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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 
2501 Stirk, Reginald Benjamin  16 May 1868Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I6427
2502 Stirk, Rodney Neville   I6547
2503 Stirk, Rosemary Gordon   I6457
2504 Stirk, Sarah  7 Jul 1826Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I169790
2505 Stirk, Sydney Southey  4 Apr 1877Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I6563
2506 Stirk, Viviene Grace  17 Aug 1888Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I6410
2507 Stock, Charles Peter  25 May 1838Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I129845
2508 Stockdale, Hilda  28 Aug 1876Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I2080
2509 Stockenström, Edith Mabel  3 Mar 1870Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I103142
2510 Stocks, Arthur Cyrill  28 Apr 1886Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I6395
2511 Stocks, Bertha Burnett  1 Dec 1903Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I181721
2512 Stocks, Beryl Restall  25 Jan 1897Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I6400
2513 Stocks, Charles Allen  28 Apr 1886Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I6394
2514 Stocks, Gladys May  16 May 1884Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I6393
2515 Stocks, Ione Rundell  22 Jun 1921Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I117198
2516 Stocks, Sydney Gerald Restall  28 Oct 1888Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I6398
2517 Stokes, Edward  22 Jan 1865Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I131651
2518 Stokes, Frederick Collier  18 Feb 1867Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I131652
2519 Stokes, Hetty Cecil  10 May 1836Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I45071
2520 Stokes, John Vickery  27 Jul 1840Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I132786
2521 Stokes, Louisa  15 Apr 1846Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I131644
2522 Stokes, William Vickery  Abt 1847Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I127558
2523 Stone, ??  12 Aug 1903Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I71377
2524 Stone, Ruby Kathleen  18 Sep 1908Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I24689
2525 Streak, Eliza Georgina  3 Apr 1832Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I135655
2526 Streak, James Neville  1842Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I135656
2527 Streak, Mary Ann Rebecca  12 Jan 1830Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I135654
2528 Streak, Sarah Elizabeth  11 Aug 1837Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I167229
2529 Strydom, Christiaan Ezra   I131072
2530 Strydom, Cornelia Catharina   I129288
2531 Stuckey, Clive  23 Apr 1923Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I66121
2532 Style, Emily Jane  Abt 1847Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I121522
2533 Style, Jane  1 Dec 1825Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I107735
2534 Style, Louisa Frances  20 Dec 1849Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I121593
2535 Sullivan, Catherine  Abt 1831Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I11357
2536 Surmon, Albert  Est 1854Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I138255
2537 Surmon, Alfred Payne  3 Apr 1857Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I138162
2538 Surmon, Alice Maria  7 Jul 1875Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I136049
2539 Surmon, Anne  4 Jun 1830Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I137931
2540 Surmon, Arthur William  19 Mar 1875Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I137952
2541 Surmon, Caroline  19 Apr 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I137929
2542 Surmon, Charles  23 Jun 1852Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I138072
2543 Surmon, Edward Thomas  23 Aug 1851Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I138160
2544 Surmon, Elizabeth Emma  24 Jul 1853Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I138090
2545 Surmon, Ellen Susannah  16 May 1873Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I137950
2546 Surmon, George Thomas  6 Nov 1849Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I138071
2547 Surmon, Henry William  22 Oct 1835Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16695
2548 Surmon, James Edward  4 Jul 1847Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I137988
2549 Surmon, James John  18 Jun 1821Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I137921
2550 Surmon, John James  1 Jul 1824Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I137925

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