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19001 No further information-Childhood death assumed PEREIRA, Coenraad Daniel (Pryra) (I10306)
 
19002 No further information. Childhood death assumed ATHERSTONE, John Frederick (I28642)
 
19003 No further information. Childhood death assumed PALVIE, Jan Willem (I38836)
 
19004 No further information. Childhood death assumed. SOLMS, Anna Frederika Petronella (I25978)
 
19005 No further trace. It must be assumed that she re-married. BOOYSEN, Maria Elizabeth (I2749)
 
19006 No information can be found HALL, Stephen George (I13132)
 
19007 No information found SWAINE, John William (I1676)
 
19008 No information found SELL, Ernest Julius (I4966)
 
19009 No information found ORCHARD, Annie * (I19697)
 
19010 No information found ORCHARD, James (I20494)
 
19011 No information has been found concerning the origins of this family or the ir arrival in SA. Unfortunately, some of the few estates which were regist ered, do not record the deceased's parents. DALHOUSIE, Francois Jacobus (Delogier) (I85491)
 
19012 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. CRIPPS, Vivien Daphne (I28608)
 
19013 No RSA estate found UPTON, Elizabeth (I39455)
 
19014 Not connected to rest of family as his parents are unknown
Grave NAPB1012 
DALHOUSIE, Frans Jacobus (Dalhouzie) (I5711)
 
19015 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. ROBERTSON, Bruce Douglas (I28218)
 
19016 Not mentioned in her Parents' estates. Assume childhood death BRONN, Neeltje Johanna Maria (I24904)
 
19017 Not mentioned in his father's estate (1850). He must have died in early ch ildhood. GADNEY, Thomas Nicolas (I3552)
 
19018 Not mentioned in his father's estate (1878).
Name given to younger son. Assume childhood death 
SOLMS, Lourens (I26074)
 
19019 Not mentioned in mother's estate WARRINGTON, Annie Aletta Hendrika (I48546)
 
19020 Not mentioned in mother's estate WARRINGTON, Maraine Margery (I48835)
 
19021 Not mentioned in mother's estate WARRINGTON, William Edward Gilbert (I48846)
 
19022 Not mentioned in parents' estates. Childhood death assumed LAING, Cornelia Johanna (I5104)
 
19023 Not mentioned in parents' estates. Childhood death assumed LAING, Jane Elizabeth (I5105)
 
19024 Not mentoned in parents' estates ROUX, Abraham Albertus Johannes le (I51947)
 
19025 Not sam person as *04 11 1787 MAREE, Lukas (I57825)
 
19026 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. FERREIRA, Dorothy Joyce (I31074)
 
19027 Note. Domestic matters such as births, marriages etc do not appear in th is time-line as they are dealt with in detail in the genealogy.

1777.......... He was born in Strathavon, Avondale , Lanarkshire. The da te given on the crypt at Glen Avon is 1 January but the register gives t he date as 5 January (OPR Births 621/0010 0159 where the entry was added l ater and written between two 03 01 1777 baptisms - why? )
1794.......... At the age of 17 he ran away from home to join the 98th Hi ghland Regiment (Argyllshire and Sutherland) that later became the 91st, w hich was preparing for war against
France.
1795..........Private Robert Hart and his regiment of 800 embarked to occu py the Cape where his troopship and thirteen others sailed into False B ay on 4 September after a voyage of four months. On 14 September after unl oading all their guns, equipment and stores the Argyllshire Highlanders we re marching into Cape Town in the name of King George III and his Serene H ighness the Prince of Orange whom the French had expelled form the Netherl ands.
1798..........Hart's regiment marched from Algoa Bay to suppress the van J aarsveld rebellion at Graaff-Reinet
1799..........His regiment was posted to the Eastern Cape and he was prese nt when Chief Ndhlambi invaded the Zuurveld which ended up in a patched pe ace agreement leaving the Xhosa in possession of the land they had occupi ed. He was also stationed at Fort Frederick at Algoa Bay and with canno ns on the beach, helped to drive off the French ship La Preneuse which h ad attacked two British ships in the bay.
1802......... By the Treaty of Amiens peace was ratified between Great Br itian and the French Republic and the Cape of Good Hope was given ba ck to the Batavian Republic. The British trops were withdrawn and Robert H art volunteered for further service in India where they were under the com mand of Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington. After a short tour of duty t here he returned to England via the Cape and was then posted to Hanover, G ermany with the rank of sergeant.
1804..........On 08 April (his abode was Strathavon, Lanarkshire) he marri ed Hanna Tamplin on the Isle of Guersney.
1807..........After the British re-took the Cape, Hart returned on 07 01 1 807 with his wife and baby daughter and , as an ensign, was appointed adju tant to the Cape Corps with which unit he served in the eastern frontier u ntil 1817.
1807..........During the year of his arrival, his regiment assisted in r e-taking the Zuurveld and pushed the Xhosas back over the Great Fish Rive r, thus reclaiming the Albany area where the bulk of the Settlers were loc ated in 1820
1810..........Promoted to Lieutenant
1811.......... Grahamstown was founded on the site, it is told, chos en by Hart and where he built one of the first sod cottages. His family ar rived soon after from Cape Town to take up residence.
1817..........The Cape Corps was disbanded and Hart was put on half-pay. F ortunately he was then appointed superintendent of the government fa rm at Boschberg when Dr Joseph Mackrill resigned. His family joined him th ere. This farm, which was established to provide supplies for the militar y, was so successful that Lord Charles Somerset ploughed back the profi ts into other development work in the colony without obtaining the sancti on of Whitehall.
1820..........Hart assisted the settlers who were allocated land in the vi cinity - particularly the Pringles.
1821.......... In recognition for his services, he was granted a large tra ct of land below the Boschberg and just east of Somerset East. The farm Na udesrivier was previously owned by Marthinus Prinsloo but Hart renam ed it Glen Avon.
1825.......... The arrival of a commission of inquiry into SA affairs alar med the Governor and on 7 January Hart received a terse note warning h im to wind up the farm and dismiss all staff, including himself, by the e nd of January. Within a few weeks the farm was broken up and the new to wn of Somerset was proclaimed.
1825.........The Hart family took up residence on Glen Avon in the newly c ompleted house which was built of stone and was roofed with imported Wel sh slate. Hart was appointed Heemraad in the newly proclaimed district a nd town of Somerset East under the first Landdrost W M McKay.
1829..........Hart finally was placed on full pension after thirty-five ye ars military service. He remained an influential and respected member of t he community and made generous donations for the improvement of the develo ping town of Somerset East. He enthusiastically supported the establishme nt of the NG Church at Somerset East and remained an elder until his death .
1846..........He built a small Presbyterian church on his farm and, in h is will, left 1300 pounds to maintain a minister in Somerset East. Throu gh his generosity the original drostdy was purchased for use as an NG pars onage.
1849.......... On 1 June a Hottentot employee, Piet van de Winter, left Gl en Avon with a wagon-load of oranges for sale. On 2 July he was at Fort Be aufort with the wagon and twelve oxen and was not seen again. Hart plac ed a notice in tne press and offered a reward.
1867..........He was interred in the family crypt which he built on Glen A von. Estate MOOC 6/9120 R380
1870..........The Somerset East Presbyterian church was completed after h is death but the building was erected as a result of his efforts and finan cal contributions.
1931..........A memorial window was unveiled in the Presbyterian chur ch by his oldest surviving grand-daughter.
1970..........His bust, by I Mitford Barberton was placed in the vestibu le of the Settler Memorial Hall in Grahamstown. 
HART, Robert (I8703)
 
19028 Occupational Therapist PLESSIS, Betsy du (I27749)
 
19029 Of Damants Horse in Anglo-Boer War
Later became magistrate in Lydenburg, Transvaal 
DAMANT, Frederick Hugh (Col) (I32796)
 
19030 of ETTRICK HILLS CARLISLE BRIDGE GRADWELL, Maurice Walter (I29985)
 
19031 On the baptism for Charles Mathininus on the 23 November 1862 the ones witness was G. Wilhelmina Ross who happens to be the woman who John Ross re-marries on 06 January 1879. Then in on the 25th March 1889 there was Charles Rich in Kimberley who had a child baptised Ellen Amelia om 05 July 1889 at St. Cyprians RICH, Charles Martinus (I7)
 
19032 on the same page of the baptism Lodewyk Wentzel also has a child baptised ROSS,, William Fredrik Hendrik (I48)
 
19033 one of the witnesses at the marriage appears to be Margaret Gallagher who was also onboard the same ship as Johanna. Family F288
 
19034 One source gives Russel as her second name RUSSEL-JONES, Ada (I29545)
 
19035 Only child who died in infancy PRATT, Aletta Jacomina (I25222)
 
19036 Only details: She was widow Napier MAYNARD, ?? * (I34325)
 
19037 Organist at Fraserburg STROBOS, Marthinus Joachim (I612)
 
19038 Originally employed at Karnemelks River by Duncan McFarlane as a groom b ut moved to Hermanus between 1888 and 1891 (Vide birth place of children)
Hotel employee on Death Notice
Grave HER B1432. Estate 6/9/16489 F5166 
BISHOP, William Henry (I259)
 
19039 Originally Filmore
He Sailed from London in January 1820 aboard the Brilliant and reached Tab le Bay in April. They ariived in Algoa Bay in May after calling at Simon 's Town. He is reported to have been a member of Gush's party but "Sto ry of the 1820 Settlers makes no mention of that group. 
FILMER, Thomas (I33604)
 
19040 Originally Filmore
He sailed from London in January 1820 aboard the Brilliant which reached T able Bay in April and, after calling at Simon's Town, arrived at Algoa B ay in May. He was reported to be from Gush's party but no such group is me ntioned in "Story of the 1820 Settlers".
Estate MOOC 6/9/63 R2060 
FILMER, John (I33595)
 
19041 Originally Kestall
Arrived with Morgan's party aboard the Ocean 
KESTELL, Charles (I34100)
 
19042 Originally Menezes
Arrived as leader of his party aboard the Weymouth 
MENZIES, William (I34343)
 
19043 Originally Mullighan
Arrived with Turvey's party aboard the Sir George Osborne 
MULLIGAN, John (I34370)
 
19044 Originally Redguard
He arrived with the Pringle party aboard the Brilliant 
RIDGARD, Ezra (I33679)
 
19045 Over 100 years of age METCALF, Mary (I3155)
 
19046 Owned the farm Groote Post in the Darling area DUCKITT, Frederick (I4235)
 
19047 Owned Waylands farm in the Darling area DUCKITT, William (I4231)
 
19048 Painter
Grave HER B0418 
BAINES, William John (I24891)
 
19049 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. WYK, Arthur Andrew van (I30345)
 
19050 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. BELL, Patrick Gordon (I30775)
 

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