Notes:
When it was visited by James Backhouse in December 1838 he wrote the following:
“On approaching Grahams Town, we were struck with the uninviting appearance of its site, which is in a naked country, at the foot of a low, rocky, sandstone ridge … The present town consists of a few streets, one of which is spacious, and serves as a market-place.
The streets are regularly laid out; and the houses are neat, and white, or yellow. The inhabitants are about 4,000, almost exclusively English. There are places of worship belonging to the Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, and Independents. Adjacent to the town there are kraals or villages of Fingoes and Khoikhoi.”
Thomas Baines visited the town in March 1848 and reported that: “… we entered the town by New Street which seemed, by far, more prolific of canteens and … retail stores, than of private dwellings … (Graham’s Town) contained at the time of my arrival a population of six thousand persons, of whom one-fourth were coloured, and houses to the number of seven hundred and fifty. Its principal streets cross each other at right angles, and at their point of intersection is placed the English Church, a plain Gothic building…”
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Miscellaneous | 3 Miscellaneous |
Matches 1551 to 1600 of 3184
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Last Name, Given Name(s) | Birth | Person ID | ||
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1551 | Kidwell, Mary Ann | 9 Oct 1859 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I31048 |
1552 | Kidwell, Minnie Louisa | 9 Jun 1861 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I32995 |
1553 | Kidwell, Percy William | 6 Nov 1864 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I32996 |
1554 | Kidwell, Sarah Jane | 28 Feb 1847 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I32984 |
1555 | Kidwell, Thomas John | 11 Nov 1852 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I32987 |
1556 | Killian, Bevan Grant | I85672 | ||
1557 | Kincaid, Mary Jane | Abt 1842 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I59545 |
1558 | King, Alexander Hay | 1877 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I5182 |
1559 | King, Charles Phillip | 23 Oct 1843 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I23891 |
1560 | King, Clement Norman Wakeford | 25 Apr 1909 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I27277 |
1561 | King, Dennis Wakeford | I27279 | ||
1562 | King, Dorcas Lydia | 17 Mar 1835 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I23853 |
1563 | King, Elizabeth | 13 May 1840 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I23065 |
1564 | King, Elizabeth Susannah | 17 Nov 1839 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I23889 |
1565 | King, Elsie Marguerite | 11 May 1893 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I183363 |
1566 | King, Emily | 10 May 1844 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I20634 |
1567 | King, Emily Jane | 23 Jun 1836 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I23899 |
1568 | King, Emily Silverstone | 13 Apr 1848 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I12574 |
1569 | King, Frances | 3 Aug 1846 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I33741 |
1570 | King, Francis | 12 Mar 1828 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I13713 |
1571 | King, Harriet | 30 May 1842 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I33739 |
1572 | King, Jefe | 9 May 1839 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I33738 |
1573 | King, Jemimah | 7 Jul 1847 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I20636 |
1574 | King, Jeremiah | 7 Jul 1836 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I33737 |
1575 | King, John Henry | 8 Apr 1855 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I25218 |
1576 | King, John Wesley | 21 Jul 1837 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I11407 |
1577 | King, Rachel | 28 Nov 1823 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I20816 |
1578 | King, Richard Wakeford | I27280 | ||
1579 | King, Sarah Ann | 10 Feb 1832 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I33712 |
1580 | King, Sarah Ann | 13 Jun 1841 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I23890 |
1581 | King, Sarah Mary | 1938 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I158920 |
1582 | King, Stephen | 16 May 1845 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I33740 |
1583 | King, Thomas Alfred | 9 Jan 1834 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I33736 |
1584 | King, Thomas William | Jan 1850 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I13506 |
1585 | King, Winston Wakeford | I27278 | ||
1586 | Kinkead-Weeks, Caroline | I32196 | ||
1587 | Kinkead-Weeks, Roderick Calder | I32195 | ||
1588 | Knight, Ida Louisa | 2 Feb 1885 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I107585 |
1589 | Knight, William John Pery | 20 Feb 1859 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I160614 |
1590 | Knott, Elizabeth | 11 Feb 1853 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I116537 |
1591 | Lake, Daisy May | 3 Sep 1891 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I37140 |
1592 | Lake, Florence Stella | 31 May 1894 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I58326 |
1593 | Lake, Hannah Francis Butt | 17 May 1880 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I37258 |
1594 | Lake, Maryann | 13 Jan 1829 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I70900 |
1595 | Lake, Sarah | 12 Apr 1831 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I70901 |
1596 | Lamont, Emily Locke | 24 Mar 1848 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I68411 |
1597 | Lamont, James David | 9 Sep 1844 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I68410 |
1598 | Landman, Siobhan Pearl | I100861 | ||
1599 | Landy, John Edward | 5 Oct 1857 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I181458 |
1600 | Lang, Martha | May 1855 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I11968 |
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