| 1. | Joseph Cox Warner, 1820 Settler was born on 18 Oct 1806 in Bristol, Somerset, England (son of Henry Warner, 1820 Settler and Elizabeth Caroline Blacker, 1820 Settler); died in 1871 in Balfour, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Other Events and Attributes:
- 1820 Lineage: Yes
- Settler ID: 820
- Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Notes:
From http://www.ftfmagazine.lewcock.net/index.php/volume-one-new/january-2008/342-the-1820-settlers:
Joseph Cox Warner was Henry and Elizabeth's second child, born in Bristol in 1806 and emigrating with his parents to South Africa in 1820, at the age of 12. In 1830 he became a missionary in Kaffirland, for the Wesleyan Missionary Society. He married the following year and in 1834 was appointed to a mission station working with the Tembus tribe, gaining much respect and influence as he became fluent in their language and accustomed in their ways. He was instrumental in making peace with the invading Fecani army and the setting up of a mission station amongst them.
The couple enthusiastically set about their work, even though they endured many hardships and at times, danger. When Joseph rode out to met the Fecani army to try to persuade them to return captive woman and children, his fellow missionary who had taken a gun against his wishes, fired it to frighten the Fecani, who immediately set upon him, stabbing him to death. The unarmed Joseph narrowly escaped with his life. Matters only took a turn for the better when Joseph found a wounded Fecani warrior after a subsequent attack on the mission station. He nursed him back to health and returned him to his chief unharmed.
He continued in his efforts to bring peace between the tribes, as well as protecting their lands from the Dutch settlers, the Boers. In 1846 he was influential in preventing the Tembu tribe from being involved in the Kaffir Wars. However when the governer Henry Smith, under pressure from the Boers, declared all of Tembuland British territory. Joseph was left to appease the natives as they were all effectively punished for their involvement in the war, even the Tembu, whose participation he had prevented.
As the Boers continued their unprovoked attacks and with them accusing him of being a 'rebel', Joseph was forced to leave the region, leaving most of his belongings behind. However, by 1852, with his name cleared, and by now appointed as the Government officer in charge of the Tembu tribes, he began locating them into reservations, maintaining peace between them and the white farmers, encouraging Christianity and 'industrious habits'. He was considered such an expert in Kaffir laws and customs that he was asked to write a compendium for use by Government officers. By the time he retired from his post in the late 1860's some natives had their own small farms within the reservation.
In 1871 he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Queenstown. Later the same year he died following a short illness in Balfour, whilst travelling to Cape Town to join the Legislative Council.
Joseph was survived by his wife Matilda and sons, Henry and Ebenezer, who both entered the Civil Service. In the early 1870s they both gave this up to became missionaries, just like their father before them.
The Warner family bible and other documents were donated to the Albany Settler Museum, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
Queenstown Free Press, transcribed by Sunelia Heath:
July 11, 1871
IN MEMORIUM.
It is our melancholy and painful duty to record the death of Joseph Cox WARNER, Esq., recently elected to represent this division in the House of Assembly, which sad event took place at Balfour on Saturday afternoon last at half past two o’clock. Mr WARNER left Queenstown early on the morning of the 21st June, apparently in good health and spirits, though he had been suffering from indigestion for the past two or three days,. Scarcely had he got to the Katberg before symptoms of illness began to appear, and on arriving at Balfour Mr WARNER had to alight and allow the mail cart to proceed without him. He was suffering from stricture of the bladder brought on by cold and exposure to the morning air, a complaint he had been subject to for some years though not to be seriously inconvenienced with it. The medical gentleman from Stockenstrom was at once summoned, and when he arrived he expressed a wish to have a medical gentleman from Fort Beaufort, who was also sent for. Little resulted from the consultation, the late departed suffered extreme agony, at times being unconscious. On Wednesday Mr. E.J. WARNER proceeded to Balfour to be with his father, and on Thursday Mrs. WARNER, accompanied by Dr. KRANZ, followed her son, to try and soothe the dying hours of the partner of joys and sorrows through a long life of vicissitude. Dr. KRANZ did all that medical aid could do, but it was too late. Mr. WARNER recognized his wife, and was then unconscious again, lingering up to Saturday, when he was again conscious for a short time, and then passed quietly away. Mr. WARNER, sickly and weak for many years, was wonderfully sustained by Divine Providence through this her saddest affliction, and must feel gratified that she was enabled to be present, and see her husband pass to his new home, where pain and suffering is unknowns. Great sympathy is felt for the sorrowing widow, and the sons and relatives of the deceased. He was an indulgent husband and kind father, and many will miss the unbounded liberality of him who is now no more. Mr. WARNER assisted not a few; in fact, we believe, that his large salary in years gone by, was all spent in helping others, and that he had little or nothing left, after years of labour and toil, except the farm Glen Grey.
Mr WARNER came to this Colony a youth with the settlers of 1820, and has been a resident of the extreme front ever since. Early in life he became a member of the Wesleyan Church, and for forty years has been a consistent and upright Christian man, the former of these years was spent as a Missionary of the Wesleyan Church. Then his services were required in another sphere, and he was strongly solicited, and reluctantly accepted, the office of British Agent with the Tambookies, at a time when none other fitted for the appointment could be found to take it.
Mr WARNER entered the Government service as Tambookie Agent at the close of the war in 1851, natives of the Tambookie location and their effective government while Queenstown was in its infancy and struggling to rise to strength and independence. During the cattle slaughtering of 1857 he did signal service to the country, by keeping government well informed of the very first movements of the Kaffirs, and preventing the Tambookies from joining the false prophet, and without doubt by this means preventing a general Kaffir war.
In 1863 4 when the plan was set on foot to make the vacant lands in the Transkei and European Settlement, Mr WARNER was appointed British Resident with the tribes beyond, to preserve the new frontier, as he had done that of Queenstown up to that time. He still held this office, through it was ultimately decided to locate natives in that country and not Europeans, being put in charge of the various tribal divisions and agencies. Under his management that country became one of the most prosperous and progressive of any country occupied by natives in South Africa.
About two years ago Mr WARNER retired on a well earned pension and hoped to end his days in peace and quietness at Glen Grey, but it was willed otherwise. The electors of Queenstown called upon him to represent them in the Assembly. He consented, was elected, and on the journey down to fulfill his duty to his country, the sad event occurred which we have so imperfectly chronicled.
Mr WARNER will not only be a loss to Queenstown, but tot the colony and the tribes beyond. We cannot replace him or produce another with the same influence. The power of his name was felt far and near throughout Kaffirland, and the mention of it in the remote corners of Kaffraria Proper was sufficient to command respect from the native, and induce him to listen with quietness, if not with awe.
From http://www.ftfmagazine.lewcock.net/index.php/volume-one-new/january-2008/342-the-1820-settlers:
Joseph Cox Warner was Henry and Elizabeth's second child, born in Bristol in 1806 and emigrating with his parents to South Africa in 1820, at the age of 12. In 1830 he became a missionary in Kaffirland, for the Wesleyan Missionary Society. He married the following year and in 1834 was appointed to a mission station working with the Tembus tribe, gaining much respect and influence as he became fluent in their language and accustomed in their ways. He was instrumental in making peace with the invading Fecani army and the setting up of a mission station amongst them.
The couple enthusiastically set about their work, even though they endured many hardships and at times, danger. When Joseph rode out to met the Fecani army to try to persuade them to return captive woman and children, his fellow missionary who had taken a gun against his wishes, fired it to frighten the Fecani, who immediately set upon him, stabbing him to death. The unarmed Joseph narrowly escaped with his life. Matters only took a turn for the better when Joseph found a wounded Fecani warrior after a subsequent attack on the mission station. He nursed him back to health and returned him to his chief unharmed.
He continued in his efforts to bring peace between the tribes, as well as protecting their lands from the Dutch settlers, the Boers. In 1846 he was influential in preventing the Tembu tribe from being involved in the Kaffir Wars. However when the governer Henry Smith, under pressure from the Boers, declared all of Tembuland British territory. Joseph was left to appease the natives as they were all effectively punished for their involvement in the war, even the Tembu, whose participation he had prevented.
As the Boers continued their unprovoked attacks and with them accusing him of being a 'rebel', Joseph was forced to leave the region, leaving most of his belongings behind. However, by 1852, with his name cleared, and by now appointed as the Government officer in charge of the Tembu tribes, he began locating them into reservations, maintaining peace between them and the white farmers, encouraging Christianity and 'industrious habits'. He was considered such an expert in Kaffir laws and customs that he was asked to write a compendium for use by Government officers. By the time he retired from his post in the late 1860's some natives had their own small farms within the reservation.
In 1871 he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Queenstown. Later the same year he died following a short illness in Balfour, whilst travelling to Cape Town to join the Legislative Council.
Joseph was survived by his wife Matilda and sons, Henry and Ebenezer, who both entered the Civil Service. In the early 1870s they both gave this up to became missionaries, just like their father before them.
The Warner family bible and other documents were donated to the Albany Settler Museum, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
Queenstown Free Press, transcribed by Sunelia Heath:
July 11, 1871
IN MEMORIUM.
It is our melancholy and painful duty to record the death of Joseph Cox WARNER, Esq., recently elected to represent this division in the House of Assembly, which sad event took place at Balfour on Saturday afternoon last at half past two o’clock. Mr WARNER left Queenstown early on the morning of the 21st June, apparently in good health and spirits, though he had been suffering from indigestion for the past two or three days,. Scarcely had he got to the Katberg before symptoms of illness began to appear, and on arriving at Balfour Mr WARNER had to alight and allow the mail cart to proceed without him. He was suffering from stricture of the bladder brought on by cold and exposure to the morning air, a complaint he had been subject to for some years though not to be seriously inconvenienced with it. The medical gentleman from Stockenstrom was at once summoned, and when he arrived he expressed a wish to have a medical gentleman from Fort Beaufort, who was also sent for. Little resulted from the consultation, the late departed suffered extreme agony, at times being unconscious. On Wednesday Mr. E.J. WARNER proceeded to Balfour to be with his father, and on Thursday Mrs. WARNER, accompanied by Dr. KRANZ, followed her son, to try and soothe the dying hours of the partner of joys and sorrows through a long life of vicissitude. Dr. KRANZ did all that medical aid could do, but it was too late. Mr. WARNER recognized his wife, and was then unconscious again, lingering up to Saturday, when he was again conscious for a short time, and then passed quietly away. Mr. WARNER, sickly and weak for many years, was wonderfully sustained by Divine Providence through this her saddest affliction, and must feel gratified that she was enabled to be present, and see her husband pass to his new home, where pain and suffering is unknowns. Great sympathy is felt for the sorrowing widow, and the sons and relatives of the deceased. He was an indulgent husband and kind father, and many will miss the unbounded liberality of him who is now no more. Mr. WARNER assisted not a few; in fact, we believe, that his large salary in years gone by, was all spent in helping others, and that he had little or nothing left, after years of labour and toil, except the farm Glen Grey.
Mr WARNER came to this Colony a youth with the settlers of 1820, and has been a resident of the extreme front ever since. Early in life he became a member of the Wesleyan Church, and for forty years has been a consistent and upright Christian man, the former of these years was spent as a Missionary of the Wesleyan Church. Then his services were required in another sphere, and he was strongly solicited, and reluctantly accepted, the office of British Agent with the Tambookies, at a time when none other fitted for the appointment could be found to take it.
Mr WARNER entered the Government service as Tambookie Agent at the close of the war in 1851, natives of the Tambookie location and their effective government while Queenstown was in its infancy and struggling to rise to strength and independence. During the cattle slaughtering of 1857 he did signal service to the country, by keeping government well informed of the very first movements of the Kaffirs, and preventing the Tambookies from joining the false prophet, and without doubt by this means preventing a general Kaffir war.
In 1863 4 when the plan was set on foot to make the vacant lands in the Transkei and European Settlement, Mr WARNER was appointed British Resident with the tribes beyond, to preserve the new frontier, as he had done that of Queenstown up to that time. He still held this office, through it was ultimately decided to locate natives in that country and not Europeans, being put in charge of the various tribal divisions and agencies. Under his management that country became one of the most prosperous and progressive of any country occupied by natives in South Africa.
About two years ago Mr WARNER retired on a well earned pension and hoped to end his days in peace and quietness at Glen Grey, but it was willed otherwise. The electors of Queenstown called upon him to represent them in the Assembly. He consented, was elected, and on the journey down to fulfill his duty to his country, the sad event occurred which we have so imperfectly chronicled.
Mr WARNER will not only be a loss to Queenstown, but tot the colony and the tribes beyond. We cannot replace him or produce another with the same influence. The power of his name was felt far and near throughout Kaffirland, and the mention of it in the remote corners of Kaffraria Proper was sufficient to command respect from the native, and induce him to listen with quietness, if not with awe.
Settler:
George Smith's party on the Stentor
Joseph married Matilda Stanford on 28 Mar 1831 in St John the Evangelist, Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Matilda (daughter of John Stanford, 1820 Settler and Maria Flinn, 1820 Settler) was born about 1814 in England; died on 22 Oct 1875 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Henry Blacker Warner was born on 18 Nov 1832 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 15 Feb 1920 in Fort Malam, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
- Ebenezer Joseph Warner was born in 1834 in Clarkebury, Umtata (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 26 Jul 1913 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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1806 - 1871 (64 years)
