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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 
2901 Webster, Adelaide  1 Jul 1857Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164290
2902 Webster, Alice Mary  13 Jun 1866Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164276
2903 Webster, Amy Harriet  14 Apr 1872Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164278
2904 Webster, Benjamin Robert  5 Jul 1862Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164292
2905 Webster, Charles Henry  15 Feb 1833Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I93674
2906 Webster, Eliza Emma  15 Aug 1860Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164273
2907 Webster, Elizabeth Ann  1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I106452
2908 Webster, Elizabeth Charlotte  14 Nov 1858Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I11078
2909 Webster, Elizabeth Emma  10 Oct 1842Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I83817
2910 Webster, Elizabeth Harriot  12 Apr 1845Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164288
2911 Webster, Emily Jane  17 Sep 1853Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164272
2912 Webster, Frances Ann  23 Oct 1856Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164281
2913 Webster, George Robert  15 Dec 1824Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I106450
2914 Webster, George William  25 Dec 1852Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I123977
2915 Webster, Harriet Alicia  2 Nov 1850Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I123976
2916 Webster, Helena Jane  19 Jul 1868Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164277
2917 Webster, Henry  10 May 1823Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I106449
2918 Webster, Herbert Gray  18 Jul 1864Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164275
2919 Webster, Jessie Agnes  19 Jan 1876Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164282
2920 Webster, John  29 Jun 1826Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I106451
2921 Webster, Louisa Jane  30 Nov 1854Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I123978
2922 Webster, Norman John  15 Apr 1879Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I170906
2923 Webster, Phillis Rebecca  6 Aug 1862Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164274
2924 Webster, Sarah Ann  12 Apr 1855Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I17826
2925 Webster, Sarah Elizabeth  2 Dec 1848Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I84149
2926 Webster, Susannah  8 Nov 1857Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I123979
2927 Webster, Thomas  30 Nov 1824Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I63295
2928 Webster, Thomas Walter  6 Apr 1860Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I123980
2929 Webster, Wilcott Thomas  7 Sep 1879Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164279
2930 Webster, William Francis  16 May 1821Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I83814
2931 Webster, William John  7 May 1851Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164271
2932 Wedderburn, Alexander  6 Jul 1887Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I59130
2933 Wedderburn, Alexander John Ennis  5 Jul 1855Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I10909
2934 Wedderburn, Charles Thomas Croft  6 Nov 1866Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I106276
2935 Wedderburn, Christopher Charles  15 Mar 1891Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I59134
2936 Wedderburn, Francis Alice  27 Apr 1876Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I39710
2937 Wedderburn, Minnie Florence  15 Jul 1881Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I40155
2938 Wedderburn, Percy  11 Jun 1889Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I59143
2939 Wedderburn, Richard Maxwell  1884Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I59145
2940 Wedderburn, Sarah Ann  4 Aug 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I63869
2941 Wedderburn, son  12 Dec 1892Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I106286
2942 Wedderburn, Stella Mary  25 Dec 1892Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I13316
2943 Wedderburn, William du Barry  11 Jul 1882Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I59148
2944 Weeks, Sarah Ann  1830Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I36332
2945 Weeks, William  22 Aug 1830Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I36334
2946 Weinand, Harriett Elizabeth Hart  1856Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I38382
2947 Welch, Sarah  1844Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I146579
2948 Welgemoed, Aletta Johanna  18 Jun 1815Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I47834
2949 Wellbeloved, Edward  29 Jan 1837Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I138523
2950 Wellbeloved, Eliza  13 Sep 1840Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I138538

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