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Family |
Sarah Nn |
Married |
Yes, date unknown |
Children |
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Father |
Thomas Eastland |
Mother |
Sarah Nn |
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Family |
Ann Amelia Leach, 1820 Settler, b. 1818, Eynsham, Oxfordshire, England |
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Name |
Sarah Nn |
Gender |
Female |
Person ID |
I128479 |
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Last Modified |
13 Jan 2019 |
Family |
Thomas Eastland |
Marriage |
Yes, date unknown |
Notes |
- Appeared in Grocott's Mail dated 29th October, 1951.
"Thomas Eastland belonged to the same party as Richard Bowles. He was accompanied by his wife Sarah, three sons and three daughters, ages ranging from one year up to thirteen. He was granted land on the West bank of the Kareigha River.
Eastland was a sawyer by trade and, over twenty miles to the West in the Oliphant Hoek forest, he felled the great yellow wood trees and sawed them into planks and beams for the builders of Grahamstown, riding home at wee-ends and returning to his work on Monday morning.
During the week, in their home, Mrs Eastland kept the first Kareigha School and Sunday School was held in the same home with Thomas Eastland junior as the Superintendant.
CHURCH BUILT :
In 1834 the Settlers decided to build a church. Thomas Eastland gave the site and towards the end of the year the Rev. William Davies, Baptist minister from Grahamstown, laid the foundation stone.
The church took twenty years to complete because of three Kaffir wars.
In 1854 the first service was held in a building with mud floors and thatched roof. Young John Webber led the singing by means of a flute.
The church is still in use, but the thatched roof has gone and corrugated iron has taken its place. The mud floors are boarded and a fine organ played by Mrs. Malcolm Baines, leads the singing.
After the close of the war with Hintza in 1835, the Eastlands returned no more to Lower Kariegha.
The Webbers took their place - William and Elizabeth Webber, as a newly married couple (aged 21 and 20 respectively), came from Surrey with Scott's Party in the Nautilus.
Thomas Eastland, the Settler, is buried in the old cemetary, Grahamstown. His son Thomas, married a Miss Leach and moved to beyond Fort Beaufort. With the outbreak of Umlanjeni's War he was murdered."
R Hare, Jnr. and John Leach entered partnership as Retail Store [2]
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Children |
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Family ID |
F45773 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Last Modified |
30 Jun 2016 |
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Sources |
- [S2948] Neil Zimmerman, Zimmerman gedcom.
Record originated in Zimmerman gedcom...
- [S2948] Neil Zimmerman, Zimmerman gedcom.
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