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- [S449] Collett, Joan, "A Time to Plant", 19 Mar 2003, p103.
"...he and Martha were married in 1850. James wrote, 'Married today by Rev Green, Martha Collett to John Trollip at Groenfontein, the wedding numerously and respectably attended.' "
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- [S62] Lynn MacLeod, MacLeod, Lynn, 9 May 2003, p103.
"...he and Martha were married in 1850. James wrote, 'Married today by Rev Green, Martha Collett to John Trollip at Groenfontein, the wedding numerously and respectably attended.' "
The settler William Trollip died in 1875, and the farm Dagga Boer passed on to his eldest son, John.
John Trollip and his wife, unlike most pioneering couples, had no children.
But among the flotsam and jetsam of that oscillating population struggling in the waves of adversity, were many orphan children. The childless young couple felt it their duty to accept as their own, some of these needy boys and girls. Little Louis Henry Trollip, the eldest son of Henry, murdered by the Hottentots, was adopted by his uncle John at an early age and long before John Trollip owned the farm Dagga Boer, the place of his birth. Here in the advancing years of the pioneering William Trollip, his son John, bore the heavy responsibilities of the farm.
The next child to benefit by this big-heartedness was a lad by name, Samuel Meaker. He remained with the Trollips until he became a man, marrying from their home, the dainty little siste of (at a later date) the famous
Judge Gregorowski, of whom more anon.
- [S541] Heese, JA & Lombard, RTJ 1986, South African Genealogies (or SAG),, Vol 1, p.638.
- [S377] Brummer, Hansie, BRUMMER GEDCOM, (http://www.sun.ac.za/gisa/home.asp).
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