Gertrude Cecil Southey

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 'Kennersley', Cedarville, East Griqualand, South Africa; a Farmer

Notes:

Gertrude never married

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: 'Kennersley', Cedarville, East Griqualand, South Africa; a Farmer

Notes:

Issue 4 sons, 6 daughters Entered the Imperial army in 1864 , served with the Lincolnshire Regiment until 1878. Then joined Cape Colonial Forces. As Colonel had the orders of Companion of the Bath and St Michael & St George conferred on him. He was the Officer Commanding, Cape Volunteers, 1882 - 1892

South Africa Magazine, January 1, 1910, titled Domestic Announcements:
SOUTHEY - On December 1, at Claremont, Cape Town, Colonel Richard George Southey, C.B., C.M.G., late Lincolnshire Regiment, fourth son of the late Sir Richard Southey, K.C.M.G.

Richard married Eliza Edith Julia Greaves on 25 Apr 1882 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Eliza (daughter of George Duly Greaves and Elizabeth Mary Gilfillan) was born on 20 Jun 1863 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 16 Jun 1957 in 'Kennersley', Cedarville, East Griqualand, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 728
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England

Notes:

At the outbreak of the Sixth Frontier War his wife and son took refuge in St. George's Church (now the Cathedral) in Grahamstown. He was a Lieutenant in the Albany Mounted Sharpshooters , and later a Captain of the Corps of Guides. He was Resident Agent to certain native tribes at Mount Coke . In 1847 he was Secretary to Governor Sir Harry Smith,serving on the Cape frontier and in Natal, and Special Commissioner in the Orange River Sovereignty. In 1849 he was Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate at Swellendam, and then Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor at Grahamstown. During the period of Representative Government he held two of the highest offices of the state - Treasurer(1861-64) and finally Colonial Secretary, 1864-1872 , retiring on the introduction of Responsible Government and receiving a C.M.G . The following year he was appointed Administrator and then Lieutenant-Governor of Griqualand West, 1873-5 , dealing with many contentious problems, such as diamond digging and boundary disputes with the Orange Free State and Transvaal. During 1877-8 he was M.L.A for Grahamstown, and in 1881 was knighted K.C.M.G. - From Rhodes on Africa: "When one of the first diamonds was discovered among the paraphernalia of a Native witch doctor, Sir Richard Southey, the Lieutenant-Governor, laid it on the Table of the Cape Parliament with the prophetic words "Gentlemen, this is the rock on which the future success of South Africa will be built ". - To quote "Froude on Southey" from "The Life and Times of Sir Richard Southey KCMG" by the Hon Alex Wilmot: "In Froude's "Short Stories" he describes a brief visit to Kimberley in1874, and thus refers to Sir Richard Southey "The Governor himself is one of the most remarkable men in South Africa. He won his spurs in the Kaffir war of 1834." He then goes on briefly to review his career , and ends by saying that his policy was "to check the encroachment of the Transvaal Republic and extend the Empire internally." This, Froude declares was "the one mistake of his life. Being without a force of any kind, he could only control the Republics by the help of the Native Chiefs, and the coercion of the republics in any way became impossible from the moment that the control of the Cape Colony was passed over to its own people. Otherwise, I have rarely met a man I have more admired. Mr Southey is over seventy. He drove me one day over seventy miles in a cart with as wild a team as I ever sat behind, and went to a party in the evening." - One of the chief characteristics of Sir Richard Southey, one of his brothers says, was "determination". "When undertaking any thing there was no halting or half-measures. Another leading feature was self control."

Had issue. Married twice.

Settler:
Southey's party on the Kennersley Castle

Richard married Isabella Shaw in 1830. Isabella (daughter of John Shaw and Hannah Gray) was born about 1810 in England; was christened on 30 Apr 1810 in Stoke Newington, London, England; died on 21 Jun 1869 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not sure that the place of birth Stoke Newington given on the IGI LDS submission is correct as Holborn is the location of Christchurch,Newgate.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: George Dale Greaves
• Occupation: a Land Surveyor
• Occupation: a Surveyor

George married Elizabeth Mary Gilfillan on 6 Mar 1843 in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Elizabeth (daughter of William Frederick Anderson Gilfillan, 1820 Settler and Anna Margaret Thornhill, 1820 Settler) was born on 28 Feb 1828 in Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 1 May 1828 in Grahamstown Church (St George's - Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 20 Nov 1903 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

Description: Rev Francis McLeland

Notes:

Married:

IMAGE # 20
ENTRY # 10606
HUSBAND'S SURNAME GREAVES
HUSBAND'S GIVEN NAME(S) George Duley
WIFE'S SURNAME GILFILLAN
WIFE'S GIVEN NAME(S) Elizabeth May
DATE 3/6/1843
MICROFILM # 1259184
ITEM # 2
CERT/AFF Certificate
FILM DESCRIPTION Cape Province Marriages 1842-1843

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 727
• Name: George Southey 1820
• Occupation: a Gentleman
• Residence: Wellington, Somerset, England
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England

Notes:

Extract from the South African 1820 Settlers Association Name of Settler: Southey, George - age 39 Name of Wife: Joan nee Baker - age 38 Names and age of children: Sophia (16) ; William (13); Richard (11); George (9); Elizabeth (7) ; Henry (4); and Cannon (1) Other: Elizabeth Skinner age 30, probably a servant, accompanied them Party: George Southey was the leader of the Southey Party, comprising of 49 people , sailed aboard Kennersley Castle from Bristol on 10 January 1820 and arrived in Table Bay on 29 March 1820. They were confined in quarantine aboard for 3 weeks and then landed at Algoa Bay on 29 April 1820. Their allocation of land was about 30 miles from Grahamstown, where they arrived on the 12 May 1820. Head of the Southey Party of 1820 Settlers to South Africa. He and his wife brought their 7 children and 49 other settlers out in the Kennersley Castle. Southey was allocated 700 morgen ( SA Encyclopaedia 1 morgen = 2. 11654 acres ) on a branch of the Kowie river between Bathurst and Martindale. From Capt Robert Southey's "History of the Southey Family": His father married Elizabeth Potter of Culmstock in 1776 and by her had seven sons of whom the eldest and natural heir was baptised George at Culmstock on January 12, 1777. George grew up , married Joan Baker and in 1820 at the age of forty-three took his wife, five sons and two daughters to Cape Colony in the Kennersley Castle . The youngest of these children was named Cannon and died on the voyage out. The fourth Richard then a boy of twelve, was destined to become one of the most distinguished of the 1820 Settlers. In 1873 Richard Sowthey was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Griqualand West and in 1891 he was knighted. His descendants are now among the most progressive of Karoo sheep bloodstock breeders in South Africa. Had there been no three-year-old son living in West Buckland when Laurence Sowthey died there in 1741 then George would eventually have inherited Pitt House and his services to the Empire would have been lost, and very probably his descendants would then have shared the fortune of their two cousins of remote degree who today live in Culmstock."

He and his wife brought their 7 children and 49 other settlers out in the Kennersley Castle. Southey was allocated 700 morgen on a branch of the Kowie river between Bathurst and Martindale.

Extract from the South African 1820 Settlers Association
Name of Settler: Southey, George - age 39
Name of Wife: Joan nee Baker - age 38
Names and age of children: Sophia (16); William (13); Richard (11); George (9); Elizabeth (7); Henry (4); and Cannon (1)
Other: Elizabeth Skinner age 30, probably a servant, accompanied them
Party: George Southey was the leader of the Southey Party, comprising of 49 people, sailed aboard Kennersley Castle from Bristol on 10 January 1820 and arrived in Table Bay on 29 March 1820. They were confined in quarantine aboard for 3 weeks and then landed at Algoa Bay on 29 April 1820. Their allocation of land was about 30 miles from Grahamstown, where they arrived on the 12 May 1820.

SOUTHEY, George. Father of seven young children including William, 13; Richard 11; George, 9 and Henry, aged 4. Richard spoke Xhosa fluently and knew well the tracks and paths through the bush used by the Blacks. These young men had great military ability and aptitude and served South Africa well in this field. They formed a Corps of Guides and directed the Military forces under Sir Harry SMITH during the 1835 Hintsa War. It was George who shot and killed HINTSA, the Chief of the Xhosa tribe after he had escaped from the escort commanded by Sir Harry SMITH. After the war the brothers farmed in the Graaff Reinet area and all had distinguished careers in the Civil Service. Richard became first Lieutenant Governor of Griqualand West. He was knighted in 1891.
SOURCE: The Settler named Jeremiah Goldswain by Pauline GOLDSWAIN.

Settler:
Southey's party on the Kennersley Castle

Buried:
Description: Rev William Carlisle

George married Joan Baker, 1820 Settler on 10 Sep 1800 in Culmstock, Devon, England. Joan (daughter of Edward Baker) was born in 1782 in Culmstock, Devon, England; died on 16 Oct 1835 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 86
• Name: Joan Baker 1820
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England

Notes:

"Before we leave the Culmstock records to touch upon those at Wellington, Joan Baker is described as "a minor with consent of Edward Baker her father" the witnesses being Hy. Potter and Rbt. Channon." - from Edward Humphrey letter to Graham Southey.

Joan Baker
1Marjorie Dick Davies, Twin Trails, K. B. Davies (Pvt) Ltd. Printed by Mardon Printers (Pvt) Ltd, Beatrice Rd, Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1974., 205, . NS14513 Source Media Type: Book NS33413 Source Media Type: Book.

Called Jane in MD Nash's book

Settler:
Southey's party on the Kennersley Castle

Notes:

Described in his death notice MOOC 6/9/39, 8279 by his widow as "up and until 1820 general draper and carpet warehouseman in the city of London and subsequently and until his decease agriculturalist and proprietor of the farm 'Rockwood Vale' near Grahamstown." Died at the home of his son-in-law Charles Gray Government Land Surveyor, at Port Elizabeth. Aged 74 on his death notice so approximate birthdate of 1772.

Government Gazette 1821/04/14 796 Cyrus English Brig Thos
ROBERTS Britain Gravesend 1820/12/31 Table Bay 1821/04/10
Passengers: Lieut & Mrs RUBIGE - RN and 4 children, Mr SHAW - English
Merchant, J CROLE? - English Cooper, J ASHEAD - English Cooper

Owned Rockwood Vale farm in Grobbelaar's Kloof, Grahamstown

John married Hannah Gray on 10 Jun 1797 in Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England. Hannah (daughter of Newman Gray and Jane Wilkinson) was born on 20 Jun 1779 in Cross Keys Court, Little Brittain, St Botolph's, Aldersgate, London, England; died on 16 Jul 1850 in Goliadskraal, Graaff Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

RG6/966 ff 00184 p.152 (copy obtained)
On the Twentieth Day of the Sixth Month, called June, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine was Born in Cross Keys Court, Little Britain in the Parish of St Botolph Aldersgate so called in the City of London unto Newman Gray, Vintner, and Jane his Wife, a Daughter who was named Hannah. Present at the said Birth: Ann Jane Brooke late Douglas (Midwife), Mary Margets (Nurse)

Entered Ackworth School, a Quaker school, in Yorkshire in 1788 ( email from Michael Hargreaves March 2006). Left in 1791.

Parish record of her marriage to John Shaw shows one witness called Jos Wilkinson.

Died in her daughter's house in the Eastern Cape ( Elizabeth Brook born Shaw).Only surviving child according to father's will of 1809.

Left a long and useful account of husband's occupation in his death notice of 1846 which shows the family arrived in 1821, most likely as paying passengers.

Government Gazette
1821/05/26

802
Waterloo
English Brig
David LYON
Britain
Portsmouth
1821/02/11
Table Bay
1821/05/24
Passengers:


John DEMPSTER Esq - Medical Staff, H PUGH Esq - solicitor, Lieut HAKEWILL HP
60th Reg, Mr RICHARDS - Druggist, Mr MULLIGHAN - merchant, Mr PROBART -
merchant, Mrs SAUNDERS with 4 children and 2 servants, Mrs SHAW and 6
children, Mrs PROBART and child, Mr PENUSCH - french cook for BONAPARTE, Mr
CHANDELINE - french cook for BONAPARTE, Mr & Mrs ARNOLD, Mr JENKINS, Mr
ROGERS, Mr & Mrs MARSH, Mr J ROGERS, Mr H SHERMAN, Mr & Mrs BROWN and 4
children, J SINGEN with wife and 5 children, J DENTON with wife and 7
children, W SUTTON with wife and 7 children

William + Sarah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 3698
• Name: William Frederick Anderson (Lt) Gilfillan
• Occupation: an Army Officer
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Residence: Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
• Residence: 1826, 'Glenfillan', Kariega River, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Occupation: Between 1837 and 1851, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate

Notes:

The first Gilfillan to come to South Africa was William Frederick Anderson, second son of Lieutenant John Gilfillan and Elizabeth Bridges. He was born on January 27, 1796, at the time his father, Lt. John Gilfillan, of Major Grant's Company of Invalides, was in charge of the garrison of Elizabeth Castle, Jersey Island. Some weeks later, the second son of King George III of England, Prince William Frederick , Duke of York, who was Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, made a tour of inspection of Jersey Island and attended the christening of the new baby on February 20, 1796. There is a story in the family that the Duke agreed to be a godfather and as a christening present, gave the baby a commission in the Duke of York's Own Rifles which afterward became the 60th Rifles Regiment. Certainly the boy was to bear the names of William Frederick after the Duke of York and Anderson after another godfather, Major Robert Anderson. In 1812, at the age of 16, William came to South Africa as an ensign with his regiment, the 60th Rifles, and returned to England with the regiment at the end of 1818.
South Africa evidently had attractions for William and on November 4, 1819, when residing in Regent Street, Westminster, London, he applied to the Secretary of State for Colonies for a free passage in one of the transport ships about to convey English settlers to the Cape. His letter reads as follows: Sir I, having served for many years in the frontier of the Cape of Good Hope as an officer in the Army, since when I have been placed on half pay , and being desirous of returning to the Cape to settle in the interior, for which my funds are altogether inadequate, I beg you may be graciously pleased to grant me a passage with the settlers now on the point of going. I have the honour to be, etc. W. Gilfillan, H. P. Lieutenant 60th Regiment.
The request was granted and so William and his younger brother Adam left England and their family for ever. Adam had been persuaded to come out by his brother and he was a genuine settler-member of the Thornhill party while William as a half-pay ex military officer, does not appear in the official settlers list. They spent over three months on the voyage out, in the company of the Thornhill family who were the leaders of the settlers party in the Zoroaster sailing ship in 1820. The leaders of the party, Christopher Thornhill Thornhill, 47, of Thornhill, Yorkshire, left estates in Cumberland and brought with him his wife, Dorothea Mounsey, 35, their two sons, Christopher, 8, and John, 15, and their two daughters , Mary Francis, 10, and Anna Margaret , 13. During the long voyage out both William and Adam had fallen in love with the young Anna and she returned William's affections much to the disappointment of Adam who swore that he would marry the first pretty girl he saw after landing. Transferred, once more, to small boats and rowed ashore, they lived in tents near the beach until wagons, hired from the Dutch farmers in the Zwartkop Valley, arrived and the party was moved from Reed River Post by way of Kowie Pass and Bathurst to it's location between the Kowie and Rufane rivers. William and Anna were married in May 1821 at Bathurst by the Rev. William Shaw and set up home on land which William acquired adjoining the Thornhill property. They built a house and started farming in 1822 while in that year their first child was born, subsequently followed by 12 more children, all of whom with the exception of one who died in infancy, married and had families of their own. When the Albany Levy was formed in Grahamstown in October 1822, for the self-protection of the settlers, Lieutenant W. F. A. Gilfillan was one of the officers. In 1826 William was granted a farm on the Kariega river, he named it 'Glenfillan'. The house was burned down at the commencement of the 6th Kaffir War in December 1834. In 1837 William was appointed the first Resident Magistrate and Civil Commissioner at Cradock. In the Kaffir War of 1850 William was on the board of Defence and later took the field in command of the Cradock Burghers. In 1852 William was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for the District. The bridge over the Fish River at Cradock was named the Gilfillan Bridge in his honour and retains the name till this day although a second bridge over the Fish River has recently been opened. William died in 1855 and the inscription on his tombstone in the Cradock cemetery reads: Sacred to the memory of William Frederick Anderson Gilfillan born 27-1-1796 died 4-9-1855 The deceased came to this country in 1812 an ensign in the 60th Rifles. Returned to England about 1819 and in 1820 came out as a military settler on half pay. During the war of 1855 he commanded a company of Levies and at it's conclusion was appointed Commandant and Resident Magistrate of Cradock which office he held until his death. and of his widow Anna Margaret Gilfillan (born Thornhill)

Gilfillan Bridge in Cradock was named after him - see extensive notes in DFT

Did not come with Thornhills party. Landed in Cape Town from the "Importer", in March 1820 and applied for a grant of land for his Army Service.
A Lt. William Glifillan seen in Morse Jones, E. Lower Albany Chronicles. Part 1 1806 - 1825, p14. in 1817 of 60th Regiment

1820 Settler and member of Her Majesty's 60th Rifles and afterwards Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate at Cradock. Lived at Thornhill, Port Alfred on the Kariega River, Farm Glenfillan

MILI:
Description: 60th Regiment

Settler:
Independant on the Zoroaster

William married Anna Margaret Thornhill, 1820 Settler on 10 Jun 1822 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Anna (daughter of Christopher Thornhill Thornhill, 1820 Settler and Dorothea Mounsey, 1820 Settler) was born on 1 Jul 1807 in Thornhill, Sunderland, Co Durham, England; died on 13 Feb 1879 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Cradock Church (St Peter's - Anglican), Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 774
• Name: Anna Margaret Thornhill 1820
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

see Toposcope 6:12 of 1975

Settler:
Thornhill's party on the Zoroaster

Notes:

Microfilm #1886513
Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Marriage Licenses: 1821 - 1884
Albany/Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa
Item 7
Entry #16
Husband: William GILFILLAN, 26, Protestant, Isle of Jersey,. England
Wife: Anna THORNHILL, 15, Protestant, England
Date: 6/10/1822

Married:
Bathurst by Rev. William Shaw