Ann Maria Dugmore

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Ann married John Griffin Hellier in 1874 in Dordrecht, Eastern Cape, South Africa. John was born in 1845 in Bristol, England; died on 2 Nov 1928. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Herbert Griffin Hellier
2. James Egerton Hellier
3. Lilian Flower Hellier was born on 29 Mar 1881 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 12 Jun 1881 in Methodist Church, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died between 1924 and 1928.
4. Emma Marion Hellier

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: St Philip's Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 216
• Settler: 16 Mar 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Quote from Some Frontier Families by Ivan Mitford-Barberton, pg 101.
"Henry attended the Salem Academy and was later induced to come into Grahamstown by the Rev. William Shaw. He became a librarian and a Sunday School teacher and also took on the work of shoe repairing, etc. He can be considered as a self-educated man with his assistance received from the Methodist ministers in Grahamstown and his access to the library, but most probably he received his greatest help from the Shaws of Salem. In 1839 he became a minister of the Wesleyan Church, as it was called in those days. He was also connected with the Commemoration Church in Grahamstown where there is a memorial window in his memory. He was author of "Reminiscences of an Albany Settler", (Grahamstown - Richards and Glanville & Co, 1871). This is one of the best and also one of the rarest of Settler Africana. Dugmore also delivered a lecture at the Jubilee Celebrations in1870. This was reprinted in Grocott's daily Mail in serial form from 15th january to 5th February, 1919. A sermon preached on the occaision of the celebrations of the Settler Jubilee was printed by the Mount Coke Mission Press, 1871. The same press also published a memorial discourse on the death of Rev. Willaim Shaw, delivered in Grahamstown, 1873. The Rev. H. H. Dugmore was also responsible for a number of other lectures, papers and some poems, translations of the Scriptures into Xhosa, and also some Xhosa hymns."

Excerpted from Reminiscences of an Albany Settler, by Rev. Henry Hare DUGMORE, Printed and published by Messrs. Grocott and Sherry, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1958 (I believe this is a reprint of the original). Introduction, pp. 2-3.

"Henry's father, Isaac DUGMORE, a clerk of Birmingham, came to South Africa aged thirty-four in the ship Sir George Osborne with GARDNER's party, and with his wife Maria and six children was "located" in the Kariega valley. The site of their home was the present farm "Mosslands", close to the National Road about 14 miles west of Grahamstown. There were three boys and three girls: Henry, aged nine at the time of the settlement; William, aged six, and John, who according to family tradition was born during the voyage; Ann, aged seven; Louisa, aged four, and Caroline, aged two. The family knew hardship and hunger, and finally Isaac DUGMORE took employment as a book-keeper to Messrs. WOOD Bros. in Grahamstown. Maria DUGMORE willingly accepted her part, cared for the family, and ran the farm with the aid of her two elder boys, barely in their 'teens. There was no schooling for the children. From his parents Henry learned to read and write and count; and the stories his mother told him at night were stored in a remarkably retentive memory, and nourished a vivid imagination as he watched the sheep by day.

At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to Mr. WRIGHT, a saddler in Grahamstown. "Seven precious years" is his rueful description of the time he spent working long hours without pay, and lodged in the bare discomfort of a loft. Yet here was born the love of learning that lasted all his life. His attendance at the little Wesleyan Chapel drew the attention of the Rev. William SHAW, and when a night school was opened by SHAW and BOYCE, Henry DUGMORE was there the first night, and every possible evening thereafter. SHAW was quick to see the promise of his pupil, and secured for him an appointment as Acting Librarian of a small church library, in which DUGMORE made the most of his opportunity.

On New Year's Day of 1831 there came an experience which determined the course of his life. He experienced religious conversion after the pattern that made the Methodist Revivial so important an influence in the Eighteenth Century. "I distinctly heard three clear notes as from a trumpet, and since all was now changed and I was assured of forgiveness and acceptance, I interpreted the triple trumpet as a direct divine intimation to preach to the three great races by whom I was surrounded". Received as a Methodist minister on probation in 1834, DUGMORE was appointed to the Mount Coke
Mission. He soon mastered BOYCE's recently published Grammar of the Kaffir Language, conducted services in Xhosa after three months, and was able to dispense with an interpreter after six months.

Being stationed at Mount Coke, he found himself in enemy territory on the outbreak of the Kaffir War of 1834-5. His detailed account of this episode, written in 1889, is given in Part 2 of this volume. He chose to write in rather humorous vein of this experience, which must have been alarming enough to a youth of 23. Elizabeth Simpson, whom he was to marry three years later, has left a description of his appearance when he visited her family on his return to Grahamstown. Never had a more unclerical looking gentleman been introduced to them. They could hardly suppress a smile when he entered the room, dust-stained, hot and dressed in corduroy trousers, white jacket
and coloured waist-coat. "It was certainly not his courtier attire that first drew me to him. What struck us most was the evident earnestness of the young man in his work, also the massive forehead which already showed beneath a mass of red unkempt hair."

Settler:
Gardner's party on the Sir George Osborn

Died:
DN 6.9.368.2328

Henry married Elizabeth Simpson in 1838. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Simpson and Ann Binnington) was born on 27 Apr 1813 in Hull, Yorkshire, England; died on 14 Jul 1894 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
DN 6.9.331.1872

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 217
• Name: Isaac Dugmore 1820
• Occupation: a Clerk
• Settler: 16 Mar 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Isaac and his wife Maria were in Gardner's party of 1820 Settlers onboard the S. Sir George Osborn. The Dugmores with other members of Gardner's party were located on the Kariega River, about 12 miles south-west of Grahamstown, just off the present National road to Port Elizabeth. The farm is now known as Mosslands.

1820 Settlers. Members of Gardner's Party on the Sir Goerge Osborn.
Death Notice has his death as 1 Oct 1857 gravestone has 30 Sep 1857
DEPOT Genealogical Society of SA
DESCRIPTION Dugmore, I - Gravestone.
STARTING 0000
ENDING 18570930
REMARKS Old Grahamstown Cemetery, Grahamstown, Western Cape.
SUMMARY + Isaac Dugmore. Died 30-09-1857. Aged 74 years. Husband of Maria Dugmore. 1820 Settler.

Who was Isaac's father - Isaac or William? I did a bit of further research as prompted by Christine Rothwell and found the baptismal records at St Peter, Harborne baptisms or the image here :Record: "Dugmore, Isaac baptism"

Name seen as John in Agents return ??

Settler:
Gardner's party on the Sir George Osborn

Died:
Dn 6.9.80.4725 Cape Archives

Isaac married Maria Hare, 1820 Settler on 5 Mar 1809 in St Philips Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Maria was born in 1778; died on 18 Jan 1851 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Grahamstown Cemetery (Old), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 299
• Name: Maria Hare 1820
• Settler: 16 Mar 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Settler:
Gardner's party on the Sir George Osborn

Notes:

Married:
Witness Role: Witness: Name: Michael Broome
Witness Role: Witness: Name: Thomas Forrest

Married:
Witness Role: Witness: Name: Michael Broome
Witness Role: Witness: Name: Thomas Forrest

Richard married Ann Binnington on 30 Sep 1805 in Parish Church Of St. Mary In Beverley, York, England. Ann (daughter of William Binnington and Elizabeth Todd, - wife of William Binnington) was born in 1783 in Shipton, Yorkshire, England; was christened on 23 Oct 1783 in Shipton near Weighton-Market, York, England; died on 21 Apr 1848 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Grahamstown Journal 1848 - 2 - April to June Written by Sue Mackay. Posted in The Grahamstown Journal

Saturday 22 April 1848

DIED on Friday 21st instant, aged 63 years, Mrs. Ann SIMPSON, relict of Mr. Richard SIMPSON, Merchant, of Hull, Yorkshire, and aunt and foster mother of the Rev. W.B.BOYCE. Deceased enjoyed in an eminent degree during her last illness the sustaining influence of the religion she professed, and died in full hope of eternal life, grounded on the merits of a Divine and Crucified Redeemer.

Died:
DN KAB DN 9500/1848

Isaac + Mary Cutler. Mary was born est 1763 in Halesowen, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William + Elizabeth Todd, - wife of William Binnington. Elizabeth was born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England; died in 1809 in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]