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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 
2701 Copeland, Ruth   I123787
2702 Copeland, Mary Louise Grizel Cochrane   I85478
2703 Copeland, Louis Harrison  1904Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I123781
2704 Copeland, Joan  1907Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I123784
2705 Copeland, Helene  1909Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I123786
2706 Copeland, Frank   I123789
2707 Cooper, Elizabeth  1840Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I39134
2708 Connock, Rosemary Constance   I40463
2709 Comley, Michael   I110255
2710 Comley, Joseph Ivan   I110256
2711 Comley, Joan   I110257
2712 Comley, Jessica   I110263
2713 Comley, Dominic Ryan   I110262
2714 Comley, Derrick   I110254
2715 Collins, Elizabeth  Abt 1842Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I149028
2716 Collett, Susanna  13 Jul 1829Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20326
2717 Collett, Norman Hugh  27 Jan 1877Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20371
2718 Collett, Martha Rhoda Agnes  15 Dec 1868Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20368
2719 Collett, Martha  29 Jun 1831Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20327
2720 Collett, Joseph  17 Jul 1837Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20329
2721 Collett, John Owen  12 Apr 1867Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20367
2722 Collett, Dudley Templeton  9 Jul 1878Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20372
2723 Collett, Annie Letitia  Oct 1856Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20362
2724 Collett, Albert Henry  3 Jun 1871Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I20369
2725 Colesky, Diana  22 Nov 1962Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I73725
2726 Cogan, Richard John  1850Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I151821
2727 Cogan, Lillian May  Abt 1877Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I170359
2728 Cogan, James Michael  Abt 1852Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I151822
2729 Cogan, Anne Eileen  Aug 1877Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I115430
2730 Cockcroft, William  8 Jul 1841Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I18715
2731 Cockcroft, William  14 May 1838Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I22990
2732 Cockcroft, Victor Percival  19 Oct 1916Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I107947
2733 Cockcroft, Victor Charles  18 Mar 1911Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I108102
2734 Cockcroft, Thomas William  13 Nov 1879Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I107618
2735 Cockcroft, Thomas Iken  2 Dec 1835Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I23080
2736 Cockcroft, Thelma Rose  19 May 1904Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I108100
2737 Cockcroft, Stanley  11 Sep 1907Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I107997
2738 Cockcroft, Sarah Jane  18 Jun 1840Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32896
2739 Cockcroft, Sarah Ann  14 Feb 1878Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I107639
2740 Cockcroft, Sarah Ann  12 Dec 1835Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32902
2741 Cockcroft, Rose Elizabeth   I108619
2742 Cockcroft, Owen Shepherd  25 May 1881Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I129675
2743 Cockcroft, Maxwell Clement  9 Jul 1917Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I77550
2744 Cockcroft, Maud Kezia  30 Nov 1877Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I107600
2745 Cockcroft, Mabel Annie  1 Oct 1884Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I107620
2746 Cockcroft, Iris May  11 Jun 1917Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I108103
2747 Cockcroft, Ida Emmeline  9 Mar 1859Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32917
2748 Cockcroft, Hilda Joyce  21 Apr 1894Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I107624
2749 Cockcroft, Harriet  1 Mar 1839Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I32903
2750 Cockcroft, Graham Gordon  29 Apr 1927Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa I107986

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