Sarah Cawood Rielly

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Sarah Cawood Reilly

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: William Reilly

William married Louisa Flanegan about 1858. Louisa (daughter of James Frederick Flanegan, 1820 Settler and Ann Hulley, 1820 Settler) was born on 18 May 1844; was christened on 17 Jun 1844 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died 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

Notes:

Settler experiences as related by Mrs Reilly, daughter of 1820 Settler James Frederick Flanegan to author Alice M Ralls

In the year 1820 there landed on the inhospitable shores of Algoa Bay 1 561 children sons and daughters of the British settlers of that date. Sixty percent of them were under 12 years old. It is on record upon this, their initiation into the life of a wild and savage country, they were afraid of the big black Kxxxxxx who met the surf boats to carry the children and their mothers ashore. Many a little child fought and screamed in the arms of, or on the back of, an almost naked black man. One little girl said ”I was so afraid the black would rub off onto my clean pinafore which had been put on specially for the landing.”

While visiting Grahamstown a few years ago for the purpose of gathering any extra data I could for this story, I met an old resident, Mrs Reilly by name who kindly entrusted to my care a roll of faded paper upon which were printed the early memories of her mother.

“I would not lose this for a hundred pounds” said Mrs Reilly, “but if these stories will be of use to you, you are welcome to use them”.
She was the daughter of an early pioneer, James Flanegan, and she could remember thrilling incidents in her life when she was only 5 years old. Her first recollection was of a place named Cuylerville. Here a stone wall formed a laager and the Kxxxxxx used to storm the place periodically. Rushing up to the wall, they would brandish their assegais and fireflint guns in their endeavour to drive out the white intruders to their land and procure the much-coveted cattle.

Mrs Reilly gave the details of such an attack.
“I well remember that, but the Natives were no match for the rifles of our beleagued men, and they shot down 10, whereupon the others scattered to the hills. Then it was found that their young chief was missing, they cried from hill to hill ‘Where is our chief?” Where is our chief?”, and after a long silence came the doleful answer through the darkness, ‘He is no more, he is no more.” Our men then knew that he was amongst the slain.
“Early next morning” she continued, “we children were attracted by the dead chief’s gaudy beads and ivory bangles; we endeavoured to purloin them from the body, for which crime we were all severely whipped. Curiously we were not awed or frightened by the presence of death. The dead were gathered and placed on bushes roped together to form a sleigh; this was dragged down to the river where the bodied were weighted with stones and thrown into a large pool.”

Her narrative goes on to say that after a long period of fighting and unrest, when most of the settlers lived in laagers, the Kxxxxxx were repulsed and retired to their fastnesses in the bush across the Fish River, whither no man dared to follow them if he wished to return alive. The settlers families began now to return to their homes and to repair the ravages of war.

Their troubles were not yet over, for they had in the rebel Hottentots a more formidable foe than the savage Kxxxxxx. They were deserters from the Cape Corps, raised at the Cape for some years before, for the purpose of helping to subdue the wild Kxxxx hordes infesting the Eastern districts. These terrifying barbarians, armed, mounted and trained, were veritable demons, and resorted to cold-blooded murder.

One day, while the Flanegan family were living at Cuylerville, a small company of Hottentots, still wearing their uniforms, approached a neighbouring farm. The men at work in a field, thought that they were Government soldiers, but, before they had time to realise their mistake, they were shot down, the rebels then forced their way into the house where the terrified women where gathered together. The Hottentots roughly ordered the women to cook some food for them. A sick man, who was in an upstairs room, managed to escape through the window and hid in the bush, where he was later joined by a youth who had been mauled by the intruders.

Another thrilling adventure befell this intrepid woman when she was a girl of ten. A number of settler families had gathered for mutual protection and formed a laager. The rebels came upon them so stealthily that, had it not been for the barking of a dog, they would all have most surely perished. The Hottentots opened a deadly fire; one of the little Flanegan girls had a narrow escape, when a bullet actually passed through her dress.

On another occasion, the Kxxxxx hordes swept down upon the helpless settlers and some of the men rushed to the kraals to protect the cattle. On looking back, they saw the enemy preparing to fir the house with all the women and children locked inside. The savages were repulsed, and four men stood sentry around the house until help came.

One day a hurrying horseman rode up to the Flanegan farm and called from the saddle: “The Kxxxxxx are rising. Pack up and o to Cawood’s Post where the soldiers will protect you”. The rider hurried on his way to warn other lonely settlers. Hastily the wagons were inspanned and packed, and none too soon. For when they were only two miles off, the fugitives, looking back, saw their home in flames. Mrs Reilly said her father had at this time just completed a beautiful stack of oat-forage for market, and the enemy that day carried it off, together with two hundred head of cattle.

When times were peaceful enough to permit farming, Mrs Reilly’s father would grow wheat, barley, mielies and pumpkins, but bread was always a luxury because the meal had to be ground on the farm in a quern. Her father sold forage to the military as well as fresh meat.
In those days, cattle with large, broad horns were brought from overseas in sailing ships. They were landed at the mouth of the Kleinmond River and had to swim ashore.
“In those days when the savage hordes used to sweep down upon us,”, she said, “we were thankful for the little places of refuge. One was at Fort England and another at Mesopotamia, so named because it was situated between two rivers.”

As regards her remarkable experiences with wild and savage beasts, this brave woman seems to have had a charmed life.
“We were not afraid of wild animals” she said, “they came openly after the calves and goats which we children herded on the hillsides. Leopards used to come right to our house and take calves out of the shed. The men were sometimes in the fields when this happened, and we had to scream to them for help. As evening came on, we all dashed for home before dark as it was very unsafe to be out at night. Hyenas would prowl around the house at night, and often by day packs of wild dogs came after the calves. Our men used to set steel-jawed traps for these brutes. One day I went to see a dog caught in this way, and the dreadful beast in its terror, made a spring at me. The wonder is that I was not torn to pieces, but my father at that moment Rushed up with his gun and shot it.

“I remember too,” she said, “that the soldiers used to march through the streets of Grahamstown Playing drums and bugles. We used to pick up the tunes the played, and I often find them running through my head even now.”
Mrs Reilly lived to celebrate her 90th birthday.

Pages 40-43. Glory Which is Yours: A Tribute to Pioneer Ancestors by Alice M Ralls. Published in Pietermariztburg by Shuter and Shooter, 1949.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 248
• Name: James Frederick Flanegan 1820
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Occupation: 1820, Thorn farm, Albany, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer
• Occupation: 1842, Oliphant's Hoek, Alexandria, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Sawyer

Notes:

It is assumed that James Arthur is their son but no proof has been found either way.

Took over his fathers farm, THORN FARM. Was at King Williams Town by 1849.
It is interesting that he had Irish blood just like his mother-in-law.
Flanegan meaning: Personal name derived from Gaelic "Flann"; reddish, ruddy.
(84y).
name FLANNAGAN in Somerset Baptism Register

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

James married Ann Hulley, 1820 Settler on 31 Aug 1831 in St John the Evangelist, Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Ann (daughter of Richard Hulley, 1820 Settler and Ann Brangan, 1820 Settler) was born in 1814 in Co. Cork, Ireland; died on 13 May 1889 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 359
• Name: Ann Hulley 1820
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Queenstown Free Press 1889 2 April - June
Written by Sunelia Heath. Posted in Queenstown Free Press
Friday May 17, 1889
DIED,- At Queenstown, on Monday, May 13th, Ann (born HULLEY) wife of James FLANEGAN, aged 76 years. Other papers please copy.


Settler:
Richardson's party on the Stentor

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 250
• Name: Timothy Flanegan 1820
• Occupation: a Gunsmith
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

1820 Settler, member of Bailie's Party aboard the ship Chapman.
from Rootsweb posted by Carol Forsberg in 2010:
An original 1820 Settler (Gunsmith), Party: Bailie's; Ship: Chapman. E. Morse-Jones :- 1781 - A gunsmith he sailed in "Chapman" in 1819. He directed a division of Bailie's party after they reached their location. He painted in oils, including a fine self-portrait and portraits of his sons.
15 Sept 1827 - Surveyor Smith's diagrams included his farm, THORN FARM.Bailie's Party of Settlers - A collective experience in emigration - M.D. Nash
(A.A. Balkema). The following are extracts:-Land Grant Timothy
Flanegan :- Size 208 Morgen. Date of grant, 15/9/1841.
Survevor-general's diagram no. 216/1827.Biography - Timothy
(1781-c1826) - Gunsmith - (Pg 141).
Although described in the party lists as a gunsmith, there is no evidence that he practised this trade in the Colony. He joined J.E. Ford's sub-division of Bailie's Party but re-organised it under his own leadership in February 1821.
By 1824 he had acquired a considerable herd of cattle. He was granted a share of the Party's location. According to his death notice he was born in England, the son of Nicholas Flanegan, and died during 1824.
The death notice was only filed in 1853 and its information about his date of death is incorrect: He was present at a meeting of Bailie's Party in 1826 (5/2/1826) His daughter, Mary Ann married W.O. Lloyd (See Lloyd, Henry) and died young. Mrs Mary Flanegan died before 1835, and Flanegan's share of the location, named St Ann's Vale, was inherited by his three surviving children, James, Arthur and Elizabeth (Moorcroft).Was the name St Ann's Vale changed to Thorn farm?? Could it be that because the farm was surveyed after Timothy's death and granted after both he and his wife had passed on, the children renamed it? The farm may also have been sub-divided and James' portion became Thorn farm.Captain Trappe's was called on to intervene when Timothy Flanegan and his wife threatened and vilified William Hart after he had shot at their goats in his cornfield; and Flanegan and Henry Belmour combined to terrorise John Lawler and his women-folk, and insulted Mrs Lawler and her sister with scurrilous language.The Albany Settlers had discovered that a few hundred acres of Suurveld soil could not provide a family with a living. The Settlers who stayed to farm at Cuylerville, among them Timothy Flanegan, extended their land by the purchase of other allotments on the location. The value of land slumped during the general exodus from Albany after the war of 1834-35. They stood their ground through two more frontier wars. In 1846 the schoolhouse at Cuylerville provided a laager for the scattered inhabitants of the district, while homesteads and stacks belonging to amongst others, Timothy Flanegan, went up in flames. In 1851, during the 8th Frontier War, the defenders of Cuylerville included Timothy Flanegan.
NOTE: This last statement about Timothy Flanegan being involved in the defence fo Cuylerville in 1851 conflicts with a date of death in 1824 - suggest the death notice is correct at 1853.

Although described in the party lists as a gunsmith, there is no evidence that he practised this trade in the colony. He joined J.E.Ford's subdivision of Bailie's party but reorganised it under his own leadership in February 1821. By 1824 he had acquired a considerable herd of cattle. He was granted a share of the party's location. According to his death notice he was born in England, the son of Nicholas Flanegan, and died during 1824. The notice was only filed in 1853 and its information about his date of death is incorrect: Flanegan was present at a meeting of Bailie's party in 1826. His daughter Mary Anne married W.O.Lloyd (see LLOYD, Henry) and died young. Mrs Mary Flanegan died before 1835, and Flanegan's share of the location, named St Ann's Vale, was inherited by his three surviving children, James, Arthur and Elizabeth (Moorcroft).

From marriage records of his daughter Mary Ann, she was a Catholic.

An original 1820 Settler (Gunsmith), Party: Bailie's; Ship: Chapman.
E. Morse-Jones :- 1781 - A gunsmith he sailed in "Chapman" in 1819. He directed a division of Bailie's party after they reached their location. He painted in oils, including a fine self-portrait and portraits of his sons.
15 Sept 1827 - Surveyor Smith's diagrams included his farm, THORN FARM.Bailie's Party of Settlers - A collective experience in emigration - M.D. Nash
(A.A. Balkema). The following are extracts:-Land Grant Timothy Flanegan :- Size 208 Morgen. Date of grant, 15/9/1841.
Survevor-general's diagram no. 216/1827.Biography - Timothy (1781-c1826) - Gunsmith - (Pg 141).
Although described in the party lists as a gunsmith, there is no evidence that he practised this trade in the Colony. He joined J.E. Ford's sub-division of Bailie's Party but re-organised it under his own leadership in February 1821.
By 1824 he had acquired a considerable herd of cattle. He was granted a share of the Party's location. According to his death notice he was born in England, the son of Nicholas Flanegan, and died during 1824. The death notice was only filed in 1853 and its information about his date of death is incorrect: He was present at a meeting of Bailie's Party in 1826 (5/2/1826) His daughter, Mary Ann married W.O. Lloyd (See Lloyd, Henry) and died young. Mrs Mary Flanegan died before 1835, and Flanegan's share of the location, named St Ann's Vale, was inherited by his three surviving children, James, Arthur and Elizabeth (Moorcroft).Was the name St Ann's Vale changed to Thorn farm?? Could it be that because the farm was surveyed after Timothy's death and granted after both he and his wife had passed on, the children rena med it? The farm may also have been sub-divided and James' portion became Thorn farm.Captain Trappe's was called on to intervene when Timothy Flanegan and his wife threatened and vilified William Hart after he had shot at their goats in his cornfield; and Flanegan and Henry Belmour combined to terrorise John Lawler and his women-folk, and insulted Mrs Lawler and her sister with scurrilous language.The Albany Settlers had discovered that a few hundred acres of Suurveld soil could not provide a family with a living. The Settlers who stayed to farm at Cuylerville, among them Timothy Flanegan, extended their land by the purchase of other allotments on the location. The value of land slumped during the general exodus from Albany after the war of 1834-35. They stood their ground through two more frontier wars. In 1846 the schoolhouse at Cuylerville provided a laager for the scattered inhabitants of the district, while homesteads and stacks belonging to amongst others, Timothy Flanegan, went up in flames. In 1851, during the 8th Frontier War, the defenders of Cuylerville included Timothy Flanegan.

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

Timothy married Mary Coleditch, 1820 Settler on 1 Aug 1802 in St James, Picadilly, Westminster, London, England. Mary was born in 1780 in England; died before Jan 1835 in Thorn farm, Albany, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 30
• Name: Mary Coledits
• Occupation: a Housewife
• Religion: the Protestant Church
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

The surname 'Meath' was found on the death notice of her daughter Elizabeth Moorcroft for her, but it appears that this was a mistake. During 1829 she applied to the Matrimonial Court to marry John Fennin who was born in Ireland, and a farrier in the Cape Mounted Rifles. On the application it is stated that her surname was Coleditch, widow of Timothy Flanegan.

In a partial transcription of a film from the Family History Centre, entitled "Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Licenses: 1821-1884", the following: Entry #204, Husband John FENNIN, 36, Catholic, Ireland, Farrier in the Cape Mounted Rifle Corps, Widower, no children. Wife: Mary COLEDITCH, 49, Protestant, England, Widow of Timothy Flannegan. Date: 3/4/1829.

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 362
• Occupation: a Farmer
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Richard and Ann were 1820 settlers. Arrived on the ship Stentor as members of Richardson's Group. N.B. his age is given in burial register as 99 yr 10 mo, but this is incorrect (94 ys 10 mo). There is no gravestone for Richard in the Cradock cemetery. Cutler's apprentice 1797.

see also http://www.tiger2.f2s.com/FamilyHistory/familytrees/southafrica/01/pafg01.shtml

see www,hulley.info

'Extract from the Title Deeds granted to Richard, the settler, "I do hereby grant unto Richard Hulley a piece of land, containing six hundred and ninety four morgen situated in the Division of Albany, being a portion of the location of Cawood's party bounded on the North east by the Cap River, South by Wainwright's, Mauncey's and Mandy's Party, and in the North West by David Cawood's,William Gradwell and Robert Kilbrook's."23rd day of June 1847 (Signed by) Sir Henry Pottinger, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope'


Richard and Ann were 1820 settlers. Arrived on the ship Stentor as members of Richardson's Group [21]. N.B. his age is given in burial register as 99 yr 10 mo, but this is incorrect (94 ys 10 mo). There is no gravestone for Richard in the Cradock cemetery [6]. Cutler's apprentice 1797 [33].

Richard William Hulley, the 1820 settler patriarch came with his wife and four children. Five more were born here. It took enterprise and courage for anyone, no matter how poor, to abandon his home in Britain in 1820 and migrate to a far and unknown part of the world such as Southern Africa. The difficulties, delays and expenses of transport were such that once leaving his native soil, the emigrant knew that it was unlikely that he would see his old home again.
Hard work and frontier dangers kept most immigrants to their lands. (95y).

Settler:
Richardson's party on the Stentor

Buried:
Description: Rev E Gedye

Richard married Ann Brangan, 1820 Settler about 1809 in Ireland. Ann was born in 1783 in Bandon, Co Cork, Ireland; died in Dec 1844 in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2559
• Name: Ann Brangan 1820
• Occupation: a Housewife
• Settler: 13 Jan 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

gives BRANGHAM or BRAUGHAM, usually the former. [21] gives BRIDGHAM. [21] gives BRANGAN. Cannot trace a Boudon in Ireland (as per [14]): most likely Bandon, the place where her daughter Sarah was also born. [44] gives birth date as 1783.

The cemetery is situated in the grounds of the Methodist Church on Mount Mercy. On 16th April, 1826, the people were very apprehensive while 40 elephants passed this first church, on their way to feeding sites. Ann born & married at Bandon not Brandon - Richard's army records confirm. Bandon lies on the Bandon river in Cork County

Settler:
Richardson's party on the Stentor