Cecil Frederick Halse

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 1949; Farmer
• Departure: 25 Aug 1949, Liverpool, England

Notes:

St John the Evangelist

Died:
From eGGSA East London Crematorium records

Cecil married Nancy Forbes on 2 Jun 1917 in Western Cape, South Africa. Nancy was born on 15 Jul 1892; died on 14 Nov 1983 in Halfway House, Gauteng, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Cathedral of St George

1. Alan Edward Halse died on 28 Nov 1943; was buried in Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia.
2. Florence Mary Halse was born on 1 Feb 1918; died on 24 Aug 2003 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
3. Stuart Dallas Forbes Halse was born on 13 Sep 1921; died on 1 Jan 1996 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
4. Diana Dawn Halse was born on 6 Sep 1925 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 28 Jul 1981 in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Henry married Florence Seward on 12 Sep 1885 in Seapoint, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Florence was born in 1863; died on 8 Aug 1937 in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Frederic Halse
• Death: 16 Jan 1885, Carnarvon, Halseton, Dordrecht, Cape, South Africa

Notes:

DEATH OF AN OLD COLONIST
The Representative announces the death of an old and esteemed colonist. Mr. Frederick HALSE died on his farm “Carnarvon” on the 15th inst, in his 65th year. The career of this lamented deceased is thus sketched: “His main object in life was to strive after the practical and the useful – to benefit those around him and at the same time to benefit himself. In early life he fully recognised the fact that the agricultural development of this country was in its merest infancy, and moreover that scientific agricultural development was an indispensable basis upon which to build the future greatness of a self-supporting African Empire. All who knew the farm “Groot Vlei” of fifteen years ago, the “Carnarvon Farm” of today, will recognise the magic transformation. The desert has become an oasis, encircled by over twenty miles of stone walls and wire fences. The mountain torrents of the Andries Berg he, as far as practicable, arrested and diverted into a reservoir capable of holding nearly a million gallons of water, being made available for the irrigation of some 750 acres of arable land; the result being that, whereas in former years 100 bags of wheat were considered an enormous crop, thousands are now annually reaped, threshed and ground, and this done by the latest and most approved machinery, in which line Mr. HALSE was undoubtedly one of the pioneers in this part of the Colony; amongst other things, we believe, the first private gentleman who invested in steam-threshing machinery, which example is now being followed everywhere. One swallow, it is said, cannot make a summer, nevertheless it is marvellous how the influence of one energetic and go-ahead nature can, and does, stimulate and arouse those associated with it. The conclusion is not a difficult one. The unquestionably active influence of half a dozen such men exercised in each district of the Colony would, in a very few years, demand an emphatic veto on all hazy, harassing and, above all, unwarrantable protective legislation. The ‘cheap loaf’ problem would then emerge from the nebulous haze of schemes and be reduced to the anvil of work-a-day facts.
https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/grahamstown-journal/1528-grahamstown-journal-1885-01-january

Death:
Died on family farm - Carnarvon

Frederick married Jane Sarah Poultney in 1844. Jane (daughter of James Augustus Poultney, 1820 Settler and Ann Smith, 1820 Settler) was born on 14 Jul 1822 in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in Halseton, Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Jane Sarah Poultney
• Death: 1 Jul 1887, Halseton, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 289
• Name: Thomas Henry Halse 1820
• Occupation: a Wholesale Warehouseman
• Occupation: 1819, Finsbury, Middlesex, England; Warehouseman
• Settler: 13 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Residence: 29 Sep 1825, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Occupation: 1827; a Messenger to the Landrost
• Occupation: 1827, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Messenger of the Court
• Occupation: 1846, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Bookkeeper

Notes:

Member of Morgan's party on the Ocean.

Settler:
Morgan's party on the Ocean

Died:
At "Waterfall", Grahamstown Journal 20 Jan 1849

Buried:
Grahamstown Cemetery (Wesleyan/Methodist), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape,South Africa

Thomas married Susan Smith, 1820 Settler on 14 Jun 1816 in Parish Chapel, St Pancras, Camden, Middlesex, England. Susan (daughter of James Smith, daughter of James Smith) was born on 28 Aug 1799 in Sussex, England; died on 11 Aug 1839 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Old Grahamstown Cemetery, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 723
• Name: Susan Smith 1820
• Settler: 13 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Residence: 29 Sep 1825, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Notes:

Settler:
Morgan's party on the Ocean

Died:
From SA National Archives search: DEPOT Genealogical Society of

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 647
• Name: James Augustus Poultney 1820
• Occupation: a Tailor
• Settler: 13 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Morgan's Party on Ocean Following from "Some Frontier Families", by Ivan Mitford-Barberton & Violet White, page 235. "Quoted from a letter from Mrs Esme Glazebrook of Westville, KwaZulu Natal, to Ivan. Our venerable and dearly beloved great-great grandfather, James Augustus Poultney, came out on the same vessel as Thomas Henry Halse. Their two children married. Henry Halse, the eldest, married Ann Poultney, J.A.P's eldest daughter. These two were my great grandparents. Two further children, Sarah Jane Poultney and Fred Halse also married and they were Cecil Halse's great-grandparents. The Poultneys went up to Grahamstown, and farmed in the vicinity of Queenstown. They were all splendid men, and both names (Halse and Poultney) have come down the years quite unblemished in any way. They were sheep farmers, and periodically took the wool down to East London. They were sons of James Augustus. One of the Marks men (I don't know whether it was the famous Sammy Marks or not), offered to finance a trip back to England to enable old J.A.P. to visit his homeland once again, and when the wool was ready to be taken to the coast the old man prepared to go down with the wagons and board a vessel for England. They slept in the wagons on reaching the coast, and the sons, in the middle of the night, offloaded the wool, inspanned the horses and started off for home, as they could not bear to part with the old man, and so he never visited hi beloved England after all. Settler J.A.P., after the death of his wife, lived with his daughter Sarah Jane (Poultney) Halse. In his old age he lost the sight of one eye - cataract - and some time later the sight of the other, thus becoming totally blind. He remained in this state for some years, but in a letter from Sarah Jane in 1853 she mentioned that his sight had been partially restored. It was a time of great rejoicing as he was able to recognise his children again after years of darkness, and all the family came to see and be seen. "

Notes extracted from Gordon Keith Poultney's Web Page
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JAMES AUGUSTUS POULTNEY and his wife ANN (nee Smith), aged 28 and 21 respectively, with their baby daughter, ANN, of four months, sailed on the ship "Ocean" from London in December 1819 or early January 1820. The River Thames had been frozen over for some weeks, so that the ships had been ice-bound. All the ships experienced very bad weather - some were nearly shipwrecked soon after leaving harbour. Several ships, including the Ocean, had to put in to Portsmouth for shelter. During the storm the Ocean broke from her moorings and collided with the "Northampton", but without any serious consequences. After the ships had passed through the Bay of Biscay the weather improved.

The party on the Ocean under the leadership of Dr N. Morgan numbered 41 - this was the Poultneys' group. There were three other parties on board - the total number of settlers being 206.

During the voyage, the Poultneys' ship called at Porto Praya, one of the Cape Verde Islands. Whilst lying at her anchorage there, in the dead of night, her passengers were rudely awakened by the booming of a cannon, followed by the tearing noise of the cannon ball through the rigging. One of the shore batteries had opened fire - this from a supposedly friendly port. While the scared passengers were wondering what was happening, a second discharge was heard, and this time the ball hit the ship, smashing through the side and entering a store-room just below one of the cabins. Excitement and consternation were intense. A third ball was fired and this one fell short, hissing as it entered the sea as if it were a red-hot shot. It turned out later that the shore batteries were "trigger happy" and had thought that the Ocean or another settler ship were the same as had fired on the port a few weeks previously. Fortunately the mistake was discovered before the Ocean was destroyed.

The ships had an uneventful voyage after this ! It took until 9th Apri1 1820 before the first ship dropped anchor in Algoa Bay - the last arrived late in June.

One of the passengers on the Poultneys' ship was Mr Bishop Burnett, a retired Royal Navy Lieutenant, who later achieved much notoriety by horse-whipping an army surgeon near Grahamstown. Lengthy legal proceedings resulted in the British Government to alter its constitutional policy in the Cape.

The Morgan (Poultney) party settled on a plot of land about 4 square miles in area, situated about 7 miles East of Grahamstown, to the right of the present national road as one travels from Grahamstown to Peddie.

Morgan's Party on Ocean
Following from "Some Frontier Families", by Ivan Mitford-Barberton &Violet White, page 235.
"Quoted from a letter from Mrs Esme Glazebrook of Westville, KwaZulu Natal, toIvan.
Our venerable and dearly beloved great-great grandfather, James AugustusPoultney, came out on the same vessel as Thomas Henry Halse. Their twochildren married. Henry Halse, the eldest, married Ann Poultney, J.A.P'seldest daughter. These two were my great grandparents. Two furtherchildren, Sarah Jane Poultney and Fred Halse also married and they wereCecil Halse's great-grandparents. The Poultneys went up to Grahamstown,and farmed in the vicinity of Queenstown. They were all splendid men,and both names (Halse and Poultney) have come down the years quiteunblemished in any way. They were sheep farmers, and periodically tookthe wool down to East London. They were sons of James Augustus. One ofthe Marks men (I don't know whether it was the famous Sammy Marks ornot), offered to finance a trip back to England to enable old J.A.P. tovisit his homeland once again, and when the wool was ready to be taken tothe coast the old man prepared to go down with the wagons and board avessel for England. They slept in the wagons on reaching the coast, andthe sons, in the middle of the night, offloaded the wool, inspanned thehorses and started off for home, as they could not bear to part with theold man, and so he never visited hi beloved England after all. SettlerJ.A.P., after the death of his wife, lived with his daughter Sarah Jane(Poultney) Halse. In his old age he lost the sight of one eye - cataract- and some time later the sight of the other, thus becoming totallyblind. He remained in this state for some years, but in a letter fromSarah Jane in 1853 she mentioned that his sight had been partiallyrestored. It was a time of great rejoicing as he was able to recognisehis children again after years of darkness, and all the family came tosee and be seen. "

Came to S.A. on the ship Ocean in 1820, a member of Morgans party. They
came from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

Settler:
Morgan's party on the Ocean

James married Ann Smith, 1820 Settler on 16 Nov 1817 in St.John's, Horsleydown,Surrey, England. Ann (daughter of James Smith) was born about 1798 in Surrey, England; died on 12 May 1853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 721
• Name: Anne Smith 1820
• Settler: 13 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Settler:
Morgan's party on the Ocean