Notes:
HILTON HOUSE.
One of the most architecturally important buildings in close vicinity of Grahamstown is the Georgian, bow-fronted farmhouse Hilton. It was the "height of architectural fashion" at the time and was built by Richard Gush of Salem for Alexander George Cumming (no relation of the "Eccentric Scot", Gordon Roualeyn Cumming, as far as is known) in the 1830's.
Cumming who was born in India in 1812 came to the Cape as a young man and married Elizabeth Damant Atherstone, sister of William Guybon Atherstone and they lived in the stables on the farm during the construction of the house.
The church on the property, St Peter's, was consecrated in 1877 and is the property of the Anglican Diocese of Grahamstown.
Hilton was built in the midst of the Frontier Wars and Lewcock writes that the house is "also remarkable for its complete disdain of attack, no attempt whatsoever having been made to protect it...It looks forward optimistically to a life of security and grace on the frontier, a state of affairs that was not destined to be finally realized until after the war of 1851."
Latitude: -33.2508232, Longitude: 26.3526794 Buildings
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3 Buildings | |
Matches 1 to 5 of 5
| Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Birth  |
Person ID | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Cumming, Charles Bellamy | 26 Dec 1847 | I19815 |
| 2 | Cumming, Florence Cumming | 19 Oct 1891 | I806 |
| 3 | Cumming, Henry Gordon | 26 May 1857 | I640 |
| 4 | Hilton-Barber, Harry Atherstone | 4 Sep 1867 | I808 |
| 5 | Hilton-Barber, Hilton | 28 Feb 1842 | I710 |
Matches 1 to 1 of 1
| Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Christening |
Person ID | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cumming, Alfred George | 15 Oct 1882 | I804 |
Matches 1 to 2 of 2
| Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Death |
Person ID | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cumming, Alexander George | 27 May 1910 | I729 |
| 2 | Cumming, George | 17 Nov 1881 | I728 |
Matches 1 to 7 of 7
| Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Burial |
Person ID | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atherstone, Catherine Damant 1820 Settler | I699 | |
| 2 | Atherstone, Emily 1820 Settler | I700 | |
| 3 | Cumming, Ethel Grant | I106974 | |
| 4 | Cumming, Fanny Atherstone | I106976 | |
| 5 | Cumming, George | I106975 | |
| 6 | Cumming, Henry Gordon | I640 | |
| 7 | White, Bliss Annie | I635 |
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