James Percy Melborne Tainton

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

There is a monument to him in King William's Town.
He was a special magistrate for the KWT district.

Description: Rev T Kay

Died:
Description: killed by Gaikas

Richard + Amelia Lockington Stanger. Amelia (daughter of Samuel Stanger and Amelia Sarah Freeman) was born on 15 Jan 1834 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England; died in May 1892 in Rose Cottage, Upper Reserve, King Williams' Town.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1940
• Name: Richard Tainton 1820
• Occupation: a Carpenter
• Occupation: Tainton farm, Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer
• Occupation: 'Vermont', Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Farmer
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England

Notes:

see also http://www.airgale.com.au/tainton/d2.htm#g2

Settler:
Holder's party on the Kennersley Castle

Richard married Ann Brooks, 1820 Settler on 9 Nov 1819 in Temple Church, Temple St, Bristol, England. Ann (daughter of George Brookes and Ann Jones) was born on 7 Oct 1799 in Bristol, Somerset, England; was christened on 8 Dec 1799 in Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, Gloustershire England; died on 13 Nov 1876 in Panmure, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1930
• Name: Anne or Mary Brooks 1820
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England

Notes:

Ann and Richard had 5 sons and 6 daughters
There is a note her name may have been Mary. This may have been a family name as there are hints her sister also had this name.

Ann Brooks TAINTON'S Death Notice was incorrectly completed by her eldest son Richard George Tainton.
Josep was, in fact, her half-brother, son of George BROOKES and his second wife Mary EVANS born about 1776, Gloucestershire, England d 18 July 1848 Westury on Trym, near Bristol England married 26 September 1802 St. Mary le Port Church, Bristol, England (this was another church destroyed in a bombing raid during WWII. I, (Tombi Peck) have a photograph of the church from before the war and all that remains of it, namely the church spire. This was the same church in which Rev. John William SHEPSTONE and Elizabeth BROOKS were married on the 18 February 1816.

Settler:
Holder's party on the Kennersley Castle

Notes:

The witnesses at the wedding were Elizabeth and John William Shepstone, Ann's sister and brother in law

Married:
Description: Rev F Elliot

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: an Accountant / Baptist Minister

Notes:

Quoted by Tombi Peck on Rootwebs South Africa Eastern Cape Mailing list, February 2008
"I suspect that Samuel may have, rather like Richard TAINTON his daughter Amelia's father in law been a lay missionary!!
The family story was that Amelia Lockington TAINTON (nee STANGER) wrote to her 'brother in England' must have been her father's younger brother James who had lived with them before they left England describing the attack on and destruction of the Gwanga Mission Station which was run by her in-laws Richard and Ann Brooks TAINTON!! It was, apparently the third and last time it was burned!!
By chance I found a family Memorial as I was struck by the name 'TAINTON' that appeared on a square memorial not far from the obelisk in the Kingwilliamstown Cemetery. I'd gone to the cemetery to see the obelisk erected by public subscription to Richard George TAINTON, his brother John James Henry TAINTON and William BROWN who were murdered at Kwelegha near East London on the 31st December 1877.....later it was used as a memorial to men who died during some of the Frontier Wars....

Unfortunately before I visited the cemetery in Kingwilliamstown I'd visited the Amatole museum where I had used up the film taking pictures of the portraits of Richard George TAINTON and his wife Amelia Lockington TAINTON (nee STANGER) which were shown to me by Stephanie Victor the Curator of the museum (not good photographs as they were taken in a rather dark store-room where I had to use a flash (not a digital camera). I took down the inscription into the back of my address book (I've kept the original notes but have transcribed them into my computer programme). later very kindly sent photographs of the obelisk and its inscription by a list member!

In case anyone else is interested in the inscriptions I will add the transcription here:

"Sacred to the memory of James W.S. WEIR aged 11 months and on the 17th June 1899 Margaret Wilson WEIR aged 26 years and John Goven WEIR born 14th June 1870 died 1st June 1938 and of Mercy Winnifred WEIR born 4th March 1879 died 28th March 1951 and of Amy WEIR born 9th July 1871 died 4th January 1959."
on the same pillar 2nd side:
"Sacred to the memory of James WEIR, Margaret his wife and two sons, parents and brothers and James W. WEIR and of Samuel STANGER died August 1877, Amelia his wife died 1867, parents of Mercy A. WEIR and of James Wilson WEIR died 9th September 1909 aged 67 years. Mercy STANGER beloved wife of James Wilson WEIR born 23rd March 1837. Died 23rd September 1910."
on the same pillar 3rd side:
"Sacred to the memory of John Wallace WEIR born 2nd May 1874 died 3rd June 1956 and of Violet Annie WEIR (nee PERKS) born 20th October 1875 and died 3rd June 1955 and Kathleen Prescott ORSMOND (formerly VORSTER born WEIR) born 18th December 1903 died 20th May 1978."
Same pillar 4th and final side:
"In memory of Lydia Mary LEE (nee TAINTON) born 7th August 1824 and died in King William's Town 24th December 1888 widow of the late Major Wm Lee HM 6th Foot and previously of John CROSS Imperial Cornet Dept. who was killed by Kaffirs in the war of 1852 and buried at Mount KOKE (that's the way it's spelled on the memorial) also Julia Catherine daughter or R. TAINTON born 25th April 1828 died 13th July 1890."

That headstone neatly shows the relationships between the STANGER, WEIR, TAINTON, CROSS, LEE and ORSMOND families if one didn't already know that they were related.

It is obvious to me now that Mercy WEIR (nee STANGER) named her eldest child (who died as an infant) after her uncle James who obviously stayed in England."

Samuel married Amelia Sarah Freeman on 27 Apr 1832 in St Dunstan's, Stepney, London, England. Amelia (daughter of Henry Hawkins Freeman and Mercy Lockington) was born in 1811; died in 1867 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The inscription on the headstone in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Westbury on Trym, near Bristol, England reads:
"In loving memory of
George Brookes
who died February 17th 1848
aged 79 years
also Mary
relic of the above
who died July 18th 1838
aged 72 years
Also Joseph BROOKES
son of the above who passed away
February 7th 1888 aged 72 years
also Louisa Ann BROOKES
who died November 25th 1895
aged 78 years."

George married Ann Jones on 24 Apr 1792 in Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym, near Bristol, England. Ann was born est 1775; died on 6 May 1802 in Westbury on Trym, near Bristol. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Mercy Lockington on 30 Mar 1811 in How St Baptist Church, Plymouth, Devon, England. Mercy was born about 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]