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- Stuart's birth was registered in the Parish of Edmonton, Hornsey, London. His parents were living at 3 Brownswood Road, South Hornsey at the time. He attended the Albert Memorial College at Framlingham, Suffolk, a boarding school which had 249 boys in residence in 1901. 1901 Census ref : RG13 ,Piece 1787, folio 145, page 6. Shows age of 15. This census record was for the Albert Memorial College at Framlingham in Suffolk East.
Stuart left England for the farm Glen Avon, at Somerset East, Cape, South Africa, to learn farming.
I could never understand the connection of Stuart to Glen Avon, until we found a postcard amongst an old photo album, which was from Louis John, Stuart's father, to Henry Mitford-Barberton! It turned out that these two gents were expert shots with rifles, and had competed against each other at the famous Bisley and Wimbledon shoots in England. They had obviously become 'friends' at the competions, and the offer made to Stuart to go to the 'family farm' in South Africa. Glen Avon was used as a training farm at the time.
He was a passenger on board the SCOT, a 4277 tonnage ship under Captain T J Bremner, departing from Southampton on 22 March 1902 for the Cape. Glen Avon was originally owned by Robert Hart, whose daughter Sarah Elizabeth married Robert Mitford Bowker, father of Oliver Osbaldiston Bowker. Whilst there he visited the farm Glen Craig, owned by Oliver Osbaldiston Bowker, and met Oliver's daughter, Vera whom he eventually married.
After John and Susie-Bell were born, the family moved firstly to Fonteinshoek farm, where they ran an Ostrich farm. When the Ostrich feather industry collapsed they sold, and moved to the Pretoria region to manage a farm for a Mr von Boskorten. They later moved to Lehau, Transvaal, where Stuart was employed as a farmer/manager on a George Marais' farm. see https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKK-V9TW-R?i=569&cat=305287 fro Vera's genealogy report of the 1820 Settlers Centenary. Lehau siding is at -25.063535, 28.465606 on google maps. There does not appear to be any railway line in the area now (2016).
In 1920, he again moved, this time to his own farm, 'Egerton', at Settlers, Transvaal. They stayed at this farm for the best part of 30 years, and were hit by the drought in the late 1940s. John, his eldest son, took over the farm in 1950. Stuart and Vera moved to Arcadia in Pretoria, selling Insurance, and then to the farm Onverwacht at Nottingham Road, KwaZulu Natal, where Stuart was employed as an Estate Agent, specialising in farm sales in the area. They retired to Mooi River, KwaZulu Natal, in the early 1950s, and took in Susie-Bell's 4 children for the school holidays to help out Susie-Bell who was working in Pietermaritzburg at the time.
After Vera died in 1965, Stuart married Vera's sister Ella who was also widowed, and they moved to Welkom in the Free State to be closer to her family.
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