Christopher Mouncey Thornhill, 1820 Settler^[1]

1812 - 1892  (80 years)

• Name	Christopher Mouncey Thornhill
  Suffix	1820 Settler
  Birth	14 Feb 1812	Bishopwearmouth, Durham, England
  Gender	Male
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  Settler	12 Feb 1820	The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
  	Thornhill's party on the Zoroaster
  Settler ID	776
  Death	28 May 1892
  Person ID	I9680	master
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Christopher Thornhill Thornhill, 1820 Settler,   b. Abt 1773, Sutherland, Durham, England d. Aft 1828 (Age > 56 years)
  Mother	Dorothea Mounsey, 1820 Settler,   b. 21 Jan 1785, Yorkshire, England d. 21 Aug 1835 (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F3683	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Letitia Margaret Robertson,   b. 24 Mar 1817, Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 4 Jun 1843, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 26 years)
  Marriage	15 Dec 1837	Grahamstown Church (St George's - Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Caroline Elizabeth Thornhill,   b. 12 Nov 1838   d. 3 May 1898 (Age 59 years) > 2. Letitia Margaret Thornhill,   b. 1841   3. Alexander Robertson Thornhill,   b. 20 Nov 1841   d. 10 Dec 1842, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 1 year)
  Family ID	F3702	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2014

  
  

  Family 2	Johanna Christina Taylor,   b. 12 Apr 1821, Beaufort West, Western Cape, South Africa d. 17 Jul 1912, Tarkastad, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	13 Aug 1844	Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [3]
  Children	> 1. Frances Taylor Thornhill,   b. 24 Dec 1845, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa   2. Christopher Armstrong Thornhill,   b. 12 Jul 1847, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 1906 (Age 58 years)   3. Phillip Camm Thornhill,   b. 10 Jan 1849, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa   4. Agnes Dorothy Elizabeth Thornhill,   b. 21 Apr 1850, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa   5. John David Thornhill,   b. 10 Feb 1853, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa   6. William Isaac Thornhill,   b. 5 Aug 1854, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa + 7. Alice Elizabeth Jane Thornhill,   b. 5 Sep 1855, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 25 Mar 1939 (Age 83 years)   8. Samuel Thornhill,   b. 19 Mar 1857, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa + 9. Ernest Alphonso Thornhill,   b. 9 Mar 1858, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa   10. Louis Adolfis Septimus Thornhill,   b. 1862, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 23 Jan 1945 (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F3703	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2015

  
  

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  Birth - 14 Feb 1812 - Bishopwearmouth, Durham, England Settler - 12 Feb 1820 - The Downs, Deal, Kent, England Marriage - 15 Dec 1837 - Grahamstown Church (St George's - Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa Marriage - 13 Aug 1844 - Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Listed in MD Nash as Christian, aged 8 The marriage certificate confirms the date that Russell gave (14 Aug 1844), it also confirms Christopher's full name as Christopher Mounsey THORNHILL and it also confirms that they were married by Johanna's father Rev. John TAYLOR - but the interesting thing is that on the certificate where it states where the marriage ceremony was performed the options listed "Dutch Reformed Church, English Church, Wesleyan Chapel, etc" are crossed out and written beneath it says "parsonage house" - presumably referring to the TAYLOR residence. So I guess the home was regarded as "neutral territory" and this was the compromise agreed between the respective families. One wonders how long it took them to reach this decision. The witnesses from the scrawl, appear to be two of Johanna's younger siblings - Nancy Antonia and John (Johan) Michael (or Michel) TAYLOR.

  
  

• Sources

  [S57] Pieter Goedkoop, Gilfillan Family Tree data, (Queenstown, December 1979). [S16] King, Tessa, King, Tessa, (emails on South-Africa-L@rootsweb.com Mailing list), tck19genie.tessaking@gmail.com. [S125] Clayton, Russell, Clayton, Russell, rpcdoc@shaw.ca.