Thomas Cullinan Barker, OBE

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

Envoy in the Salvation Army, awarded OBE for his service to the church

Family/Spouse: Jessie Mary Boshoff Bradley. Jessie was born on 27 Jul 1898 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; died on 19 Mar 1988 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Roland Bradley Barker was born on 23 Jan 1937; died on 26 Jul 2006 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
2. Cullinan Frank James Barker

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Salvation Army

William + Sarah Catherine Cullinan. Sarah (daughter of James Cullinan and Louisa Selby) was born on 9 Jul 1864 in Elands Post, Seymour (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 19 Sep 1864 in Seymour, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 9 Jun 1946. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Uncle of Sir Thomas Cullinan of the diamonds fame. James came from Ireland. (Some say he was a brother of Thomas & not his Uncle)

James married Louisa Selby on 16 Jun 1863 in Stockenstroom District, Cradock (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa. Louisa (daughter of John Selby and Sarah Randall, 1820 Settler) was born on 12 Jun 1844; was christened on 18 Aug 1844 in Bathurst & Lower Albany Circuit, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died in 1923. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Private, 45th Regiment of Foot, Farmer

Notes:

James and Catherine Cullinan born in Ireland arrived in England before 1837. He joined the British Army and was sent to Africa with the 45th Regiment of Foot about 1848.
Catherine died 1868 in Seymour, Cape.

James + Catherine Alpin. Catherine was born in 1817 in Naas, Ireland; died on 29 Jul 1868 in Seymour, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: James Party, Bethany, Lynedoch River, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

Notes:

Only the birth of his brother William is shown in Keyworth. I have found the following on IGI which could be our John - his mother died in Bunny which makes me think they went there shortly after his brother's birth ???
JOHN SELBY
Birth:
Christening: 21 JAN 1808 Bunny, Nottingham, England
Parents:
Father: WILLIAM SELBY Family
Mother: MARY
Also transcribed from the Bunny Church Records
Entry #2 : 21 Jan 1808 - John to William & Mary Selby of Bradmore

He arrived in Algoa Bay in January 1843 on immigrant ship "Margaret Hardy" with his sister Elizabeth. They were independent Settlers from Britian.

John married Sarah Randall, 1820 Settler on 23 Oct 1843 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Sarah (daughter of James Randall, 1820 Settler and Rebecca Watts, 1820 Settler) was born on 24 Oct 1819 in Westbury, Wiltshire, England; was christened on 14 Nov 1819 in Westbury Church (All Saints), Westbury, Wiltshire; died on 6 Oct 1897 in Elandspos, Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 679
• Name: Sarah Randall 1820
• Occupation: a Housewife & Farmer
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

When disembarking, Sarah (6m) slipped out of her shawls into the sea and was snatched up again in time to save her young life. After the 8th Kaffir War John & Sarah left Bathurst to take up a farm near Fort Beaufort. There is a story about Sarah loading guns during an attack by Xhosas until she had to flee to the doctor's house for the birth of Caroline in 1851.
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Weekend Post, 5 Mar 1983
Memories of an 1820 Great Gran

Mrs. May LEONARD, 91 years old and now living in Port Elizabeth, remembers her 1820 Settler great-grandmother, Sarah BRADLEY very well as she was six years old when Sarah died.

Living in Seymour, she used to cross the little Geysie River by a two-plank bridge to visit her aged relative. Sarah's garden was a delight with its fruit trees, big shady Bellomore and one Moss rose, which May particularly remembers. The house and tree were still there a few years ago.

Sarah was born in England, third child of RANDALL parents, shortly before the Weymouth sailed. This was confirmed by Dr. PRINGLE who investigated reported births during the voyage. These had not been recorded in the ship's log as the Weymouth being of Royal Navy was only required to record deaths.

So Sarah was a baby when she arrived off Port Elizabeth in 1820 and she was the baby dropped into Algoa Bay when the bundle of rags in which she was wrapped was being handed from the Weymouth to the occupants of the boat alongside. She was fished out of the water and lived to continue an adventurous life, which included loading guns for the men during an attack on their thornbush-ringed stockade.

A daughter from her first marriage became May's grandmother.

At Seymour where they later settled, she was married again to SELBY, who was killed while transporting their produce to Grahamstown. BRADLEY was her third husband.

She died in Seymour, aged 77, but her mother, Sarah RANDALL, lived to 100, according to her monument at Bathurst.
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Settler:
James's party on the Weymouth