Second generation notes

George’s name appears twice in the Lower Albany Chronicle:
1. November 5, 1846, William, Charles and George Fuller were members of a party of settlers on their way from Port Frances to Grahamstown during the War of the Axe. They had “engaged the enemy, killed one and recaptured 52 cattle.”
2. April 29, 1853, “Intending applicants for farms in Victoria, who had been recommended, were invited to apply.” George Fuller is among those listed.

In the Cory Library’s Grahamstown Journal card index, there’s an entry under the same date, April 29, 1853, in which the governor directs the publication of a list of people whose applications had received the favourable recommendation of the Victoria Land Commission for farms in the country forfeited after the Tambookie rebellion. The list includes George, Charles and James Fuller and a Peter Bertram.

In his will, signed on Sept. 1 1887, George began by making it clear that he was revoking and annulling a previous will made by him on May 25 1882 and at the same time pointing out that although he was married to Jacoba Elizabeth Fuller, born Scheepers, they had concluded a separation agreement on Sept. 16 1880 which included a settlement of £1,310 and which gave each the right thereafter to bequeath their respective estates as they wished. He gave the following legacies.
1. To his daughter Susan, wife of Peter David Bertram, a piece of land with all its buildings in Berry St., Queenstown, No. 790 on the town’s general plan.
2. To his daughter Jennett (known as Jessie), wife of Charles Palmer, a mortgage bond for £750 taken out by her brother-in-law Peter Bertram in favor of a John Leach and then ceded by Leach to George Fuller under security of a property in the Hexagon, Queenstown, a subdivision of Erf 42 in the general plan, the bond bearing the date Oct. 18 1882. In a codicil to his will on Feb. 13 1890, he changed the amount bequeathed to his daughter Jennett to £500 and gave the remaining £250 to Peter Bertram.
3. To his daughter Margaret, widow of George William Scandrett, a property in Cathcart Road, Queenstown, being a subdivision of Erf. No. 4 on the general plan. In the later codicil he amended this bequest, giving Margaret only that portion of the property occupied by Messrs. Sowden, Mitchell and
Stoddart and leaving the remaining portion, identified as that being occupied by James Dougall and Robert Davies, to his other daughter Jennett.
The rest of the estate he left to all his children together, appointing his sons William and Charles, farmers of the district of Cathcart, as executors.

George inherited an interest in his father’s farm Mount Pleasant in 1870.

His death notice indicates that he died at Clapton farm, Cathcart district and that all six of his adult children listed were born of his first marriage, and that there was no issue from his second marriage.

He is buried in the Queenstown cemetery in a grave shared with his wife and right next to that of his nephew Henry Charles Fuller. The gravestone inscription reads:
In loving memory of Margaret
beloved wife of George Fuller
died March 11 1856 aged 41 years
also George Fuller
died May 6 1894 aged 78 years
“For if we believe that Jesus died and arose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”
“Even so father for so it seemeth good in thy sight.”

The three Fuller graves are surrounded by graves of the Scandrett family, who were connected to the Fullers through the marriage between George and Margaret’s daughter Margaret and George William Scandrett.

Sources for George Fuller:
Birth and christening: ERO, West Ham Bishop’s Transcripts; 1815-1820; D/CR167/1.
Death: MOOC 6/9/328, Ref. 1085. FHL film 1281565.

Margaret Robertson

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She is buried in the Queenstown cemetery in a grave shared with her husband and right next to that of her husband’s nephew Henry Charles Fuller. The gravestone inscription reads:
In loving memory of Margaret
beloved wife of George Fuller
died March 11 1856 aged 41 years
also George Fuller
died May 6 1894 aged 78 years
“For if we believe that Jesus died and arose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”
“Even so father for so it seemeth good in thy sight.”

The three Fuller graves are surrounded by graves of the Scandrett family, who were connected to the Fullers through the marriage between George and Margaret’s daughter Margaret and George William Scandrett.

Her death notice says she died at Wellington farm in the district of Queenstown. It was signed by “S. Bertram, born Fuller, daughter of deceased” at Queenstown on June 11, 1894 -- or 38 years after the death. It’s possible a legal requirement arose to certify the mother’s death before the father’s will could be executed, his death having taken place that same year.

Sources for Margaret Robertson
Birth and death: Death notice, MOOC 6/9/330 Ref. 1416. FHL film 1281565.

38. William Fuller

His death notice says that he was a farmer and a batchelor, and that he left landed and moveable property and a will. Signed by nephew C.F. Bertram.
He is buried beside his brother John in the cemetery at Queenstown, where his gravestone reads: “William Fuller, Died at Clapton farm January 14 1897 aged 59 years and 8 months.”
Sources for William Fuller
Death: MOOC 6/9/360, Ref. 249.

13. Charles Fuller

On Nov. 14, 1850, Charles and his wife Mary Ann were part of a big day for the Fuller clan of the Cape Colony, who already numbered 33 at the time. On that day, no less than three marriages and three baptisms involving Fullers took place. Three of Henry and Susannah’s children -- William, James and Susannah -- were married, and three of their grandchildren -- Charles and Mary Ann’s children Emily Susan, Edwin William and Kate Harriet -- were baptized. Although all six events are recorded in the parish records of Trinity Church, the Presbyterian church in Grahamstown, James’s marriage was conducted at Henry and Susannah’s residence, Prospect farm, so it’s likely that the other marriages and baptisms were held there too.

Charles and his wife, in a joint will dated Jan. 26 1899 and signed at Good Hope farm in the district of Stutterheim, where they were living at the time, declared that the survivor of the two would inherit everything they owned but without the right to disperse the estate in any way, and that when the survivor died the following bequests would be made to their children.
1. To Frederick John Fuller and Amelia Jane Fuller (wife of Edward Austen Blunden) jointly their farm Riversdale in the division of Cathcart.
2. To Emily Susan Fuller two pieces of land in Queenstown, Lots Nos. 748 and 749.
3. To Donald Thomas Fuller and Kate Harriett Fuller (wife of James Haywood) all money, debts and dues owing to the estate, and also the proceeds of all sheep in the estate.
4. To Elizabeth Ann Fuller all movable property except sheep, and also two pieces of perpetual quitrent land in the Upper Kabousie in the Division of Stutterheim, Lots Nos. 16 and 17 Block H, and free from the marital control of any husband should she at any time marry.
Appointed as executors were F.W.K. Wylde and Alphonso Allan de Beer. N.B. Riversdale is about 30 km southeast of Queenstown, next to Tylden, and Good Hope is 6 km south of Stutterheim.

Charles died at Aboyne farm, Kentani, Transkei. His death notice describes him as a retired farmer.

Sources for Charles Fuller

Death: MOOC 6/9/514, Ref. 150. FHL film 1281518.
Marriage: The Lower Albany Chronicle, Part III, 1841-1850, compiled by E. Morse Jones (Port Alfred: Lower Albany Historical Society, 1965).
Will: Appears on index for Wills, Cape Province 1899-1912, FHL film 1295279. Full reference: South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records, Indexes, Cape Supreme Court Will Indexes 1874-1912.

The name Charles Fuller comes up three times in the Lower Albany Chronicle:
1. March 9 1841, “Mary, daughter of Thomas Lanham, was married at Grahamstown by the Reverend John Heavyside to Charles, son of Henry Fuller. Elizabeth Lanham was witness.”
2. November 5, 1846, During the War of the Axe, it is mentioned on this day that William, George and Charles Fuller [who would have been aged 25, 30, and 28 at the time] were members of a party on its way from Port Frances to Grahamstown that had “re-captured 52 [cattle] and killed one of the enemy.”
3. June 26 1849, It is recorded that Charles Fuller was attending Southwell School (this may have been a younger member of the clan, possibly George’s son).

Mary Ann Lanham

Mary Ann Lanham and the man she married, Charles Fuller, had in common the fact that, as young children, they both came out to the Cape Colony with the 1820 Settlers.
Mary Ann was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Lanham of Westbury, Wiltshire. The Roll of the 1820 Settlers lists the family as follows:
Lanham, Thomas, 27. Tiler. Wife Elizabeth 27. Child Mary. Party James. Ship Weymouth.
The Wiltshire party of 60 led by Samuel James were located after their arrival on an arm of the Lynedoch River, the location being known early as Bethany.
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The book that sailed with the 1820 Settlers
Amazingly, a book apparently once owned by Thomas Lanham and by his father William before him came into my possession when my grandfather Ryno Neville Fuller died in 1987, and I soon realized that not only had it been passed down through seven generations to reach me, but that it had probably also made the journey to the Cape on the Weymouth with the Settlers in 1820.
My connection to Thomas Lanham is through his daughter Mary Ann, who married Charles Fuller and became my great-great-grandmother.
The book is a 1766 edition of The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, printed for W. Johnston in Ludgate Street, London. This is a classic Christian text, the wandering allegorical tale of the journey of Christian, his wife Christiana and their sons through the trials of the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair and the Valley of the Shadow of Death to reach salvation from their sinfulness at the Heavenly Gate.
The inscriptions you can see on this page were written in the book by Thomas in 1816, while he was still in Westbury, Wiltshire, and by his father in 1787, also in Westbury.
To add to the intrigue of this great heirloom, it came to me accompanied by another volume, a copy of a journal called The Youth’s Instructor and Guardian for 1836, Vol. 20, published by J. Mason at 14 City Road, London and sold at 60 Paternoster Street. The articles in it are very straight-laced but nevertheless quite broad in scope and obviously aimed at the religious, historical, cultural, natural and scientific education of young Britons.
Paging through it, I soon discovered what I think is the reason that this book, too, had been handed down through the family. It has in it an article on the famous 17th-century English clergyman and author Thomas Fuller (1608-1661). Now I must say immediately that I am not aware of any connection between Thomas Fuller and the South Africa Fullers descended from Henry and Susannah Fuller (William Fuller of West Ham c. 1763-1840 being the earliest ancestor I have traced), but it is intriguing that the South African Fullers were passing down this book.
Adding to the appeal of this mystery is the fact that Thomas Fuller had a connection to Wiltshire, holding a prebend at the cathedral in Salisbury. It was, in fact, on a visit to Salisbury after the English civil war that he contracted the fever that ultimately killed him.
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Sources for Mary Ann Lanham
Death: Death notice MOOC 6/9/387 Ref. 1060.
Trip to the Cape: Roll of the British Settlers in South Africa: Part 1 up to 1826 by E. Morse Jones. Published under the auspices of the 1820 Settlers Monument Committee (Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1969).

44. Henry Charles Fuller

Interestingly, he is buried in Queenstown beside his uncle and aunt, George and Margaret Fuller, in a corner of the cemetery right next to one of the entrances. His gravestone reads:
To the beloved memory of Henry Charles Fuller who died at Queenstown May 12 1881 aged 39 years.
“I shall go to Him but He shall not return to me.”
Death notice says that he died at the house of G.W. Scandrett, husband of his cousin Margaret, in Queenstown. Married but had no children. Left moveable property only. Signed by Emily E. Fuller.
Known as “Harry,” according to one family tree I have seen.
Sources for Henry Charles Fuller
Marriage: FHL film 1281507, Index of Matrimonial Court Proceedings in the Cape 1818-1882, c.o. 4588 p. 117.
Death: MOOC 6/9/180, Ref. 2058.
Will: General Register Volume 74 Folio 144.

Emily Eastland Hill

Sources for Emily Eastland Hill
A comprehensive Hill family tree researched by descendants in South Africa shows that Emily Eastland Hill was born in 1856, the 14th of 16 children born to John Hill and Celia Jane Eastland.
It states that, as a lad of 17, John Hill came to the Cape in 1817 and arrived on the frontier in 1823. He and Celia were married on Aug. 17 1829.
Interestingly, this family tree records Emily Eastland Hill as having married an H. Dugmore -- perhaps this was a second marriage after the death of Henry Charles Fuller, although there was also a minister of that name and this could be a misread marriage entry.

45. Emily Susan Fuller

On Nov. 14, 1850, Emily Susan was part of a big day for the Fuller clan of the Cape Colony, who already numbered 33 at the time. On that day, no less than three marriages and three baptisms involving Fullers took place. Three of Henry and Susannah’s children -- William, James and Susannah -- were married, and three of their grandchildren -- Charles and Mary Ann’s children Emily Susan, Edwin William and Kate Harriet -- were baptized. Although the three marriages and baptisms are all duly recorded in the parish records of Trinity Church, the Presbyterian church in Grahamstown, it seems the proceedings might actually have taken place at Henry and Susannah’s residence, Prospect farm (see notes for James Fuller, William’s brother).
The record for Emily Susan’s marriage gives her name as Emily Susannah, and states that she was living at Riversdale, a fact which positively identifies her as the daughter of Charles and Mary Ann Fuller even although her correct name was Emily Susan. Her husband was a farmer, and the witnesses were William Collins and Margaret Fuller. Minister was H.H. Dugmore. Groom’s father’s name given as William Brown.
Sources for Emily Susan Fuller
Birth and christening: FHL film 1560913, Presbyterian Parish Records, Grahamstown Christenings: 1848-1893, Item 15. Entry # 71.
Marriage: FHL film 1560874, Queenstown Methodist Parish Records, Marriages 1854-1881. Item 7, entry #157.

46. Edwin William Fuller

On Nov. 14, 1850, Edwin William was part of a big day for the Fuller clan of the Cape Colony, who already numbered 33 at the time. On that day, no less than three marriages and three baptisms involving Fullers took place. Three of Henry and Susannah’s children -- William, James and Susannah -- were married, and three of their grandchildren -- Charles and Mary Ann’s children Emily Susan, Edwin William and Kate Harriet -- were baptized. Although the three marriages and baptisms are all duly recorded in the parish records of Trinity Church, the Presbyterian church in Grahamstown, it seems the proceedings might actually have taken place at Henry and Susannah’s residence, Prospect farm (see notes for James Fuller, William’s brother).
Sources for Edwin William Fuller
Birth and christening: FHL film 1560913, Presbyterian Parish Records, Grahamstown Christenings: 1848-1893, Item 15. Entry # 72.

47. Kate Harriet Fuller

On Nov. 14, 1850, Kate Harriet was part of a big day for the Fuller clan of the Cape Colony, who already numbered 33 at the time. On that day, no less than three marriages and three baptisms involving Fullers took place. Three of Henry and Susannah’s children -- William, James and Susannah -- were married, and three of their grandchildren -- Charles and Mary Ann’s children Emily Susan, Edwin William and Kate Harriet -- were baptized. Although the three marriages and baptisms are all duly recorded in the parish records of Trinity Church, the Presbyterian church in Grahamstown, it seems the proceedings might actually have taken place at Henry and Susannah’s residence, Prospect farm (see notes for James Fuller, William’s brother).
Sources for Kate Harriet Fuller
Birth and christening: FHL film 1560913, Presbyterian Parish Records, Grahamstown Christenings: 1848-1893, Item 15. Entry # 73.

James Haywood

Sources for James Haywood
He is mentioned as the husband of Kate Harriet in the joint will drawn up by her parents Charles and Mary Ann Fuller.

48. Donald Thomas Fuller

He was one of six Fuller children who were all baptized on the same day, Feb. 1, 1857, an event appearing in the parish records of the Methodist church in Queenstown. The six consisted of three children born to James and Elizabeth Fuller and three born to Charles and Mary Ann Fuller, all grandchildren of the 1820 Settlers Henry and Susannah.
There are records in the Cape Archives (MOIB 2/3393, Ref. 582) involving the insolvent liquidation and distribution account of a Donald Thomas Fuller for the years 1908-1911.
Sources for Donald Thomas Fuller
Birth and baptism: Methodist parish records, Queenstown. FHL film 1560874, item 2, 1854-1883, entry #112.

49. Elizabeth Ann Fuller

She was one of six Fuller children who were all baptized on the same day, Feb. 1, 1857, an event appearing in the parish records of the Methodist church in Queenstown. The six consisted of three children born to James and Elizabeth Fuller and three born to Charles and Mary Ann Fuller, all grandchildren of the 1820 Settlers Henry and Susannah.
There are documents in the Cape Archives (CSC 2/1/1/545, Ref. 219) relating to an “illiquid case, Jack Mpakado versus Elizabeth Ann Kemlo. Appeal against the decision of the magistrate of Kentani” in the year 1907. For the same year, there are documents relating to a mortgage bond held by a person of the same name (DOC 4/1/1252, Ref. 1614), and another mortgage bond in the next year (DOC 4/1/1294, Ref. 31).
Sources for Elizabeth Ann Fuller
Birth and baptism: Methodist parish records, Queenstown. FHL film 1560874, item 2, 1854-1883, entry #113.

John Kemlo

Interestingly, John Kemlo’s father-in-law, Charles Fuller, died at a farm called Aboyne in the Kentani district in Transkei, which it appears was named after the birthplace in Scotland of his son-in-law.
John Kemlo’s death notice indicates that he was born in Aboyne, Scotland in about 1851, son of Gideon and Margaret Kemlo (born Muir, although this name is hard to read). His age is given as 66 years and five months at his death on June 24, 1917, and his residence is given as Butterworth, the place also where his wife signed the death notice on Oct. 22, 1917. He died at 754 Merriman Street and left no assets at all, according to the death notice, which also says that he and his wife married in Stutterheim and had no children.
Sources for John Kemlo
Death: Death notice #3864

15. William Fuller

On Nov. 4, 1827, William became just the fifth child to be baptized in the new Union Chapel in Grahamstown, one of three of Henry and Susannah Fuller’s children who were baptized that day.

On Nov. 14, 1850, William was part of an even bigger day for the Fuller clan of the Cape Colony who, including Henry’s two brothers and their families, already numbered 33 at the time. On that day, no less than three marriages and three baptisms involving Fullers took place. Three of Henry and Susannah’s children -- William, James and Susannah -- were married, and three of their grandchildren -- Charles and Mary Ann’s children Emily Susan, Edwin William and Kate Harriet -- were baptized. Although the three marriages and baptisms are all duly recorded in the parish records of Trinity Church, the Presbyterian church in Grahamstown, it seems the proceedings might actually have taken place at Henry and Susannah’s residence, Prospect farm (see notes for James Fuller, William’s brother).

The entry for William and Helen’s marriage reads:
Husband: William FULLER, Full, Bachelor, Farmer, residing Newton, district of Albany
Wife: Helen LIDDLE, 19, Spinster, residing Kingwilliamstown
Witnesses: J.J. H. STONE, W. C. FULLER

William’s name appears five times in The Lower Albany Chronicle:
1. May 15, 1846, “Mentioned in dispatches for a distinguished part in operations” at Merville Station during the War of the Axe.
2. November 5, 1846, William, George and Charles Fuller were members of a party of settlers on its way from Port Frances to Grahamstown during the War of the Axe. They had engaged “the enemy,’ killed one and recaptured” 52 cattle.
3. June 26 1849, It is recorded that William Fuller was attending Southwell school.
4. June 3 1851, His name mentioned in description of military preparations for an attack led by General Henry Somerset during this particular frontier war.
5. May 15 1852, William Fuller was a member of a force under Captain William Stubbs which gathered for an attack on a group of rebel Hottentots early the next morning at the Gorah.

Inherited an interest in his father’s farm Mount Pleasant in 1870.

His death notice says that he was a retired farmer who died at his residence in Bedford, where his predeceased spouse also died. It lists eight children then living and says he left moveable and immovable property. Signed by W.J. Fuller, son.

William outlived his wife and four of his children. All those who were alive when he died were beneficiaries in his estate of pounds 368.7.1, including five grandchildren -- the two children of Frederick Henry Fuller and three children of George Liddle Fuller.

Sources for William Fuller
Birth: Union Chapel, Grahamstown, Baptisms 1827-1848, entry #5 (Cory MS 17 066).
Death: Death notice MOOC 6/9/524 Ref. 1675. FHL film 1281518.
Marriage: FHL film 1560913, Presbyterian parish records, Grahamstown marriages 1849-1896, item 10. Entry #300.

Helen Liddle

Died at her residence in Bedford, her death notice says. It concurs with her husband’s death notice in listing eight living children, also giving the names of the husbands of three daughters and the dates of death of three sons.

Sources for Helen Liddle

Death: Death notice MOOC 6/9/483 Ref. 3012.

52. Harriott Kate Fuller

The Grahamstown Journal of June 6, 1876 records: “Married, at Adelaide, on the 1st June, 1876, by the Rev. G.W. Stegmann, assisted by the Rev. E. Solomon, of Bedford, Sir G.H. Stockenstrom, Baronet, of Maastrom, to Harriet Kate, eldest daughter of William Fuller, Esq., of Rockwood.”
(The unusual spelling of Harriott’s name obviously was overlooked here, although it should be remembered that in earlier times there was not always the same preoccupation with precise spellings of names that we see today.)
The Rev. Stegmann, of course, was Harriott’s uncle by marriage, husband of her aunt Sarah.
The death notice of her husband, Gysbert Henry Stockenstrom (MOOC 6/9/696 Ref. 2126), filed in 1912, records her death date as Oct. 19, 1909, but on her gravestone in St. Peter’s cemetery, Mowbray (below Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town) it is recorded as Oct. 20 1909. The common grave of the couple is located about a dozen graves from the south-east corner of the graveyard, or at least it was until the graveyard was demolished in the 1990s.
The death of Harriott Kate Stockenstrom was apparently not reported, hence there is no death notice. She does not appear on the index and in fact on her husband’s death notice, next to her name, someone has written “not reported.”

Gysbert Henry Stockenstrom Bart.

He was the seventh of eight children born to Andries Stockenstrom, one of the most prominent figures in the history of 19th-century South Africa, and his wife, born Elzabe Helena Maasdorp.
Gysbert’s grandfather, also named Andries Stockenstrom (he was actually born Anders, in Sweden), became landdrost of Graaf-Reinet, but was killed in a clash with Xhosas in 1811 while taking part in Colonel Graham’s clearance of the Albany area.
Gysbert’s father, who would have been about 19 years old at the time, appears to have followed the path taken by many young male settlers, taking up arms to fight the Xhosas and prevent them from reclaiming their land, but at some point the distinguished soldier evidently experienced a change of heart. During the 1830s he acquired the reputation of a troublemaker among the white colonists, causing a storm of protest with hostile testimony against them before a parliamentary committee in London. When he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Eastern Districts in 1836, he promptly restored the Province of Queen Adelaide to the Xhosas. Feelings against him among the settlers were running high when he was accused of murdering a Xhosa child in cold blood and sued for libel in a very public case, but lost. His stormy career drew to a close not long afterward when he was removed from office, accepting a baronetcy and pension from the British government.
He was named Baronet Stockenstrom of Maasstrom by Queen Victoria on April 29, 1840 and the title was passed down until it became extinct in 1957.
A baronetcy is not considered a full rank of the peerage, being more like a hereditary knighthood, which passes down according to instructions that are formulated when it is granted. It’s possible that the elder Sir Andries Stockenstrom’s title would have passed first to his eldest son Andries, then upon his death to Gysbert Henry, although it’s not clear to whom it went after that. In Gysbert Henry’s estate papers there are letters referring to “the present baronet” by the name Sir Andries Stockenstrom, but Gysbert did not have any children (at least there are none listed on his death notice) and his brothers were all dead by then, so perhaps it was a cousin.
Gysbert died at the Monte Rosa nursing home in Cape Town.
On his death notice, signed by a sister, E.M.H. Hutton (handwriting is difficult to read), he is described as a “retired gentleman.”
His estate papers certainly suggest he lived the lifestyle of a gentleman in his final years, although he appears to have left nothing but debts. It is stated that “the present baronet, Sir Andries Stockenstrom,” and other family members had to pay these debts for him. The debts consisted of bills from a doctor, a dentist, a pharmacy, a nursing home, a stationer, a jeweller, a surgical instrument maker, a draper, a shipping company, a department store, a tailor and a gentlemen’s clothing store.
Some of the addresses he had given in connection with these accounts were Happy Valley, Cathcart; City Mansions, Hope Street, Cape Town; Palace Hotel, Kenilworth; c/o Van Zyl and Bussini, Church Square (the “Bussini” is hard to read); and Stockenstrom Maastrom Cottage, Kenilworth Road, Kenilworth.
The dentist’s bill was paid by Miss Dulcie Fuller.
Gysbert Henry and his wife were buried in St. Peter’s cemetery in Mowbray (below Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town), a graveyard apparently demolished in the 1990s to make way for a new development. Before this demolition, they had shared a grave about a dozen plots inward from the south-east corner of the graveyard.
In 1879, Gysbert made out a second death notice for his wife’s aunt, Harriet Brown, when she died (one had already been made out in Adelaide and signed by another aunt of his wife’s, Sarah Stegmann). Why would he have done this?
Sources for Gysbert Henry Stockenstrom
Death: Death notice MOOC 6/9/696 Ref. 2126. FHL film 1295062.

57. Gertrude Mary Fuller

Married Edward Oliver Hutchinson

58. Cecil Mortimer Fuller

Sources for Cecil Mortimer Fuller
An entry in the Farmers Chronicle of Thursday 16 April 1891 (held at British Newspaper Library, Colindale, London) circulated in the Districts of Cathcart, Queenstown, Whittlesea, St.Marks, Maclear, Stutterheim, Komgha, Transkei, King Williams Town and East London, reads as follows:
Died at Mashonaland on Feb 4th 1891, Cecil Mortimer Fuller, fourth son of William and Helen Fuller, aged 22 years, 5 months and 6 days.
His birth date has been calculated from this information.

60. Blanch Fuller

Her little grave is in the Adelaide cemetery beside those of Henry and Susannah, her grandparents.
It is shaped like a small coffin, with inscriptions on both sides, reading:
“Sacred to the memory of Blanch the beloved
Departed this life at Rockwood 17th of March 1867
Now like a dewdrop shrined within a crystal
stone (illegible)
Infant of William and Helen Fuller
aged 3 months and 27 days
Heaven my dove safe with the source of love,
the everlasting one.”
The Grahamstown Journal of March 22, 1867 records: “Died, at Rockwood, on Sunday, March 17 1867, Blanch, the beloved child of William and Helen Fuller, aged 3 months and 26 days.”
(The gravestone says 3 months 27 days.)

16. James Fuller

On Nov. 4, 1827, James became just the sixth child to be baptized in the new Union Chapel in Grahamstown, one of three of Henry and Susannah Fuller’s children who were baptized that day.

On Nov. 14, 1850, James was part of an even bigger day for the Fuller clan of the Cape Colony who, including his father Henry’s two brothers and their families, already numbered 33. On that day, no less than three marriages and three baptisms involving Fullers took place. Three of Henry and Susannah’s children -- William, James and Susannah -- were married, and three of their grandchildren -- Charles and Mary Ann’s children Emily Susan, Edwin William and Kate Harriet -- were baptized. Although the three marriages and baptisms are all duly recorded in the parish records of Trinity Church, the Presbyterian church in Grahamstown, it seems the proceedings might actually have taken place at Henry and Susannah’s residence, Prospect farm (see source notes below, under “Marriage”).
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The inscription on James’s gravestone in Uitenhage reads as follows:

In loving memory of darling dad
James Fuller
Died 8th Dec. 1921 aged 97 [James’s death notice says he died Dec. 7]
He was known never to lose a friend or make an enemy
Also his loving wife
Elizabeth Adcock Fuller
Interred at Johannesburg

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A colourful biography of James Fuller was included in the book Souvenir of the Centenary of the 1820 Settlers, published in 1920, when James was 96 years old. It reads:

The accompanying portrait is of Mr. James Fuller, fourth son of the late Henry Fuller, for many years in residence on what was known in the early settlement as Fuller’s Hill, latterly known as Stone’s Hill, but originally part of the estate owned by the late Henry Fuller. Mr. and Mrs. James Fuller spent the major portion of their lives in promoting everything that made for the advancement of the district in which they resided. The late Mrs. James Fuller, having acquired a very intimate knowledge of homeopathic treatment, was ready at all times to assist those needing help, and many of the older residents will remember her many acts of kindness in those far-off days when doctors were scarce and means of communication restricted. Mr. James Fuller was of a musical and humorous temperament, and an actor of no mean ability. The old gentleman is hearty, and enjoys every moment of his life, plays a good game at bridge, and is still fond of music. There are 74 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren living. His eldest son is now farming in the Orange River Colony; his second son, Alfred, died some years back, whilst Lady de Wet (wife of the late Chief Justice de Wet) and her married daughters live in England. Mrs. Herman, (wife of the Resident Engineer, Cape Town) -- a daughter -- also lives in England. The late Mrs. Davies (wife of the late Col. Davies), Mrs. Scandrett (wife of the Rev. Scandrett), and Mrs. Bertram, of High Constantia, are also daughters, the latter being the youngest. The Hon. Arthur J. Fuller, the youngest son, is at present co-operating with Sir Charles Crewe in assisting the immigration side of the Settlers’ Centenary Celebrations.
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In the Cory Library’s Grahamstown Journal card index, there’s an entry dated April 29, 1853, in which the governor directs the publication of a list of people whose applications had received the favourable recommendation of the Victoria Land Commission for farms in the country forfeited after the Tambookie rebellion. The list includes George, Charles and James Fuller and a Peter Bertram.

James’s death notice says he died at the Drostdy in Uitenhage. It was signed by his son, Arthur John, in King William’s Town on Dec. 28, 1921, who was “present at death.”

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Sources for James Fuller
Birth: Union Chapel, Grahamstown, Baptisms 1827-1848, entry #6 (Cory MS 17 066).
Death: Death notice MOOC 6/9/244 Ref. 718. FHL film 1281556.
Marriage: FHL film 1560913, Presbyterian parish records, Grahamstown marriages 1849-1896, item 10. Entry #298. Also based on the “duplicate original register” document for James and Elizabeth’s wedding, which had to be filled out and sent to the Colonial Office at the time.
The parish record entry for James and Elizabeth’s marriage reads:
Husband: James Fuller, Full, Bachelor, Farmer, residing Newton, district of Albany Wife: Elizabeth Whittle, Full, Spinster, residing Lombard Post, district of Albany
Witnesses: J.J.H. Stone
The “duplicate original register” document for this marriage reads:
Marriage solemnized at the residence of Henry Fuller in the parish of Grahamstown in the district of Albany, 1850. No. 298. Nov. 14, 1850.
James Fuller, full age, batchelor, farmer, of Newton, district of Albany, after banns.
Elizabeth Whittle, full age, spinster, of Lombard’s Post, district of Albany, after banns.
Married at the residence of Henry Fuller at Prospect Farm after banns, by me, (? illegible), independent minister, in the presence of J.J.H. Stone and (? Meadway).

Elizabeth Adcock Whittle

A mystery arises for genealogists studying James and Elizabeth Fuller because, although the record of their marriage states that the bride’s name was Elizabeth Whittle, the inscription on his gravestone in Uitenhage reads as follows:

In loving memory of darling dad
James Fuller
Died 8th Dec. 1921 aged 97 [James’s death notice says he died Dec. 7]
He was known never to lose a friend or make an enemy
Also his loving wife
Elizabeth Adcock Fuller
Interred at Johannesburg

There is indeed a gravestone for an Elizabeth Fuller in the cemetery at Braamfontein, but the photograph of it that several Fuller descendants possess unfortunately does not make it possible to read the inscription.

James’s death notice does not suggest the existence of more than one spouse. Under “surviving spouse” it says “nil” and under “predeceased spouses”, it lists only “Elizabeth Adcock Fuller.” Under “place of last marriage” it says “Grahamstown.”

The probable explanation is that his wife’s maiden name was Elizabeth Adcock Whittle but that the “Adcock” was inadvertently dropped when their marriage was entered in the parish register. From that point on her legal name would have been Elizabeth Adcock Fuller. And as it turns out, there does indeed appear to have been an Elizabeth Adcock Whittle of about the right age in South Africa at the time. On the IGI, we find a family consisting of a James Whittle and Susannah Adcock, who married in England in 1829 and had five children -- Elizabeth Adcock Whittle, John Adcock Whittle, James Whittle, William Adcock Whittle and Charlotte Whittle. The son William must have died, because the couple apparently had another son named William Adcock Whittle in Elliot, Cape Colony, in 1845, indicating that they must have emigrated to the Cape sometime between 1843 and 1845.

63. Emma Susannah Fuller Lady

When 22-year-old Emma married an eminent jurist 15 years her senior in 1877, it opened up a life that took her eventually to Eastbourne in East Sussex, England, where she and her husband settled after his retirement in 1883. Emma would have been still young, about 30, at the time.
Their house on Enys Road, called Runnymede, they renamed Gonubie, no doubt after the popular spot at the Gonubie River mouth 20 kilometres north of East London back in the Cape Colony.
Emma and her husband do not appear to have had any children of their own. They did, however, raise at least one child in their home in England, and I am indebted to Cheryl Carpenter, a descendant of that child, for the information about this part of the family’s life.
It appears that when Emma’s sister Helen Frances (married to Colonel Henry Lee Davies) died just days after the birth of the last of their eight children, at least one of those children was taken in by the De Wets and raised as their own, possibly even adopted.
That child taken in by her aunt was Helen Frances de Wet Davies, Cheryl Carpenter’s grandmother, whom her aunt Emma used to call “Nellie.”
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Emma Susannah’s marriage to Jacobus Petrus de Wet was recorded in the Grahamstown Journal of Jan. 22, 1877: “Married, on Thursday 18th January 1877 at Trinity Church, King William’s Town, by Ven. Archdeacon Kitton assisted by Rev. Jno. Gordon, Mr. J.P. de Wet, Solicitor-General, to Emma S. Fuller, eldest daughter of James Fuller of Thornlands, Kaffraria.”
Two days later, the following account was published in the newspaper’s society column, “Our Diary”:
Matrimonial -- The Watchman reports -- On Thursday morning last, Trinity Church and grounds were crowded to witness the marriage ceremonial between J.P. de Wet, Esq., Solicitor-General, and Miss Emma S. Fuller, eldest daughter of James Fuller, Esq., of “Thornlands,” in this District. The bride was dressed in white silk, and was followed by the bridesmaids, five in number (exclusive of two young sisters), dressed in book muslin, lavender trimmings and rosebuds and bouquets. On reaching the foot of the chancel, the Rev. J. Gordon, acting Military Chaplain, read the first portion of the marriage service, the concluding sentences being delivered by Ven’ble Archdeacon Kitton, at the Communion rail. The bridesmaids were Miss Bertram, Miss Blakeway, Miss Kettles, Misses Fuller (two). The groomsmen, Messrs. T.E. Minto, Gordon, H. Stone, and two brothers of the bride. After the ceremony was over, the wedding party returned to the residence of Mr. H.T. Fuller, D’Urban-street, and after a light refreshment there the happy couple proceeded to “Balfour” in the district of Stockenstrom. The guests proceeded to “Thornlands.” Mr. Whitaker officiated as organist at the church and played the “Wedding March.” We wish Mr. and Mrs. J.P. de Wet every happiness.”
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In the biography of her father, James, published in the Souvenir of the Centenary of the 1820 Settlers, it is mentioned that “Lady de Wet, wife of the late Chief Justice de Wet, and her married daughters live in England. Mrs. Herman (wife of the Resident Engineer, Cape Town) -- a daughter -- also lives in England.”
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Emma was one of six Fuller children who were all baptized on the same day, Feb. 1, 1857, an event appearing in the parish records of the Methodist church in Queenstown. The six consisted of three children born to James and Elizabeth Fuller and three born to Charles and Mary Ann Fuller, all grandchildren of the 1820 Settlers Henry and Susannah.
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Sources for Emma Susannah Fuller
Birth and baptism: Methodist parish records, Queenstown. FHL film 1560874, item 2, 1854-1883, entry #119.
Marriage (in addition to the above): The marriage appears in FHL film 1281507, Index of Matrimonial Court Proceedings in the Cape 1818-1882, c.o. 4588 p. 3, in which it is dated at Jan. 17, 1877.
Death: Family Record Centre registers, London (June 1936, Vol 2b page 118)

Sir Jacobus Petrus De Wet

The following obituary appeared in the British Law Journal upon his death:
De Wet, Sir Jacobus Petrus (first son of Johannes Carolus De Wet of Civil Service Cape of Good Hope) b. Cape Town 25th August 1838. Educated University College London. B.A. London 1860. Acting Administrator October 1879 to January 1880. Chief Justice of Transvaal May 1880 to 3rd August 1881. Acting Chief Justice of Ceylon March 1882. Retired May 1883. Knighted at Windsor Castle 19 July 1883. Died Runnymead, Enys Road, Eastbourne 19th April 1900.
An entry in the British Who Was Who 1897-1916 adds the details that he became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1865 and describes him as Recorder of Griqualand West for 1878-1880. It also adds that he was a judge in the Cape Colony before becoming Chief Justice of the Transvaal.
Sources for Jacobus Petrus De Wet
Obituary above: British Law Journal, May 5 1900, Page 301.

64. Arthur John Fuller The Hon.

He was one of six Fuller children who were all baptized on the same day, Feb. 1, 1857, an event appearing in the parish records of the Methodist church in Queenstown. The six consisted of three children born to James and Elizabeth Fuller and three born to Charles and Mary Ann Fuller, all grandchildren of the 1820 Settlers Henry and Susannah.
An extensive biography of Arthur John Fuller was published in 1906 in the book Men of the Times, pp. 491-492, which can be found in a number of South African libraries, including the Bowker library at the Albany Museum in Grahamstown. It reads as follows (mistakenly referring at one point to Arthur John’s father as “the late James Fuller” -- fully 15 years before his death):
“To few men in the Cabinet of the present Progressive Government do we look with more eagerness and confidence for the fulfilment of that section of the Party’s programme which relates to the development of the agricultural resources of Cape Colony than we do to the present Minister for Agriculture, and no man, by virtue of his own long practical experience of farming, has a better claim to the confidence of colonists in this respect. The Hon. ARTHUR JOHN FULLER, M.L.A., was born at Whittlesea, in the district of Queenstown, on the 19th January 1857. He is a son of the late James Fuller, Esq., who was also engaged in farming pursuits, and a grandson of Henry Fuller, Esq., of Grahamstown, who came out to Cape Colony as one of the old 1820 settlers. He received his education at Lovedale British Kaffraria, where Dr. Stewart’s Mission is located; and at the age of seventeen left school to start farming in Cathcart in the year 1872. He leased a large stock and general farm in the district at a yearly rental of £750, experiencing the usual ups and downs of farms, good seasons alternating with bad. He was unlucky enough to have his stock afflicted with heart-water, which was then very prevalent, and was obliged to trek to the coast.
Though he was not a member of any contingent during the Gaika-Galeka rebellion of 1878, he was a witness of several engagements, and owing to native depredations and continued drought lost rather considerably about this time. At the close of the war he leased two of the Gaika farms, and once more started vigorous farming with the fixed determination of developing them to their fullest extent. Despite conditions of climate and other obstacles inimical to the Colonial farmer’s interests, he succeeded beyond his expectations, having a series of lucrative seasons.
About this time, however, he became awakened to a wider outlook on farming as the general unsatisfactoriness of the progress being made in agriculture under the Bond regime took possession of his mind, and acting on the stimulus derived from this conviction, he began to study certain political conditions then existing. The result of this inquiry was the formation of an organisation afterwards known as the South African League, which had for its object the destruction of the pernicious influences of the Bond.
In order that he might devote his whole time and attention to the organization of this league, Mr. Fuller suspended farming operations and took an office in East London, which he made the headquarters, and there for eighteen months he worked in the interests of the League, which ultimately developed into the Progressive Party.
Under Mr. Fuller’s able direction the League was successful in creating seventy branches of this organisation scattered throughout the country. Following on this he was persistently urged against his will to contest the seat for Stutterheim and Tembuland in the Progressive interest and eventually decided on doing so, with the result that he was successfully returned to Parliament in 1898, as a representative of this constituency, and has retained the seat ever since. During the Anglo-Boer War Mr. Fuller gave much assistance to the Government in raising a Transport Service, and in enlisting the
services of Volunteers, of which enterprise he was the prime mover, managing to secure a number of the best Volunteers obtainable for the Stutterheim and Kei Road Defence Force.
Having taken a keen interest in farming practically all his life, he is necessarily connected with many farmers’ associations. The fixed and ever uppermost desire of his life is to see the unity of the races consummated, and for that end he is strenuously working: for he holds that, without unity and co-operation, there is no future before South Africa, and deems it the duty of every South African to work in that direction, inasmuch as it is not by any one section of the people, but by the sympathetic union of all, that the present dawn of an era propitious to the interests of Cape Colony -- held back as it has been by the dark clouds of ignorance, war, and subsequent depression -- will at length break into the bright days of prosperity.
Mr. Fuller has been for many years Secretary and President at intervals of the State Farmers’ Association, and is Vice-President of the Agricultural Union. In matters masonic, he is a founder of the Harmony Lodge in the district of Stutterheim. He is also President of the S.P.C.A. He is married to Dorothy, daughter of John H. Webb, Esq., late of the Civil Service, and once Superintendent of Convicts; while his social clubs are the East London and Civil Service of Cape Town. Mr. Fuller has been a great athlete in his time, and though the obligations of his office and the fact that he is not as young as he was have put a stop to his sporting powers, he is, nevertheless, still unbeaten at throwing the heavy weight. His record as a sportsman is a very good one, and he has many mementoes of his achievements in the shape of cups and medals. He has been an ardent cricketer and especially a devotee of polo, having been captain of his team until he met with an accident, and was a member of the first polo club started in the Eastern Province. We must express the opinion, in conclusion, that Mr. Fuller, despite his forty-nine years gives one the impression of being able to get through a great deal of hard work without experiencing fatigue, and also of being equal to giving a good account of himself still where feats of strength and endurance are required.
Those who are acquainted with Mr. Fuller’s past career will have little difficulty in appreciating his intense popularity among farmers, both Dutch and English, in all parts of the Colony. No man is more fitted for the position which he occupies. He is a practical farmer, having wide experience of every branch of the industry, who during his thirty years of active farming work was regarded by the Eastern Province as a model of all that was best in Colonial farming enterprise. Long before agricultural organisation was understood Mr. Fuller had been carrying into effect various schemes, in conjunction with his neighbours, to raise the status of Cape products. He founded the famous Kaffrarian Wool Growers’ Association, and was, in no small measure, instrumental in securing for these famous wools their high popularity in Home markets. As a sheep breeder he stood unrivalled, and there was nothing in connection with farming details in which he, personally, did not take an active part, being always what is called in England “the man with his coat off.”
It will be remembered that during last year Mr. Fuller was unfortunately obliged to go to London to undergo a serious operation, but in spite of his illness he managed to avail himself of opportunities to learn a great deal of modern agricultural movements in Europe, and during his time at Home succeeded in directing public attention to the possibilities of all kinds of Cape produce and gave the first vigorous send-off to the present growing industry of the exportation of Cape fruit. On Mr. Fuller’s return, and after Parliament had authorised a loan for the development of agriculture on co-operative lines, he threw himself with his well-known energy into the necessary preliminary educational work, which must always be accomplished in farming communities before any large scheme may be introduced with any hope of success. During the months of July and August he attended a number of large meetings and thoroughly prepared the Colony for the definite systematic proposals which he subsequently placed before the people after Mr. Hannon’s arrival. In October, November and December 1905, he spoke at 66 public meetings of farmers and was everywhere received with demonstrations of welcome and support. He, moreover, delivered addresses at several public schools; received hundreds of deputations of all sorts on Colonial problems, and gave his constant attention to every means by which the position of the farmer might be improved. As a result of his labours the National Association of Wool and Mohair Growers has been established and has received general support in the Colony from farmers, and has, at the same time, aroused widespread attention in Great Britain and on the Continent in Cape wools and mohair. He has, moreover, founded several co-operative associations of wine, fruit, dairy, grain, and other farmers and is confident of bringing the whole of the Colony in a very short time under the influence of definite and practical productive schemes. He is accessible to the humblest farmer in the Colony and no detail is too small for his personal attention.”
From the Grahamstown Journal of Feb. 8 1878. “Since the beginning of the year, a permanent paid secretary, Mr. A.J. Fuller, has been appointed to the Local Immigrant Association.”
Arthur John Fuller’s death notice says that there were no surviving children from either of his marriages at the time of his death.
Sources for Arthur John Fuller
Birth and baptism: Methodist parish records, Queenstown. FHL film 1560874, item 2, 1854-1883, entry #120.
Death: Death Notice MOOC 6/9/3155 Ref. 15139.

Eleanor Annie Hawkes

Sources for Eleanor Annie Hawkes
Information about her comes from Arthur John Fuller’s death notice.

67. Millicent Kate Fuller

In the biography of her father in the Souvenir of Centenary of 1820 Settlers (see notes for James Fuller), published in 1920, she is referred to as Mrs. Scandrett, wife of the Rev. Scandrett.
In the NAAIRS data base there is a listing for her estate papers dated 1933 (MOOC 6/9/4282 Ref. 38111).

18. Susannah Fuller

Grave 57, Block K in the Old Cemetery at Lady Grey consists of a single grave with a sandstone cross bearing the following inscription:

SUSAN PENNY DIED AT LYNDALE 25th JUNE 1867 AGED 35 YEARS 8 MONTHS AND 4 DAYS
On Nov. 14, 1850, Susannah was part of a big day for the Fuller clan of the Cape Colony who, including Henry’s two brothers and their families, already numbered 33 at the time. On that day, no less than three marriages and three baptisms involving Fullers took place. Three of Henry and Susannah’s children -- William, James and Susannah -- were married, and three of their grandchildren -- Charles and Mary Ann’s children Emily Susan, Edwin William and Kate Harriet -- were baptized. Although the three marriages and baptisms are all duly recorded in the parish records of Trinity Church, the Presbyterian church in Grahamstown, it seems the proceedings might actually have taken place at Henry and Susannah’s residence, Prospect farm (see notes for James Fuller, William’s brother).

The entry for Susannah and John Penny’s marriage reads:
Husband: John Penny, 22, Bachelor, Farmer, residing Sharon, in the district of Albany
Wife: Susannah Fuller, 19, Spinster, residing Prospect Farm, district of Albany
Witnesses: R. G. Stone, J.J.H. Stone

Although she was christened Susannah, there are a number of references that suggest she was known as Susan.
In her father Henry Fuller’s death notice (October 1870), she is listed among his children as follows:
“Susan, married to John Penny. Deceased -- left minor children”
It is not clear who was deceased -- Susan or John.

In her father’s will, in which she inherited an interest in his farm Mount Pleasant in 1870, she is referred to as Susannah.

Sources for Susannah Fuller

Birth: Date calculated from information on her gravestone (see Death below).
Marriage: FHL film 1560913, Presbyterian parish records, Grahamstown marriages 1849-1896, item 10. Entry #299.
Death: Death: Headstones in the Old Cemetery, Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Block K, Grave No. 57. From the excellent website on Lady Grey genealogy compiled by Dalene Oertel at http://www.familyorigins.com/users/o/e/r/Magdalena--Oertel/FAMO1-0001/index.htm.

John Penny

Grave 56, Block K in the Old Cemetery at Lady Grey consists of a single grave with a sandstone cross bearing the following inscription: IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN PENNY DIED AT LADY GREY 25th JUNE 1898 AGED 64 YEARS, 1 MONTH AND 14 DAYS
Sources for John Penny
Birth: Date calculated from information on his gravestone (see Death below).
Marriage: FHL film 1560913, Presbyterian parish records, Grahamstown marriages 1849-1896, item 10. Entry #299.
Death: Headstones in the Old Cemetery, Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Block K, Grave No. 56. From the excellent website on Lady Grey genealogy compiled by Dalene Oertel at http://www.familyorigins.com/users/o/e/r/Magdalena--Oertel/FAMO1-0001/index.htm.

In his father-in-law Henry Fuller’s will he is referred to as John Penny of the Division of Somerset.
On an online website (http://www.geocities.com/settlers1820/) there is a listing for an 1820 Settler called Charles Penny, who apparently married a Susannah Bagshaw and had two children. Charles was born 1786 and married on March 16, 1816 at Christ Church, Greyfriars, Newgate, London. He died in 1870. Wife born about 1795 and also died 1870. Their sons were Edward Penny (born Sept. 15, 1818) and John Penny, who could be the man who married Susannah Fuller.
Charles Penny apparently had an earlier wife, Sarah Nunn, born 1787. They were married on Nov. 3, 1807 at Ingatestone, Essex but she died on Oct. 4, 1814 at Bermondsey, Surrey.
They had three children:
Elizabeth Penny, born 1808 at Bermondsey (?), married John Cecil Wright in Grahamstown cathedral on May 4, 1825 and died July 5, 1881 at Kareefontein, Cradock; Charlotte Penny, born April 28, 1810 at Bermondsey; and Charles Penny, born April 25, 1812

69. Charles Henry Penny

Sources for Charles Henry Penny
Baptism: Entry No. 787 Salem & Albany Methodist Church Register. Family were farming on Sharon.

70. Reuben Clifford Penny

Sources for Reuben Clifford Penny
Baptism: Entry No. 933, Salem and Albany Methodist Church register. Family were farming at Fish River, the entry states.

71. Miriam Florence Penny

Sources for Mirian Florence Penny
Baptism: Entry No. 933, Salem and Albany Methodist Church register. Family were farming at Fish River, the entry states.

72. Clement William Penny

Married Judith Suzanne Holder
Sources for Clement William Penny
Baptism: Somerset East Methodist Church records, Entry No. 472 Item no 24.

73. William Henry Matthews Penny

Sources for William Henry Matthews Penny
Baptism: Somerset East Methodist Church records. Entry No. #149

75. Annie Susannah Fuller Penny

Sources for Annie Susannah Fuller Penny
Somerset (East) Methodist Register. Baptisms 5/1842 -
10/1866. (CORY MS 17 238/1). Entry# 775.

19. Harriet Fuller

Harriet inherited an interest in her father’s farm Mount Pleasant in 1870.

Her husband, William Brown of Adelaide, a medical doctor, died on Oct. 3 1877 aged 45, leaving her with five minor children, and she herself died just two years later, also at age 45. Neither left a will.
The five daughters were aged eight to 15 when their mother died.

For some reason there are two death notices for Harriet. The first is handwritten on a blank sheet of paper (as opposed to the prescribed form) and was signed at Adelaide on Sept. 5, 1879 by Sarah Stegmann, her sister. It lists her birthplace as “Thornvally, Grahamstown” or something similar -- only the “Th” and the “ll” are clearly legible.

The second death notice, which is not dated but was filed 12 days after the first, is signed by G.H. Stockenstrom, who had married Harriet’s niece Harriott three years earlier. This death notice notes that the deceased left a Collard and Collard collage piano and a few items of household furniture.

Sources for Harriet Fuller

Birth and death: Death notice, MOOC 6/9/170 Ref. 7224. FHL film 1281549. Also MOOC 6/9/170 Ref. 7187. The latter is incorrectly entered in the NAAIRS data base -- it says “nee Puller” instead of “nee Fuller.”

William Brown Dr.

A tragedy befell the family when William Brown, a doctor of medicine and general practitioner, died at his home in Adelaide in 1877. He was just 45 and left his wife and five minor children.
He died without a will -- hence probably unexpectedly, leaving two erven in Adelaide, household furniture, books, medicines and surgical instruments.
Note that his youngest child is called Isabel Maria in his death notice whereas in her mother’s it is Isabel Mieniece or Isabel Minnie.
Earlier, he and his wife were resident in Grahamstown. The civil registration birth record for their eldest daughter (see notes for daughter Mabel) gives their address as 14 Beaufort Street, Grahamstown.
Sources for William Brown
Birth date: Gravestone in Adelaide cemetery.
Death: Death notice MOOC 6/9/161 Ref. 4574.

78. Emma Violet Scott Brown

Sources for Emma Violet Scott Brown
Birth date: Mother Harriet Brown’s death notice, MOOC 6/9/170 Ref. 7187, gives her age as 14 at the time the death notice was signed on Sept. 15, 1879. This death notice is misfiled in the online NAAIRS data base, where Harriet’s maiden name is listed as Puller instead of Fuller.

79. Euphemia Anne Rutherford Brown

Sources for Euphemia Anne Rutherford Brown
Birth date: Mother Harriet Brown’s death notice, MOOC 6/9/170 Ref. 7187, gives her age as 11 at the time the death notice was signed on Sept. 15, 1879. This death notice is misfiled in the online NAAIRS data base, where Harriet’s maiden name is listed as Puller instead of Fuller.

80. Mary Kerr Brown

Sources for Mary Kerr Brown
Birth date: Mother Harriet Brown’s death notice, MOOC 6/9/170 Ref. 7187, gives her age as 9 at the time the death notice was signed on Sept. 15, 1879. This death notice is misfiled in the online NAAIRS data base, where Harriet’s maiden name is listed as Puller instead of Fuller.

81. Isabel Mienice Brown

Sources for Isabel Mienice Brown
Birth date: Mother Harriet Brown’s death notice, MOOC 6/9/170 Ref. 7187, gives her age as 8 at the time the death notice was signed on Sept. 15, 1879. This death notice is misfiled in the online NAAIRS data base, where Harriet’s maiden name is listed as Puller instead of Fuller.
Isabel’s second name is hard to make out in this death notice, it looks like “Mienice” but this may be incorrect. On Harriet’s other death notice (MOOC 6/9/170 Ref. 7224; see notes for Harriet Brown, born Fuller) it appears to be written as “Minnie.”

20. Sarah Fuller

Inherited an interest in her father’s farm Mount Pleasant in 1870.
Sources for Sarah Fuller
Marriage: FHL film 1281507, Index of Matrimonial Court Proceedings in the Cape 1818-1882, c.o. 4576 p. 23.
Approximate birth and death dates are from Hansie Brummer’s GEDCOM file at http://www.sun.ac.za/gisa/gedcomarchive.asp.

George Wilhelm Stegmann Rev.

A former residence of his, the “old pastorie” of the Dutch Reformed Church in Adelaide, is now the Heritage Museum and a national monument. The portrait of G.W. Stegmann at age 21 in 1835 that appears here hangs on the wall in the museum. Information at the museum indicates that he was born in Duesseldorf in Germany.
His name appears in other reference works as George Willem Stegmann and George Wilhem Stegmann.
Sources for G.W. Stegmann
Hansie Brummer has compiled an enormous family tree that can be found under the surname Brummer at http://www.sun.ac.za/gisa/gedcomarchive.asp.
The details of G.W. Stegmann’s death that appear here are from that GEDCOM.

82. Ruth Madeleine Stegman

Married Nicolaas Johannes Brummer on March 10, 1896 in Stellenbosch. He was born in the Dordrecht district on July 27, 1866 and died in Stellenbosch on May 13, 1947.
They had had two children, Amanda Fuller Brummer (1901-1977) and Felix Brummer (1905-1978)
Sources for Ruth Madeleine Stegman
Hansie Brummer has compiled an enormous family tree that can be found under the surname Brummer at http://www.sun.ac.za/gisa/gedcomarchive.asp.
The information on Ruth Madeline Stegman, her marriage and her children that appears here is from that GEDCOM.

22. Lucy Fuller

Her marriage to Edwin Austen on Sept. 27 1858 was at the church of St. Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls. The Public Record Office now occupies the site. The couple lived at 30 Cursitor Street, very close to the church. The marriage certificate indicates that Edwin’s father’s name was William, a harness maker.
Lucy Austen shows up in the 1901 census as a housekeeper in St. Martin in the Fields, London, aged 63. Her birthplace is indicated as St. Pancras, London (this at the website www.pro.gov.uk).
Sources for Lucy Fuller
Christening: IGI, batch no. C047932, film 0598163 or 0598164. Original record consulted at Greater London Record Office and found to be correct.

Edwin Austen

Appears in the 1861 census at 280 Strand, St. Clement Danes, Middlesex.

The LDS Family Search website reports an 1881 British census extract as follows: Edwin Austen, male, birth year 1831, born Chiddingfold, Surrey, occupation under porter, married, head of household, dwelling at 2 Tanfield Chambers, London, Middlesex, England, family history library film 1341081, PRO reference RG11, folio 0376/94, page 7.

83. Mary Emma Austen

Appears in the 1861 census (taken on April 7) for 280 Strand, St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, where her age is given as two and a half and her birthplace is indicated as Surrey. This plus her parents’ marriage date of 27 Sep 1858 indicates that her mother would have been pregnant at the marriage.
Sources for Mary Emma Austen
Birth: Birth certificate. Gives her father’s occupation as attorney’s clerk.

84. Lucy Austen

Appears in the 1861 census at 280 Strand, St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, where her age is given as four months and her birthplace is indicated as London, Strand

25. Sarah Fuller

Sources for Sarah Fuller
Birth and baptism: Greater London Record Office, parish records, church of St. Mary Stratford, Bow, Middlesex.
Grahamstown Journal of Nov. 30, 1843 records: “Married, in Graham’s Town, on Tuesday the 28th inst., by the Rev. J. Heavyside, Colonial Chaplain, Mr. J.J.H. Stone, Solicitor, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. C. Fuller.” Much the same entry appeared in the Cape Frontier Times of the same day.
Grahamstown Journal of Sept. 6, 1876 records: “Died, at Grahamstown, on Monday, the 4th September, 1876, after a lingering illness, Mrs. Stone, beloved wife of Mr. J.J.H. Stone, of this City, Solicitor.”

James John Henry Stone

The Grahamstown Journal of April 1, 1841 records: “His Excellency the Governor is pleased to permit Mr. J.J.H. Stone to practise as a Notary Public in this Colony. Colonial Office, Cape of Good Hope, 4th Feb. 1841.”
Stone would have been aged about 21 at the time.

The Grahamstown Journal of Aug. 17, 1883 records: “Died, at his residence near Grahamstown, on Thursday morning the 16th August 1883, after a lingering illness, James John Henry Stone, Solicitor and Notary Public, aged 62 years 11 months and 22 days.”

92. Richard Maxwell Stone

Source for this child is a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller. Original source unknown.

93. Harry Mortimer Stone

Source for this child is a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller. Original source unknown.

94. Jessie Stone

Source for this child is a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller. Original source unknown.

95. Lidia Stone

Source for this child is a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller. Original source unknown.

96. Dionysius Benedictus Stone

Killed in the “Jameson Raid.”
The Grahamstown Journal of Feb. 4, 1896 has a report on a rumour that he had been killed in action and says he was a son of the late J.J.H. Stone. Four days later the newspaper reported: “Killed in action against Boers at Doornkop, Transvaal, Jan. 2 1896, Dionysius Benedictus Stone, fourth son of J.J.H. Stone, one of Jameson’s men, in his 34th year.”
This, of course, was the infamous failed attempt by a band of adventurers in cahoots with Cecil John Rhodes to seize the Transvaal Republic and its goldfields for the British Empire.

97. (daughter) Stone

The Grahamstown Journal of May 15, 1865 records: “Birth, on the 8th May, the wife of J.J.H. Stone, Esq., Solicitor, of Grahamstown, of a daughter.”

98. Cecil Stone

Source for this child is a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller. Original source unknown.

27. Amelia Fuller

Sources for Amelia Fuller
Birth and baptism: Greater London Record Office, parish records, church of St. Mary Stratford, Bow, Middlesex.
The Grahamstown Journal of Aug. 21 1852 records: “Married, at King William’s Town on the 20th July 1852, by Rev. Mr. Gladwin, Wesleyan Missionary, W.G.B. Shepstone, Esq. (second son of Rev. W. Shepstone, Wesleyan Missionary), Assistant Civil Commissioner for the Division of Victoria, to Amelia, second daughter of Charles Fuller, Esq., of King William’s Town.”
A family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller indicates that there may have been a daughter Amy in this family. Original source for this unknown.

W. G. B. Shepstone

Son’s death notice names him as William George Shepstone.
Sources for W.G.B. Shepstone
Grahamstown Journal entry of Aug. 21 1852 recording his marriage to Amelia Fuller.
The Grahamstown Journal of Dec. 20 1853 records: “Appointments: Dec. 15 1853 W.G.B. Shepstone to be Justice of the Peace for the District of Queenstown.”

28. Caroline Fuller

Sources for Caroline Fuller
Birth and baptism: Greater London Record Office, parish records, church of St. Mary Stratford, Bow, Middlesex.
The Grahamstown Journal of Feb. 10, 1849 records: “Married, at King William’s Town, British Kaffraria, by the Rev. Mr. Birt, Mr. Ker, Clerk of the Works, R.E.D., to Caroline, third daughter of Charles Fuller, Esq., of King William’s Town.” (no date given)
A family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller indicates that there was a daughter Annie in this family. Original source for this unknown.

William Ker

Source for him is Grahamstown Journal entry of Feb. 10 1849, which records his marriage to Caroline Fuller. Refers to him as Clerk of the Works, R.E.D.
His occupation is given as Clerk of Works, Royal Engineer Dept. in the baptismal records for his twin daughters Lucy and Jessie.

100. Caroline Ker

The Grahamstown Journal of Nov. 2 1850 records: “Died at King William’s Town on 30th October 1850, Caroline, aged 11 months, daughter of Mr. Ker, Clerk of the Works, R.E.D.”

101. (Unknown) Ker

The Grahamstown Journal of Aug. 2 1851 records: “Birth, at King William’s Town 25th July 1851, Mrs. William Ker, a daughter.”

102. (Unknown) Ker

The Grahamstown Journal of Sept. 17 1853 records: “Birth, at King William’s Town on 11th September 1853, Mrs. W. Ker, a son.”

103. Lucy Fuller Ker

Appears to have been one of a pair of twins. According to the Methodist parish records for King William’s Town transcribed for the SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH mailing list on the RootsWeb website, she and her sister Jessie Stone Ker were born on the same day.
Sources for Lucy Fuller Ker
Birth and baptism: Methodist parish records for King William’s Town, entry no. 104 of 1855. FHL film 1560855.

104. Jessie Stone Ker

Appears to have been one of a pair of twins. According to the Methodist parish records for King William’s Town transcribed for the SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH mailing list on the RootsWeb website, she and her sister Lucy Fuller Ker were born on the same day.
Sources for Jessie Stone Ker
Birth and baptism: Methodist parish records for King William’s Town, entry no. 105 of 1855. FHL film 1560855.-british

29. Henry Thomas Fuller

His marriage entry in the Wesleyan records for King William’s Town records his profession as merchant. Witnesses were H.J. Fuller and Eliza Driver and the minister was Henry H. Dugmore.
Death notice says he was secretary to the divisional council of King William’s Town.
It says he died at the house of his wife in Durban Street, King William’s Town, aged 52 years and 10 month and left no property saving pounds 3.17.3 in the Kaffrarian Colonial Bank and household furniture Lots No. 7 & 9 Peddie. 11 pounds in the hands of E.B. Driver Grahamstown and dwelling house in Durban Street Kingwilliamstown.
The death notice lists nine children, of whom all but the eldest two were minors.
Signed by Arthur C. Fuller

Sources for Henry Thomas Fuller
Birth and baptism: Greater London Record Office, parish records, church of St. Mary Stratford, Bow, Middlesex.
Marriage: Wesleyan Marriages, King William’s Town 1854-1859, Cory MS15 919/1.
Death notice: MOOC 6/9/237 Ref. 1620.
Will: General Register Volume 87 Folio 134.

Martha Driver

According to the Driver family history published at www.1820settlers.com, Martha Driver was the seventh of 12 children born to Edward Driver (1797-1882) and Anne Thackwray (1804-1889). He came from Kelham, Nottinghamshire and she from Cheshire. Edward Driver was apparently a famous big game hunter. Both Edward and Anne died in King William’s Town.
Death notice says Martha died July 13 1898 aged 60, a widow of independent means, at her residence Durban Street Kingwilliamstown. Signed A.C. Fuller.
Sources for Martha Driver
Birth: Driver family history at www.1820settlers.com
Death: FHL film 363060, Edie Muir’s compiled lists of births, deaths and marriages. Her entry reads: King William’s Town, May 13 1898, Martha Fuller wife of H.T. Fuller, 60 years.
Death notice: MOOC 6/9/378 Ref. 2112

106. Annie Amelia Fuller

Born on Aug. 31 and did not marry, according to a Driver / Fuller / Roth family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller, which appears to have been compiled variously by G.N. Walker of Bloemfontein and Toni Roth.

107. Jane Alison Fuller

Born on Feb. 18 and did not marry, according to a Driver / Fuller / Roth family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller, which appears to have been compiled variously by G.N. Walker of Bloemfontein and Toni Roth.

108. Helen Sarah Fuller

Did not marry, according to a Driver / Fuller / Roth family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller, which appears to have been compiled variously by G.N. Walker of Bloemfontein and Toni Roth. This family tree is also the source for her dates of birth and death.

109. Joseph William Fuller

On his death notice, his “condition in life” is given as mine secretary, his place of residence as Babrosco Mine, Klerksdorp, and the place of the decease as 5 Diana Avenue, Homelake, Randfontein. He left a will but the estate was valued at less than 300 pounds and there was no immovable property in it.
Sources for Joseph William Fuller
Death: Death notice MHG 959/39 (Transvaal)

Emily Louise Coetzer

Her death notice states that she died at Frere Hospital, East London, on July 30, 1921 aged 45 years. Her father was Jeremiah J. Coetzer, who had died four years previously in Kimberley, and her mother Sarah Ellington Coetzer-Jenkinson, who had died about 30 years before in Kimberley. Her husband’s occupation is given as bookkeeper at (this is hard to read) government training farm, Standerton and his place of residence as Beginsel, Standerton. She was married to Joseph William Fuller in Johannesburg in community of goods and had no children. She left a will and the estate did exceed 300 pounds but there was no immovable property. The death notice was signed in Standerton on Aug. 16, 1921 by her husband, who was not present at the death.
Sources for Emily Louise Coetzer
Death: Death notice MHG 47021 (Transvaal).

Matilda Edith Coetzer

Her death notice states that she died on May 20, 1960 at her home, 22 Marion Court, 68 De Villiers Street, Johannesburg, aged 76 years and having outlived two husbands -- a Mr. Dove, who died in 1923, and Joseph William Fuller, who died in 1939. She had no children and left no will or immovable property. The death notice was signed in a very unsteady hand by a niece whose name is hard to read -- the initials are possibly D.M. or P.M. and the surname looks like it might have five letters, possibly beginning with “W” and possibly ending “..ine”.
Sources for Matilda Edith Coetzer
Death notice: MHG 4038/60 (Transvaal)

111. Dorothy Fuller

Did not marry, according to a Driver / Fuller / Roth family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller, which appears to have been compiled variously by G.N. Walker of Bloemfontein and Toni Roth.

112. Reginald Hope Fuller

Sources for Reginald Hope Fuller
Birth: LDS Microfilm # 1560855, Methodist Parish Records, Kingwilliamstown Christenings: 1873-1912 Item 19, entry No. 481.

Septima de Villiers

Source for her is a Driver / Fuller / Roth family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller, which appears to have been compiled variously by G.N. Walker of Bloemfontein and Toni Roth.

30. Mary Ann Fuller

Mary Ann and James brought no less than 14 children into the world, including a set of twins who unfortunately both died very young.
Sources for Mary Ann Fuller
Family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller of Fish Hoek. This is also the source for her marriage and her children, and it also states that she was baptized in the Independent Chapel, Grahamstown and that she was married by Venerable Archdeacon Harder in King William’s Town.

114. James Faunce Lonsdale

According to a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller, this son was killed in action.

35. Ann Fuller

It would be interesting to find out details of her birth, because this would tell us whether her parents emigrated to the Cape before or after she was born.
Sources for Ann Fuller
Her father James’s death notice (MOOC 6/9/244 Ref. 718) in 1887 lists her as the only surviving child, referring to her as the widow of George Jessup.
Marriage: IGI, batch no. 1690239, film no. 1396241.
The details of her children were sent to me in a GEDCOM file by a Fuller descendant and are unsourced.

George Jessup

Information on his birth and death is from a family tree compiled by Vernon Wilson.

128. Harriet Ada Jessup

Details of her birth and baptism are from a GEDCOM file downloaded over the Internet and have not been checked against original sources. Witnesses at the baptism are said to be James and Harriet Fuller and Ann Jessup. However, a family tree compiled by Vernon Wilson supports the birth date and also adds the surname of the husband.
A search of the NAAIRS database for the Transvaal turns up the death of a Harriet Ada White in 1928 with predeceased spouses Thomas Crane and Charles Kember White (MHG 67926). This is probably the correct Harriet Ada.

129. George Penketh Jessup

Details of her birth and baptism are from a GEDCOM file downloaded over the Internet and have not been checked against original sources. Witnesses at the baptism are said to be Peter Penketh, George Jessup and Mary Fuller.

130. Mabel Sarah Jessup

Details of her birth and baptism are from a GEDCOM file downloaded over the Internet and have not been checked against original sources.

Charles Wilson

Charles and Mabel Sarah had seven children.
Sources for Charles Wilson
All research on the Jessup-Fuller-Wilson line is the work of Vernon Wilson of Cape Town.

36. Henry Fuller

Information on his death notice reveals that he was a baker, like his father and his father’s father.
He was born in Cape Town, probably not too long after his parents’ move from England to the Cape, and died at his home in Rondebosch. The seven children born to him and Ann Susan Rous who appear here are as listed in Henry’s death notice, which was signed by “Ann Susan Brown, widow of deceased, since married to John Brown.” Henry’s death notice was filed 23 years after his death.

On the NAAIRS online index of gravestone inscriptions of the Genealogical Society of South Africa, there is an entry for Henry Fuller, buried at St. Paul’s Church Cemetery, Rondebosch, Cape Town. It says: Henry Fuller. Died 28-08-1869. Aged 36 years.

Sources for Henry Fuller

Death: Death notice MOOC 6/9/311 Ref. 2663. This death notice was filed only in 1892, long after his death in 1869.
Birth: Parish records, Commemoration Methodist Church, Grahamstown. Baptisms 1822-1858. LDS film no. 1560877 (apparently this film is mis-labelled as Somerset East Methodist parish).

Ann Susan Rous

When her father-in-law James Fuller died in 1887, he left a bequest for all seven of Ann Susan’s children. There was no bequest for Ann Susan herself, probably because she remarried. This we can surmise from information on her first husband Henry Fuller’s death notice, which for some reason was not filled out until 1892, 23 years after he died. It was signed by “Ann Susan Brown, widow of deceased, since remarried to John Brown.”
The Matrimonial Court of Wynberg issued a licence for Ann Susan’s marriage to John Alexander Brown on Oct. 12, 1871. The record states that both lived in Rondebosch, that he, like Ann Susan’s first husband, was a baker, and that he was born in Cape Town and she in Port Elizabeth.

Sources for Ann Susan Rous
Source for her existence is husband Henry’s death notice MOOC 6/9/311 Ref. 2663, filed 23 years after his death in 1869.

135. Alice Spicer Fuller

The Matrimonial Court in Cape Town issued a licence for Alice’s marriage on Dec. 12, 1878, the record stating that he was born in England and she in Cape Town, that both resided in Kalk Bay, that he was 28 and she 24, and that he was a hotel keeper.
The birth date and christening information are from an unverified source.
Sources for Alice Spicer Fuller
Marriage: FHL film no. 1281507, Index of Matrimonial Court Proceedings in the Cape 1818-1882, c.o. 4589 p 460.

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