Fourth generation notes

In the biography of her father in the Souvenir of Centenary of 1820 Settlers (see notes for James Fuller), she is referred to as “Mrs. Bertram of High Constantia.”
Sources for Elizabeth Maud Fuller
Her middle name and nickname come from a handwritten family tree originating from Harry James Fuller’s side of the family.
I received an e-mail from Kenneth James Fuller in 2003 in which he told me that when he was a cadet on the training ship “General Botha” in 1944, he met fellow cadet David Williams-Freeman, whose mother, Phyllis, he said, was the daughter of Elizabeth Maud Fuller (daughter of James), who married Robertson Fuller Bertram. Phyllis married Williams-Freeman. This is the source for this marriage.

148. Charles Fuller Bertram

This individual signed the death notice for William Fuller in 1897, writing in brackets underneath his name that he was a nephew.
Sources for Charles Fuller Bertram
His full name, birth and death dates are unconfirmed. All information about him, his wife and children was received in an e-mail from someone who didn’t know the original sources.

Grace Nichol Wainwright

Sources for Grace Nichol Wainwright
Unconfirmed. Received in an e-mail from someone who didn’t know the original source.

157. William Robertson Fuller

The following biography of William Robertson Fuller was written by his grandson John William Fuller (Johannesburg, July 2004)

William Robertson Fuller was born on the 28th May 1880 at the Fuller family farm in the Parish of Clapton, Thomas River, district of Cathcart, Cape Colony, South Africa.
After the death of his father John on 2nd June 1886, his mother, Eliza Fanny, nee MacLachlan, disposed of the farm and settled in East London, South Africa, at number 2 Seaview Terrace, an imposing residence, which she renamed Langham House.
It was the intention that William’s second name Robertson be hyphenated with Fuller, because the family had a close relationship with the Robertsons, involved in the wine industry. However, he disliked the idea and never implemented it. He was also related to Robert (Bob) Bertram, an uncle, who owned a winery in the Constantia area of Cape Town. This large winery is today a major wine producer.
He married Maude Evelyn Mitchell, nee Fleischer, whose first husband George Mitchell had died in the 1918 flu epidemic. They had one son, John Desmond, born 10 February 1921, died 12 July 2002.
William Robertson Fuller was a great loyalist and fought wherever he could for Queen, King and Empire. His great grandson still has his black mourning armband that he wore upon the death of his beloved Queen Victoria. He fought in the second Anglo Boer War 1899-1902, including being besieged at Mafeking.
He was an outstanding horseman and served in the Protectorate Regiment Frontier Force, from 16th August 1899, at the age of 19 years, until discharge on 20th October 1900; most of this time being at Mafeking. During the defence of Mafeking he served as a Trooper under Captain Fitzclarence VC. He claimed to have been with Captain “Fitz” when he won his Victoria Cross.
After 1 year and 64 days he was discharged in Pretoria on 20 October 1900, where he received the SA War Medal and was paid a Special War Gratuity of £5. Thereafter he served in the Imperial Light Horse Regiment.
On 2nd October 1902 he joined the South African Constabulary as a Constable until his discharge in Nylstroom on 30th June 1906.
He then served as a Corporal in the Natal Carbineers with the Natal Militia Force during the Natal Rebellion and was discharged at the end of the rebellion on 11th September 1906 after 69 days service.
He later also served in the 1914-1918 Great War as a Sergeant in the 9th South African Horse Regiment. He saw service in German East Africa, where he contracted malaria.
His war medals consist of Queen Victoria’s Queen’s South African Medal with three Clasps, Transvaal, Defence of Mafeking and Orange Free State. King Edward VII Medal for Natal. George V South African War Medal 1914-1918 and The Great War for Civilisation medal 1914-1919.
He was quite an adventurous person and his fighting days were over he became a mining contractor after obtaining his blasting certificate and employed a number of Chinese labourers at the Simmer and Jack gold mine in Germiston.. He worked there from 20th October 1906 until 1st October 1908.
He thereafter moved back to East London, South Africa, where he became a bookkeeper and entered commerce. There, in 1924 and 1925 he served as the Treasurer of the East London Branch of the South African Legion.
William Robertson Fuller died from a heart attack at East London on 28 August 1944.
The pencilled handwriting in the ruled exercise book used as a diary had deteriorated rapidly over the years and his grandson, John William, born 27 June 1949, rewrote the diary some years ago to record the historical facts that his grandfather had recorded. This record of his time at Mafeking can now be shared and will hopefully to add to the remarkable history of the Siege at Mafeking, through the perspective of a young Trooper.
In his diary, there are times of humour, of sadness, of hunger and descriptions of the leadership and stubborn resistance of General Baden Powel. There is the treatment of the Natives and mistreatment of them and there is the elation for the eventual relief of the town.
Sources for William Robertson Fuller
All information is as supplied by John William Fuller.

Maude Evelyn Fleischer

Sources for Maude Evelyn Fleischer
Maude’s date of birth (the day but not the year) is recorded in a birthday book kept by her mother-in-law Eliza Fanny Fuller and passed down to her grandson John William Fuller.
Her first husband, George Mitchell, died in the 1918 flu epidemic. She is buried alongside William Robertson Fuller in the East London Cemetery, Grave No. 238 Section 6 B (see notes for William Robertson Fuller).
Maude’s had three children by George Mitchell and after his death had another son with William Robertson Fuller. The four children grew up together in the same home.
Information supplied by John William Fuller, grandson of William Robertson Fuller.

158. Daisy Georgina Fuller

Sources for Daisy Georgina Fuller
Her date of birth is recorded in a birthday book kept by her mother Eliza Fanny and passed down to John William Fuller, grandson of Daisy’s brother William Robertson Fuller.

160. Gladys Gertrude Fuller

Sources for Gladys Gertrude Fuller
Her date of birth is recorded in a birthday book kept by Gladys’s mother Eliza Fanny and passed down to John William Fuller, grandson of Gladys’s brother William Robertson Fuller.
The birthday book also contains an entry for Nancy Fuller and Terence Fuller, indicating a birthday of Feb. 5 for both, with no year of birth mentioned, presumably indicating they were twins. According to a note from John Desmond Fuller given to his son John William Fuller, Gladys married Clive Fuller, who he said was not related, and they had two children, Nancy and Terence.
(Information supplied by John William Fuller)
Death: Death date is from Adelbert Semmelink’s index on the website http://www.e-family.co.za/. Death notice details given there are: No. 5710 of 1951, death on Aug. 29 1951, predeceased spouse estate no. 5539/48.

162. Charles Bertram Fuller

Sources for Charles Bertram Fuller
All information is from his death notice, which indicates that he was a farmer aged 37 years, 11 months when he died in his house on the farm Bayswater in the Cathcart district. His surviving spouse was Muriel Edith, whom he married at Middelburg in the Cape out of community of property. One child is listed, followed by “February 1917”, presumably her date of birth. He did leave and his estate was valued at more than 300 pounds. Signed by his brother D.G. Fuller, who was present at the death.
Death: Death notice #4237. His estate papers are in the MOOC collection (6/9/1251).

163. Douglas George Fuller

Information for this family is from Douglas George’s death notice, which indicates that he was a farmer, son of Mrs. M.A. Fuller of “Bayswater”, P.O. Thomas River, that he died at the Cathcart Cottage Hospital on 21 February 1930 at the age of 37 years and 11 months and that he was survived by his spouse Kathleen Emily Fuller (born Evatt). They were married at Thomas River, division of Cathcart, out of community of property. The death notice lists three children and indicates that he left a will and an estate of both movable and immovable property worth more than 300 pounds.
Sources for Douglas George Fuller
Marriage: Thomas River Church records. From notes supplied by John William Fuller.
Death: Death notice #25663.

251. Kenneth Douglas Fuller

Stutterheim has a war memorial in the centre of town that includes a reference to a 2nd Lt. Kenneth Douglas Fuller SAAF of Stutterheim. He was just 19 when he died.
In the Genealogical Society of South Africa’s data base of gravestone inscriptions on the NAAIRS website, there is a listing for Nakurli Cemetery, Kenya: “2nd Lt. Kenneth Douglas Fuller. Died 30-06-1942. Aged 19 years. OBS. Member of SAAF. Son of Douglas G and Kathleen M Fuller of Stutterheim.”
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website at www.cwgc.org confirms this information, but says he is buried in grave number 486 at Nakuru North Cemetery -- a different spelling.

181. Ryno Neville Fuller

After the death of his mother in 1906, he was sent to boarding school at Marist Brothers College in Uitenhage. A highly traumatic episode in his young life, according to family lore.
When his father remarried to Amy Currie Thorne, born Philips, the story goes, the two Fuller children felt that they were the second-class children in the new family, having to sleep in an outside shelter while the Thorne child or children had quarters inside the main house.
After school he worked for a time as an articled clerk with a firm of lawyers in Stutterheim.
Joined the Kaffrarian Rifles and fought in East Africa during World War I, taking several bullets while trying to resupply his men with ammunition in 1916, an action that earned him the DCM. He had to spend 11 months recuperating in Wynberg military hospital.
After the war, his former job in Stutterheim being no longer available, he obtained a post in the Justice Department of the new South African administration that was being set up in South West Africa (now Namibia), which Germany had lost during the war and which had been given to the Union of South Africa to govern under a League of Nations mandate. He worked initially as an administrative clerk in Windhoek, Swakopmund and Okahandja.
At the latter place he met and married a young woman named Anna Susanna Vercueil, with whom he had in common the fact that their fathers were both stock inspectors but obviously much more, for they remained together until the end, “Annie”, as he called her, even caring faithfully for him over the last 15 years or so when his memory deserted him utterly. They were married for 65 years until his death in 1987.
Annie’s father, too, had moved to South West Africa after obtaining a post in the new South African administration.
Ryno remained in the civil service, eventually becoming a magistrate and returning in that capacity to South Africa, where he presided over courts in Ladysmith, Uitenhage, Barkly East and, finally, Springbok in Namaqualand, to which he was transferred after being promoted to senior magistrate in 1948. After retiring in 1956 he joined the nearby O’okiep Copper Company as manager of staff affairs.
Retired from this job in the early 1960s, when he and Annie bought a house in the coastal town of Hermanus that soon became a favourite holiday haunt for their children and grandchildren.
He died at this house, 21 Mossie Avenue, in 1987 at the age of 94.
His gravestone inscription in the Hermanus cemetery reads: “He died as he lived: Everyone’s friend.”

Sources for Ryno Neville Fuller

Birth date: Mother’s death notice MOOC 6/9/542 Ref. 658. Also parish records of St. Barnabas, Stutterheim.
Death: His death notice is No. 3860 of 1987, listed at http://www.e-family.co.za/

Anna Susanna Vercueil

Born in a British concentration camp at Pietersburg during the Anglo-Boer War

196. Harold Norden Fuller

He was a retired mining engineer when he died at Roycelea or Royce Lea, Boshoff’s Road, Pietermaritzburg on Jan. 15, 1954, aged 71 years and nine months.
Sources for Harold Norden Fuller
Details are from records supplied by Aldyth Fuller. Original sources unknown.
Clarice Ballenden (nee Comyn), a great-granddaughter of Alfred William Fuller’s, reports that Harold Norden Fuller had a son, Denis, who was still alive, in his mid-80s, in 2004, and living with a daughter in the Eastern Cape. Denis apparently had two other daughters and a son, Robert, who were also living in South Africa.

Natalie Maud Courtney-Acutt

Source for her is a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller.

261. Jesse Natalie Fuller

Source for her is a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller. Jesse is buried in Boksburg Cemetery No. AC218.

262. Harold Courtenay Fuller

Did not marry. Source for him is a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller

265. Tpr. Leonard Royce Fuller

Died of his wounds in Naples, Italy, aged 20 years.
Source for him is a family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website confirms that a Trooper L.R. Fuller died on May 29, 1945, service number SR/230365V and attached to the Special Service Battalion, S.A. Forces. He is buried in the Naples War Cemetery, ref. IV. J. 4.

197. Edith Clarice Fuller

Sources for Edith Clarice Fuller
Clarice Ballenden (nee Comyn) of Melbourne, Australia, a grandchild of Edith Clarice Fuller’s, supplied the following information:
She (Clarice Ballenden) is the daughter of Felicite Brereton Barlow, the sixth child of Edith Clarice Fuller and Alfred Barlow of Bloemfontein. Felicite married Arthur Comyn and she, Clarice, is their eldest child.
Birth date and place: Family tree supplied by Aldyth Fuller. Original source unknown

226. Edward Montagu Harcourt Stone

The Grahamstown Journal of July 30, 1898 records: “E.M.H. Stone, eldest son of J.M. Stone, attorney, passes Law Certificate examination. Mr. W. Stone’s grandfather T.J.H. Stone was the first attorney in the Eastern Province, passing his examination before Judge Menzies in 1844.”
The newspaper later announced his marriage on June 28, 1902: “Edward Montagu Harcourt Stone married Minnie May Keeton, daughter of W.P. Keeton of Lombard’s Post, at Southwell, June 25, 1902. Eldest son of J. Montagu Stone.”

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