Diana Margaret Biggs

David married Ida Alamur Harman [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 'Groot Vlei', Cradock District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

Daniel married Ada Josephine Butler on 8 Oct 1914 in Cradock Church (Methodist), Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Ada (daughter of James Butler and Annie Letitia Collett) was born on 31 Jul 1894. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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Married:
Description: Rev Charles W Lister

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

John married Susannah Elizabeth Roberts in 1883. Susannah (daughter of Daniel Roberts, 1820 Settler and Jane Aldum, 1820 Settler) was born on 6 Mar 1853; was christened on 2 Aug 1853 in Salem, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in 1941. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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• Occupation: Panmure, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Merchant
• Emigration: 1878, South Africa

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Came to SA in 1876

A Bachelor when he married Anne COLLETT, so could not be the one married to Sadie CAWOOD

Attended Croydon School, apprenticed for five years to Poole's of Fenchurch Street in 1870, where ships chronometers were checked and serviced when they docked in London. He was sent by his parents in London to South Africa at the age of 20 to recover from tuberculosis.

James married Annie Letitia Collett on 28 Mar 1882 in Cradock Church (Methodist), Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Annie (daughter of John Collett and Mary Trollip) was born in Oct 1856 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 9 Apr 1951. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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1. Alt. Death: 1950.
2. Education:. Annie Letitia was educated in Bedford.
Annie was one of two not farmers.

Annie Letitia Collett, who was referred to as Letty, was born at Grahamstown
on 29.08.1856. She married James Butler on 28.03.1882 at Cradock. James
was the brother and business partner of Charles Butler who married Letty's
sister Emma Collett (below) and who together ran a company Butler Brothers
from premises in Adderley Street in Cradock Town sold to them by Letty's
father John Collett.
James and Charles were the sons of Philip John Butler and Mary Watts. James
was born at Cradock on 22.07.1854. Letty was educated at Bedford and was
the first of only two of the daughters of John and Mary Collett that did not
stay in farming. Letty died in 1951 while her husband had died many years
before on 17.06.1923.
During their life together they had seven children and these were Mary,
Ernest Collett Butler, Florence, Alice, Ada, James and Kathleen.

Attended school in Bedford

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Married:
Description: Rev W H Price