Susannah Martha Wood

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Family/Spouse: Jonathan Ayliff. Jonathan (son of Rev. John Ayliff, 1820 Settler and Jane Catherine Dold, 1820 Settler) was born on 17 Jun 1829 in Salem, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 20 Oct 1885 in London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Susan Helen Ayliff was born on 3 Aug 1855 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 16 Sep 1855 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in 1939.
2. Alfred John Ayliff was born on 30 May 1857 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 21 Jun 1857 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in 1859.
3. Sidney William Ayliff was born on 3 Sep 1858 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 26 Sep 1858 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in 1858.
4. Edwin Horace Samuel Ayliff was born on 24 Oct 1859 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in Sep 1933.
5. Eleanor Jane Ayliff was born on 4 Apr 1861 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 2 Jun 1861 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in 1863.
6. Harriet Maud Ayliff was born on 14 Oct 1862 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 21 Oct 1862 in Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
7. John Ayliff was born on 12 Aug 1864 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 18 Sep 1864 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
8. Alice Mary Ayliff was born on 31 Aug 1866 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 30 Sep 1866 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in 1957.
9. George Wood Ayliff was born on 10 Jan 1869; died on 14 Jan 1871 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
10. Henry Kiell Ayliff was born on 7 Jul 1871 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 20 Aug 1871 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in 1949.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 850
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

see references in "Some Frontier Families" by Ivan Mitford-Barberton & Violet White, page 293

George Wood, apprenticed to Richard Smith, a carpenter, cane out with Sephton's party on board the Brilliant. They settled at Salem with a community notable among the settlers for 'the order with which its affairs were conducted, both spiritual and temporal.'

George WOOD was an 1820 Settler who was apprenticed to one of the Settlers but ran away on arriving in the Cape. He was taken in by old man Thackwray and began trading. He later became a MP, speculated in property and left a very large estate.



Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

George married Susannah Garbett, 1820 Settler on 6 Jul 1826 in Grahamstown Cathedral (St Michael and St George), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Susannah (daughter of Samuel Garbett and Susannah Clark, 1820 Settler) was born on 3 Aug 1809 in London, England; was christened on 10 Jun 1810 in St Andrew Holborn, London, England; died on 14 Feb 1889. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 3652
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Susannah and her brother Thomas were stepchildren of taxidermist Joseph Donovan, who came out on La Belle Alliance with Willson's party.

Extract from "They came from a far land" by May Bell - Page 18:
Susan was a demure little nine-year-old, with pale gold hair and the mild expression so much admired at that time. But placid as she appeared, Susan was a frightened child: afraid of her stepfather, afraid of the sea - which had drowned her sailor uncle - enduring agonies of concealed terror in the storms they passed through. For her little brother Thomas she had an absorbed devotion, perhaps because she felt the two of them to be alone in the world.
Her father had been a musician. He died young, leaving his wife two children, a pile of manuscript music, and not much else. Fortunately for Mrs Garbett, who seems to have been a nonentity, but a blonde and pretty one - she met and married Joseph Donovan and produced two sons.....He [Joseph Donovan] could not bear the idea of his wife having belonged to another man. He burnt all Garbett's manuscript music, for which Susan never forgave him, and he may sometimes have wished that Garbett's children could have been as easily disposed of. Susan certainly thought so."

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Notes:

Married:
Description: Rev John Ireland

George married Martha, - wife of George Alfred Wood about 1800. Martha was born about 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Susannah Clark, 1820 Settler on 6 Oct 1807 in Christ Church, Southwark, London, England. Susannah (daughter of John Clark and Lucy) was born in 1794; died on 21 Oct 1835 in At sea aboard Roxburgh Castle en route to South AFrica from India.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Settler ID: 3895
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Email from Shirley Black, of Melbourne, Australia, gave her father as a John Clark.

Susanna died on board the Roxburgh Castle en route from Calcutta, India. This information was at the Cape Archives. She wrote a will out leaving her possessions and younger children in the care of George Wood who was married to Susanna Garbett her daughter

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

John + Lucy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]