Ann Currie

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

"Died, at New Rush, on the morning of the 30th of July, 1873, Ann, beloved wife of Henry Ogilvie, Esq., youngest sister of the late Sir Walter Currie. Aged 44 years."
Grahamstown Journal 8.8.1873 p.1 , c.1


sponsors were Alexander BISSET, Ann WILMOT, Mary Ann CURRIE.
Minister Rev William Wright

Ann married James Henry Ogilvie on 14 Sep 1853 in All Saints Anglican Church, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. James (son of William Ogilvie and Mary Maria Hollings) was born on 19 Jun 1825 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 15 Nov 1825 in Grahamstown Church (St George's - Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 22 Aug 1909 in Swartkop, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Cole Currie Ogilvie was born on 27 Jul 1850 in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; died in Oct 1936 in Craighall Park, Johannesburg (nr), Gauteng, South Africa.
2. Emily Ann Churchill Ogilvie was born on 29 Jul 1856 in Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 7 Sep 1856 in Anglican Church, Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
3. Helen Florence Ogilvie was born on 9 May 1858; died on 9 Sep 1954.
4. Amy Louise Ogilvie was born on 23 Feb 1861 in Fish River, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 28 Apr 1861 in St Bartholemew's Anglican Church, Grahamstown, Eastern cape, South Africa.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 173
• Occupation: Purser in Royal Navy; Justice of the Peace in Bathurst.
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

It is our painful duty to record this week the death of W. CURRIE, Esq., of Bathurst where he had for many years sustained the office of stipendiary justice of the peace, with the highest credit to himself, and advantage to the public service. Perhaps there was none amongst the British settlers of 1820, who stood higher in the public esteem for inflexible integrity of character and singleness of purpose, than the deceased; added to which he was alike remarkable for intelligence, for industry, and for an incessant anxiety to improve the country of his adoption. To a new settlement such an individual is peculiarly valuable; and hence the loss sustained by the death of MR. CURRIE, must be viewed as a severe and trying public misfortune.
This calamitous event has happened also at a period when his moral weight in the scale of society would have been of essential importance. He had had great opportunities of knowing, and of justly appreciating the Kafir character, as well of the motives of those who have stood forth as their defenders, and as the accusers of the British immigrants and colonists in general. With singular force, manliness, and effect, has he often stood forth in opposition to those mischievous principles and false notions, which, in spite of this opposition, and the warnings given from time to time by him and a few others, have ultimately ended in the ruin of one of the most promising settlements ever formed by the hand of industry. To this fatal catastrophe may be traced the death of this upright and valuable magistrate. When the neighbouring barbarians burst into the colony, all the inhabitants of lower Albany who escaped fled to Bathurst; and when there congregated, the whole presented such a scene of wrechedness and woe, - whilst the prospect was so gloomy, that Mr. C. appears to have sunk under the painful conflicts of which his mind was called to endure at this trying crisis. From this state of mental depression he never rallied. All hope of amelioration, or of raising the settlement to its former state of enviable prosperity, seems to have been abandoned by him; and when labouring under this depression of spirits, with the mind in a state of feverish excitement, to which he was peculiarly exposed by his public duties, he was attacked by dysentry and fever: and though every thing was done for him which skill could suggest, yet nothing afforded him any sensible relief, and on Friday last his mortal career terminated at the early age of 52 years; leaving an affectionate wife and large family to deplore the loss of a most amiable husband and parent - and society, of a tried and truly valuable member.
Grahamstown Journal 28.7.1836 p2 c2


Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Walter married Ann Lowe, 1820 Settler in 1814 in Jersey, Channel Islands. Ann (daughter of John Lowe) was born in 1794 in Jersey, Channel Islands; died on 22 Sep 1858 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 555
• Reference Number: KH9M-VV7
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

"Died on the 22nd September, at her son's residence, Oatlands, Graham's Town, Ann, relict of the late Walter Currie, Esq., R.N., aged 64 years."
Grahamstown Journal, 25.9.1858 p4 c8


Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Walter + Helen Paterson. Helen was born about 1763; died on 11 Jun 1816 in Langholme, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: LDM7-1ZZ