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Thomas Charles White, 1820 Settler

Thomas Charles White, 1820 Settler

Male 1791 - 1835  (43 years)

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  1. 1.  Thomas Charles White, 1820 SettlerThomas Charles White, 1820 Settler was born on 6 Oct 1791 in Gibraltar (son of John White and Elizabeth Bentley); died on 13 May 1835 in Bashee River, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • 1820 Lineage: Yes
    • Settler ID: 3298
    • Name: Thomas Charles (Maj) White 1820
    • Occupation: an Army Officer
    • Residence: Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England
    • Settler: 13 Jan 1802, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
    • Occupation: 1833, Table farm, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Sheep Farmer and Agriculturist

    Notes:

    Leader of his White party on the Stentor from Liverpool. see references in "Some Frontier Families" by Ivan Mitford-Barberton & Violet White, page 283.

    He is buried on the left bank of the Bashee River.

    Leader of his White party on the Stentor from Liverpool.
    see references in "Some Frontier Families" by Ivan Mitford-Barberton &Violet White, page 283

    WHITE, Thomas. Aged 27, on half pay from the army became one of the foremost sheep farmers in Albany. He imported special wheat seed from Paris and this helped to bring prosperity to many Albany farmers. In the 1835 Kaffir War he was a Major in the Grahamstown Volunteers and employed in making a topographical survey of the native territory. In May, 1835, when on campaign and sketching the countryside near the Bashee River, he was killed by the Blacks.
    SOURCE: The Settler named Jeremiah Goldswain by Pauline GOLDSWAIN.

    MILI:
    Description: 79th Regiment

    Settler:
    White's party on the Stentor

    Died:
    Description: in Military Action, 6th Frontier War (1834 -1835) [Hintsa's War]lace:
    Sacred to the Memory of
    THOMAS CHARLES WHITE
    A Native of Nottinghamshire, England
    (Formerly Lieutenant in HM 25th Regiment of Foot)
    Major of the Albany Local Volunteers and Acting Deputy Quartermaster General to the Burgher Force; who, after many years of persevering and successful effort, asd an Agriculturalist, to promote the welfare of his fellow Settlers, and improve this the country of his adoption, to which he emigrated in the year 1820, was slain by Kafirs on 14th May 1835 on the banks of the Bashee River, whither he had marched with a detachment of the British Forces under the command of Col. Smith, CB, to punish the calamitous and unprovoked Irruption of the Kafir tribes into this colony in December 1834. He thus died as he had lived ... in the service of his country.
    This Tablet is Erected
    By the Public
    As a tribute to those talents and that worth by which he was distinguished
    Alike in social as in public life
    (Grahamstown Journal)

    Thomas married Ann Grant Damant, 1820 Settler on 29 Nov 1826 in London Church (St Pancras), London, England. Ann (daughter of Thomas Sancroft Damant and Anna Grant) was born on 23 Nov 1805 in Fakenham, Norfolk, England; died on 11 Oct 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Major Thomas Charles White was born on 30 Sep 1827 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 4 Aug 1909; was buried in Table Farm Cemetery, Table Farm, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    2. George White was born on 2 Mar 1829; died on 1 May 1906 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Table Farm Cemetery, Table Farm, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    3. Emily Damant White was born on 25 Mar 1833 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 14 Dec 1864; was buried in Table Farm Cemetery, Table Farm, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John White

    John + Elizabeth Bentley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth Bentley
    Children:
    1. 1. Thomas Charles White, 1820 Settler was born on 6 Oct 1791 in Gibraltar; died on 13 May 1835 in Bashee River, Eastern Cape, South Africa.



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