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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Matches 2901 to 2950 of 3184
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Last Name, Given Name(s) | Birth | Person ID | ||
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2901 | Webster, Adelaide | 1 Jul 1857 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164290 |
2902 | Webster, Alice Mary | 13 Jun 1866 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164276 |
2903 | Webster, Amy Harriet | 14 Apr 1872 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164278 |
2904 | Webster, Benjamin Robert | 5 Jul 1862 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164292 |
2905 | Webster, Charles Henry | 15 Feb 1833 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I93674 |
2906 | Webster, Eliza Emma | 15 Aug 1860 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164273 |
2907 | Webster, Elizabeth Ann | 1828 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I106452 |
2908 | Webster, Elizabeth Charlotte | 14 Nov 1858 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I11078 |
2909 | Webster, Elizabeth Emma | 10 Oct 1842 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I83817 |
2910 | Webster, Elizabeth Harriot | 12 Apr 1845 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164288 |
2911 | Webster, Emily Jane | 17 Sep 1853 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164272 |
2912 | Webster, Frances Ann | 23 Oct 1856 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164281 |
2913 | Webster, George Robert | 15 Dec 1824 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I106450 |
2914 | Webster, George William | 25 Dec 1852 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I123977 |
2915 | Webster, Harriet Alicia | 2 Nov 1850 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I123976 |
2916 | Webster, Helena Jane | 19 Jul 1868 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164277 |
2917 | Webster, Henry | 10 May 1823 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I106449 |
2918 | Webster, Herbert Gray | 18 Jul 1864 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164275 |
2919 | Webster, Jessie Agnes | 19 Jan 1876 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164282 |
2920 | Webster, John | 29 Jun 1826 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I106451 |
2921 | Webster, Louisa Jane | 30 Nov 1854 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I123978 |
2922 | Webster, Norman John | 15 Apr 1879 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I170906 |
2923 | Webster, Phillis Rebecca | 6 Aug 1862 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164274 |
2924 | Webster, Sarah Ann | 12 Apr 1855 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I17826 |
2925 | Webster, Sarah Elizabeth | 2 Dec 1848 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I84149 |
2926 | Webster, Susannah | 8 Nov 1857 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I123979 |
2927 | Webster, Thomas | 30 Nov 1824 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I63295 |
2928 | Webster, Thomas Walter | 6 Apr 1860 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I123980 |
2929 | Webster, Wilcott Thomas | 7 Sep 1879 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164279 |
2930 | Webster, William Francis | 16 May 1821 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I83814 |
2931 | Webster, William John | 7 May 1851 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I164271 |
2932 | Wedderburn, Alexander | 6 Jul 1887 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I59130 |
2933 | Wedderburn, Alexander John Ennis | 5 Jul 1855 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I10909 |
2934 | Wedderburn, Charles Thomas Croft | 6 Nov 1866 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I106276 |
2935 | Wedderburn, Christopher Charles | 15 Mar 1891 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I59134 |
2936 | Wedderburn, Francis Alice | 27 Apr 1876 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I39710 |
2937 | Wedderburn, Minnie Florence | 15 Jul 1881 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I40155 |
2938 | Wedderburn, Percy | 11 Jun 1889 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I59143 |
2939 | Wedderburn, Richard Maxwell | 1884 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I59145 |
2940 | Wedderburn, Sarah Ann | 4 Aug 1828 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I63869 |
2941 | Wedderburn, son | 12 Dec 1892 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I106286 |
2942 | Wedderburn, Stella Mary | 25 Dec 1892 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I13316 |
2943 | Wedderburn, William du Barry | 11 Jul 1882 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I59148 |
2944 | Weeks, Sarah Ann | 1830 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I36332 |
2945 | Weeks, William | 22 Aug 1830 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I36334 |
2946 | Weinand, Harriett Elizabeth Hart | 1856 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I38382 |
2947 | Welch, Sarah | 1844 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I146579 |
2948 | Welgemoed, Aletta Johanna | 18 Jun 1815 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I47834 |
2949 | Wellbeloved, Edward | 29 Jan 1837 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I138523 |
2950 | Wellbeloved, Eliza | 13 Sep 1840 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I138538 |
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