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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 
3051 Wilmot, James   I41681
3052 Wilmot, John Richmond  26 Nov 1855Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I19044
3053 Wilmot, Kingsley Clifford Rochester   I40238
3054 Wilmot, Valmai Wendy  21 Jul 1950Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I75205
3055 Windsor, Louisa Emily Mary  24 Dec 1883Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I88914
3056 Winter, Alfred Parker  6 Apr 1876Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I125892
3057 Winter, George William Miners  23 Feb 1874Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I125891
3058 Winter, Gertrude Louisa  27 Jan 1901Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I125905
3059 Winter, Grace  26 Nov 1898Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I125903
3060 Winter, Percival Rapson Melville  21 Jan 1879Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I125890
3061 Winter, Violet Lilian  8 Feb 1897Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I125904
3062 Winter, Walter Burberow  28 Sep 1881Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I125893
3063 Wise, Gladys Maud  21 Aug 1890Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I134647
3064 Wise, Hilda Eliabeth  24 Dec 1886Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I134681
3065 Wise, Olive May  23 May 1888Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I134682
3066 Wise, Percy  11 Dec 1884Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I134680
3067 Wood, Albert Oliver  9 Jul 1854Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133975
3068 Wood, Alfred George James  Abt 1882Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133105
3069 Wood, Alfred Jesse  7 Feb 1848Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I944
3070 Wood, Benoni Horace  21 Aug 1840Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I942
3071 Wood, Charlotte Elizabeth Wood  12 May 1859Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I21260
3072 Wood, Dorothy Nora   I32170
3073 Wood, Edith Jane  22 Jun 1856Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133976
3074 Wood, Edwin Able  24 Apr 1853Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32086
3075 Wood, Eleanor Kiell Wood  2 Jun 1864Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I926
3076 Wood, Elizabeth Ann  12 Apr 1850Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133960
3077 Wood, Florence Emily Wood  25 Feb 1862Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32088
3078 Wood, Florence Maud  5 Nov 1894Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I149548
3079 Wood, George Alfred James  14 May 1850Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I916
3080 Wood, George Eric Anderton  26 Feb 1881Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32090
3081 Wood, George Eric Richmond  17 May 1914Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32162
3082 Wood, George William Impey  14 Jun 1864Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I5030
3083 Wood, Gertrude Shaw  5 Feb 1874Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I5033
3084 Wood, Harriet Jane Wood  13 Jul 1857Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I924
3085 Wood, Harriet Porter Rhodes  22 May 1839Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I28107
3086 Wood, Harriett Louisa  27 Oct 1846Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133949
3087 Wood, Henry Edwin  28 Oct 1867Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I5029
3088 Wood, Henry Richard  24 Mar 1838Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I939
3089 Wood, Hilda Florence  26 Nov 1883Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32091
3090 Wood, James Garbett  22 Jan 1855Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32087
3091 Wood, John Henry  20 Feb 1858Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133978
3092 Wood, Joseph Garbett  14 Feb 1833Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I937
3093 Wood, Joseph George  8 Oct 1870Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133984
3094 Wood, Josephine Ethel Wood  22 Jan 1874Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I927
3095 Wood, Lettie Impey  13 Jul 1872Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I21728
3096 Wood, Lillian May  20 Mar 1872Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133985
3097 Wood, Linda Josephine   I32169
3098 Wood, Louisa Anne  14 Mar 1843Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I28109
3099 Wood, Lydia Garbett  8 Jul 1875Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I5031
3100 Wood, Lydia Roberts  17 Jul 1844Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I28110

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