Louisa Pringle

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Family/Spouse: Stephen William Smith. Stephen was born on 14 Nov 1855 in Manchester, Lancashire, England; died on 2 Jul 1930 in Griquatown, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Henry Pringle Smith was born on 28 Jan 1884; died on 11 May 1952.
2. Mary Jane Smith was born on 24 Oct 1885.
3. Norah Constance Smith was born on 19 Jul 1887; died on 9 Aug 1936.
4. Sydney Gordon Smith was born on 20 Apr 1889; died on 6 Aug 1939.
5. Alma Susannah Smith was born on 14 Jan 1891.
6. Stephen Wilfred Smith was born on 16 Nov 1892.
7. Harold Robert Smith was born on 3 Sep 1894; died on 12 Jan 1895.
8. Norman Jessie Gerald Smith was born on 21 Jan 1896; died in 1918.
9. Alice Rosalie Smith was born on 4 May 1899; died on 26 Sep 1937.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

James married Jane Stanton on 24 Aug 1861 in Fort Beaufort Church (St. Jophn's),Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Jane (daughter of William Stanton, 1820 Settler and Louisa Timm, 1820 Settler) was born on 16 Sep 1839 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 17 Oct 1925. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 651
• Name: John Pringle 1820
• Occupation: an Agriculturist
• Residence: Glen Thorn farm, Mancazana Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

His tombstone indicates his birth as being 21 April 1791 (Tessa King and Cemetery Recording CD from the GSSA ) - Pringles of the Valleys has his dob as 21 April 1787.

John and his brother Thomas started their farm in Eildon which they were allocated as part of the 1820 Settlers scheme. As Grant's party from Scotland decided to go to America rather than South Africa, and the sinking of the Aboena due to fire with loss of almost all the emigrant settler passengers, a lot of the surrounding farm land was not taken up by those potential settlers. The Pringles therefore had the opportunity to acquire more land to expand their farming enterprises. John did not get on with his younger brother, and went to assist Robert Hart in running the Somerset Government farm, and to learn the 'tricks' of farming in South Africa from Robert Hart. It was while he was there, that he met Susan Parr nee Stretch, a recent widow, and sister of Charles Lennox Stretch who had married Robert Hart's eldest daughter, Anna.


Herald, date unknown.
Settler family angry as home consigned rubble history
by Andrew Unsworth

Glenthorn, an 1820 Settler farmhouse in the Eastern Cape which belonged to the PRINGLE family for more than 150 years, is destined for demolition.

The loss of the home seven years ago upset surviving members of the prominent family, but it could disappear forever as the new owner cannot afford to keep it standing.

The National Monuments Council regards the house as historic but can do little to save it as it was never declared a national monument - a step that can be taken only with the owner's consent.

The farm was established north of Adelaide, Eastern Cape in 1824 by John PRINGLE, one of four brothers who led the 1820 British settlers, on land granted to him by Lord Charles SOMERSET. His brother, Thomas, went on to tackle the colonial authorities over the settlers' plight by founding a newspaper in Cape Town. His name is still linked to the freedom of the press in South Africa.

Built in 1841, the house was burnt to the ground and rebuilt three times in the frontier wars between the settlers and Xhosas. It was spared only after two women related to a chief were allowed to settle on the farm. Although it was altered and extended over the years, it remained in the PRINGLE family until it was sold by Errol PRINGLE seven years ago to settle debts.

The controversial sale left bitter divisions. One of Errol's brothers, Crighton PRINGLE of Bedford, said talk of the home in which he grew up opened old wounds and he was not prepared to discuss it. Another brother, Denzil PRINGLE of Grahamstown, was resigned to the house's fate. "One has to forget the past, but I would love to see it kept as a national monument."

The present owner, Louw DE BEER, lives on an adjoining farm, 'Marshall Vale', also once owned by a branch of the PRINGLE family. He has spent thousands on restoring the turn-of-the-century farm house, but the older homestead on Glenthorn has stood abandoned. "It's been vandalised and would cost too much to restore," he said. "I use and maintain the outbuildings, but the house has no economic use in a remote area like this. "One is sad to do it but there is really no choice."

The farm is in the heart of "settler country", nestling in a valley of the Winterberg mountains. Today, the house stands in what was once a magnificent garden. Its large rooms are long empty, save for stray sheep droppings, and the billiards room is marked only by a rectangle cut in the floor for the table. Pages of the family history, 'The Pringles of the Valley', lie scattered in what was once the study of Eric PRINGLE, its author and the father of the last owner.

The outbuildings served as a fort in the Frontier Wars and the window openings are angled to facilitate defensive gunfire. Nearby is a chapel built in 1840 by John PRINGLE and surrounded by the graves of generations of PRINGLEs. It's a national monument.

The demise of an old farmhouse is nothing new on the platteland. Ironically, the relics of pre-colonial human settlements have been protected by law since 1911, but buildings put up since 1652 were not, unless they were declared monuments. A relatively unknown clause of the National Monuments Act has, since 1986, extended some protection to any building more than 50 years old. But the National Monuments Council says the law is so wide that it is dependent on local authorities to refer sensitive cases to it. Many do, but the "50-year clause" has never really been applied and many suburban renovators are breaking the law.

Brian JACKSON, Eastern Cape head of the National Monuments Council, was horrified to hear of Glenthorn's planned demolition, but was not prepared to comment until he had seen the house. His intervention is all that stands between Glenthorn and the demolisher's hammer.



Settler:
Pringle's party on the Brilliant

John married Susan Stretch on 26 Mar 1822 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Susan (daughter of James St. Leger Stretch and Catherine Devenish) was born in 1791 in Ireland; died on 11 Jan 1879 in Adelaide, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Glen Thorn Cemetery (Presbyterian) on Glen Thorn farm, Mancazana Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Susan or Susanna Stretch

Notes:

Conflicting dates: Ivan Mitford-Barberton in Some Frontier Families, under Stretch has Susan's years as 1798 - 1879 yet,under Hart, has her mother Anna's birth year as 1805.

DEATH NOTICE
Filed 17 March 1879 6/9/376 6523
Name of Deceased: Susan STRETCH
PRINGLE
Place of Birth: Ireland
Names of Parents: STRETCH
Age of Deceased:
Widow of the late John PRINGLE
Date of Death: 11 January 1879
Place of Death: 'Mill Bank',
Fort Beaufort
Names of Children and whether Major or Minor:
Robert Pears PRINGLE
James Stretch PRINGLE
Catherine PRINGLE
Isabella PRINGLE
Mary Anne PRINGLE
Ellen Stretch PRINGLE
Whether the deceased left any property movable or immovable? Wearing apparell and a few presents in Cash.
Signed by William Ainslie, Snr.

Susan Parr b. bet 1813-1816 London; d.9 Jul 1882 Battlesden Farm, Alice District. Married James Attwell on 27 Mar 1832.
She was d.o. Edward Parr [b. bet 1792-1795 England; d. abt 1818 England] and Susan Stretch [b.1796 Ireland; d. 11 Jan 1879 Adelaide, Cape, age 88].
Buried in Glenthorn Prebyterian Cem. Mancazana.
Susan was d.o.James St Ledger Stretch [b.1769 Knock Duff, County Cork, Ireland; d.23 Apr 1821 South Arica; buried Millbank, near Fort Beufort] and Catherine Devenish [b. 7 Aug 1767 Knock Duff, County Cork; d.31 May 1845 Adelaide, Cape aged 79] Buried Millbank, near Fort Beaufort.
Susan Stretch married a second time on 26 Mar 1822, after the death of Edward Parr, to John Pringle [b.31 Apr 1787; d.7 Apr 1864.

Notes:

Microfilm #1886513
Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Marriage Licenses: 1821 - 1884
Albany/Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa
Item 7
Entry #11
Husband: John PRINGLE, 33, England
Wife: Susanna STRETCH, 30, Widow of the late Edward Parr,
1 child - left in England with her Mother
Date: 3/26/1822

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 736
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

His Obituary

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

William married Louisa Timm, 1820 Settler on 7 Feb 1832 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Louisa (daughter of Thomas Timm, 1820 Settler and Elizabeth Holt, 1820 Settler) was born in 1815 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England; was christened on 31 Jul 1815 in St Mary, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England; died on 14 Feb 1877 in Tarkastad, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 783
• Name: Lucy Timm
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

Known as Lucy.
Lucy according to DN MOOC 6/9/44-9311 Louisa according to The Settler Handbook

Settler:
Calton's party on the Albury

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 652
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Robert Pringle, farmer from Blakelaw, Roxburghshire had married firstly Catherine Haitlie who died in 1795 leaving 7 children, and secondly Beatix Scott who bore 3 children. Although Robert was nominally the head of Pringle's party of 24 persons who came out in 1820 on the Brilliant, the heavy respopnsibility of that office was assumed by his son, Thomas. The party was located in a remote and dangerous part of the frontier, the Baviaans River valley. They were expected to be joined by 500 other countrymen from Scotland, but when these never came, the Pringle's grant was extended to 20,000 acres.

Interesting details at http://www.geocities.com/skildsoom/PringleE.html

Settler:
Pringle's party on the Brilliant

Robert + Catherine Haitlie. Catherine died in 1795. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

was of the 87th Regiment and a government land surveyor
> From notes on the Diary of Charles Lennox STRETCH
Page 2 incorrectly states that both of STRETCH's parents emigrated to the Cape. STRETCH's father died in Limerick in 1822 (MS 14827 Cory Library) and, as STRETCH goes on to record on Page 13 of his journal, his mother arrived at Beaufort West from Ireland on 15 Aug 1825 (This should presumably be 1826, since it was only towards the end of 1825 that she requested the Colonial Office for a passage on a government vessel to the Cape: G McCall THEAL, comp., Records of the Cape Colony [London, 1897-1905], XX111, p.408 R.W. Hay to Commissioner of Navy, 7 Nov 1825) STRETCH notes (journal p.13) that James ATTWELL went to accompany Catherine STRETCH on her journey from Cape Town; ATTWELL was married to STRETCH's niece, Susan, the daughter of STRETCH's sister Susan from her first marriage to Edward PARR
> From the Journal of Charles Lennox STRETCH, Edited by Basil A Le Cordeur

James + Catherine Devenish. Catherine (daughter of John Devenish and Catherine Meares) was born on 7 Aug 1767; died on 31 May 1845 in Tyumie, Eastern Cape Colony, South Africa; was buried in Millbank, near Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of John Devenish of Mears Court, Westmeath, Ireland.

from The Grahamstown Journal:
Died at the Tyumie Residence, Caffraria, on the 31st ultimo, Catherine, relict of James St.Leger STRETCH Esq of Knock Duff, County of Cork, Ireland - aged 79.
Tyumie Residence, 1st June 1845

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 737
• Name: William Stanton 1820
• Occupation: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Field Cornet
• Occupation: a Locksmith and Bellhanger
• Occupation: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Wagonmaker
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
• Occupation: 1843; a Director of Grahamstown,Bathurst,and Kowie Shipping Company

Notes:

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

William married Elizabeth Moxham, 1820 Settler on 6 Feb 1803 in London, England. Elizabeth was born in 1785 in England; died in Dec 1830; was buried on 28 Dec 1830 in Bathurst Church (St John's - Anglican), Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 733
• Name: Elizabeth Stanton
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

called Elizabeth STANTON in the marriage register .. is this possible ??
name MAXON in Mitford-Barberton's books

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 785
• Occupation: a Framework Knitter
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Notes:

1775 according to DN MOOC 6/9/44-9311; 1780 according to The Settler Handbook

Framework knitter who came out with Calton's Party on the Albury, left Liverpool 13 Feb 1820, arrived in Algoa Bay 15 May. Settled on Torrens River, location was named Clumber after the seat of the Duke of Newcastle.

Carol Forsberg wrote on Facebook: This is what I have Thomas Tmms - Source: Familysearch.org
Name: Thomas Timms
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 26 Jan 1775
Christening Place: SAINT MARY,NOTTINGHAM,NOTTINGHAM,ENGLAND
Father's Name: Charles Timms
Mother's Name: Elisabeth
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C04487-1
System Origin: England-ODM GS Film number: 503799

1820 SETTLER PARTY: CALTON, SHIP: ALBURY

OCCUPATION PRIOR TO MIGRATION TO S.A.: FRAMEWORK KNITTER

NOTE: It was apparently the death of their eldest son, John, that was the final straw that prompted Thomas to make the decision to go to the Cape Colony; for John had been murdered. This had been passed down by word of mouth in some parts of the Timm family in South Africa. Thomas and Elizabeth and the entire communityknew who had committed the murder, and that justice had not been done. In their pain and grief, they decided to leave England with their remaining children, Charles, Edward, Thomas, Eliza and Louisa. The matter actually came to trial in 1822. We will never know if they knew this or not.

It is highly likely that Thomas and Elizabeth had at least one other child between John (1799) and Charles (1804). This child would likely have been either stillborn or would have died young, before being baptised, as we cannot (at this stage) find any reference to a child being born around 1802.

Died at Bathurst on 10th instant, aged 72 years, at the residence of his son-in-law W. Allen, Mr. Thos. Timms of the Nottingham Party. Deceased was one of the original settlers of 1820.

Ticknall is in Derbyshire, the next county over from Nottinghamshire, where Thomas was apparently born and from where the Timms emigrated to South Africa.

DEATH NOTICE: MOOC, 6/9/44-9311

It appears that Thomas was baptised as TIMMS in England, but that may have been an error in the registration by the church minister. Thomas' son John and the trial etc., all refer to him has John Timm. Thomas signed the Nottingham party agreement as Thomas Timm and the manifests have them as TIMM.
There appears to have ben a disagreement of some sort by the son Charles with the rest of the family, and he decided to use the name TIMMS.

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Settler:
Calton's party on the Albury

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Thomas married Elizabeth Holt, 1820 Settler on 9 Nov 1795 in Calke, Derby, England. Elizabeth was born in 1772 in Ticknall, Derbyshire, England; died on 27 Jun 1852 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 347
• Settler: 13 Feb 1820, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Settler:
Calton's party on the Albury

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