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William died in 1875 by which time his fourth time his fourth son John
had been carrying on the farming at Daggaboer. John married his first cousin
Martha Collett, daughter of James and Rhoda Collett. There seemed to be a
scarcity of eligible spouses and so a great deal of intermarrying
between families took place in those days. John and Martha were unable
to have children but were intensely family conscious and enjoyed the company
of visiting children.
John took in Louis Henry and Charles Percy, the sons of his murdered
brother Henry, as well as befriending other more distant realtives
and friends. He was aways helping lame dogs. However, Marta longed for
a daughter, and when she heard about the 13-year-old orphan girl Sophie
Usher Pike from Grahamstown, she went down to interview Sophie's aunt,
who was guardian. In the charming little book, The Glory which is Yours
by Alice M ralls, the author describe sthe meeting when her mother Sophie
was brought before the Trollips. The child with her large dark eyes,
long balck ringlets and pretty manners impressed John and Martha and
they decided that this was the little girl to become their adopted
daughter. Sitting in the cart next to her new guardians, her few
belongings in alittle box, Sophie felt fear and misgivings as she
she had so often heard about the fate of poor orphans. The journey from
Grahamstown to Daggaboer farm must ahve taken two days and the little girl
had plenty of time to reflect on her future.
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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
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"...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.
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