Friday 3 July 1874

DIED at Kimberley, Diamond-Fields, on the 24th June 1874, John Richard FORBES, of Islington, London, aged 30 years, deeply lamented.

DIED at Port Elizabeth on 2nd July 1874, Mr. Myles SWANN, a native of the County of Wicklow, Ireland, aged 71 years. R.I.P.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATH
BIRTHS
LAMB, Mrs. R.G., on the 15th ult, at Uitenhage, of a son. [sic – should be 5th]
MICHELL, Mrs. L.L., on the 15th ult, at Port Elizabeth, of a daughter. [sic – should be 5th]
TAYLOR, Mrs. Alphonso, on the 12th ult, at Port Elizabeth, of a son.
MARRIAGES
GUBB, Mr. Thomas Witheridge, on the 15th ult, at Graaff-Reinet, to Miss Marianne KITCHINGMAN.
WOODFORD, Mr. William George, on the 25th ult, at Port Elizabeth, to Miss Maria CATES.
DEATHS
HODSON, Maude Eveline, on the 27th ult, at Port Elizabeth, aged 4 months and 25 days.
WORRALL, Mr. Thomas, on the 21st ult, at Port Elizabeth, aged 28 years.
WEBB, Mrs. Elizabeth, on the 2nd ult, at Cape Town.
WRIGHT, Mrs. Elizabeth, on the 10th ult, at Queen’s Town, aged 76 years.

Tuesday 7 July 1874

DIED this morning, Evelyn Serah [sic] Stewart, infant daughter of Alfred and Sarah BATES, aged one year and one month.
Port Elizabeth, July 7 1874.

Friday 10 July 1874

DIED on the 10th July at the residence of his Step-Father, D. HENDERSON Esq., from the effects of an accident, Charles Brooksly LORD, aged 9 years.

Tuesday 14 July 1874

BIRTH on the 4th July 1874, the wife of J. RAMPF of a son.

DIED at the Knysna on the 19th June 1874, Charlotte Phillippa, youngest daughter of the late Capt. W. WHITBURN, of Falmouth, England, aged 22 years – deeply regretted.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL
Messrs. CHABAUD & DYASON have removed to the offices lately occupied by Messrs. INNES & ELLIOTT, Main-street.

MURDER NEAR FORT BEAUFORT
Mr. WRENSCH has been engaged this week in holding a preliminary examination into a charge of murder against a Hottentot in the employ of Mr. R.J. PAINTER. It appears that the accused, named Hans PETERS, and the deceased, - who was a coloured man, a mason by trade – with another, were in company together; the two latter the worse for liquor. Somewhere between the farms Yellowwoods and Waterfall a quarrel is supposed to have taken place last Saturday, which ended in the death of one, and the serious maltreatment of another by the accused. A knobkerrie was found on the spot broken to pieces.

Friday 17 July 1874

DIED on the 10th instant at No.2 Annerley Terrace, Henry, the beloved son of F. and E, MARCUS, late of 58 Gower Street, London, aged 10 years and 3 months.

Tuesday 21 July 1874

MARRIED at Burghersdorp by Special Licence, on Tuesday the 7th July 1874, by the Rev. William Cromar, Coenraad Johannes Otto Werdmuller D’ELGG to Miss Elizabeth Johanna Catharine VORSTER, both of Burghersdorp.

Friday 24 July 1874

DIED at Burghersdorp, in the night of Monday 13th July, Joseph Emil, aged 3 months and 16 days, infant son of James and Rosa MOSENTHAL.

DIED on the 20th instant, Florence Maude, beloved daughter of Fred and Sarah CROOKS, aged 3 months and 2 days. Deeply regretted.

Friday 31 July 1874

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth, 27th July 1874, Mrs. John T, LANG of a daughter.

BIRTH on the 26th instant, Mrs. Fritz MOSENTHAL of a daughter.
Richmond.

DIED at Wheatlands, near Graaff-Reinet, on the29th July 1874, Jane PARKES, aged 28 years.

Tuesday 4 August 1874

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth, 27th July 1874, Mrs. John T. LACEY of a daughter.

DIED at Slangfontein, Eiland’s River, District of Uitenhage, on Thursday the 30th July, Thomas Brown PALMER Esq., J.P., aged 61 years, after a lingering illness.

DEATH OF AN 1820 SETTLER
We regret exceedingly to have to record the death of Mr. James DICKS, a respected citizen, at the ripe old age of 79 years, which took place last evening at the residence of Mr. R. STANTON. Deceased was one of the Original Settlers of 1820, and came to this country in the Weymouth, with FORD’s Party.

SAD NEWS
The numerous friends of Mr. SCANLEN, M.L.A., will be sorry to hear that yesterday he received a telegram announcing the death of a son, eight years old. Mr. DISTIN, M.L.A., also received a telegram, stating that Mrs. DISTIN was in a precarious condition. There being no steamer leaving for some days, Mr. DISTIN took his departure from Cape Town by the Inland Transport Company’s wagon this morning for Victoria West, from which place he will go on to Middelburg. – Argus.

FASHIONABLE WEDDING
A fashionable wedding took place last Tuesday, in the Dutch Reformed Church, Adderley-street, when Capt. FLOWER, of H.M. 86th Regiment, was married to Miss Dorothea Elizabeth FLECK, the sister-in-law of G. MYBURGH Esq., the Consul-General for the Netherlands in this colony. The church, notwithstanding the rather unfavourable weather, contained a numerous assembly of friends and spectators, among whom were Sir Arthur CUNYNGHAME, the Commander-in-Chief, and the principal officers of the garrison. The bride and her maids were elegantly dressed, and the bridegroom and his attendants were in full uniform. The service was performed by the Rev. Dr. ROBERTSON, of course in the English language. The grand organ, under the able management of Miss WOLFFE, played several very appropriate pieces, while the bridal party was assembling, and on the conclusion of the ceremony, which contributed much to enliven the scene. After a sumptuous breakfast at the residence of Mr. MYBURGH, the newly married couple left for Wynberg, followed by the best wishes of many friends. – Standard.

Friday 7 August 1874

DEATH
We have to announce, with sincere regret, the untimely death of Mr. Frank KAY, of Lady Grey. Mr. KAY lived for several years in Aliwal North, and from here not long since removed to Lady Grey, to conduct the business of Messrs. Frank KAY & Co., of which he was the senior partner. We understand the immediate cause of death was a relapse after an attack of measles. Mr. KAY was only twenty-one and a half years of age. He had won the high esteem of all who knew him, and he leaves many faithful friends to deplore his loss. – Northern Post.

Tuesday 11 August 1874

DIED of measles, at Lady Grey, Orange Free State, on the 31st July 1874, Francis Beaufort KAY, youngest son of the late W. KAY Esq., aged 22 years and 4 months, deeply regretted by his sorrowing relatives.
August 7 1874.

DEATH OF MR. A.W. BOONE
It is our mournful duty to record the death of Mr. Arthur William BOONE, late bookkeeper to the Port Elizabeth Fire and Marine Assurance Company, which sad event took place at noon on Friday last. The deceased gentleman, who was in his forty-first year, was well known in this town, and having acted for many years as organist of St.Paul’s Church, and taken much interest in Church matters, his loss will be greatly felt by that community. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, and was attended by a large concourse of mourners.

Friday 14 August 1874

DIED at Fort Beaufort on the 12th inst, Billingsley William HENDERSON, of the Colonial Civil Service – Requiescat in Pace.

Tuesday 18 August 1874

DIED at Queen’s Town on Saturday 8th August 1874, Alfred WATKINS, of the firm HILL & WATKINS, aged 34 years.

OBITUARY
The Revd. William GORRIE, late missionary of the Free Church of Scotland, and in former years assistant teacher of the S.A. College and other schools, died on Wednesday last at his late residence at Newlands, near Cape Town, aged seventy-one years.

Friday 21 August 1874

LOST, on board the schooner “Star”, of Montrose, in March last, while on a voyage from West Hartlepool to Konigsberg, Capt. Robert CRABB, second son of the late George CRABB, Shipwright of Dundee, much and deeply regretted by all who knew him. Friends will please accept of this intimation.

Tuesday 25 August 1874

BIRTH on the 24th instant, at 49 Havelock-street, the wife of Wm. Elliott VARDY of a daughter.

MARRIED at the Wesleyan Chapel on the 10th instant, by the Rev. R. Lamplough, William WILSON to Caroline Lavinia DUNSTERVILLE.

BOY KILLED BY LIGHTNING
A private letter dated Paarl, 17th August, received in town, contains the following sad intelligence:-
I was in Wellington on Saturday afternoon, and there, as well as here, thunder and lightning, with heavy rain and hailstones, were experienced. At Stuckie’s school in the Blaauw Vlei, Wellington, a youngster between eleven and twelve years old was killed by the electric fluid, causing blood to flow from both ears, whilst three other boys, all playing outside, were struck slightly in their legs, causing a blue appearance of the part and affecting the membranes, so as to prevent walking for a few hours. The deceased lad is named VAN NIEKERK, and comes from Murraysburg. One of the three slightly hurt is a lad named ESTERHUIZEN, but the names of the other two I have not heard. – Standard.

Friday 28 August 1874

BIRTH on Sunday August 23rd, the wife of Mr. John BAKER, Humansdorp, of a daughter.

Tuesday 1 September 1874

DIED at Port Elizabeth, of Scarlet Fever, on Sunday the 30th August 1874, Martha Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of Mr. John KINGWELL, aged 5 years and 19 days, after a painful illness of only 7 days, to the intense grief of her surviving Parent.

Friday 4 September 1874

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth on the 1st September, the wife of the Revd. Robt. LAMPLOUGH of a daughter.

MARRIED at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, September 2nd 1874, by the Rev. R. Lamplough, Wesleyan Minister, Mr. Charles Barnett DUNMAN, of Kimberley, Diamond-Fields, to Miss Mary THEOPHILUS, of Port Elizabeth.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
BIRTHS
BAKER, Mrs. John, at Humansdorp, on the 23rd ult, of a daughter.
LAMPLOUGH, Mrs. R., at Port Elizabeth, on the 1st inst, of a daughter.
VARDY, Mrs. W.E., at Port Elizabeth, on the 24th ult, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES
ROSS–JOHNSON, Mr. Advocate, at Uitenhage, on the 11th ult, to Miss Maria RESTALL.
WILSON, Mr. W., at Port Elizabeth, on the 10th ult, to Miss Caroline Lavinia DUNSTERVILLE.
DUNMAN, Mr. C.B., at Port Elizabeth, on the 2nd September, to Mary THEOPHILUS.
DEATHS
HENDERSON, Mr. Wm. Billingsley, at Fort Beaufort, on the 12th ult.
KINGWELL, Martha Elizabeth, at Port Elizabeth, on the 30th ult, aged 5 years and 19 days.
TITTERTON, Marmion Allan, at Winterberg, on the 11th ult, aged 1 year and 3 months.
WATKINS, Mr. Alfred, at Queen’s Town, on the 8th ult, aged 34 years.
WHILEY, Hannah, at Port Elizabeth, on the 1st September, aged 53 years.

SUDDEN DEATH
We exceedingly regret to have to record in our obituary today the death of Mrs. WHILEY, the wife of Mr. J.E. WHILEY, of this town, and formerly of Graham’s Town. Deceased attended Divine service on Sunday, and was in her usual state of health on Monday morning, but about nine o’clock in the evening was seized with an attack of paralysis. Medical aid was immediately obtained, and Drs. DUNSTERVILLE and SUEUR were unremitting in their attention, but the sufferer never recovered, and only spoke once after the attack, which proved fatal before noon of the following day. This sudden bereavement is a great shock to the disconsolate family, to whom in their distress we tender our heartfelt sympathy.

MARRIAGE OF A CAPE MERCHANT
A Liverpool paper gives the following account of the marriage of Mr. C.M. PEACOCK, of the firm of Peacock Bros., Queen’s Town:-
A striking illustration of the growing desire for ornate ritual in religious ceremonies, which, along with an improved taste in ecclesiastical architecture and design, permeates all sects and classes, was afforded at a fashionable wedding, which took place on Tuesday at Wesley Chael, Higher Tranmere. The occasion, which brought together a large concourse of people, was the marriage of Mr. C.M. PEACOCK, a South African merchant of Cape Colony, with Annie, third daughter of Mr. Robert CURWEN, of Clifton Park, a Liverpool merchant and ship owner. The chapel, which will hold from 900 to 1,000persons, was crowded by those anxious to witness the ceremony, while nearly as large a company had assembled outside to watch the arrival and exit of the bridal party. A carpet of red baize stretched from the gateway in Church-road to the north-eastern chapel porch, and the floor of the chapel (which is an octagon in shape) was newly laid with the same material in the open space in front of the altar rails. The cortege consisted of eight wedding coaches, the interior of the bride’s coach being prettily festooned with flowers, which had a most charming effect. The bride, who was led in by her father, was attended by three of her sisters as bridesmaids, and two miniature bridesmaids (nieces), little flaxen-haired girls of five or six years, dressed in white, trimmed with pink silk, and each attended by a cavalier of similar proportions, one of them in Highland costume. The bride wore white silk, and the traditional veil and orange blossoms. The bridesmaids also wore veils, and were dressed in white tulle and mauve silk, with sleeves cut and slashed in an old fashion, most picturesque in effect. Besides these indispensable officials, the bride was “supported” by about a dozen young girls bearing bouquets, and understood to be members of her Sunday-school class. The wedding service was choral. An excellent choir, numbering about two dozen voices, sang the 128th psalm, beginning “Blessed are all they that fear the Lord” (which is part of the service), to the admirable setting of John Thomas’s cantata, “The Bride of Neath Valley”, and rendered the responses in a monotone. At suitable intervals they also sang, in place of anthems, two chorales from the same work – “Thou whose mercy is a treasure” and
May the years begun so brightly
In a round of gladness move.
The bridal party reached the chapel and half past ten, and the ceremony lasted about half an hour. The organist played the “Wedding March” as the married pair left the edifice, and the pathway of the bride was plentifully bestrewn with flowers.

FATAL ACCIDENT
The Friend of the 27th ult says:
It is our painful duty to record the death of Mr. John F.M. ROESCH, a former resident of this town, but lately of Moroko’s territory, the result of a cart accident on Thursday evening last, 20th instant, in the Kafirfontein Spruit, near this town. Deceased had been purchasing goods at the store of Mr. Robert PALMER, and at about sundown in the evening started from thence to return home to his residence, a trading station about one hour’s ride from Thaba N’chu. When he left Mr. PALMER’s store he had a coloured servant with him in the cart, but, as it seems, left him just outside the town, at the native station (Waayhoek), telling him to remain there till the following day, to look for wagons from Thaba N’chu on the morning market, to load up the goods, and then to come out to the station. ROESCH must have waited about till it got dark, and then have started quite alone with the cart and two horses. He was not again seen, and nothing more was heard of him till Friday night, when it was reported to the Landdrost, Mr. O.J. TRUTER, that the body of a white man had been seen by a cattle herd in the spruit just beyond the race-course, with a cart on the top of him and two horses still standing alive in harness. Mr. TRUTER started off with his police and brought in the body about midnight of Friday. The horses were uninjured, and must have stood for some twenty-eight hours in the bed of the spruit without food and without moving. The cart was found on its side, the one wheel lying flat on the chest of the unfortunate deceased, who in all probability lingered some time, wholly unable to extricate himself, till death relieved him of his sufferings. Deceased must, in the darkness, have missed the wide wagon drift on the main road to Thaba N’chu and the Conquered Territory, and have inadvertently driven down the little bank of the spruit, some little distance therefrom. The late Mr. ROESCH has left a sorrowing widow and eight children to deplore their loss. It is a strange and sad coincidence that on the same day of the month (June 20th), two months since, the late Mr. ROESCH had the misfortune to lose his third son, a lad of nearly fourteen years.

BIRTH at the Mount, Coldingham, Scotland, on the 2nd August, the wife of J.H. LAMB of a son.

DIED at Dagga Boer’s Neck on the morning of the 2nd September 1874, from Measles and Inflammation of the Lungs, George Augustus, second son of Edward and Charlotte Ellen FRISBY, aged 1 year, 8 months and 18 days.

Tuesday 8 September 1874

DIED at Port Elizabeth on Tuesday 1st September instant, Hannah, the beloved wife of James Joseph Ellerd WHILEY, of Port Elizabeth (only daughter of the late Lieut. MACDONALD, East India Company), aged 53 years, deeply regretted.
Port Elizabeth, Sept. 3 1874

DIED at Tarkastad on the 3rd instant, Mary Frances Thornhill, infant daughter of James and Letitia SOUTTER.

Friday 11 September 1874

DIED at his residence, Maynard Villa, Wynberg, on the 9th September, James Mortimer MAYNARD, in the 75th year of his age.

BIRTH at Somerset East on Tuesday 8th September 1874, Mrs. H. DAVID of a son.
Somerset East, 9th Sept. 1874.

Tuesday 15 September 1874

BIRTH on the 10th instant, the wife of Alfred BOARD of a son.

SUDDEN DEATH
Mr. LOUW, a shopkeeper residing in Sir Lowry-street, died very suddenly on Saturday evening last. The deceased had been indisposed for a few days, but not so much so as to be confined to his room, and, strange to say, a few minutes before his death he was walking about his shop, when he was suddenly stricken down. – Standard.

It was announced yesterday that Mr. James Mortimer MAYNARD Esq. had departed this life. He had been seized with a serious fit, from which no permanent recovery could be expected, so far back as two or three years ago, and in that state of confirmed valetudinarianism he continued until yesterday morning. Mr. MAYNARD was in very many respects, into which we have no space now to enter, a remarkable man. Originally, we believe, one of the British Settlers of 1821 [sic], he, with his brother, came down to Cape Town, and from an humble origin rose to the accumulation of an enormous amount of wealth. During the last two or three years he has been bestowing a portion of this wealth in liberal donations to the Wesleyan community, of which he was a member, as well as for other charitable purposes. – Argus.

Friday 18 September 1874

BIRTH at Union Cottage, Port Elizabeth, on Thursday 17th September 1874, the wife of Fredk. J.R. CAITHNESS of a daughter.

Friday 25 September 1874

BIRTH at Middelburg on the 12th September 1874, the wife of Mr. Edwin WHILEY of a son.

BIRTH at Reed’s Cottages, Princes-street, on the 22nd September 1874, the wife of T. RICHARDSON of a daughter.

BIRTH at Port Elizabeth on the 23rd inst, the wife of Fred LEVICK Esq. of a daughter.

BIRTH at Winburg, Orange Free State, on the 13th inst, the wife of Mr. J.W. MARKUS of a son.
Winburg, Sept. 14 1874.

MARRIED at Cape Town on the 15th instant, by Special Licence, Mr. Alexander MULLER, of Burghersdorp, to Miss Mary GRIESBACH, of Schwartau, Germany. No cards.

MARRIED on Tuesday 22nd September 1874, at St.Mary’s Church, Port Elizabeth, H.R. BOWLER Esq., of Port Elizabeth, to Elizabeth Ann, eldest daughter of Andries HUDSON Esq., Hougham Park.

Tuesday 29 September 1874

MARRIED by Special Licence on the 23rd September 1874, by the Rev. J.C. Mackintosh, assisted by the Rev. C.G. Forrester, Jane Isabell McKENZIE, fourth daughter of the late A.J. McKENZIE, to Frederick Thomas POWRIE, of Aliwal North, son of the late James POWRIE, of Claremont, near Cape Town. No cards.

DIED at his residence, Emerald Hill, on the 16th day of September 1874, Thomas GRIFFITHS, aged 49 years and 4 months, leaving an affectionate wife and large family to mourn their irreparable loss.