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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 
3101 Wood, Mary  11 Aug 1870Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I5032
3102 Wood, Mary Ann  12 Sep 1845Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I28111
3103 Wood, Matthew James  27 Nov 1861Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133981
3104 Wood, Neville  17 Feb 1940Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I115977
3105 Wood, Robert Buckingham  31 Jan 1868Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133983
3106 Wood, Sarah Jane  12 Feb 1864Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133982
3107 Wood, Susannah Martha  13 Sep 1834Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I28020
3108 Wood, Valerie Elaine   I26270
3109 Wood, William  17 May 1831Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I935
3110 Wood, William Thomas  29 Jan 1860Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I133980
3111 Woodland, James Hopkins  11 Apr 1849Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I24841
3112 Woodland, William Hartley  2 Dec 1839Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I24838
3113 Woods, Bobby David   I41692
3114 Wostenholm, Christopher Harold   I111957
3115 Wostenholm, Michael Bruce   I111958
3116 Wright, Alexander John  11 Jun 1851Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I27233
3117 Wright, Charles  11 Mar 1828Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I15831
3118 Wright, Elizabeth Ann  26 Sep 1841Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16166
3119 Wright, Ellen  Apr 1831Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I64188
3120 Wright, Gerald Basil Joseph Ormston  25 Feb 1886Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I27260
3121 Wright, Henry James  11 Aug 1833Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16133
3122 Wright, John Cecil  13 Apr 1852Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I15684
3123 Wright, John Ormson  11 Apr 1826Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16157
3124 Wright, Joseph Saunders  2 Jul 1830Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I25621
3125 Wright, Margaret Ridyard  19 Jul 1843Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16169
3126 Wright, Octavius Samuel  15 Apr 1839Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16165
3127 Wright, Peter Knowles  13 Feb 1832Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I15801
3128 Wright, Philip Penny  18 Nov 1834Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I26990
3129 Wright, Richard  25 Apr 1836Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I151930
3130 Wright, Rosa Isabel  1832Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I954
3131 Wright, Sarah Jane  3 Aug 1845Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I16181
3132 Wright, Septimus Josiah  11 Aug 1837Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I25624
3133 Wright, William Henry  7 Apr 1865Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I37581
3134 Yendall, Cheryl Ann   I65872
3135 Yendall, Denise Edna   I79914
3136 Yendall, Fay Allison   I65867
3137 Yendall, Michael John  29 Jun 1957Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I65878
3138 Zimmerman, Alfred Charles  8 Mar 1878Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I130411
3139 Zimmerman, Alice Maud Matilda  21 Jan 1877Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I130412
3140 Zimmerman, Athol  3 Jul 1905Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I113286
3141 Zimmerman, Bernard Conrad  22 Jul 1930Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I130964
3142 Zimmerman, Brian Neville   I127715
3143 Zimmerman, Bruce Alan   I130998
3144 Zimmerman, Caroline   I131004
3145 Zimmerman, Charles Henry  15 Jul 1876Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I130014
3146 Zimmerman, Christian John  1880Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I128125
3147 Zimmerman, Christina  19 Apr 1849Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I129840
3148 Zimmerman, Colin Stanley  1 Sep 1925Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I130963
3149 Zimmerman, Dianne  8 Sep 1952Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I130976
3150 Zimmerman, Elizabeth Irene  8 Nov 1893Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I127672

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