table Bay on the 15th Sept 1828. The passenger list records her as Miss Whitfield but no mention is made of her son John (Chamber of Commerce Records CC 45. Ships Arrivals)
Her last child William Henry Lancaster was born on 16.1.1829 ??
She married William Henry Turkington on the 25th July 1835 at St Georges Church Grahamstown by the Rev John Heavyside acting Chaplain of Grahamstown. The witnesses were G Blakemoore, Harriet Blackmore and I H Dixon. Charlotte being recorded as Spinster and William as bachelor.
According to records William Turkington was an independent settler who came to the Colony with his son George aged 6 and who was granted a permit to return to England on the 10.7.1823 (1820 Settler Asc Office East London). It is known that sometime between 1827 - 1835 he contributed &1 towards defraying the expenses of procuring a Roman Catholic Clergyman for the Frontier. In 1832 he was living in the Bathurst district and was a shareholder in the Bathurst Church Building. He died about 18?6.
Mrs Charlotte Turkington was present at the wedding of her son John Whitfield to Ann Wallis on 2nd Sept 1862 at Cuylerville.
According to her daughter-in-law Ann, wife of John, Charlotte was an autocratic and cultured person, tiny in stature and always calm. She came from a wealthy and aristocratic family with whom she quarreled and came out to the Cape Colony.
Ann was often frightened of her and once overheard her mother-in-law remark that Ann's parents were "in trade".
Charlotte educated her children and was held in great esteem by both relations and her friends.
In later life she lived with her son Leo Africanus Whitfield and his family at Gum Grove Farm on the slopes of Taba Ndoda near Fort White where she died on 21st June 1875 and was buried in the small private cemetery on the farm.
She died intestate and although left no removable or immovable property, her death notice, made out and filed some 22 years later by her son John, recorded that a sum of about £3800 was being held in Chancery. This money was left to Charlotte or her heirs possibly by her brother Henry Whitfield who it was thought at one time owned sugar estates in Jamaica.

CHARLOTTE WHITFIELD SHIPS OUT TO SOUTH AFRICA

Charlotte Whitfield, a spinster, came out to South Africa with the British Settlers, and landed at Algoa Bay in 1820.
However she travelled, or rather voyaged, as Charlotte Brown, sister of John Brown, who was on the same ship, "Northampton" and in Clarke's party. John Brown was married. His wife, Ann and their 2 small daughters aged 4 and 2 respectively, were also in the party. No one seems to know what happened subsequently to John Brown's wife, but at one time she lived with John at the "Clay Pits" in the Coombes Valley approx. 30 miles (48kms) from Grahamstown. Charlotte Whitfield too lived with them. It has been said that the Clay Pits were bought with Charlotte's money. She came from a good family which had means.
John Brown was a man with considerable education for those times.
John and Charlotte were romantically involved and because his wife Ann was Catholic, divorce was out of the question.
The upshot was that Charlotte Whitfield and John Brown had five (5) children. Their names were as follows :-
Leo Africanus Whitfield
John Whitfield
Henry William Lancaster Whitfield
Mary Ann Whitfield, who married Henry Blackbeard
Charlotte Whitfield, who married a Mr Thomas, and when she was widowed, she married a Mr Manley.
John Brown was killed at the Clay Pitts when he went to parley with the rebel Hottentots. [Wyndham informed PBW that this is not so - apparently John Brown sold/gave the Hottentots some cattle and these were taken back by other whites accusing the Hottentots of stealing the cattle. These Hottentots then called John Brown out and killed him believing that he was responsible.]
Charlotte was left with five young children. I understand that her children were embarrassed by the circumstances of their birth, and one can quite imagine the cruel things that were said in those old days. One feels, however, that Charlotte is to be admired for sticking to the man she loved.
After John Brown was killed, Charlotte, in due course, married a Mr Turkington who was probably in the army. [He was a bricklayer].
There were no children of that marriage.
The three sons of Charlotte all distinguished themselves, and showed great courage and bravery in the wars on the frontier.
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On departure to SA Charlotte's age was given as 23 in which case she would have been born in 1796 or 1797

Settler:
Clark's party on the Northampton

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 3480
• Occupation: a Farmer
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

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Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

John married Sarah Hayhurst, 1820 Settler on 28 Feb 1823. Sarah (daughter of Richard Hayhurst, 1820 Settler and Mary Dodgson) was born on 4 Sep 1802 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England; was christened on 3 Oct 1802 in St John's, Blackburn, Lancashire, England; died on 19 Aug 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1886
• Name: Sarah Hayhurst 1820
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Settler:
Hayhurst's party on the John