Saturday 11 October 1851

MARRIED by Special; Licence at Colesberg on 11th September 1851, by the Rev. Dr. Orpen, Mr. Gerrit Johs, NIEUWOUDT to Mrs. the Widow KLEINGBIEL.

NOTICE OF SEPARATION
Whereas James KELLY and Maria KELLY, born CODDY, of this Town, have on the [8th] instant passed before me, Notary Public, and witnessed an act of Separation from Bed, Board and Community of Property, and agreed that they will not be responsible for each other’s Debts – Notice of the same is hereby given to the Public.
William McINNES
Notary Public
Port Elizabeth, Oct. ? 1851

Saturday 18 October 1851

DIED at Karham’s Drift, Sunday’s River, on the 15th September 1851 (after a protracted illness of 10 months), Mr. Stephanus Johannes DU PREEZ, aged 80 years 5 months and 23 days.

Saturday 1 November 1851

REMOVAL
MRS. MORRELL
Begs to inform her Friends and the Public that she has removed to the house formerly occupied by Miss COLLING, where she hopes by moderate charges and attention to the comforts of those who favour her to merit a share of Public Patronage.
Families can be accommodated with private apartments.
To Let
The house formerly occupied by Mrs. MORRELL.
For particulars apply to the above.

ROBERT P. CHURCH
Begs to intimate that he has commenced Business as General Broker for the Sale and Purchase of Produce, Merchandise &c.
He will also act as Commercial and Forwarding Agent, Accountant, Collector of debts, and Adjuster of Insolvent and other Estates, and trusts that by indefatigable exertion to execute with satisfaction whatever may be intrusted to his charge, he may enjoy a share of public patronage.
Rodney-street, 1st November.

MR. G.J.S. DE VILLIERS
(lately of Graaff-Reinet)
Begs to acquaint the Public generally that he has established himself as
Auctioneer, Broker and General Agent
in this Place, in either of which capacities he will be most happy to execute any Orders or Commissions intrusted to his Management.
Port Elizabeth, Oct 1851
References:
Port Elizabeth: Messrs. MAYNARD, KUHR & Co.
Capetown: J. BLACKBURN Esq., P.A. BRAND Esq.
Graaff-Reinet: Messrs. LEEB Brothers
Graham’s Town: N.P. KROHN Esq.

Saturday 8 November 1851

DIED at Port Elizabeth on the 3rd instant, Catherine Frances, beloved daughter of Caesar ANDREWS Esq, aged 14 years.

On the morning of Monday last the town of Port Elizabeth was suddenly thrown into deep gloom by the unexpected announcement of the decease of the eldest daughter of C. ANDREWS Esq., a fine young girl of 14 years of age, who, after an illness of only some eight or ten days, was then suddenly removed form our midst by the rude hand of death. Such an event was felt like a shock of warning to the whole community to be also “ready”; and although it was impossible for friends to enter into the poignancy and intensity of the grief of the bereaved parents, who had lost the cherished object of a father’s many hopes, and the beaming centre of a mother’s daily joy, yet there was a depth of sympathy excited, which, next to the true balm of heavenly consolation, must tend to soothe the wounded feelings of parents. Their loss is great, is [indescribable], but they “will not sorrow as those who have no hope”.

Saturday 15 November 1851

DIED at Burghersdorp, of Croup on the 21st October, Henry Ivens, aged 5 years and 2 months, son of Thomas Ivens PORTER, late of the Grenadiers of Charles Cook Yarborough’s Company of the 1st Battalion 91st Regt., and eldest son of Philip PORTER Esquire of bally Crystal Cottage, King’s County, Ireland, late Lieutenant of Her Majesty’s 72nd Highlanders.

THE LATE LIEUT-COL. FORDYCE OF THE 74TH HIGHLANDERS
If not the bravest officer who ever entered service in this Colony, one not second to the bravest has fallen. The Frontier papers received on Thursday morning brought us the mournful intelligence of the death of the gallant and ever ready Colonel FORDYCE, of the 74th Highlanders. He fell while leading on in person his irresistible followers against a strongly entrenched body of the enemy in a rocky thicket, where a rebel Hottentot, perched and concealed in a tree, shot him as a marked man through the side. From this wound he expired within a quarter of an hour.
The 74th Highlanders have not been long in the country, but by the great and incessant services rendered by the regiment since its arrival here, it has so endeared itself in the esteem and affection of the people, that its brave Colonel could not thus be shot down without at once calling forth, over the length and breadth of the land, one deep and mournful expression of regret and sorrow. The merits of Lieutenant-Colonel FORDYCE as a commanding officer can scarcely be exaggerated. Indeed it is only b the aid of a comparison that one can at all bring forth into proper relief the proved qualities of this officer, and in searching in past history for a parallel to him we find it only in the immortal PICTON at the head of his 42nd Highlanders. Both officers had a dash of impetuosity in their composition, but the fiery determination of each of the two brave men now compared together was in such excellent rein that no charge of mismanagement could ever be brought against either. They were both men of eagle eye, of the most resolute courage, and who ever pushed forward into the thickest danger only to gain more and more their own self-possession there; they were never led captive by any military indiscretion, or snared in the toils of bewildered excitement.
[Transcriber’s note: Two further long paragraphs ensue in the same vein, reiterating the above, but with no further information]

Saturday 29 November 1851

DIED at his residence, Bushy Park, near Port Elizabeth, on the 22nd inst, after a short illness, Henry LOVEMORE Sen. Esq, aged 74 years.

Saturday 20 December 1851

DIED on the 12th instant at the residence of his Father, Mathys G. HUMAN Esq, of Ziekoe River, in the Parish of Alexandria, his eldest son, Mathys William Menzies HUMAN, aged 20 years one months and 12 days, after a short illness contracted from bathing in the Gamtoos River while in a state of violent [rest of sentence totally obscured]

In our obituary of today our readers will perceive that we have to chronicle the death of Mr. Mathys William Menzies HUMAN, a young man of great promise cut off in the morning of life. It seems that while reaping the fields he was very hot from exertion, and in this state heedlessly bathed in the river, by which active perspiration was suddenly checked, and the cause of his decease instantaneously contracted, His fate should be a warning to all to take care how when freely perspiring they plunge into a cold stream and thereby induce an illness which may end in death.
Mr. Mathys HUMAN was his father’s right hand, and Ziekoe Farm had, under his industrious management and direction, become a model farm to the surrounding country. Improvements were continually being planned and carried out there; and the loss of the directing mind, by which a conspicuous example of enterprise and improvement was set to other young Dutch farmers, is felt as a public loss in this country. With his parents and family all who knew deceased deeply sympathize.
In today’s obituary we have also with pain to notice the sudden death of Mr. Frederick CALDECOTT of this place. He was crossing the Sunday’s River, which was swollen at the time, a in the act of doing so h [was drowned]. The particulars we have not heard. Deceased leaves a wife and 5 children behind him to mourn their irreparable loss. For these the sincere sympathy of all is engaged.

We regret this week to have to stop the Press for the painful purpose of adding one more name to the week’s obituary list. Mr. Thomas BERESFORD, in the employment of the house of OPENSHAW, UNNA & Co as Traveller, has been drowned in passing from Burghersdorp to Colesberg. It seems that the rains in the upper district have been unusually heavy and the dry rivers of Albert and Colesberg have been turned into swollen torrents. It was in crossing one of these that our respected townsman was drowned, with the loss too of the four horses with which in a cart he was travelling. The driver escaped with difficulty to tell the mournful tale. With the bereaved relatives of Mr. BERESFORD the public here most deeply sympathize.

Saturday 27 December 1851

NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Insolvent Estate of James HAYWARD Senior
The second and final Liquidation and Distribution Account in the above Estate will lie for the inspection of Creditors at the Resident Magistrate’s Office for a period of fourteen days from the 18th instant, after which time it will be forwarded to the Master’s Office.
[W. McMASTER]
Albrecht RENS
Trustees
Uitenhage, Dec 15 1851