Isaiah Staples^[1]

1828 - 1906  (77 years)

• Name	Isaiah Staples
  Birth	24 Oct 1828	Emgwali, Stutterheim district, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [2]
  Gender	Male
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  Death	24 Jun 1906	Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [2]
  Person ID	I22524	master
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	John Bath Staples, 1820 Settler,   b. 15 Oct 1799, Crockenhill, Kent, England d. 18 Sep 1856, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Mary Toye Warner, 1820 Settler,   b. 10 Feb 1805, Bristol, Somerset, England d. 20 Nov 1885, Le Cruise, Cambridge, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F6454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah James,   b. 1831, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 24 Feb 1911, Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 80 years)
  Children	1. George Henry Staples,   b. 9 Jan 1855, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 18 Oct 1856, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 1 year) + 2. John Herbert Staples,   b. 6 Oct 1856, Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa   3. Lydia Matilda Staples,   b. 27 Sep 1858 + 4. William James Staples,   b. 19 Apr 1861 > 5. Hannah Mary Ann Staples,   b. 28 Sep 1863 + 6. Alice Charlotte Staples,   b. 23 Feb 1867   d. 1 Jul 1943, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 76 years) + 7. Edwin Charles Staples,   b. 12 Jan 1869, Lily vale, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa + 8. Edith Lilian Staples,   b. 31 Dec 1871   9. Harriet Staples,   b. 1873
  Family ID	F25992	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2015

  
  

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  Birth - 24 Oct 1828 - Emgwali, Stutterheim district, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death - 24 Jun 1906 - Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Settler Photos

  Staples, Isaiah and Sarah James Caption Note: per kind permission of Waylands Country House Keywords: Picture

  
  

• Notes

  Isaiah Staples mentions John Edwards extensively in his epic "Narrative of the 8th Frontier War".......... " Just a day or two before this time, our Field Cornet ( James Sweetnam) sent a small party of men with a wagon to procure a supply of ammunition from Fort Beaufort but very fortunately the Magistrate of the place refused to allow it to be sent, for fear it might fall into the hands of the enemy. The wisdom of this course was proved very forcibly, for, upon the return of the party the Kaffirs attacked them, capturing the wagon, and wounding the driver, a young Englishman, who received seven assegai wounds, but escaped very marvellously with his life. He was upon the seat of the wagon in front, and the kaffirs came on both sides of him, plunging their assegais into him. He then dived into the wagon, and jumped out at the back, and fortunately there was a large hole of water close by, into which he plunged, and it being dark, and he a good swimmer, by keeping under the water he managed to elude them and so escaped. Severely wounded as he was, he made his way on foot towards Fort Beaufort, a distance of about twelve miles. Of the other four men of the party two were killed. One had remained in town, only one returned to bring us the disastrous tale. The two killed were John Austin, who left a young wife and three little children. The other was a young man named George Gibbens. These were the first losses as far as our party was concerned. " On this occassion John Edwards was one of the two who miraculously survived the ambush in the Blinkwater Kloof by rebels under Hermanus Patroos . John Edwards arrived back to the stricken refugees at Post Retief that the 8th Frontier war had broken out and that they were not able to procure much needed ammunition. {per kind permission of Waylands Country House - https://www.waylandscountryhouse.co.za/}

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] Meeks-Carter, Karen, 29 Jan 2003, MOOC (1885) 6/9/227/2001 filed 9th December 1885., karen.carter@za.nestle.com. [S2478] Rossiter, Neil, (http://our-roots.info/tng).