Martha Collett^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]}

1831 - 1891  (60 years)

• Name	Martha Collett  [10]
  Birth	29 Jun 1831	Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Gender	Female
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  Death	5 Oct 1891	Daggaboer Farm, Bedford District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Burial	Daggaboer Farm Cemetery, Bedford District, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [11]
  Person ID	I20327	master
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	James Lydford Collett, 1820 Settler,   b. 14 Feb 1800, Stroudwater, Gloucestershire, England d. 10 Aug 1875, Grassridge farm, Cradock (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Rhoda Ann Trollip, 1820 Settler,   b. 21 Dec 1805, Horningsham, Wiltshire, England d. Nov 1895, Rietvlei, Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F7631	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Trollip,   b. 8 May 1828, Daggaboer Farm, Bedford District, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 14 Oct 1892, Holtz Sluit, Kaffirslaagte River, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	26 Sep 1851	Groenfontein farm, Cradock district, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [6, 8]
  	Description: Rev Green
  Children	+ 1. Louis Henry Trollip,   b. 24 Jul 1849   d. 27 Feb 1924, Daggaboer Farm, Bedford District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 74 years)  [Father: Adopted] + 2. Charles Percy Fulton Trollip,   b. 14 Feb 1851   d. May 1909, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 58 years)  [Father: Adopted] + 3. Sophia Usher Pike,   b. 5 Apr 1847   d. 5 Jun 1928, Witwatersrand, Transvaal, South Africa (Age 81 years)  [Father: Adopted]
  Family ID	F7640	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2015

  
  

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  Birth - 29 Jun 1831 - Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death - 5 Oct 1891 - Daggaboer Farm, Bedford District, Eastern Cape, South Africa Burial - - Daggaboer Farm Cemetery, Bedford District, Eastern Cape, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Her death certificate says no children.

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] Meeks-Carter, Karen, 29 Jan 2003, KAB Film no 1904 MOOC (1891) 6/9/297/1718 filed on 26th October 1891., karen.carter@za.nestle.com. To-Do List 20 Ancestor's Name: Martha COLLETT Birth: 28 June 1831, Albany District, Cape Colony, Southern Africa Marriage: John TROLLOP (1828-1892) m.26 September 1851 Death: 5 October 1891, Daggaboer Farm, Cape Colony, Southern Africa Date Research Task/Respository/Description 3 December 2002 KAB Film no 1904 MOOC (1891) 6/9/297/1718 Category: Locality: KAB Death Notice Family History Centre Film Archives Type: Research Results: KAB Film no 1904 MOOC (1891) 6/9/297/1718 filed on 26th October 1891. Name of Deceased: Martha TROLLIP born COLLETT Birthplace: District Albany Father: James COLLETT Mother: Rhoda COLLETT (born TROLLIP) Age of Deceased: 60 years Condition in Life: Farmer's Wife Marital Status: Married to the undersigned Surviving Spouse: John TROLLIP Date of Decease: 5th October 1891 Place of Decease: Daggaboer Children of Deceased: None Whether Deceased left property, and of what kind: Movable and immovable Deceased left joint Will with undersigned dated 29th January 1890 Dated at Cradock this 16th day of October 1891. Signed: John TROLLIP. Closed: 27 January 2003 [S166] Joan Southey, "Footprints in the Karoo", 18 Mar 2003, p263. See husband John Trollip [S134] Trollope, Les, Jan 2003, Les1, trollope@optusnet.com.au. [S449] Collett, Joan, "A Time to Plant", 19 Mar 2003, p155, 156. "John Trollip and Martha of Daggaboer travelled to Fish River fairly regularly to see how the farming was going on at saltpansdrift an dused to spend an occasional night at Prospect. They never had chidren but did not allow that to embitter them and there were many who had found open hearts, hands and home at Daggaboer. One of these was Sophia Usher Pike, an adopted daughetr who visited Prospect with them. For 15 years she shared the life at Daggaboer, helped with the work in the house...and was a companion to Louis and Charles, the sons of John's brother, Henry who had been killed in 1851(this date is wrong). Years later, Sophia, after her marriage to Donald Ulyate, was to live at Saltpansdrift for a time." [S537] Shuttleworth, Stanley G, "1820 Settler Women". [S541] Heese, JA & Lombard, RTJ 1986, South African Genealogies (or SAG),, Vol 1, p.638. [S466] Vernon, Carl - KING GEDCOM - East London Museum, KING GEDCOM - East London Museum. [S377] Brummer, Hansie, BRUMMER GEDCOM, (http://www.sun.ac.za/gisa/home.asp). [S407] Memorial Inscription on Tombstone. [S2597] SA Cape Death Notices, (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2517051), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-H9LZ-3?i=1911&cc=2517051&cat=331262 (Reliability: 3). Trollip, John (1828-1892) DN Caption Note: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-H9LZ-3?i=1911&cc=2517051&cat=331262 Keywords: Death Notice [S478] Marshall, Sharon, MARSHALL Family Tree. [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.' " 2 different dates [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.