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Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa



 


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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Latitude: -33.3117, Longitude: 26.5318


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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID 
1601 Lang, William  1852Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I151890
1602 Latham, Charles Potgieter  Abt 1830Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I136737
1603 Lawrance, Moira Winifred Lister  13 Jan 1923Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I15250
1604 Leach, Adriaan Cornelius   I131048
1605 Leach, Hester Cecilia  24 May 1929Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I131049
1606 Leach, Richard Albert de Villiers  8 Apr 1971Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I129670
1607 Leach, Shepstone Dagmar  11 Feb 1884Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I128402
1608 Leach, Susan Oxenham  2 Apr 1850Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I129630
1609 Leach, Thomas Reuben   I131047
1610 Leach, William Aylward  1874Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I135389
1611 Leane, Honoria Mary  3 Jan 1869Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I172302
1612 Leathern, Mary Ann  Abt Feb 1830Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I69325
1613 Leathern, William  2 Oct 1827Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I69284
1614 Lee, Adelaide Louisa  14 Feb 1840Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I68962
1615 Lee, Amelia (Julia?) Sophia  Oct 1845Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I124977
1616 Lee, Angelina Maria  17 May 1840Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I63936
1617 Lee, Carey  25 Sep 1885Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I42697
1618 Lee, Caroline  22 Jun 1830Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I124988
1619 Lee, Charles  18 Jun 1831Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I68963
1620 Lee, Cordelia  24 Feb 1842Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I68971
1621 Lee, Cornelius Ford  6 Dec 1834Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I68964
1622 Lee, Edward Trotter  9 Nov 1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I68965
1623 Lee, Edwin Elisha  1845Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I124635
1624 Lee, Emilly June  18 Apr 1840Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I68966
1625 Lee, Frances Elizabeth  Abt 1862Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I150981
1626 Lee, Frederick Samuel  8 Nov 1833Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I68967
1627 Lee, Harold George  22 Sep 1884Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I61308
1628 Lee, Henry Charles  Abt 6 Aug 1832Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I69055
1629 Lee, James Barry  10 Dec 1836Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I68968
1630 Lee, John Henry  1 Sep 1836Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I63937
1631 Lee, Louisa Ann  13 Apr 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I124987
1632 Lee, Severinia  8 Aug 1842Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I63948
1633 Lee, Walter Griffiths  27 Aug 1832Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I124989
1634 Leigh, Andrew   I98996
1635 Leonard, Emily Knight Shone  14 Nov 1851Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16696
1636 Leonard, Francis Phipps  11 Feb 1834Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I49836
1637 Leppan, Charles James  27 Dec 1845Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I28763
1638 Leppan, Thomas  1827Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16301
1639 Levey, Benjamin James  6 Jun 1869Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I122732
1640 Levey, Charles William  22 Sep 1870Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I122736
1641 Levey, Henry  8 Jan 1824Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I122679
1642 Levey, Joseph Henry  9 May 1844Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I122652
1643 Levey, Mary Jane  Abt 1856Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I124960
1644 Levey, Susannah  3 Nov 1850Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I122684
1645 Lewis, James  Cal 16 May 1835Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I165917
1646 Lewis, Mary Ann  16 Nov 1840Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I45445
1647 Liefeldt, Eric Richard  25 Dec 1926Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I73950
1648 Lipsett, Sheilagh Kathleen   I182964
1649 Lisher, Anthony Cleve  30 Oct 1962Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I100975
1650 Lisher, Charles Edward  31 May 1960Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I100974

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