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- [S119] Stanton, Ellen, Stanton, Ellen, 2 Mar 2003, #42.
Methodist Parish Records: Cradock Item 15: Christenings: 1842-1868
- [S119] Stanton, Ellen, Stanton, Ellen, 2 Mar 2003, Methodist Parish Records: Cradock.
Entry #42 Child: Elizabeth COLLETT Parents: James and Rhoda Born: 2/8/1844 Baptized: 3/10/1844
- [S119] Stanton, Ellen, Stanton, Ellen, 11 Mar 2003, Entry #36.
Husband: Jonathan CROOKS, 21, Bachelor, Clerk, residing Cradock
Wife: Elizabeth COLLETT, 17, Spinster, residing Salt Pan Drift, district of Cradock
Date: 2/14/1861
Witnesses: W. COLLETT, Phoebe Rhoda TROLLIP, Jane COLLETT?
Minister John WILSON, John AYLIFF
Consent: James COLLETT, Father of the Bride
Microfilm #1560899
Methodist Parish Records: Cradock
Item 4: Marriages: 1858-1879
- [S449] Collett, Joan, "A Time to Plant", 28 Apr 2003, p100.
James's diaries are first and foremost a record of his farming. Brief glimpses of his children growing up come to us between the sheep counts. He did record the birth of their ninth child, Elizabeth (usually called Libby) at Groenfontein in February 1844 while he was away in Grahamstown.
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Little is known of liby's family life afetr they left Taaiboschfontein but Jonathan certainly prospered. They farmed for a time at The Meadows wset fo steynsburg, where there was a water mill on a tributary of the Great Brak river but he owned at least one other farm in the district. In 1885 in response to a request from John Collett, he offered to lend him 1000 to 2000 pounds at 8% interest. He owned many erven in Steynsburg at the northern end of the town and his daughters Aveline and Amelia married into the Houzet family who owned a business there. There is a sad entry in the journal kept by Henry Trollip, John Collett's brother-in-law: "April 4th, 1907. Arriving in Grahamstown at 8am...saw J Crooks who has brought his wife down (raving mad) to the asylum." Perhaps Libby suffered from the same trouble as her mother, Rhoda.
- [S162] Lossau Sproat, Nolene, 27 Jan 2004.
128 CROOKS Elizabeth 1913/09/22 69 yrs Steynsburg
- [S2181] Family Search website, (www.familysearch.org), https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-2LMP (Reliability: 3).
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- [S119] Stanton, Ellen, Stanton, Ellen, Entry #36.
Entry #36 Husband: Jonathan CROOKS, 21, Bachelor, Clerk, residing Cradock Wife: Elizabeth COLLETT, 17, Spinster, residing Salt Pan Drift, district of Cradock Date: 2/14/1861 Witnesses: W. COLLETT, Phoebe Rhoda TROLLIP, Jane COLLETT? Minister John WILSON, John AYLIFF Consent: James COLLETT, Father of the Bride
Microfilm #1560899 Methodist Parish Records: Cradock Item 4: Marriages: 1858-1879
- [S449] Collett, Joan, "A Time to Plant", 11 Apr 2003, p131.
Entry #36 Husband: Jonathan CROOKS, 21, Bachelor, Clerk, residing Cradock Wife: Elizabeth COLLETT, 17, Spinster, residing Salt Pan Drift, district of Cradock Date: 2/14/1861 Witnesses: W. COLLETT, Phoebe Rhoda TROLLIP, Jane COLLETT? Minister John WILSON, John AYLIFF Consent: James COLLETT, Father of the Bride
My 61st birthday. Sprnt very pleasant day at Mulberry Grove with all my children present at the wedding...a bountiful tiffin provided by my 3 daughters, Mr Ayliff's (who married them) family contributing largely to the pleasure of the day."
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