Cecil John Pike

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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Microfilm# 1560854
Methodist Parish Records
Bathurst Christenings: 1885-1925
Item 8
Entry #138
Child: Cecil John PIKE
Parents: Jonathan and Cordelia Emma
Born: 5/11/1888
Baptized: 7/19/1888

Wounded in World War 1.

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Cecil married Elcy Gray in 1918, and was divorced on 22 Jan 1940 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. Elcy was born on 7 Jul 1900 in England; died on 19 Oct 1970. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Marriage Status: Divorced

1. Elcy Pike
2. Cecily Joan Pike
3. Beulagh Loveday Pike
4. Thora Sylvia Pike
5. Cecil Gray Pike
6. Annette Pike
7. Lynette Pike

Cecil married Esther Cicely Lawson on 27 Feb 1962 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. Esther was born on 23 Dec 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 1874, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

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Jonathan married Cordelia Emma Richardson on 1 Jul 1874 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Cordelia (daughter of John Richardson, 1820 Settler and Emma Tarr) was born on 12 Feb 1854 in Thornhill, Fish River, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 18 Jun 1854; died on 5 Apr 1941 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried on 7 Apr 1941 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Cordelia Emma Richardson
• Baptism: 18 Jun 1854, Clumber Chapel (Wesleyan/Methodist), Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa
• WID : Widowed: 2 Aug 1902

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Microfilm# 1560854
Church : Methodist Parish Records
Location : Bathurst Marriages: 1866-1895
Item 14
Entry #200
Husband: Jonathan PIKE, 26, Farmer, Clumber
Wife: Cordelia Emma RICHARDSON, 20, Clumber
Date: 7/1/1874
Witnesses: Enoch PIKE, Lydia Ann RICHARDSON

Married:
Witnesses: Enoch PIKE, Lydia Ann RICHARDSON

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 633
• Occupation: Fruit Grower
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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A preacher, twin of William. He grew up at Clumber, and never left it. When in his nineties he told Professor Cory that he had never been to Port Elizabeth. The last time he was there it was called Algoa Bay.

"Passed away, - at Clumber on 21 August 1907, Elijah PIKE, Aged 93 years and 9 months. Settler of 1820.
'Farewell, poor World, I must be gone, Thou art no hope, no rest for me; I'll take my staff and travel on, Till I a better World may see" "And thou shalt go to thy Father's house in peace; Thou shall be buried in a good old age."

Name: Elijah Pike
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 21 Nov 1813
Baptism Place: Keyworth,Nottingham,England
Father: William Pike
Mother: Mary
FHL Film Number: 504063, 504517

Settler:
Calton's party on the Albury

Elijah married Mary Low on 7 Oct 1838 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Mary (daughter of James Low, 1820 Settler and Mary Evenden, 1820 Settler) was born about 1822; died on 17 Jan 1895 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Mary Lowe

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 690
• Name: John Richardson 1820
• Occupation: 'Thorn Hill'; a Blacksmith
• Occupation: Trappes Valley, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Miller
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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John married Emma Tarr on 28 Feb 1843 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. Emma (daughter of Thomas Henry Tarr, 1820 Settler and Ann Radford, 1820 Settler) was born on 6 Jan 1824; died on 21 Dec 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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The Tarrs of Rokewood offers up the following on Emma TARR and John
RICHARDSON:

[extract from page 112]
"B6 Emma and John RICHARDSON
Now the story of the TARRs crosses with another well known Settler family , the RICHARDSONs. At the age of 21, Emma and John, then 28, married at Clumber in 1843. John's parents had led a part to the Cape and had settled nearKaffir Drift at Green Fountains. They later moved to Thorn Hill, near Shaw Park.

John was apprenticed to a wagon maker at Grahamstown before he took up farming and, in 1842, he was working at Thorn Hill. At the time of his marriage, he was a blacksmith and he also made two iron gates for Clumber churchyard. These gates are still there today and were the entrance gates to the burial ground from the Nottingham Party marketplace. Of particular interest is that he incorporated his intials "JR" into the design of the
gates.

Drama was to befall the couple in their first year of marriage, while John was hunting a leopard on his farm. The leopard attacked him and bit through his arm. Fortunately he was recsued by "Mr PIRIE", who killed the animal with his knife. We cannot ascertain whether this Mr PIRIE was his brother-in-law, but it appears likely.

Being located so close to the border, Thorn Hill had its share of losses during the frontier wars. His father had been exempted from service in the 1835 wars due to his defective sight. His house was burned, two hundred cattle and forage stolen and one of his daughters had died from the effects of exposure. His losses were calculated to be [Pounds]396-9-9d and a list of the contents are detailed on six pages. The 1845/6 hostilities resulted in more stock thefts and John's house and stacks were burned in 1846. 224 cattle were taken and, during this period, his family appeared to be sheltering at Cuylerville.

In 1852 he volunteered for Commando work while at Timm's Camp. In about 1856 he bought the mill at Trappes Valley from William WRIGHT, where he lived all his life.

John and Emma had seven children, but Emma sadly died shortly after the seventh child was born. John subsequently married Sarah Ann GRIFFITHS and had another eight children."
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Children of Emma and John are detailed as :
[taken from pedigree chart Chapter 8]
C1 James RICHARDSON (3.1.1844 or 5.1.1844 - 20.9.1930) m. Martha Isabella
STAPLES
C2 Thomas RICHARDON (23.7.1845 - 30.12.1916) m. 14.3.1877 Rosina Ann STAPLES
(sister of Martha Isabella)
C3 John RICHARDSON (9.8.1848) m. Janie RICH
C4 William RICHARDSON (7.10.1850)d. young
C5 Cordelia Emma RICHARDSON (1.12.1854 or 11.2.1854) m. Jonathan PIKE
C6 Lydia Ann RICHARDSON (8.9.1856) m. Edward HULLEY
C7 Emma RICHARDSON (27.12.1858 - 26.6.1928) m.15.7.1936 James THOMAS


Entry in Grahamstown Journal of 1/1/1859. Page 4. Column 5
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DIED - At her residence, Trapp's Valley in the District of Bathurst, two hours and a half after giving birth to a Daughter, the beloved wife of John Richardson (Born Emma Tarr) in the 35th year of her age, leaving a Husband and Seven Children to deplore their loss.

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Witnesses: Thomas Henry TARR, Ann TARR, George TARR

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 638
• Occupation: a Framework Knitter
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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1820 Settler; arrived with family as members of Calton's Party aboard the "Albury", which sailed from Liverpool 12 Feb 1820. Came from the Keyworth area in Nottingham. Settled in Clumber.

An excerpt from Pg. 102 History of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of South Africa by Rev.J.Whiteside, London 1906 :Salem, The Mother Church {per Sylvia Gazendam}
"Mr. Shaw sought out and gathered round him a noble band of lay assistants, or the spiritual needs of the people could not have been supplied. Amongst these helpers were Messrs. Oates and Roberts of Salem; Richard Walker, of Port Francis; John Ayliff of Wilson's party; William Shepstone, of the New Bristol location; William Pike, of Clumber; Messrs. Aldham, Bonnin, Sargeant, Booth, Attwell, and many others who fed and fanned the flame of piety. These plain preachers of a plain Gospel went from location to location taking shady trees or sheltering woodside as their standing places, and gathered around them little companies, seated on the grass, listening attentively, and thankful to find themselves remembered and cared for in reference to their highest of all interests. Messrs. Ayliff and Shepstone, at a later date, entered the ranks of the oirdained ministry, and became distinguished missionaries. Richard Walker rendered scarcely less valuable service as an assistant missionary on several stations. Opposition was overruled in one instance 'for the futherance of the Gospel." Dr. Calton, the head of the Nottingham party, was a determined opponent of Methodism, and attempted to prevent any of its adherents being in his vessel, the Albany. Great was his vexation to find, when at sea, that at least one Wesleyan, Mr. Pike, was on board, and that he was holding meetings for prayer. Dr. Calton threatened the offender that unless he kept his religion to himself he would have no allotment of land on his arrival in Cape Colony. Strange to say, Dr. Calton died in Algoa Bay. After the settlement of the party at Clumber, Mr. Pike regularly held services in the bush, close to his tent; and his simple piety and manifest sincerity having won the esteem of his fellow settlers, they elected him head of the party. Clumber became a centre of spiritual influence, and has so continued to this day. The people have retained not a little of the quaint simplicity and religious fervour of English rural Methodism when at its best."

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Calton's party on the Albury

William married Mary Hallam, 1820 Settler on 26 Nov 1799 in St Mary Magdalene, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England. Mary (daughter of John Hallam and Sarah Sylvester) was born in 1776 in Burton-on-Wolds, Leicestershire, England; died on 15 Mar 1861 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 287
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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see https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVZ-59YT-F?i=935&cat=305287 Mary Selby was William's sister,

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Calton's party on the Albury

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 512
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Occupation: 1820; Carpenter

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From Bailie's Party of 1820 settlers by M D Nash, page 151
"LOW, James. 1799- Carpenter
From London, he emigrated as a servant to John Bailie. He left Albany in 1822 and moved first to Graaff-Reinet and then to Cape Town, where he married Ellen Higham of Liverpool in 1825. He was a Clerk of Works for the building of St George's Church in 1830. He set up a business as a builder, and owned a property in Rondebosch, which was sold in 1866 when he was declared insolvent.
CO 293 no 91, Bailie to Plasket, 25.3.1826; CO 178, 9.9.1822; Gazette, 2.9.1825; Directory 1849; MOOC 7/1/213 no 20, will of M Adams, August 1852; MOIB 2/2114 no.190; Information about St George's Church from R.R.Langham-Carter."

Morse Jones and Hockly have James married to a Susan as a settler, but no further references to her have been found yet.

LOW, James. 1799- Carpenter
From London, he emigrated as a servant to John Bailie. He left Albany in 1822 and moved first to Graaff-Reinet and then to Cape Town, where he married Ellen Higham of Liverpool in 1825. He was a Clerk of Works for the building of St George's Church in 1830. He set up a business as a builder, and owned a property in Rondebosch, which was sold in 1866 when he was declared insolvent.
CO 293 no 91, Bailie to Plasket, 25.3.1826; CO 178, 9.9.1822; Gazette, 2.9.1825; Directory 1849; MOOC 7/1/213 no 20, will of M Adams, August 1852; MOIB 2/2114 no.190; Information about St george's Church from R.R.Langham-Carter.

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Bailie's party on the Chapman

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https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-XYQN

DEATH OF A SETTLER.- The Cape Times contains a notice of the death of Mr. James LOW, supposed to be the last of the first settlers, having lived in the Colony for sixty-eight years. He arrived first in 1814, and was stationed at the Cape for three years, being in the Navy. He returned to England in 1818, and subsequently to the Cape in 1820. He was also engaged in the American Civil War.

James + Mary Evenden, 1820 Settler. Mary was born in 1801 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 435
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

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The magistrate's powers were invoked when Mary Evenden, a young woman who emigrated as a servant with the family of Captain Henry Crause, gave birth to an illegitimate baby and applied for an affiliation order against James Low. Captain Trappes had to find out from the Deputy Landdrost's office what procedure he should follow; there had been no similar case at Bathurst to give him a precedent. Low managed to shed his responsibilities a year later by leaving Albany for Cape Town. Ref. CA CO 178: Memorial of J Low dated 9.9.1822 {Lynn MacLeod}

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 688
• Name: James Richardson 1820
• Occupation: a Corn Dealer
• Residence: Heartshead, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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James married Sarah Charlton, 1820 Settler on 15 May 1814 in Sheffield cathedral, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Sarah (daughter of William Charlton and Elizabeth) was born in 1788; died about 1830. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 3814
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Sarah CHARLTON, whose second husband was James RICHARDSON, was the sister of Mary CHARLTON, wife of William Senior DENTON. John CHARLTON witnessed the marriage of Sarah and James, and the marriage of William and Mary was witnessed by John and Harriet CHARLTON (the marriage of John CHARLTON to Harriet TOMES on 11 October 1809 in Sheffield Cathedral was witnessed by Mary CHARLTON) so I think John was a brother of Sarah and Mary. The following baptisms seem plausible, even although it would make Sarah and Mary a year or two older than declared on the settler returns.

Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York (Yorkshire Bishop's Transcripts)

John son of William & Eliz. CHARLTON, stone cutter, baptised 9 November 1785 in parish of Sheffield

Sarah dau'r of Wm & Eliz. CHARLTON, mason, baptised 28 September 1788 in parish of Sheffield

Mary dr of Wm & Eliz. CHARLTON, mason, baptised 13 November 1791 in parish of Sheffield

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Richardson's party on the Stentor

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 760
• Name: Thomas Henry Tarr 1820
• Occupation: a Carpenter
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 10 Oct 1824, Clumber Vale, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Occupation: Oct 1832, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Carpenter

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His name on all the early Embarcation records was TORR, however subsequent records including his will says TARR. His children all used TARR.
There is a bell dedicated to Thomas and Ann Tarr at Clumber Church

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Thomas married Ann Radford, 1820 Settler on 20 Sep 1812 in St Mary's Church, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. Ann (daughter of James John Radford and Ann Greenwood) was born in 1791 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England; died on 23 Dec 1866 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 938
• Name: Ann Radford 1820
• Adult Christening: 27 Jun 1791, Nottingham Church (St Mary's), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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