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Wesleyan Methodist Church cemetery, WESLEY, Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Notes:
In 1835 a star-shaped fort was built to protect the 1600 members of the Fingo people, refugees from the area now comprising the Transkei who were allies of the Europeans in the wars with the Xhosa. The fort was named after Colonel John Peddie of the Seaforth Highlanders. In 1846 it withstood a siege by 9000 warriors. A town grew around the the fort. Fort Peddie was built in 1841 on the site of an earlier earth stronghold.In 1836 the Reverend John Ayliff was responsible for the resettlement of the Fingo into the colony from "the country beyond the Kei", and a bronze plaque has been erected under a large milkwood tree in Peddie by the Monuments Commission recording the Fingo's declaration of loyalty to "God and the King". Fingo people congregate around the old milkwood tree on 14 May every year for

a remembrance service. Fingos were enslaved by the Xhosas. The word AmaMfengu means homeless beggars. These were people who had been defeated and driven from their own land by Chaka, the Zulu Chief, had taken refuge among Hintza's Galekas, and were treated by them as serfs.

Burial

Matches 1 to 16 of 16

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Burial	Person ID
1	Millicent - wife of Henry Welsh		I132135
2	Bradfield, Nora Sylvia		I42768
3	Clayton, Jessie Audrey		I11640
4	Holdstock, Bertha Elvina		I13359
5	Jones, Sara Ann		I37620
6	Lloyd, Sidney Robert		I11693
7	Mann, Sarah Maria		I42713
8	Purdon, Martha		I16488
9	Stirk, Alfred Henry		I6127
10	Tarr, Alan Clyde		I42749
11	Tarr, Thomas Henry Edgar		I16494
12	Timm, Emma May Green		I17323
13	Timm, Geraldine Mary Millicent		I17330
14	Welsh, Sidney Charles		I13350
15	Wesson, Millicent Anna		I6140
16	Wesson, Rupert Leslie		I113257

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