Lynn Forsberg

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Lynne Forsberg

Family/Spouse: Tony van der Merwe. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Marriage Status: Divorced

1. Shaun van der Merwe
2. Sean van der Merwe
3. Daniel van der Merwe

Family/Spouse: David Deans. David died on 1 Apr 2016. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bernard + Estelle Tersia Penny. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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Eighth son of Charles Henry Penny and Elizabeth Dean. His mother wanted him name "Norgrove", but his father forgot how to spell the name when he registered the baby. The clerk, hard of hearing, recorded the name inadvertantly as "Normal", and thus it stayed for the rest of his life. Educated at Port Elizabeth. Entered the hotel business with his father, and also lost everything in the ill fated venture in Bechuanaland. Became a gold sampler on the Modder Bee mine in Benoni. Began to court his wife to be in 1915, but had to work in the diamond mines for several years to earn enough money to marry.

Stanley married Gladys Mona Tersia Smith in 1921. Gladys (daughter of Robert Cherer Smith and Jesse Ada Orchard) was born in 1899; died in 1988. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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Eldest son of Charles Penny II. Married in 1871. Had nine sons, and one daughter who died in infancy. Owned the farm Queensbury at New England, Cape Province, inherited from the Dean family. Became a scout with the rank of captain in the Boer War on the British side under Lord Kitchener. After the war gained great respect from the Boers for his just settlement of their land claims. Became a hotel keeper in Barkley East. In 1912, sold his hotels, bought livestock, and with his sons moved to the Tati Concessions in Bechuanaland (Botswana) to homestead. The cattle died enroute resulting in financial disaster for the family. They moved back to the gold mines at Benoni, where he became a coal merchant. Died in Plumtree, Rhodesia of prostatic obstruction. He was red headed and blue eyed, strikingly handsome. He had a fiery tember, used strong language and was pugnacious.

Notation from Frank Penny: Charles owned the Grand Hotel in Barkley East where he became a legend! He once cursed the itinerant piano tuner for bad workmanship and the man died in the hotel that night! Charles immediately reformed and gave up his heavy pipe smoking and drinking. The family pet baboon was given a funeral, complete with coffin and procession through Barkley East, after it had hanged itself. A cattle ranching venture in Botswana resulted in financial ruin. He then became a deeply religious man.

NOTE BY CHERER PENNY:

"One day my wife (Esme) and I were visiting Queensbury and the adjacent farm Lauriston, and then resident owners pointed out to us a small enclosed cemetary situated under a tree on the crest of a nearby hillock. We walked over to see it, and found there the small grave and headstone of little Millicent, as well as a number of graves of other members of this extended family. My granny, Elizabeth (Dean), always mourned the loss of the only girl born to her and taken so early to be with the Lord."

death notice ref: 6261 cape town archives.

Charles married Elizabeth Jean Dean in May 1875 in New England, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Elizabeth (daughter of Charles Dean and Jane Forbes) was born on 15 Jul 1855; died in 1951 in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); was buried in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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ELIZABETH DEAN also came from 1820 Settler stock.

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Married:
Queensberry

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: Photgrapher

Robert + Jesse Ada Orchard. Jesse (daughter of Edwin Orchard and Elizabeth Bone) was born about 1865 in Burgersdorp, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]