William Heathcote

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Gage + Hermina Aletta Fourie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: George Gage Heathcote RN
• Occupation: Between 1840 and 1844; a Sheep Farmer

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Extracts from the South African Commercial Advertiser - May1838
Transcribed from CO53/4 at the National Archives at Kew, London

FARM AND SHEEP FOR SALE
For Sale by Private Contract, the Farm 'Klip Fontein' situate in the Ward Gamtos River, District of Uitenhage, comprising about 5,600 Acres of Pasture and Arable Land. It is admirably adapted for Sheep, Cattle and Horses, and has a productive Garden well stocked with Fruit Trees, and three excellent Springs, from which the Garden may be irrigated. There is a large substantial Dwelling House on the Place, and several good and extensive Outbuildings. Also for Sale, on the Farm, 200 well bred Ewes in Lamb by imported Rams, and 200 Wethers.
For further particulars apply to Mr. Alex. TENNANT, Uitenhage, or to Mr. G.G. HEATHCOTE on the Farm.

Wednesday 9 May 1838

George married Emma Philipps, 1820 Settler on 4 Jan 1836 in Grahamstown Church (St George's - Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Emma (daughter of Thomas Philipps, 1820 Settler and Charlotte Harriet Arboin, 1820 Settler) was born in 1813; died on 20 Jul 1858 in Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 624
• Name: Emma Philipps 1820
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England

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issue 3 sons, 4 daughters

Settler:
Philipps' party on the Kennersley Castle

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Married:
Description: Rev John Heavyside

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• Name: Henry Heathcote

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MILI:
Description: Royal Navy

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 628
• Name: Thomas Philipps 1820
• Occupation: a Gentleman Banker
• Residence: Haverford West, Pembrokeshire, Wales
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England

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Thomas PHILIPPS was the author of 'Scenes and Occurrences in Albany and Cafferland' and 'Advantages of Emigration to Algoa Bay and Albany'. His letters to relatives in Wales edited by Prof. A. KEPPEL-JONES are published under the title 'Philipps, 1820 Settler'.
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British South Africa
A History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope from its Conquest 1795 to the Settlement of Albany by the British Emigration of 1819 [A.D. 1795 - 1825]
WITH NOTICES OF SOME OF THE BRITISH SETTLERS OF 1820
BY
COLIN TURING CAMPBELL
[Residient at Graham's Town, 1845-1871]

Phillipps, Thomas, head of a party from Pembrokeshire, Wales ; arrived by the Kennersley Castle. He was a man of opulence, had been a banker at Haverfordwest, and was in middle life. He brought his wife, seven children, and three female servants. His location was towards the coast, with Mr. Greathead and Mr. Southey as immediate neighbours. Here he applied himself to the cultivation of the land, and the erection of his dwelling-house, Mr. George Thompson, who travelled through the Settlement in January, 1821, and again in May, 1823, gives a pleasing description of the progress made by the settlers, their cheerful homes and their anticipations of prosperity. He gives a vignette of Mr. Phillipps's house, "Glendour," at p. 146 vol. ii., and refers to him as one of the leading inhabitants in industry and enterprise. All prospects of future happiness were ruthlessly destroyed by the irruption of the Kafirs in 1835, when his house was consumed by fire, his crops destroyed, and his cattle and other properties carried off.
He was all at once entirely ruined, and thankful that he and his family escaped with their lives to Graham's Town. Adversity followed him through the rest of his life. His eldest son Edward removed to Natal, and there settled. His eldest daughter Catherine married Mr. John Carlisle, and left issue; the next daughter, Charlotte, married Mr. Temple Nourse, and left two sons and two daughters ; Sophie, the third daughter, was the only one who survived her father, and died at Graham's Town, 1892, at the age of eighty four years. Frederick, the second son, married Miss Mary Ann Currie, and was killed by lightning on his farm near Bedford, leaving one son, Edward, and a daughter, who married Mr. Frederick Carlisle. This son Edward left two daughters only, so there is no male representative of the family. Singularly, Edward, walking behind his cart up the Katberg was struck by lightning, and about the same time his sister, travelling by wagon, had a narrow escape, six or eight of the oxen being killed and the wagon also struck. John, the youngest son, died in Cradock in 1852. Mr. Phillipps was a staunch Freemason, and, by his efforts and those of Dr. Peter Campbell and others, obtained a charter from the Grand Lodge of England, granted by H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, K.G., 3rd January, 1828, as the Albany Lodge, No. 817, then 584 in 1832, and in closing up the numbers in 1863 was renumbered 389. The first officers for this Lodge, the oldest but one in all South Africa, the British at Cape Town being the premier, for 1828-29 were—Bro. Thomas Phillips, W.M. ; Bro. R. M. Whitnal, LW. ; Bro. Peter Campbell, S.W. ; Bro. W. E. Smith, Treasurer; Bro. G. F. Stokes, Secretary. Bro. Phillipps was re-elected W.M., 1829-30.


Settler:
Philipps' party on the Kennersley Castle

Thomas married Charlotte Harriet Arboin, 1820 Settler on 30 Jul 1801 in St Mary's, Islington, London, England. Charlotte (daughter of Mathew Arboin and - wife of Mathew Arboin) was born in 1779 in Highbury Place, London, England; died on 11 Dec 1834 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 62
• Name: Charlotte Harriet Arboin 1820
• Settler: 10 Jan 1820, Bristol, Somerset, England

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Settler:
Philipps' party on the Kennersley Castle

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Ω Residence:RESI:
'Lampeter farm'