James Tarr Pike

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: Trading Store Manager

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Reference #58291
Deceased: James Tarr PIKE
Birthplace/Nationality: Cedarville, East Griqualand, English
Parents: Enoch PIKE (deceased) and L. Emily PIKE, Matatiele, E. G.
Age: 44 years, 11 months
Occupation: Trading store manager
Residence: Tenana?, Mount Fletcher, E. G.
Marital Status: Married
Surviving Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Gertrude PIKE, married by ante-nuptial contract
Pre-deceased Spouse/date of death: Rachael PIKE (nee MCGREGOR), approximate date of death 6 April 1921
Place of Last Marriage: Durban
Day of Decease: 18 November 1937
Where died: Hospital, Mount Fletcher, East Griqualand
Children/whether major or minor: Joy PIKE, b. 28 February 1926, Minor; Rona PIKE, b. 26 March 1929, Minor; Lynette PIKE, b. 18 October 1934, Minor
Movable Property? Yes
Immovable Property? No
Estate exceeds £300? No
Will? Yes
Informant: S. E. G. PIKE (wife), at place of death when same occurred
Dated at: Durban the: 20th day of: January 1938

He was previously married to Rachel Archer Thompson McGREGOR b Abt Jun 1898 Glasgow Scotland d 6 Apr 1919 Tipperary Trading Store, Matatiele Dist. x 07 Jun 1918 Durban. They had a joint will which was signed at Tiperary, Matatiele Dist. on 13 Aug 1918 with E S Zweni and E A Sidinile as witnessess

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DESCRIPTION PIKE, RACHEL ARCHER THOMPSON. NEE MCGREGOR. ESTATE PAPERS. STARTING 19190000
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Her death notice shows her as being born in Glasgow, Scotland to James Arnold McGregor & Rachel - both now residing at 90 Gordon Rd, Durban. Her age at death was 20 yrs, 10mnths , on 6 April 1919, normal place of residence Tipperary Trading Station, Matatiele District, married to James Tarr Pike in community of property in Durban on 7 Jun 1918 and they had no children. Her husband signed her death notice and was present at her death.


Died:
Adams, Dennis and Tarr, Moira has 1957

James married Rachel Archer Thompson McGregor on 7 Jun 1918 in Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Rachel (daughter of James Arnold McGregor and Rachel, wife of James Arnold McGregor) was born about Jun 1898 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 6 Apr 1921 in Tipperary Trading Store, Matatiele, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Sarah Elizabeth Gertrude Stonell on 7 Aug 1924 in Umbilo Methodist Church, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Sarah was born about 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Umbilo Methodist Church, Durban
Entry# 1/24 7 Aug 1924
James Tarr PIKE, 31, widower, farmer, Glen Isla, via Loskop
Sarah Elizabeth Gertrude STONELL, 28, spinster of 48 Ayott Ave, Congella, Durban
After banns with antenuptial contract
Witnesses: G Voysey? and W C Stonell
By : Henry Cotton

1. Joy Pike
2. Rona Pike
3. Lynette Pike

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 1878, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

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Served in the Kaffir War.

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Enoch married Letitia Ellen Tarr on 13 Nov 1878 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Letitia (daughter of James Tarr, 1820 Settler and Hannah Brent) was born on 19 Jul 1856; was christened in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 18 Jun 1939. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Letitia Ellen Tarr
• Residence: 1878, 'Belle Vue', Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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The Tarrs of Rokewood list her as Selina Ellen Letitia

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Microfilm# 1560854
Church : Methodist Parish Records
Location : Bathurst Marriages: 1866-1895
Item 14
Entry #223
Husband: Enoch PIKE, 26, Farmer, Clumber
Wife: Letitia Ellen TARR, 22, Belle Vue, District of Bathurst
Date: 11/13/1878
Witnesses: Ebenezer PIKE, Sarah Elizabeth TARR

Married:
Witnesses: Ebenezer PIKE, Sarah Elizabeth TARR

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 633
• Occupation: Fruit Grower
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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A preacher, twin of William. He grew up at Clumber, and never left it. When in his nineties he told Professor Cory that he had never been to Port Elizabeth. The last time he was there it was called Algoa Bay.

"Passed away, - at Clumber on 21 August 1907, Elijah PIKE, Aged 93 years and 9 months. Settler of 1820.
'Farewell, poor World, I must be gone, Thou art no hope, no rest for me; I'll take my staff and travel on, Till I a better World may see" "And thou shalt go to thy Father's house in peace; Thou shall be buried in a good old age."

Name: Elijah Pike
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 21 Nov 1813
Baptism Place: Keyworth,Nottingham,England
Father: William Pike
Mother: Mary
FHL Film Number: 504063, 504517

Settler:
Calton's party on the Albury

Elijah married Mary Low on 7 Oct 1838 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Mary (daughter of James Low, 1820 Settler and Mary Evenden, 1820 Settler) was born about 1822; died on 17 Jan 1895 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Mary Lowe

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 755
• Name: James Tarr 1820
• Adult Christening: 29 Aug 1815, Nottingham Church (St Mary's), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Calton's party on the Albury

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James married Hannah Brent on 7 Oct 1838 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Hannah (daughter of Thomas Brent, 1820 Settler and Grace Elliott, 1820 Settler) was born on 3 Jun 1823; was christened on 29 Sep 1825 in Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 13 Mar 1902 in Bellevue farm, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried on 14 Mar 1902 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Sarah Brent

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 638
• Occupation: a Framework Knitter
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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1820 Settler; arrived with family as members of Calton's Party aboard the "Albury", which sailed from Liverpool 12 Feb 1820. Came from the Keyworth area in Nottingham. Settled in Clumber.

An excerpt from Pg. 102 History of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of South Africa by Rev.J.Whiteside, London 1906 :Salem, The Mother Church {per Sylvia Gazendam}
"Mr. Shaw sought out and gathered round him a noble band of lay assistants, or the spiritual needs of the people could not have been supplied. Amongst these helpers were Messrs. Oates and Roberts of Salem; Richard Walker, of Port Francis; John Ayliff of Wilson's party; William Shepstone, of the New Bristol location; William Pike, of Clumber; Messrs. Aldham, Bonnin, Sargeant, Booth, Attwell, and many others who fed and fanned the flame of piety. These plain preachers of a plain Gospel went from location to location taking shady trees or sheltering woodside as their standing places, and gathered around them little companies, seated on the grass, listening attentively, and thankful to find themselves remembered and cared for in reference to their highest of all interests. Messrs. Ayliff and Shepstone, at a later date, entered the ranks of the oirdained ministry, and became distinguished missionaries. Richard Walker rendered scarcely less valuable service as an assistant missionary on several stations. Opposition was overruled in one instance 'for the futherance of the Gospel." Dr. Calton, the head of the Nottingham party, was a determined opponent of Methodism, and attempted to prevent any of its adherents being in his vessel, the Albany. Great was his vexation to find, when at sea, that at least one Wesleyan, Mr. Pike, was on board, and that he was holding meetings for prayer. Dr. Calton threatened the offender that unless he kept his religion to himself he would have no allotment of land on his arrival in Cape Colony. Strange to say, Dr. Calton died in Algoa Bay. After the settlement of the party at Clumber, Mr. Pike regularly held services in the bush, close to his tent; and his simple piety and manifest sincerity having won the esteem of his fellow settlers, they elected him head of the party. Clumber became a centre of spiritual influence, and has so continued to this day. The people have retained not a little of the quaint simplicity and religious fervour of English rural Methodism when at its best."

Settler:
Calton's party on the Albury

William married Mary Hallam, 1820 Settler on 26 Nov 1799 in St Mary Magdalene, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England. Mary (daughter of John Hallam and Sarah Sylvester) was born in 1776 in Burton-on-Wolds, Leicestershire, England; died on 15 Mar 1861 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 287
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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see https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVZ-59YT-F?i=935&cat=305287 Mary Selby was William's sister,

Settler:
Calton's party on the Albury

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 512
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Occupation: 1820; Carpenter

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From Bailie's Party of 1820 settlers by M D Nash, page 151
"LOW, James. 1799- Carpenter
From London, he emigrated as a servant to John Bailie. He left Albany in 1822 and moved first to Graaff-Reinet and then to Cape Town, where he married Ellen Higham of Liverpool in 1825. He was a Clerk of Works for the building of St George's Church in 1830. He set up a business as a builder, and owned a property in Rondebosch, which was sold in 1866 when he was declared insolvent.
CO 293 no 91, Bailie to Plasket, 25.3.1826; CO 178, 9.9.1822; Gazette, 2.9.1825; Directory 1849; MOOC 7/1/213 no 20, will of M Adams, August 1852; MOIB 2/2114 no.190; Information about St George's Church from R.R.Langham-Carter."

Morse Jones and Hockly have James married to a Susan as a settler, but no further references to her have been found yet.

LOW, James. 1799- Carpenter
From London, he emigrated as a servant to John Bailie. He left Albany in 1822 and moved first to Graaff-Reinet and then to Cape Town, where he married Ellen Higham of Liverpool in 1825. He was a Clerk of Works for the building of St George's Church in 1830. He set up a business as a builder, and owned a property in Rondebosch, which was sold in 1866 when he was declared insolvent.
CO 293 no 91, Bailie to Plasket, 25.3.1826; CO 178, 9.9.1822; Gazette, 2.9.1825; Directory 1849; MOOC 7/1/213 no 20, will of M Adams, August 1852; MOIB 2/2114 no.190; Information about St george's Church from R.R.Langham-Carter.

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

Died:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-XYQN

DEATH OF A SETTLER.- The Cape Times contains a notice of the death of Mr. James LOW, supposed to be the last of the first settlers, having lived in the Colony for sixty-eight years. He arrived first in 1814, and was stationed at the Cape for three years, being in the Navy. He returned to England in 1818, and subsequently to the Cape in 1820. He was also engaged in the American Civil War.

James + Mary Evenden, 1820 Settler. Mary was born in 1801 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 435
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

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The magistrate's powers were invoked when Mary Evenden, a young woman who emigrated as a servant with the family of Captain Henry Crause, gave birth to an illegitimate baby and applied for an affiliation order against James Low. Captain Trappes had to find out from the Deputy Landdrost's office what procedure he should follow; there had been no similar case at Bathurst to give him a precedent. Low managed to shed his responsibilities a year later by leaving Albany for Cape Town. Ref. CA CO 178: Memorial of J Low dated 9.9.1822 {Lynn MacLeod}

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

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Marriage Status: Unmarried Couple

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 760
• Name: Thomas Henry Tarr 1820
• Occupation: a Carpenter
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 10 Oct 1824, Clumber Vale, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Occupation: Oct 1832, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Carpenter

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Came out with wife and kids in Calton's party, on Albury - settled on Torrens Ruver, and named settlement Clumber, after the seat of the Duke of Newcastle.

His name on all the early Embarcation records was TORR, however subsequent records including his will says TARR. His children all used TARR.
There is a bell dedicated to Thomas and Ann Tarr at Clumber Church

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Thomas married Ann Radford, 1820 Settler on 20 Sep 1812 in St Mary's Church, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. Ann (daughter of James John Radford and Ann Greenwood) was born in 1791 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England; died on 23 Dec 1866 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 938
• Name: Ann Radford 1820
• Adult Christening: 27 Jun 1791, Nottingham Church (St Mary's), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Agents return calls her Mary

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Settler:
Calton's party on the Albury

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1125
• Name: Thomas Brent 1820
• Occupation: a Weaver and Royal Marine Pensioner
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England
• Occupation: 1827, Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Labourer
• Occupation: 1836; a Farmer

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Dorothea Rowse write in October 2017:
"1. Thomas was a cousin to the King brothers since his mother Hannah and their mother Ann Worlock were sisters, the daughters of John and Hannah Worlock of North Nibley, a village about three miles from Dursley.
2. He was described as a Royal Naval pensioner and farmer when he emigrated. He was probably the Thomas Brent who served on HMS Sirius at the Battle of Trafalgar - he was listed in the Ships pay book on 4.8.1804. In December 1820 Thomas had to obtain a Magistrate’s identification before his RN pension could be paid from Simonstown.
3. Thomas moved to Grahamstown to live for a while in 1822 but he spent most of his life on the New Gloucester location. His house and furniture were burnt and cattle all taken during the last Kafir war in January 1846; he died in May of that year. His property at New Gloucester was inherited by his son Thomas who farmed it for a while but it was being offered for sale in 1853.
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Birth:
1783 on tombstone

Settler:
Bradshaw's party on the Kennersley Castle

Died:
Death Notice in Archive File

Thomas married Grace Elliott, 1820 Settler on 23 Feb 1813 in St Paul’s church, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Grace (daughter of John Elliott and Elizabeth Fisher) was born on 13 Feb 1790 in Bideford, Devon, England; died on 1 Aug 1880 in Mount Pleasant, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1128
• Name: Grace Elliott 1820
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England

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Name looks like BOS???? on grave ... poss BOOTH from later research !

Settler:
Bradshaw's party on the Kennersley Castle