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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 Neal, Sarah  1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I125724
2902 Kidson, Elizabeth Hannah  Abt 1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I44465
2903 Hoole, Frances Elizabeth Cotterell  1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I915
2904 Goodes, Charles  1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I158631
2905 Fuller, John  1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I71210
2906 Fitchet, Elizabeth Christiana  Abt 1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I142576
2907 Carlisle, Frances Jemima  1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I2949
2908 Blackbeard, Elizabeth  Abt 1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I70208
2909 Boucher, Sarah  9 Dec 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I120437
2910 Forrester, Richard Nickson  11 Nov 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I5001
2911 Wheeler, James  Abt Nov 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I89219
2912 Griffith, Anne Elizabeth  20 Oct 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I75353
2913 Hyman, Elizabeth Sarah  8 Oct 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I123961
2914 Trollip, William  27 Sep 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20345
2915 Adcock, Charles Thomas  23 Aug 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I82852
2916 Dredge, Samuel  20 Aug 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I89236
2917 Duffield, Ann  19 Aug 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I12045
2918 Clark, Elizabeth  5 Aug 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I101122
2919 Wedderburn, Sarah Ann  4 Aug 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I63869
2920 Kidd, Charles  27 Jun 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I33711
2921 Webber, William James  15 Jun 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I26891
2922 Wild, Edmund  25 Apr 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I62193
2923 Surmon, Caroline  19 Apr 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I137929
2924 Lee, Louisa Ann  13 Apr 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I124987
2925 Estment, Mary Ann  6 Apr 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I11197
2926 Smith, Sarah Jane Elizabeth Ann  1 Apr 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I134676
2927 Miller, Harriet Hannah  21 Mar 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I24775
2928 King, Francis  12 Mar 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I13713
2929 Wright, Charles  11 Mar 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I15831
2930 Howse, Mary Ann  8 Mar 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I100770
2931 Vice, Samuel  7 Feb 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I83490
2932 Freemantle, John  10 Jan 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16100
2933 Dixon, Joseph  6 Jan 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I19473
2934 Webster, Elizabeth Ann  1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I106452
2935 Thompson, Ann Johanna  Abt 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I57847
2936 Sansom, James  Abt 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I83859
2937 Poulton, Hannah  1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I69293
2938 Pinnock, Hannah Maria Jenkins  Abt 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I164332
2939 Parrott, Harriet Eliza Emily  Abt 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I150840
2940 Norton, Abraham  1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I15970
2941 Keevy, Daniel  Abt 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I125319
2942 Horne, Henry  Abt 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I135485
2943 Earle, Sarah Ann  Abt 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I19455
2944 Denham, Eliza Jane  1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I134561
2945 Webb, John  14 Dec 1827Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I40225
2946 Webb, Mary  27 Nov 1827Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I127992
2947 Freemantle, William  10 Nov 1827Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I24805
2948 Fitchet, Thomas  11 Oct 1827Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I35456
2949 Leathern, William  2 Oct 1827Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I69284
2950 Carney, John  1 Oct 1827Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I146793

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