Caroline Rex

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

mmigration: Dec 1907, Arrival at St John's Canada, Sailed on "Lake Manitoba" Ship (together with her husband George Marshall HEINEKEY and children: George Gordon Patrick Ernest, Agatha Norah, Gilbert Austin and Enid Courtenay)
Census 1911, 611 Superior Street, Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia
Residence 16 Nov 1914, 611 Superior Street, Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia

Caroline married George Marshall Heinekey on 24 Feb 1881 in St George's Anglican Church, Knysna, Southern Cape, South Africa. George (son of Robert Heinekey and Elizabeth Ann Buxton) was born on 17 Nov 1854 in Lambeth, London, England; was christened on 13 Dec 1854 in Lambeth, London, England; died on 20 Jul 1911 in Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; was buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jessie Eliza Kate Heinekey was born on 27 Nov 1881.
2. Robert Marshall Oscar Rex Heinekey was born on 11 Mar 1883; died on 8 Jun 1890.
3. George Gordon Patrick Ernest Heinekey was born on 23 Dec 1884 in Ashmead, Knysna, Southern Cape, South Africa; died on 8 Aug 1948 in Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
4. Agatha Norah Heinekey was born on 7 Sep 1886 in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 13 May 1923 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
5. Caroline Eileen Dorothy Heinekey was born on 14 Mar 1889 in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 11 Nov 1918 in Surrey, England.
6. Gilbert Austen Heinekey was born on 3 Nov 1890; died on 17 Dec 1971 in Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; was buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
7. Wentworth Buxton Heinekey
8. Enid Courtnay Heinekey was born on 4 Feb 1896 in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 19 Jan 1984 in Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; was buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.

George married Jessie Eliza Wentworth on 17 May 1853 in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa. Jessie (daughter of Charles Augustus Wentworth and Eliza Dalgairns, 1820 Settler) was born on 30 Mar 1833 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 4 Apr 1916 in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Melkhout Kraal,Knysna,Cape,South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

Dn # 914 of 1916.
Name: Jessie REX, * WENTWORTH.
Birthplace: Uitenhage.
Parents: Charles Augustus WENTWORTH and
Eliza WENTWORTH, * DALGAIRN. (both deceased).
Age: 83yrs.
Occ.:--------
Residence: Knysna.
Marital Status: Widow.
Name of dec. spouse: George REX, + 7.12.1898.
Place of marriage: Knysna.
Date of death: 4.4.1916.
Place of death: Her residence, Knysna.
Children:
1) Caroline HEINEKEY, * REX.
Property: Both movable & immovable value less than Đ300.
Will: Yes.
Signed at Knysna on 7.4.1916 by Kate HEINEKEY, grand daughter.

Notes:

George Rex was given a Royal Warrant, and sailed as a grown man into CapeTown, South Africa in 1797. Some believe he was sent to the colony to save the monarchy from a scandal. This has been disproved, and there is no royal connection.

George Rex subsequently set off eastwards toward Knysna, taking with him his beloved companion, a coloured slave he had met and freed in CapeTown.

In his will, he took great pains to emphasise that all his children were illigitimate, he having steadfastly refused to marry their mother.

Many believe this supports the theory that the last words of George III to his son as he departed for South Africa were: "You must never marry. There must be no ligitimate heirs." This is 'folk lore' and not possible.
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George Rex
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George Rex (29 August 1765 - 3 April 1839) was a British-born entrepreneur, who spent most of his adult life in the Cape Colony, South Africa. He founded the town of Knysna in the Western Cape and played a key role in its development. Rex filled a number of positions in the Cape Colony - including Marshal of the Vice-admiralty Court, notary public to the Governor and advocate for the Crown - before settling on the farm Melkhoutkraal, in the Knysna district.

George Rex was the eldest child of John Rex (1726-1792) a prosperous distiller at Whitechapel, Middlesex, who was Master of the Distillers' Company in 1782, by his wife Sarah Creasey. His brothers and sisters were Sarah Rex (1767-1769), John Rex (1768-1821) a wine and brandy merchant who named his 'late brother George Rex of the Cape of Good Hope' in his will, Sarah Rex (1770-1842) who lived at Bath and corresponded with her brother George, and Elizabeth Rex (1772-1773). John Rex named his son George in his will in 1788, saying that he was 'already advanced ... very considerably more than I have my other son and daughter'[1][2].

George Rex was articled for seven years to one of the Procurators General of the Court of Arches in 1780 when aged 14, and admitted a Notary Public by the Faculty Office in 1786 when 21. He was a Supernumerary at Doctors Commons in 1787 and a Proctor there 1789-97. He was appointed Marshal and Sergeant-at-Mace of the newly created Vice-Admiralty Court at the Cape of Good Hope in 1797. He was Registrar of Courts Martial, 1797-1801, and Advocate for the Crown, 1798. He purchased four slaves in 1799. He was Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court, 1800-02. He purchased the homestead Schoonder Zigt (now being run as the Flower Street Guest House in Oranjezicht), Table Valley, Cape Town, in 1800, and asked permission to sell gunpowder taken from a prize of war, 1801. The Vice-Admiralty Court closed in December 1802 and he signed the Oath of Submission to the Batavian Republic in 1803. He sold Schoonder Zigt in 1804 and purchased Melkhout Kraal, Knysna. He had 33 slaves there in 1805 and was part-owner of the ship Young Phoenix, 1810-16. He became a timber exporter and trader, having licence for 400 woodcutters in 1811. He was Postmaster of Plettenberg Bay, 1815-20, and held game-shooting licences, 1817-20. He purchased the further loan-farms of Sandkraal, Welbedacht (re-named Eastford), Jackals Kraal, Portland (1817) and Uitzigt (1830), about 24,000 acres. He built the yacht Knysna in 1831. He became a man of some influence at the Cape and regularly entertained at his estate distinguished visitors from overseas such as Lord Charles Somerset, the Earl of Caledon and, later, Sir Lowry Cole[3].

In his will George Rex said that he had not submitted himself to the matrimonial laws of the Colony, but he had four children by a former slave, Johanna Rosina van der Caap, and then nine children by one of her daughters (Carolina Margaretha Ungerer) by a previous master. It is possible that he had married in England before going to South Africa.

Royal descent disproved

It has often been stated, and was firmly believed by many of his descendants, that George Rex was the son of King George III and Hannah Lightfoot. They believed that he had been banished to the Cape, granted large tracts of land there, and forbidden to marry, a story with many later embellishments, that gained ground in the 1860s following contact with Mrs Lavinia Ryves the daughter of the imposter and forger Olivia Serres (Princess Olive)[4][5].

This claim to royalty was thoroughly disproved by Patricia Storrar in "George Rex: Death of a Legend".[6][7]. The lack of royal blood was confirmed by genetic testing in 2004.

References

1. ^ Anthony Camp, Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Fact and Fiction 1714-1936 (London, 2007) pp.59-76.
2. ^ http://www.anthonyjcamp.com, re Sarah Creasey, accessed 2008.
3. ^ Patricia Storrar, George Rex: death of a legend (1974) and David Philip, British Residents at the Cape 1795-1819 (Cape Town, 1981) p.342.
4. ^ John Lindsey, The Lovely Quaker (1939)
5. ^ Sanni Metelerkamp, George Rex of Knysna (1955).
6. ^ Notes and Queries, vol. 220 (1975) 18-23 and 364
7. ^ Patricia Storrar, George Rex: death of a legend (Macmillan South Africa, 1974).

George married Carolina Margaretha Ungerer in 1808 in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa. Carolina (daughter of Hendrik Christian Ungerer and Johanna Rosina van de Caap) was born about 1792 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 17 Apr 1866 in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in St Georges Cemetery,Knysna,Cape,South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dr Charles Wentworth went to South Africa as a young man with the 1820Settlers on The Duke of Marlborough, sailing from Portsmouth as an'individual settler' (not part of a recognised party) to be the House Surgeon to Lord Charles Somerset after the departure of Dr James Barry.
He later practiced at Uitenhage where he met his wife, a daughter of one of the 1820 Settlers.

Charles Augustine Wentworth was one of the 3 independent settler doctors and arrived on board the Duke of Marlborough. Although he was not fully qualified he was licensed as a surgeon, apothecary and accoucheur on 24 April 1821, and he practised in Cape Town. He was appointed as medical attendant to the household of His Excellency the Governor on 12 January 1826. On 18 December 1827 he was given the post of district surgeon of Uitenhage, where he served until his death by suicide in 1834.

Charles married Eliza Dalgairns, 1820 Settler on 15 Jan 1831 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Eliza (daughter of Charles Dalgairns, 1820 Settler and Charlotte) was born about 1807 in Scotland; died on 27 Jan 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1516
• Settler: 13 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Dn # 3277 of 1882.
Name: Eliza WENTWORTH.
Birthplace: Scotland.
Parents: John & A. DALGAINS.
Age: 75yrs.
Occupation: Gentleman.(her late husband?).
Marital Status: Widow.
Date of death: 27.1.1882.
Place of death: ? house. (unable to decipher).
Children: Both majors.
1) Catharine MUSKOTT? (difficult to decipher second name).
2) Jessie REX.
Property: Movable only.
Signed by ? REX. (unable to decipher initials).

Settler:
Dalgairns party on the Northampton

John married Sarah Creasey on 17 Nov 1764 in Whitechapel St Mary, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hendrik + Johanna Rosina van de Caap. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Carola Marga Ungerer

Notes:

CHPrice in his book 'George rex king or Esquire' indicates that his first wife was the widow Carola, who 'owned' a number of slaves. He also writes that his second wife could have been the daughter of his first wife by her first husband.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1514
• Settler: 13 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

1820 Settler, leader of Dalgairns Party numbering 33 from London on the Northampton departing from Portsmouth

Settler:
Dalgairns party on the Northampton

Charles + Charlotte. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]