1889 - 1957 (67 years)
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Family |
Eliza Ann Mitchley, b. 17 Apr 1867, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Married |
26 Dec 1888 |
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Children |
| 1. Olive Edith Dulcie Carver, b. 10 Oct 1889, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa |
+ | 2. Irene Margaret May Carver, b. 26 Sep 1891, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa |
+ | 3. Beatrice Valerie Jane Carver, b. 11 Nov 1893, Koffiefontein, Free State, South Africa |
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1867 - 1934 (67 years)
Nickname |
Aunt Poll |
Birth |
17 Apr 1867 |
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Christened |
5 May 1867 |
Port Elizabeth Church (St Paul's), Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Died |
6 Oct 1934 |
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Buried |
North End Cemetery, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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Father |
Sampson (Daniel) Mitchley, 1820 Settler, b. Sep 1813, London, England |
Mother |
Eliza Jane Forrester, b. 23 Feb 1835, 'Nurney', Albany, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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Family |
John Edward Carver |
Married |
26 Dec 1888 |
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Children |
| 1. Olive Edith Dulcie Carver, b. 10 Oct 1889, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa |
+ | 2. Irene Margaret May Carver, b. 26 Sep 1891, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa |
+ | 3. Beatrice Valerie Jane Carver, b. 11 Nov 1893, Koffiefontein, Free State, South Africa |
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Name |
Olive Edith Dulcie Carver |
Birth |
10 Oct 1889 |
Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa [1, 2] |
Gender |
Female |
1820 Lineage |
Yes |
Death |
22 Jan 1957 |
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa [1, 2] |
Person ID |
I52161 |
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Last Modified |
6 Aug 2021 |
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Event Map |
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| Birth - 10 Oct 1889 - Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa |
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| Death - 22 Jan 1957 - Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
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Notes |
- When Olive Carver grew up she took up teaching. She never married, but not for want of trying. Before World War I Roland McCracken - brother of Gilbert McCracken, Eliza Ann's brother-in- law, visited South Africa. He returned to England and fought in the war, but afterwards he returned to South Africa and went to see Jessie McCracken. She introduced him to the Carvers and he and Olive fell in love and became engaged to be married, to the horror of both Jessie McCracken and her mother, Eliza Ann, who quickly put an end to the engagement. How they did it is unknown.
In her bitterness Olive Carver went to teach at Rocklands, a girls' boarding school in Cradock, Cape Province. During the 1920's she regularly spent holidays with Olive McCracken and Louis de Souza in Pretoria and later in Barberton. After her sister Irene died she quit teaching and went to Johannesburg to look aft.er Rowland and Rosemary. When Tommy also died in 1945, she took under her wing her brother-in-law Harry and his three sons. Both groups lived in a block of flats in central Johannesburg - Harry and sons in one flat and Olive and Rowland and Rosemary in another.
Hugh (the author of this note) and Bernard de Souza often went to see Olive Carver when on their way to and from boarding school in Kimberley. As a result the two boys got to know Rowland and Rosemary well. When Hugh went to Witwatersrand University in the late 1940's, Louis Davis was there at the same time.
Olive Carver took exception to Ken Stocker and refused her permission for Rosemary to marry. They went ahead anyway and informed everyone later. Olive was furious. She told Hugh to have nothing to do with them. One morning Hugh met Rosemary in the street and congratulated her. Rosemary wept; it was the first congratulations she had. Subsequently congratulations and gifts came also from Olive de Souza and Margaret de Souz . Later both Margaret de Souza and Rosemary not only worked together at the Sunday Express newspaper but also lived in the same house on Loch Avenue in Johannesburg. However, Ken Stocker was eager to return to Britain (he had only come to South Africa because his wife had TB and had been told the South African climate would help. It didn't and his wife died - and subsequently he wed Rosemary. Rosemary was very beautiful. Stockers lived in Charing, Kent.
FOOTNOTE:
Ken and Rosemary Stocker's daughter, Margaret Stocker visited South Africa during 1993 to research the Peter Clarke Daniel and Ann Mitchley love affair. She produced a document: A History of Peter Clarke Daniel and the Mitchleys by Margaret Stocker a great great granddaughter of the above."
This note (excluding the footnote) was written by Hugh de Souza.
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Sources |
- [S348] Whittal, Vernon, WHITTAL Family GEDCOM, (See list of further references below in the note).
- [S3109] Charles Llewellyn Patrick Daniel, Descendants of Lord Robert Daniel, (Sent to me by Kenneth Frederick Daniel 29 Sep 2016) (Reliability: 2).
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