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
Matches 1 to 4 of 4
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Birth | Person ID | ||
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1 | Bowker, Bourchier | Abt Feb 1845 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I1467 |
2 | Bowker, Captain David Bourchier | I1473 | ||
3 | Bowker, Thomas Bourchier Hon. Dr. LLB., M.P. | 28 Sep 1889 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I1469 |
4 | Stirk, Ethel Patricia Southey | 20 Aug 1927 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I1471 |
Matches 1 to 4 of 4
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Death | Person ID | ||
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1 | Atherstone, John Frederick Korsten | 8 May 1894 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I1023 |
2 | Barber, Frederick William | 2 Jan 1892 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I1022 |
3 | Bowker, Bourchier | 24 May 1891 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I1467 |
4 | Stirk, Ethel Patricia Southey | 14 Feb 1993 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | I1471 |
Matches 1 to 2 of 2
Family | Marriage | Family ID | ||
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1 | / | 1 Jun 1826 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | F493 |
2 | Bowker / Hallier | 19 Apr 1888 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | F635 |
Matches 1 to 2 of 2
Family | MARL: Marriage Licence | Family ID | ||
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1 | / | 2 Mar 1826 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | F493 |
2 | / | 1 Jun 1826 | Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa | F493 |