Agnes Sephton

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Family/Spouse: Sam Tarr. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

John + Amy Kate Brown. Amy (daughter of William Henry Brown and Elizabeth Emma Miles) was born on 10 Dec 1877; died on 8 Nov 1959 in Clocolan, Free State, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Charles + Maria Helena Alberta van Wyk. Maria was born on 21 Jul 1843 in Bethulie, Free State, South Africa; died on 23 May 1921 in Umpukane Mission, Clocolan, Free State, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: William Frank Brown

William married Elizabeth Emma Miles on 29 Mar 1869 in 'Hilton', Hilton, Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Elizabeth (daughter of William Miles and Margaret Hannah MacPhail) was born on 6 Apr 1848 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 14 May 1848 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 9 Jun 1895 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Hilton Cemetery (Methodist), Hilton, Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2768
• Name: Thomas Hezekiah Sephton 1820
• Occupation: a Carpenter
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Deptford, London, England
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

He was taking "Blue Pills" which we now know is a mercury compound. He then broke a leg due to the bone softening effect of the mercury, and was bedridden for about a year before he died. According to AA Roberts he died in the evening, after a long and protracted affliction which he bore with exemplary patience and resignation.

Educated in England came to South Africa with the 1820 settlers, was one of the Sephton party led by his father Hezekiah. As he was morethan 18 years of age at the time he was considered an adult and came under his own name not as part of his father's family. He was granted an erf on the bank of the Assegai River and was the Southern boundary of the village where it adjoined Cornelious van Schalkwyks farm- ( afterwards bought by the Wesleyn Society and turned into a mission station by William Shaw and named Farmerfield.) Only one erf lay between Thomas Sephton and van Schalkwyk, that of Thomas Selom-King still owned by Kings decendants and known as " Kingston ". After his marriage they lived in Grahamstown for a time, their eldest child was born in Bathurst street. . He joined the Wesleyan missionaries and became associated with Rev. James Archbell at the Platberg Wesleyan Mission Station south of the Vaal River near to Kuruman which was North East of Bloemfontein, there he laboured with Rev Edwardson the mission station established by Rev Archbell.
The tribes there (Baralong and Korrana) were being harassed bytribes from the North and after a plague of smallpox, which descimated them (whole famillies died and the huts were closed up,) Thomas cared forthe sick and also took the disease and was very ill. The missionaries then persuaded the remnant to move East and they eventually settled nearTabaN'chu, the area having been purchased from the Basutho chief Mosheshe though the efforts of Richard Giddy. Thomas was then sent to Ratabane , North of Thaba'Nchu, to open a mission station and subsequently to Umpukani. After Thomas died Richard Giddy (who had married Thomas' eldest daughter) took Thomas' 5 childrenas he had promised Thomas he would and they were brought up with his own children by their sister Sarah Jane.
A visitor at Thaba Nchu in 1839 reported on his return to the Colony" Thomas H. Sephton is a quiet steadfast worker and a great deal of good work has been done. No man ever devoted himself to a worthy cause with more zeal and consistant perseverance".

Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

Died:
Description: a severe & protracted affliction.

Thomas married Sarah Clarke Prynn, 1820 Settler on 10 Aug 1825 in Grahamstown Church (Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Sarah (daughter of William Prynn, 1820 Settler and Jane Clark, 1820 Settler) was born on 12 Jan 1809 in England; died on 23 Dec 1840 in Coranna Station, Lesotho (Basutoland); was buried in Grahamstown Cemetery (Settlers), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2743
• Name: Sarah Clarke Prynn 1820
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

She died three days after the birth of her ninth child, Charles Edward Sephton and her husband took her body to Grahamstown by oxwagon for burial because she made him promise that she would not be buried in "the wilds of Africa".
According to AA Roberts she died at 2 o'clock pm at Coranna Station,Bechualand

Settler:
Sephton's party on the Aurora

Died:
Description: at 2pm

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Married:
Description: Rev Thomas Ireland

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

Description: Rev Thomas Ireland

Edward married Charity Charlotte Hobbs on 5 Feb 1844 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Charity (daughter of Philip Hobbs, 1820 Settler and Charity Francis, 1820 Settler) was born on 17 Dec 1823 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 24 Sep 1826 in Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 28 Jun 1907 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Hilton Cemetery (Methodist), Hilton, Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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name Charity in Baptism Register

Description: Rev John Davis

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

William married Margaret Hannah MacPhail on 14 Mar 1844 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Margaret (daughter of James McPhail and Mary Ann Hartley, 1820 Settler) was born on 26 May 1825; was christened on 5 Aug 1827 in Grahamstown Church (St George's - Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 27 Jan 1903; was buried in Hilton Cemetery (Methodist), Hilton, Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Margaret Hannah McPhail

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Description: Rev Thomas Ireland