Henry Kiell Ayliff

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Family/Spouse: Gertrude Homewood. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. David Ayliff
2. Susan Ayliff
3. Esther Ayliff

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

Attorney of the Supreme Court and practised in Grahamstown. M.L.A. representing Queenstown and Grahamstown 1864-85. Colonial Secretary 1855.
Info supplied by Peter SMITS, PO Box 976, Plettenberg Bay 6600.

Queenstown Free Press:
Tuesday October 27, 1885

Death of Jonathan AYLIFF, Esq., M.L.A.
The cable news that the ex-Colonial Secretary had passed away on 20th inst., in London, was received with general feelings of regret. In these times of self-seeking the loss of men of such known integrity as attached to Mr. AYLIFF is keenly felt. As an old resident of Grahamstown his personality will there be missed the most, but his removal by death will be felt throughout the Colony. With a lawyer’s training, Mr. AYLIFF plunged into politics and entered into the Cape Parliament, representing Grahamstown. Under Mr UPINGTON, Mr. AYLIFF was offered the Colonial Secretaryship, which he accepted and only resigned on account of ill health. Mr AYLIFF married a daughter of the late Hon. George WOOD. To the widow and children and relatives, we tender the sympathy of the district. We shall hope to give an account of Mr. AYLIFF’s blameless life in our next issue.

Jonathan + Susannah Martha Wood. Susannah (daughter of George Alfred Wood, 1820 Settler and Susannah Garbett, 1820 Settler) was born on 13 Sep 1834 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 15 Dec 1890 in Greystone, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 76
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Stanton, Ellen, email, 8 Apr 2003, harprulz at bellsouth.net.
"AYLIFF, John, undoubtedly came out with the 1820 Settlers, but there is no mention of his name in any Settler's list. A careful search has been made in the list in the Archives in Cape Town but without success. He is said to have been in Willson's party on the Belle Alliance-but no such name appears. In spite of this, however, there cannot be the slightest doubt but that he came with the Settlers of 1820. Rev. J. Ayliff (as well as his famous sons Reuben and William) played very important parts in the history of the east-to give a full account would be to write the history of those times."

Could have been listed as Ayliff Dold, according to M D Nash, to bypass paying the fees!

This is taken from the book "The Journal of John Ayliff 1821-1830" edited by Peter Hinchliff for the Rhodes University Graham's Town Series published by A A Balkema, Cape Town in 1971 for Rhodes University. This was Book 1 of the Series. These books, known as 'The Graham's Town Series' were sponsored by Rhodes University and the contents contained excerpts from diaries, reminiscences and letters mainly from the Eastern Cape. This particular book was prepared from 'The Diary of the Rev William Shaw' edited by W D Hammond-Tooke, 'The Reminiscences of Thomas Stubbs' edited by W A Maxwell and 'The Journal of Sophia Pigot' edited by M Rainier.
"Very little is known about John Ayliff's life in the years before he sailed for the Cape, at the age of twenty-two, as a member of the parties of 1820 Settlers. He had been born in London on 7 November 1797. His conversion as a Methodist took place on 1 April 1817. All Fool's Day, for most people an inauspicious day dedicated to practical joking, became the annual reminder of his commitment to that which mattered most to him, his decision to become "a fool for Christ's sake". He was an accredited Methodist local preacher before he left England and his reason for coming to the Cape was at least partly an embryonic sense of vocation to missionary work. Ayliff was probably a silk weaver in London before 1820, employed by Peter Bedford, a Quaker merchant and enthusiastic supporter of missions. Such education as Ayliff had was picked up by his own efforts or through Sunday Schools, which in those days taught the children of the poorer classes the elements of reading and writing as well as the basic truths of religion. When the settlement of 1820 was planned, the British Colonial Office received, amongst the lists submitted by potential leaders of parties, a proposal from Matthew Dold for a group which included the name of J. Ayliff, a weaver. Dold's party collapsed. But Dold himself and some of his followers attached themselves to the party of Thomas Willson, which sailed for the Cape in the Belle Alliance."

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

John married Jane Catherine Dold, 1820 Settler on 25 Jun 1820 in the HMS Menai at sea off Port Elizabeth. Jane (daughter of Matthew Dold, 1820 Settler and Jane, - wife of Matthew Dold 1820 Settler) was born on 8 Jan 1799; died on 7 May 1889 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 203
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Newspaper cuttings from the Eastern Cape., 5 Apr 2003.
"The men of the family - there were two sons and two daughters - were each given 40 hectares of land in the Bathurst district. Before the DOLD left Algoa Bay, the marriage of Jane DOLD to fellow settler, John AYLIFF provided an historic occasion. Because there was no legal marriage officer on land, it became necessary for the couple to be rowed out to the ship Menai, where they were legally married by the master, Captain Fairfax MORESBY.on June 25, 1820. This marriage is believed to be the first to take place between Settlers in Algoa Bay. John AYLIFF entered the ministry and as a member of the Methodist Church became famous throughout the country as a missionary and head of the well known AYLIFF family."

Grahamstown Journa; 9 May 1889:
GTJ Issue 9th May 1889

ENTERED INTO REST, at Rock Cottage, at 10:30pm on the 7th May 1889, Jane, widow of the Rev. John AYLIFF, aged 90 years and 4 months.

DEATH OF MRS. AYLIFF
This esteemed Lady passed away from life very peacefully on Tuesday night. She was in her 91st year. Mrs. AYLIFF, whose maiden name was DOLD, came to this Colony in 1820 with the British Settlers, and in conjunction with her husband, the late Rev. John AYLIFF, she spent all the active years of her life in the work of missions. She lived to see various members of her family occupying important Parliamentary and official positions, and she has died in full years, in the enjoyment of a Christian hope, and in the love and esteem of a very extensive circle of friends.


Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 205
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

"In High Street, Grahamstown, two old firms are Stanley J. DOLD, Auctioneers & Appraisers and DOLD & STONE, Solicitors and Notaries.The Albany DOLDS are all descended from John Matthew DOLD, elder son of the 1820 Settler Matthew DOLD of London. Matthew DOLD was 50 when he brought his family to the Eastern Cape. They sailed aboard the Belle Alliance. Matthew DOLD died in 1825 and his lonely tombstone can now be seen near Bathurst caravan park. John Matthew DOLD had four children, and of his three sons, only John II had male descendents. He had six sons. The three best known in Grahamstown, and Albany were Lorimer, an attorney and Horace and Stanley both auctioneers." - Eastern Cape Newspaper cuttings.

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Matthew + Jane, - wife of Matthew Dold 1820 Settler. Jane was born about 1774. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 25
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

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