Carolyn Williams

Carolyn married Ross Trevor Gordon [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Bonnie Jane Gordon
2. Alexandra Gordon
3. Stephanie Francis Gordon

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• Name: Alan Coutts Williams

Alan married Margaret Maureen Hart on 6 Jul 1946 in Happy Valley church, Cathcart district, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Margaret (daughter of Stephanus Meintjies Hart and Nellie May Sparks) was born on 18 Sep 1923 in Happy Valley, Cathcart, Cape, South Africa; died on 24 Aug 1984 in Port St Johns, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Peggy Maureen Hart

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5 Children

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• Name: Stephanus Meintjes Hart

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The true story of the lion's claw brooch in the brass box and Meintjies Hart of Happy Valley
(Information from the diaries of Cecily Bowker Norden and a composition written by Pierre Norden, age 10)
"I have an Uncle Meintjies who was a big game hunter. Uncle Meintjies and his gunbearer went hunting lions one day and he took a lot of people to help hunt the lions. They all took tins and fine big sticks. When they walked into the bush all the people started to hit the tins and they made a great and frightening noise to chase the lions out of their hiding places.
Suddenly a lion jumped out of a big bush. Uncle Meintjies fired at the lion and wounded it in the left paw. The lion went straight for Uncle Meintjies who shot at the lion again and wounded it again. All the people who were with Uncle Meintjies ran off. The lion was ten feet off when Uncle Meintjies aimed at his head.
He pulled the trigger but the gun did not go off.
And the lion pounced on him and bit him on the hip. He was lucky that one of the teeth bit on a cartridge. The lion shook him like a cat shakes a mouse. Uncle Meintjies gave a shout of pain and it was a good thing he thought of a story his mother told him when he was young of a man who was walking in the woods when a bear ran at him. He pretended he was dead and the bear smelt him and walked away.
When the lion let Uncle Meintjies go he lay on his stomach is if he was dead. The lion smelt him and then nudged him on his side three times with his nose and then thinking he was dead the lion walked away.
What would have happened if Uncle Meintjies moved?
Well I'll tell you.
The lion would have torn him to pieces.
Soon the other people came back for Uncle Meintjies and helped him to get home.
They found the lion lying dead nearby and had it skinned and today it lies in front of Uncle Meintjies' fireplace with its mouth wide open to remind him of the huge teeth that bit into his hip so long ago and could easily have killed him.
The End.
by Pierre Norden, ten years old"
(1956)
The mounted claw in the brass box is the one given to Gladys Hart Bowker by her brother Meintjies Hart of Happy Valley.
The 10 claws were set into brooches for his sisters, Ida, Lylie, Lily, Myrtle, Eulalie, Gladys, Pearl, Amy, his wife and his mother, Mary.
The brass box belonged to Mary Cottingham.
{the above was posted on Facebook by Christine van Spronsen in 2015}

Stephanus married Nellie May Sparks on 3 Apr 1904 in Komga, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Nellie (daughter of James Walker Sparks and Emily Flanagan) was born on 20 May 1880 in Komga, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 1 Jul 1970 in Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

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Stephanie May Perks (Hart) their grand-daughter remembers them having "long prayers before and after meals - each person kneeling by his or her chair."

Stephanus married Mary Jane Cottingham on 16 Sep 1863 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Mary (daughter of Wolfran Cottingham and Mary Jane Bannister) was born on 14 Mar 1846 in Devonshire, England; died on 22 Dec 1920 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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With reference to the photo of Mary Jane and her daughters:
She made all the dresses herself including her own and was very cross because no-one had told her that her cap wasn't straight.
From Left to Right:
Lilly (John Duthie)
Ida (first to be engaged, showing her ring, Horace Nelson Maggs)
Gladys (Tom Bowker)
Mother (SJ Hart)
Eulalie (Miles Duthie Bowker)
Lylie (died of cancer)
Myrtle (Charles Roberts)
Front:
Pearl (Fred Hutchinson)
Amy or Amie (adopted grandchild married Leo Barnes)

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• 1820 Lineage: Yes

James married Emily Flanagan on 24 Jan 1876 in St Paul's Anglican Church, Komga, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Emily (daughter of George Millin Flanagan and Ann Pitt) was born on 4 Dec 1856 in Komga, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was christened on 11 Jan 1857 in Methodist Church, King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 22 Jan 1934; was buried in St Paul's Anglican Church, Komga, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]