Filename -- Timeline for Family
History -- SORT BY YEAR, PRECISE DATE, & SURNAME. |
Date updated -- 15 May 2012 -- Whole text
improved & checked by Robert, and lines culled. |
Women entered under Maiden Names. |
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Year |
Precise Date |
Surname |
Full Names of a Person |
Place |
What Happened |
1162 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
Italy |
Molteno Family take part in negotiations with
Emperor Frederick Barbarossa for surrender of Milan |
1162 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
Italy |
Sometime after 1162, Menaduxius de Molteno aids and
gives passage to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in attack on Counts of
Angleria |
1200 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
Italy |
The oldest part of the village church in Molteno
dates back to 1200s, incorporating part of original castle chapel |
1403 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
Italy |
Georgius di Molteno heads College of Advocates &
Notaries in Milan at various times til 1435 |
1447 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
Italy |
Petrolus de Molteno elected as councillor to General
Council of Republic of Milan, amongst other Moltenos |
1448 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
Italy |
Phillipus di Molteno is one of 36 men added to
Republic of Milan's 12 'leaders of liberty' |
1503 |
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Molteno |
GiovanniMolteno |
Italy |
Listed as one of the architects who helped build
Milan Cathedral |
1544 |
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Bristow |
NicholasBristow |
England |
Ancestor of Charles Busby Bristow who marries Mary
Molteno. Henry VIII gave him a coat of arms. Kept in family to this day.
There is a story re why it was given. |
1570 |
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MoltenoVillage |
Italy |
On orders of the Church hierarchy in Milan,
registers of births, marriages & deaths are kept from this date. |
1730 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
London |
Possible, but no clear evidence, that 1st generation
of Moltenos came to London in 1730s |
1745 |
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History |
England |
Suppression of the Young Pretender's Rebellion.
Explosion of anti-Catholic feeling. Many chapels burned etc. |
1751 |
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Molteno |
GeorgeAnthonyMolteno |
?? |
Born -- probably the original ancestor in England
most Moltenos today are descended from. |
1753 |
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History |
England |
Hardwicke's Marriage Act voids all marriages not
solemnized in a Church of England church. Roman Catholics disadvantaged. |
1758 |
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Lewis |
MaryLewis |
London |
Born. She becomes wife of George Anthony Molteno.
Original ancestor most Moltenos today are descended from. |
1761 |
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Bower |
GeorgeBower |
Batley |
Born in Batley, Yorkshire, son of a cloth
manufacturer. He becomes father of Caroline Bower who marries John Molteno |
1770 |
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Molteno |
GeorgeAnthonyMolteno |
London |
If he is the 1st generation Molteno in England,
then probably came to London in early 1770s as a very young man. |
1770 |
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History |
Karoo |
Early 1770s, start of serious armed conflict between
the San (Bushmen) & Boers. Lasted 20 years. Virtual genocide |
1770 |
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History |
England |
Beginning of revolution in textile (cotton
processing) technologies in 1770s & 80s heralds industrial revolution |
1774 |
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History |
Karoo |
Major flare-up between Boers & San (Bushmen):
Boer commando killed 503 and took prisoner 239 people. |
1775 |
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History |
World |
American War of Independence starts |
1777 |
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Molteno |
GeorgeAnthonyMolteno |
London |
He begins to collect drawings; his first
printselling premises only recorded six years later. |
1778 |
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History |
England |
Catholic Relief Act: lifted some penal laws. Now for
1st time lawful to be a Roman Catholic priest in England. |
1780 |
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History |
London |
Gordon Riots in London. Mobs protesting repeal of
penal laws against Catholics burn Catholic homes & Bavarian &
Sardinian Embassy chapels. 1000s of troops restore order. |
1780 |
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History |
London |
Sardinian Embassy Chapel, with many Molteno family
christening & other records, ransacked and burned down during Gordon
Riots. |
1782 |
17820417 |
Lewis |
MaryLewis |
London |
Marries George Anthony Molteno, |
1782 |
17820417 |
Molteno |
GeorgeAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Marries Mary Lewis. Anthony Torre, eminent in tiny
London Italian community, present. |
1782 |
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Mylius |
MaryMylius |
England |
Born. She marries James Anthony Molteno who carries
on his father, George Anthony Molteno's Pall Mall printseller business. |
1782 |
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History |
World |
American War of Independence ends in victory -- a
generation before John Charles Molteno, our common ancestor, born in London. |
1783 |
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Molteno |
JMolteno |
London |
A printseller in Fleet Street (not in Pall Mall) |
1783 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
London |
Place of Business: 1 Vigo Lane, Saville Row |
1784 |
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Molteno |
JamesAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Born, eldest son of George Anthony Molteno, and like
his father also called Anthony. |
1785 |
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Jackson |
RobertJackson |
London |
Born. His mother is Alicia Bower, sister of Caroline
Bower who married John Molteno, our common ancestor. Jacksons & Moltenos
are cousins. |
1786 |
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Glass |
MargaretGlass(Scott) |
Scotland |
Born. Widowed, she marries Charles Dominic
Molteno,favourite uncle of (Sir) John Charles Molteno, our common ancestor. |
1787 |
17870301 |
Bower |
GeorgeBower |
London |
The first Bower to become a clerk at the Bank of
England. Bower family serves bank for next 140 years. He is father of
Caroline, Alicia & other children. |
1787 |
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Bower |
GeorgeBower |
London |
Marries Jane Read at St Mary's, Lambeth. Her father
was Admiralty Timber Surveyor, Deptford Dockyard. |
1787 |
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Bower |
GeorgeBower |
London |
George's father gives him large house at Peckham
Rye, village just outside Lond. This area is where Caroline Molteno, when
widowed, lives subsequently. |
1787 |
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Colnaghi |
PaulColnaghi |
London |
Business partner of George Anthony Molteno. Marries
Elizabeth Baker, his 1st wife. Later marries Mary Philips in 1796. |
1788 |
17880211 |
Molteno |
JohnMolteno |
London |
Born. Second son of George Anthony Molteno &
Mary Lewis. Our common ancestor. |
1788 |
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Molteno |
GeorgeAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Molteno & Colnaghi printselling partnership
starts at 132 Pall Mall. Lasts til 1792. |
1789 |
17890915 |
Molteno |
CharlesDominicMolteno |
London |
Christened as a Roman Catholic at St James Spanish
Place, Manchester Square, Westminster. Uncle of John Charles Molteno, our
common ancestor. |
1789 |
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History |
France |
French Revolution. Britain soon involved in 20 years
of Napoleonic Wars. Cut off from Europe much of this time. |
1790 |
17901226 |
Bower |
CarolineBower |
London |
Born. 2nd eldest of George Bower's children. Mother
of John Charles Molteno. |
1790 |
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Molteno |
GeorgeAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Molteno, Colnaghi & Co sell an engraving of
King George III. |
1791 |
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Molteno |
MaryMolteno |
London |
Born 1791 or 1792. Later marries Charles Busby
Bristow in 1811. |
1791 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
London |
A Molteno woman marries G Testolini |
1791 |
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History |
England |
For first time, Catholic places of worship formally
recognised as legal. In part, because of huge French Catholic immigration
following the Revolution. |
1792 |
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Molteno |
GeorgeAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Partnership with Colnaghi ends. George Anthony
Molteno goes into business as a Pall Mall printseller on his own. |
1793 |
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History |
Europe |
Napoleonic Wars start. Continental blockade.
Presumably England/Italy contact difficult for next 20 years. |
1794 |
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Molteno |
FrancisMolteno |
?? |
Born. Eventually marries Jane Auvergne. |
1796 |
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Molteno |
HenryMolteno |
London |
Born |
1797 |
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Vos |
Vos |
Cape Town |
Jacobus Johannes Vos, President of Burger Raad
(Council of Citizens) during 1st British occupation of Cape, given silver
cup. Great uncle of Hercules Jarvis's wife. |
1798 |
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Molteno |
RoseMolteno |
London |
Born on 13 September 1798. Sister of Charles Dominic
Molteno and John Molteno. |
1800 |
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Molteno |
EmmaMolteno |
London |
Born. Dies 1860. Father is George Anthony Molteno,
but death certificate said her father was Charles Molteno. |
1800 |
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Molteno |
JamesAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Starts work in his father's printselling business.
Continued all his life. Nearly 50 years. |
1802 |
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Molteno |
EloiseMolteno |
London |
Born. Daughter of George Anthony Molteno (Robert
Molteno thinks). |
1803 |
18030618 |
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
London |
Born. Later emigrates to Cape Colony. Father of John
Charles Molteno's 2nd wife, Elizabeth Maria Jarvis. |
1804 |
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Molteno |
CharlesDominicMolteno |
London |
A son of George Anthony Molteno, he begins work,
aged 15, for East India Dock Co. in London, and works for it for 47 years. |
1807 |
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Molteno |
JamesAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Aged 23, he marries Mary Mylius. |
1808 |
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Molteno |
ThomasMyliusMolteno |
London |
Son of James Anthony Molteno & Mary Mylius born.
Becomes a Roman Catholic priest. |
1809 |
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Molteno |
ElizabethMaryMolteno |
?? |
Born. Eventually marries Charles Parker. |
1809 |
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Vos |
ElizabethMagadalenadeVos |
Cape Town |
Born. She marries Hercules Jarvis at age of 16 in
1825 |
1810 |
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Lewis |
MaryLewis |
London |
Wife of George Anthony Molteno dies -- 5 years
before him. Buried in C of E St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square.
Tombstone in floor of Crypt, now coffee shop. |
1811 |
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Molteno |
MaryMolteno |
London |
Daughter of George Anthony Molteno marries Charles
Busby Bristow at St James, Picadilly. Her brothers,John & James Anthony
Molteno, sign register. |
1811 |
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Molteno |
RoseMaryMolteno |
London |
Daughter of James Anthony Molteno born. Dies only in
1889. Did she ever marry? |
1812 |
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Bristow |
MaryBristow |
?? |
Daughter of Charles Busby Bristow & Mary Molteno
born. |
1812 |
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History |
London |
Sardinian Ambassador's Chapel: Perhaps 7,000
Catholics belong to it (reflects paucity of other Catholic chapels at this
time) |
1813 |
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Bower |
AliciaBower |
London |
Marries Robert Jackson in same year as her sister,
Caroline Bower, marries John Molteno. |
1813 |
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Molteno |
CharlesDominicMolteno |
Scotland |
He marries Margaret Glass (widow of Scott) sometime
after 1813. He is uncle of John Charles Molteno, our common ancestor. |
1813 |
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Molteno |
JohnMolteno |
London |
Marries Caroline Bower, sister of Alicia Bower. He
is son of George Anthony Molteno. |
1814 |
18140605 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno I |
London |
Born. Eldest son of John Molteno & Caroline
Bower. He is our common ancestor. |
1814 |
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Bristow |
RosaMariaBristow |
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Daughter of Charles Busby Bristow & Mary
Molteno born. |
1814 |
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History |
Cape |
Cape of Good Hope ceded by to Britain by the
Netherlands. John Charles Molteno emigrates there 16 years later. |
1814 |
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History |
Cape Town |
British move naval HQ to Simon's Bay. Build 20 mile
hard road there from Cape Town. At 7th mile stone, Claremont village started.
Molteno family home, Claremont House, built later. |
1815 |
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Hewitson |
MariaHewitson |
Cape Town |
Born. Later becomes 1st wife of John Charles
Molteno. |
1815 |
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Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
London |
Son of John Molteno & Caroline Bower, and
younger brother of John Charles Molteno, born. Emigrates later to Hawaii
(Sandwich Islands). |
1815 |
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History |
Europe |
Battle of Waterloo. Napoleonic Wars end. Contact
with Italy now easier. No evidence, however, of resumption of Molteno links
with Italy |
1816 |
18161000 |
Molteno |
GeorgeAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Dies. James Anthony and John Molteno executors of
his estate. James Anthony Molteno continues family printselling business. |
1816 |
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Bristow |
CharlesFrancisBristow |
England |
Born. Probably became apothecary and inventor of
Bristow's Coal Tar Soap. Became very well off. |
1816 |
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Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Left his family home in Weshpool in care of Col.
Brown; got job with Hudson, Donaldson & Dixon at the Cape because of poor
health. Only 12 or 12 at the time. |
1816 |
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Molteno |
FrancesMolteno |
London |
Born of John Molteno & Caroline Bower. Must have
died early since no further records of her. |
1816 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
London |
Molteno printselling business operating from 20 Pall
Mall |
1816 |
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Molteno |
WilliamFrederickMolteno |
England |
Born. Son of James Anthony Molteno & Mary Mylius |
1816 |
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History |
England |
At end of Napoleonic wars, several years of
recession and sporadic riots |
1817 |
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Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Returns to UK to complete his education |
1817 |
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Molteno |
FredMolteno |
London |
Born. Brother of Sir John Charles Molteno. Later
marries Laura Sheridan.Confusion re him and FredJamesMolteno |
1817 |
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Molteno |
GeorgeAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Dies. I now have 3 different dates -- 1815, 1816,
1817!! |
1817 |
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Molteno |
JohnMolteno |
London |
He and his wife, Caroline, living at 11 Soho Square,
just south of Oxford Street. |
1817 |
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History |
England |
Until this date, no Catholic could serve in the
British armed forces. |
1818 |
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Bristow |
WhistonBristow |
?? |
Born. Eventually emigrated to the USA, but stayed in
touch with his Uncle Charles Dominic Molteno |
1818 |
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Molteno |
CatherineClaraMolteno |
England |
Born. Never marries. |
1818 |
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History |
Beaufort West |
District of Beaufort declared. British authorities
look for site for new district capital. Hence founding of Beaufort (West). |
1819 |
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Jackson |
ArthurJackson |
England |
First cousin of John Charles Molteno, born in
Peckham, Surrey. This was the Bower family base. Caroline, when widowed,
lived in Peckham for a time. So did her son, Fred Molteno, later. |
1820 |
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Bristow |
RobertAnthonyBristow |
?? |
Born. Grandson of George Anthony Molteno. Marries
Margaret Swan. Via his descendants, contact with Molteno Family continues
into early 20th century |
1820 |
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Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Comes out from England to the Cape again, now aged
16. |
1820 |
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Molteno |
AgnesEmmaMolteno |
London |
Born. Daughter of James Anthony Molteno & Mary
Mylius |
1820 |
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Molteno |
NancyAliciaMolteno |
London |
Sister of John Charles Molteno born. Marries Mr
Bingle in adulthood. |
1820 |
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Stanford |
Stanford |
Eastern Cape |
John & Maria Stanford come with 1820 settlers;
greatgrandparents of Walter Elliot Stanford who marries Effie Anderson |
1821 |
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Alport |
PercyAlport |
?? |
Uncle Percy Alport born. Is 7 years younger than his
future brother in law & business partner in Beaufort West, Sir J C
Molteno |
1821 |
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Molteno |
Anthony Molteno |
London |
Colnaghi & Molteno sell 'the only genuine
likeness of Napoleon on St Helena' by Mr Rusbridge (The Times) |
1821 |
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Molteno |
MaryCatherineMolteno |
England |
Dame Mary Catherine (Molteno) enters Convent of
Benedictine Nuns at Winchester (later East Bergholt). Aunt of Roman Catholic
priest, Thomas Mylius Molteno |
1822 |
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Molteno |
JamesJosephMolteno |
England |
Born. Son of James Anthony Molteno. Dies the
following year. |
1823 |
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Molteno |
FrederickJamesMolteno |
London |
Born. Brother of Sir JC Molteno. |
1823 |
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Molteno |
JamesJosephMolteno |
England |
Dies. Only 6 mths old. Buried in vault of Catholic
church, St Mary Moorfields. Son of James Anthony Molteno |
1824 |
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Molteno |
FrancisMolteno |
London |
Born. Robert Molteno think may be the artist who
exhibited at the Royal Academy 1848-55. |
1824 |
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Molteno |
JamesAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Sells the famous Bartolozzi's diploma awarded when
elected to Royal Academy in 1769 |
1825 |
18250917 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Greenock |
Born in Scotland on the Clyde, 3rd son of James
Currie, a barber. |
1825 |
18251218 |
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Marries Miss Elizabeth Maria Vos, aged 16. Later
father in law of Sir JC Molteno. |
1825 |
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Molteno |
AliciaMolteno |
London |
Born. Younger sister of Sir J CC Molteno. Later
marries A Hartley and emigrates to Australia, where she died. |
1826 |
18260528 |
Molteno |
MaryLuciaMolteno |
London |
Confirmed in Catholic St Patrick's Church, Soho. Who
are her parents? |
1826 |
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Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Ireland |
James Currie & his wife move with their baby son
from Greenock to Belfast, Ireland. |
1826 |
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Jackson |
Robert Jackson |
England |
Economic depression in Britain once again. Robert
Jackson, John Molteno's brother in law, emigrates to France permanently. Sons
later emigrate to South Africa. |
1826 |
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Molteno |
CharlesMolteno |
England |
Born |
1827 |
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Molteno |
JohnMolteno |
London |
Dies in London aged 39 (date recorded in Catholic
Records Society is 25 January 1827 -- mid winter). His widow, Caroline, moves
to Peckham. Most of their children emigrate from Britain. |
1827 |
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Molteno |
JohnMolteno |
London |
John and his wife Caroline Bower living at 11 Soho
Square, London. John already very unwell. |
1828 |
18280608 |
Molteno |
ClaraMariaMolteno |
London |
Confirmed in Catholic St Patrick's Church, Soho. Who
are her parents? |
1828 |
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Molteno |
JohnMolteno |
London |
John & Caroline Molteno's last child. Born after
his father's death. Dies 3 years later |
1829 |
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Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
London |
Born c. 1829. Brother of Sir JC Molteno. One record
gives his relation as Charles Frank Molteno (his son?). Robert Molteno thinks
this needs checking. |
1829 |
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Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
A J Jardine apptd to run 1st Subscription &
Circulating Library in CT, 2 yrs before Sir JC Molteno's arrival |
1829 |
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Vos |
Vos |
Cape |
Jacobus Johannes Vos, greatgrandfather of Elizabeth
Maria Jarvis (nee Vos), died |
1829 |
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History |
England |
Catholic Emancipation Act passed. Many, but not all,
remaining disabilities suffered by Roman Catholics in England ended. |
1830 |
18300120 |
Jarvis |
ElizabethMariaJarvis |
Cape Town |
Born. Eventually marries Sir JC Molteno, aged 20. He
aged 37. |
1830 |
18301200 |
Bower |
GeorgeBower |
England |
Aged 69, Caroline's father promoted to Principal of
the Power of the Attorney Office in Bank of England. Keeps post til his
death. |
1830 |
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Bower |
AliciaBower |
Europe |
Mother of Arthur Jackson and his brothers died in
childbirth. 2 aunts in Lincolnshire then cared for the young children |
1830 |
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Jackson |
HenryJackson |
England |
Born. First cousin of Sir JC Molteno. |
1830 |
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Molteno |
Kahipa |
Hawaii |
Born in 1830s on island near Honolulu. Says her
father is Charles Frank Molteno. (Dates look wrong) |
1830 |
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History |
Beaufort West |
Village tiny. Population still only 200 whites
living in some 30 houses, plus larger 'Coloured' or mixed race population. |
1831 |
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Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
London |
James Richardson writes to John Charles Molteno with
advice to him as he is leaving to settle in Cape Town |
1831 |
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Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
First municipality of sorts set up; Hercules Jarvis
one of 1st commissioners aged 28 |
1831 |
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Molteno |
JohnMolteno |
London |
Little boy,aged 3, dies. John Molteno & Caroline
Bower's last child. |
1831 |
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Molteno |
MaryBernardMolteno |
England |
Dame Mary Bernard (Molteno) enters Convent of
Benedictine Nuns at Winchester (later East Bergholt). Aunt of Catholic
priest, Thomas Mylius Molteno |
1831 |
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Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Embarks for Cape Town, aged 17. Voyage by sail took
some 3 months. The sailing vessel averages some 3 mph -- ie walking pace! |
1831 |
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Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
On arrival, stays with A J Jardine, the Librarian,
while he 'looked around' for a more lucrative opening. |
1832 |
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Molteno |
ElizabethMaryMolteno |
London |
Marries Charles Parker. They have several children.
(This branch of Molteno descendants not researched on this website) |
1832 |
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Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
After only a year at library, he starts working for
J Bardwell Ebden, a wine export merchant. |
1832 |
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History |
England |
1832 Reform Act is first tiny, but immensely
significant, widening of franchise in UK, a year after John Charles Molteno
has left the UK for the Cape. |
1833 |
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Jarvis |
AnnieJarvis |
Cape |
Born. A sister of Hercules Jarvis, she eventually
marries Major Blenkins who subsequently dies in India. |
1833 |
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Molteno |
ThomasMyliusMolteno |
London |
Ordained a Roman Catholic priest (Hopefully date is
right) |
1834 |
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History |
Cape |
Slavery abolished, just three years after John
Charles Molteno arrives in Cape Colony. |
1834 |
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History |
Cape |
A nominated Legislative and Executive Council set up
in Cape Colony. No element of elected self-government at all-Colony level
yet. |
1835 |
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Molteno |
Molteno |
London |
Molteno and Graves, printsellers of Pall Mall,
dissolved. Two generations of Molteno business in London now at an end. |
1835 |
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Molteno |
WilliamHenryMolteno |
England |
Marries Elizabeth Daman. (How this branch of
Moltenos related to George Anthony Molteno, printseller in Pall Mall, not
established) |
1835 |
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History |
Eastern Cape |
4th serious clash between Xhosa-speaking Africans
and white settlers on the Eastern Frontier. Next war after this takes place
11 years later. |
1836 |
18360908 |
Molteno |
WilliamFrederickMolteno |
London |
William Frederick Molteno act as godfather to
Frederick William Fox in Catholic Church of St Mary Moorfields. |
1836 |
18361200 |
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History |
Beaufort West |
Villagers of Beaufort West ask for local
self-government. |
1836 |
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Bisset |
JamesBisset |
Aberdeen |
Born in Aberdeen. Later emigrates as a young man to
Cape as an engineer,architect etc. Eventually marries Betty Jarvis, sister of
John Charles Molteno's wife. Bissetts & Moltenos henceforth related. |
1836 |
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Molteno |
ElizabethMaryMolteno |
London |
WIfe of Charles Parker. This branch of Moltenos
still Roman Catholic; their two 2 children baptised in Catholic Bavarian
Chapel. |
1836 |
|
Molteno |
WilliamHenryMolteno |
Twickenham |
Born. (Not clear how this family & descendants
related to George Anthony Molteno, printseller in Pall Mall) |
1836 |
|
|
History |
Claremont |
First horse-drawn omnibus starts running from Cape
Town six miles out to Wynberg past Claremont each evening; returns in the
morning. |
1836 |
|
|
History |
Southern Africa |
The Great Trek starts just 2 years after British
authorities free slaves at the Cape. Most of Beaufort West's Dutch-speaking
whites in Karoo leave the colony. |
1836 |
|
|
History |
Beaufort West |
Arthur Kinnear imports first merino sheep from
Swellendam to Beaufort West -- just a few years before John Charles Molteno
arrives to farm in district. |
1836 |
|
|
History |
England |
Registration Act for first time recognises validity
of Roman Catholic marriages. Until then, void |
1837 |
18370208 |
Molteno |
AgnesEmmaMolteno |
London |
Dies. Buried in vault of Catholic church, St Mary
Moorfields. Daughter of James Anthony Molteno |
1837 |
18370900 |
|
History |
Beaufort West |
Beaufort West magistrate reports about half of
Nieuwveld Boer farmers have left this part of the Karoo on Great Trek. |
1837 |
|
Bristow |
WhistonBristow |
Jamaica |
Grandson of George Anthony Molteno, printseller in
London, writes from the Estate to his Uncle Charles Dominic Molteno. Unknown
to him, William Frederick Molteno, his cousin, is in Jamaica at this time too |
1837 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Starts on his own account as merchant shipper at the
Cape. Only 23 years old. |
1837 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Aged 23, starts his own company, Molteno & Co.
Agency. Ships broad brim white beaver hats to frontier town of Grahamstown.
Exports Cape brandy to Mauritius.etc |
1837 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Can already afford to send bill of exchange for
£1,000 to London with which to purchase goods for import to Cape. |
1837 |
|
|
History |
Beaufort West |
Beaufort West given municipal status. First
platteland village to get this. Happens just 3 years before John Charles
Molteno arrives in district. |
1837 |
|
|
History |
England |
Economic depression in England sets in. Terrible
wheat harvest in 1839-40. Prompts more emigration, including the Jackson
brothers five years later in 1846. |
1838 |
18380300 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Exports his first wool from the Cape, but he is not
yet farming himself. |
1838 |
|
Bower |
GeorgeBower |
London |
Father of Caroline Bower dies. He has outlived his
son-in-law, John Molteno, by ten yrs. (2 dates for his death; one must be
wrong) |
1838 |
|
Bower |
GeorgeBower |
England |
Dies 10 yrs after his son in law, John Molteno,
dies. Still in harness (never retired from Bank of England) |
1838 |
|
|
History |
Beaufort West |
Further big exodus of Boer farmers in Great Trek
(1936-1838) from Beaufort West district -- just a year or two before John
Charles Molteno arrives to buy land there |
1839 |
18390100 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
A few months after his first shipment of wool from
the Cape, exports another shipment |
1839 |
|
Jackson |
RobertJackson |
France |
Father of Arthur and his brothers dies in France
where he had fled British economic depression. |
1839 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Already prosperous enough to buy land in Roeland St
and erect largish warehouse. |
1839 |
|
Molteno |
WilliamFrederickMolteno |
England |
Marries Letitia Jones. Son of James Anthony Molteno.
Soon emigrates to Jamaica. Family printseller business in London largely
collapsed by this date. |
1839 |
|
Mylius |
MaryMylius |
London |
William Carpenter Jnr's painting of her. She is wife
of James Anthony Molteno, eldest son of George Anthony Molteno, first Molteno
to be printseller in Pall Mall. |
1840 |
18400800 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
Sets off with fellow Cape Town merchant, George
Prince, to explore buying land in Karoo in wake of Great Trek exodus |
1840 |
18401030 |
Molteno |
FrederickJohnMolteno |
London |
Son of William Frederick Molteno and Letitia Molteno
(nee Jones) baptised in Catholic church of St Aloysius, Somer's Town. His
father quite soon dies in Jamaica. Frederick John later marries Georgiana
Pope White. |
1840 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Greenock |
Aged 14. Donald goes back to Greenock on the Clyde
& gets his 1st office job with maternal uncle for 4 yrs. |
1840 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
In process of giving up import/export business and
moving to Beaufort West district to start farming there. |
1840 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Grandson of George Anthony Molteno, printseller in
London, writes from the Estate to his Uncle Charles Dominic Molteno. Unknown
to him, William Frederick Molteno, his cousin, is in Jamaica at this time too |
1840 |
|
Molteno |
WilliamFrederickMolteno |
Jamaica |
Emigrates with his wife and son from London to
Jamaica in year following his marriage. |
1840 |
|
|
History |
Britain |
The Hungry Forties in Britain. No wonder the Jackson
brothers emigrate to the Cape. |
1841 |
18410128 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
John Charles Molteno with Henry Quinn as partner buy
3 farms (Brooke Simons = source) |
1841 |
18410500 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Charters brig, Comet, to sail to Australia. It sells
cargo for £1,630, but still has £120 of unsold brandy on return to Cape. |
1841 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Late 1841, John Charles Molteno owes Witherby, his
London agent, £2,850. Latter refuses to honour a payment that JCM asks him
to make to 3rd party. |
1841 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Imports his first 2 merino rams to his farms in
Beaufort West. |
1841 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
First British Government proposal to make Robben
Island in Table Bay a convict station for British soldiers (mainly in India)
sentenced to long terms. Much opposition. |
1842 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Waterloo shipwrecked during storm in Table Bay. John
Charles Molteno courageously rescues several people. (Full story, The Times 15.11.1842) |
1842 |
18420400 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Apologises to his mother, Caroline, in Peckham for
writing so infrequently & lack of financial support -- his business is
doing badly. |
1842 |
18421009 |
Molteno |
FredMolteno |
England |
Writes to his mother, Caroline, in Peckham; sorry to
hear that his brother, Fred, has been so unfortunate. |
1842 |
18421219 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Tells his London agent, Witherby, he is closing his
import/export business down forthwith. Moves to Karoo. |
1842 |
|
Bower |
CarolineBower |
London |
John Charles Molteno's mother, still a widow, living
in Peckham just outside London -- where her father (now dead) had built a
house. |
1842 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Slump of 1842-43 finally forces John Charles Molteno
to close down Molteno & Co. and go farming. Sells his warehouse in
Roeland Street. And winds up Grahamstown business gradually. |
1843 |
18431004 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Marries Maria Hewitson from Cape Town. She
illegitimate. John Charles Molteno had known her for about 8 years. |
1843 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Liverpool |
Moves to Liverpool - aged 18. Eventually gets job
in Cunard shipping company. Works his way up over next 20 yrs. |
1843 |
|
Molteno |
NancyAliciaMolteno |
London |
Nancy Molteno, John Charles's sister, visits Paris
as tourist aged 23 with her maternal relative, Miss Read. |
1843 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
He and his new (1st) wife, Maria Hewitson, go to
live Beaufort West district. They are exactly the same age, 29. |
1844 |
|
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Cape |
Born. His father had been born in Sligo, Ireland, in
1808 and emigrated to the Cape. Tom eventually marries John Charles Molteno's
daughter, Maria. |
1844 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
John Charles Molteno & Henry Quinn part company;
JCM buys Quin's share of 3 farms; he soon contacts his cousin, Arthur
Jackson, to come out to the Cape. |
1844 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Now aged 30, he and his new wife (soon pregnant)
settle in on the farm at Nelspoort |
1845 |
18450514 |
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
He is made Commissioner of the Municipality. |
1845 |
18450715 |
Hewitson |
MariaHewitson |
Nelspoort |
Dies in childbirth almost alone on the farm at
Nelspoort, as her husband, John Charles Molteno, rides 30 miles into Beaufort
West to get help. |
1845 |
18450715 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
His first wife, Maria Hewitson, dies in childbirth.
The baby dies too. John Charles Molteno is devastated by her death. |
1845 |
18451100 |
Jackson |
ArthurJackson |
England |
Marries his 1st cousin, Priscilla Soulby, just 2
months before they both set sail for the Cape to emigrate in January 1846 |
1845 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Becomes one of first directors of SA Mutual Life
Assurance Society. Serves til 1864. |
1845 |
|
Molteno |
JamesAnthonyMolteno |
London |
Eldest son of George Anthony Molteno, printseller in
Pall Mall, dies. Had carried on father's business. His widow, Mary Mylius
Molteno, moves soon from Pall Mall. Family business at an end. |
1845 |
|
Molteno |
MaryMolteno |
London |
Dies. Wife of Charles Busby Bristow. From this
family a large number of Bristow and related descendants originate. |
1846 |
18460300 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Eastern Cape |
6th Frontier War breaks out 9 months after John
Charles Molteno has lost his wife on the farm at Nelspoort. |
1846 |
18460412 |
Jackson |
ArthurJackson |
Cape Town |
This first cousin of John Charles Molteno arrives at
Cape Town with wife, Priscilla; younger brother Henry (aged 16), and wife's
sister Mary Ann Soulby, after a 3 months trip on Recorder, a 623 ton sailing
vessel. En route for Nelspoort. |
1846 |
18460430 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Eastern Cape |
Joins with Beaufort West commando to fight in
Frontier War. His manager, Ross, stays behind to run the farms. This is 2
weeks after Arthur Jackson has arrived in Cape Town. |
1846 |
|
Blenkins |
SobellaMariaMinnieBlenkins |
? |
Born, daughter of Major Blenkins. Eventually becomes
John Charles Molteno's 3rd wife in 1875, aged 29. She is 32 years younger
than him at time of marriage) |
1846 |
|
Blenkins |
SobellaMinnieBlenkins |
India |
Born, daughter of Major Blenkins. She is
stepdaughter of Anne Jarvis who became Major Blenkins's 2nd wife. |
1846 |
|
Jarvis |
SophyJarvis |
Cape Town |
Sophy Jarvis, Hercules Jarvis's daughter, marries P
J Alport who later becomes John Charles Molteno's brother in law &
business partner. |
1846 |
|
Jarvis |
EmmieJarvis |
Cape Town |
Daughter of Hercules Jarvis born. Never marries. |
1846 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
Promoted twice during the war. Made a Commandant. |
1846 |
|
Murray |
StanleyMurray |
Ireland |
Dr CFK Murray's only sibling to survive, born. Also
became a doctor. Moved to London & lived there. |
1847 |
18470408 |
Jackson |
ArthurJackson |
Nieuwveld |
John Charles Molteno sees Arthur off; he is going to
rent the farm Bokpoort on the Nieuwveld, about 30 miles from Beaufort &
Nelspoort. |
1847 |
18470900 |
Jackson |
ArthurJackson |
Nieuwveld |
Starts growing vegetables under irrigation on the
Jacksons' rented farm on the Nieuwveld. |
1847 |
18470906 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
John Charles Molteno & his cousin Arthur Jackson
jointly buy 2,500 sheep. Most of capital comes from JCM. But Arthur is to
manage them. |
1847 |
18470924 |
Jackson |
ArthurSoulbyJackson |
Nieuwveld |
Arthur & Priscilla Jackson's 1st child born on
the Bokpoort farm -- Arthur Soulby Jackson. He is 17 when father dies &
until 1889 plays role in management of Nelspoort farms. |
1847 |
|
Jackson |
ArthurJackson |
Nelspoort |
After trying to farm on Nieuwveld & losing his
1st wife, Arthur joins his cousin, John Charles Molteno, at Nelspoort and
farms for him for nearly 20 years til his death. |
1847 |
|
Molteno |
CatherineClaraMolteno |
England |
Daughter of William Frederick Molteno is born. Her
father dies in same year as her birth. She eventually becomes a governess.
Never marries. Dies in acute poverty. |
1847 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Returns several months after end of the War which
extends the Cape Colony from Amatola Mts to the Great Kei River. The new area
called British Kaffraria. |
1847 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Using his import/export experience, he starts
exporting his wool directly to Britain. Bypasses local traders. Gets a much
better price. |
1847 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
On returning from the War, he has built a deep
furrow from Salt River to croplands for irrigation purposes -- if there is
any water in river! |
1847 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
John Charles Molteno lends his cousin, Arthur
Jackson, a wagon to transport woolcrop to Port Elizabeth, the nearest port to
export from. |
1847 |
|
Molteno |
ThomasMyliusMolteno |
London |
Son of James Anthony Molteno dies. He was an early
Roman Catholic priest in England. |
1847 |
|
Molteno |
WilliamFrederickMolteno |
Jamaica |
Dies in Jamaica of tropical disease. His pregnant
widow, Letitia, & her two children return to England. Very hard up. |
1848 |
18480503 |
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Becomes Mayor of Cape Town; remains such for 12
years until 1860. |
1848 |
18480701 |
Molteno |
NancyAliciaMolteno |
London |
Sister of John Charles Molteno, she marries John
Edward Bingle at St Giles, Camberwell. They have no children. But Eliza
Bingle, his niece, becomes part of Molteno family. |
1848 |
18481100 |
|
History |
Cape |
Sir Harry Smith, Cape Governor, announces Cape to
host a penal settlement. |
1848 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Plays prominent part in preventing the Cape from
becoming convict station. |
1848 |
|
Molteno |
CatherineMolteno |
London |
Daughter of William Frederick Molteno & Letitia
Jones born. Her father has just died in Jamaica. |
1848 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Mitchells Pass over mountains from the Cape
Peninsula opened. Cuts journey time by horse bo Beaufort West from 20 to 12
days. |
1848 |
|
Moltino |
FrancisMoltino |
London |
Exhibits at the Royal Academy for 1st time 3
paintings: Hurst Castle, Inside of Yarmouth Harbour, Breeze off Lowestoft.
(Uncertain whether an actual relative) |
1848 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Ireland |
Born in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, 12 miles south of
Dublin. Protestant. Eventually becomes Caroline Molteno's wife in Cape Town
at age 28. |
1849 |
18490300 |
|
History |
Cape |
1st shipload of Irish prisoners (convicted of
agrarian offences) on its way; big Cape agitation against. |
1849 |
18490920 |
|
History |
Cape |
1st shipload of prisoners arrives; Hercules Jarvis,
as Chair of Commissioners, leads protest to Governor of the Cape. |
1849 |
18491100 |
Jackson |
JuliusHenryJackson |
Nelspoort |
Second son of Arthur & Priscilla Jackson born.
His mother dies 8 days after giving birth. This is the 2nd
childbirth-related death in four years on the farm at Nelspoort (John
Charles Molteno's first wife, Maria Hewitson, had died there in 1845) |
1849 |
|
Jackson |
ArthurJackson |
Nelspoort |
Arthur Jackson has given up renting farm on
Nieuwveld; now farming at Nelspoort. Building Mimosa Cottage. His brother,
Henry Jackson, expected to come up from Cape Town. |
1849 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Farming operation already pretty largescale. 12,000
ewes to shear. |
1850 |
18500524 |
Molteno |
MaryMylius |
London |
Death notice in the Times (4.6.1850). She died
suddenly, aged 59. Was living in Manchester Square. She was 'relict of late
Mr [James Anthony] Molteno of Pall Mall'. |
1850 |
|
Jackson |
HenryJackson |
Nelspoort |
Henry Jackson, aged 19, another of John Charles
Molteno's first cousina, has been working for a couple of years in Cape Town.
He now comes to Nelspoort permanently. Initially, co-manager; eventually
becomomg part-owner with JCM. |
1850 |
|
Jarvis |
AnnieJarvis |
Cape Town |
Hercules Jarvis's daughter marries Major Blenkins
& goes to India. She is his 2nd wife. He dies fairly after the marriage. |
1850 |
|
Jones |
LetitiaJones |
England |
Two years after being widowed (William Frederick
Molteno had died in Jamaica in 1847) & returning to England, she
remarries -- hew husband is William Richard Cooke. Later they have a
daughter, Letitia Cooke. |
1850 |
|
Molteno |
CharlesMolteno |
England |
Dies. (Who is he? Not known.) |
1850 |
|
|
History |
England |
Catholic Church re-establishes formal hierarchy
(dioceses etc) in England for first time since the Reformation. |
1851 |
18510100 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
England |
Things going well enough on farms with Jacksons as
managers for John Charles Molteno to feel free to pay 1st visit back to
England. He hasn't seen his mother, Caroline, for 20 years. Is away 9 mths. |
1851 |
18510506 |
Jackson |
ArthurJackson |
Nelspoort |
Arthur Jackson remarries -- Jane Pierce, niece of a
friend, Mrs Pringle. This is a few months before his first cousin, John
Charles Molteno, also remarries in Cape Town on his return from a visit to
England. |
1851 |
18511020 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
On his return from England, John Charles Molteno
marrries 2nd wife, Elizabeth Maria Jarvis, daughter of Hercules Jarvis, in
Groote Kerk (the Reformed Church), Cape Town. She is only 20. This is 6 years
after death of his 1st wife, Maria. |
1851 |
18511114 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Hawaii |
Brother of John Charles Molteno, he marries a
Hawaiian islander called Kahipa. |
1851 |
18512000 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
Returns to Beaufort West from his first visit back
to England. But he settles with his new wife in the village not on the farm. |
1851 |
|
Bower |
GeorgeBower |
London |
Died aged 72. Caroline's father. Outlived his
son-in-law, John Molteno, by over 20 years . Worked for Bank of England all
his life. |
1851 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Marries Margaret Miller from Ardencraig, Bute. |
1851 |
|
Molteno |
CharlesDominicMolteno |
Scotland |
He and his wife, Mrs Glass, retire from East India
Dock Co. In London and move to Bridge of Earn, 5 miles from Newton in
Scotland. |
1851 |
|
Molteno |
CharlesFrankMolteno |
Hawaii |
Born. Son of Frank Molteno, John Charles Molteno's
brother. |
1851 |
|
Molteno |
RoseMolteno |
USA |
Seems to be living with Whiston Bristow in USA. (How
related? Possibly an aunt) |
1851 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Peckham |
First visit back to UK was by sailing vessel; took
some 3 months each way. John Charles Molteno sees his mother, a lovely story. |
1851 |
|
Moltino |
FrancisMoltino |
London |
Exhibits View on the Thames: Battersea Old Mill. He
is living at 5 Little Russell St., Covent Garden, London. (Not certain he is
a relative.) |
1852 |
18520612 |
Blenkins |
AnnieJarvis |
India |
Major Blenkins dies. His widow, Annie Jarvis, is
still only 19 years old. Pregnant with their 2nd son, she returns from India
to her father (Hercules Jarvis)'s home in Cape Town. Her two sons are Bazett
& Willie Blenkins. |
1852 |
18520924 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Born 11 mths after her parents' marriage. Eldest
child of John Charles Molteno & Elizabeth Maria Jarvis. |
1852 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
As Mayor of Cape Town, Hercules Jarvis takes the
lead in struggle for representative government at the Cape. |
1852 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
Starts new business venture in Beaufort West itself
-- a large store (which later became PJ Alport & Co.) with his new
brother in law. |
1852 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
John Charles Molteno starts yet another business,
this time in haulage. He has at least 4 wagons; is importing goods to Karoo;
marketing wool, tallow, sheep etc. |
1852 |
|
|
History |
England |
Burial Act legalises Roman Catholic cemeteries for
first time. |
1853 |
18531022 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape |
Born on the Karoo. 2nd eldest of John Charles
Molteno & Elizabeth Maria Jarvis's children. One year younger than her
sister, Betty. |
1853 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
Elected to Beaufort West Municipal Council for 5
years -- til 1858. This is start of his political career which was to
dominate his life over the next 30 years. |
1853 |
|
|
History |
Claremont |
St Saviour's Church, which was to become important
in history of the family, consecrated by Bishop Gray. |
1854 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Representative government conceded by Britain.
Hercules Jarvis tops poll for the new elected Legislative Council. His
son-in-law, John Charles Molteno, also elected. |
1854 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Uses his place in the new Legco to call for a
breakwater to be built in Cape Town. Hitherto ships merely anchored in Table
Bay and relied on lighters to offload. |
1854 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Elected to the first representative legislative
assembly in the Cape alongside his father in law, Hercules Jarvis. John
Charles Molteno holds seat for 24 years. |
1854 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
John Charles Molteno starts the first bank, the
Beaufort Bank, in the village. Nine directors led by him. The following year,
the Municipality opens an account with it. |
1854 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
An elective legislature, the Legislative Council,
granted by British Government. Comprises two houses. But the executive is not
responsible to legislature. |
1854 |
|
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Orange Free State becomes independent Boer Republic. |
1855 |
18550424 |
Molteno |
JohnMolteno Jr |
Beaufort West |
John Molteno born, John Charles Molteno and
Elizabeth Maria Jarvis's eldest son. John Charles calls him after his own
father, John Molteno. But the boy dies 16 months later. |
1855 |
|
Moltino |
FrancisMoltino |
London |
Exhibits for last time at Royal Academy. Altogether
he exhibits 8 paintings in the period, 1848-1855. (Not certain he is a
relative of the Moltenos.) |
1856 |
18561231 |
Molteno |
MariaMolteno |
Beaufort West |
John Charles Molteno & Elizabeth Maria Jarvis's
3rd daughter born at Beaufort West, just a couple of months after the death
of their only son thus far, John. Maria eventually marries Tom Anderson. |
1856 |
|
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Britain |
Born. Bessie is of Donald Currie's three daughters. |
1856 |
|
Jackson |
HenryJackson |
Nelspoort |
Marries, at age 26, Hermina de Jager. Has huge
family. Henry Jackson is a first cousin of John Charles Molteno. |
1856 |
|
Molteno |
AliceEdithMolteno |
? |
Daughter of Frederick James Molteno & Laura
Sheridan born. Niece of John Charles Molteno. Becomes a professional harpist. |
1856 |
|
Molteno |
FredMolteno |
London |
Marries Laura Sheridan. Fred is a brother of John
Charles Molteno. Fred and Laura have very musical children. (Uncertainty as
to his middle name: is he Fred John Molteno?) |
1856 |
|
Molteno |
JohnMolteno Jr |
Cape |
John Molteno dies, John Charles Molteno and
Elizabeth Maria Jarvis's first son, aged just over one year old. |
1856 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
Becomes member of first Beaufort West Divisional
Council which manages the district. |
1857 |
18570414 |
Parker |
Charles Parker |
London |
Charles, husband of Mary Molteno & surveyor to
Duke of Bedford, gives evidence in the case of the death of a bricklayer (The
Times 14.4.1857) |
1857 |
|
Birch |
SandieStretton |
Eastern Cape |
Stretton family emigrated to the Cape & bought
Buffelsfontein farm. A descendant, Sandie Stretton, married Doris 'Elizabeth'
Birch in mid 20th century. |
1857 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Nelspoort |
Born. The eldest son of Henry Jackson. Grew up at
Kamferskraal. Later, also became heavily involved in management of the
Nelspoort farms. |
1857 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Becomes Director of the first Railway (til 1873)
which only runs a few miles from Cape Town to the foot of the mountains. |
1857 |
|
Molteno |
AliciaMolteno |
Australia |
Dies in carriage accident. She had married the
architect, A Hartley. They had no surviving children. Alicia was a sister of
John Charles Molteno. |
1858 |
18580723 |
Molteno |
HerculesJarvisMolteno |
Beaufort West |
Born. 2nd son of John Charles Molteno and Maria
Jarvis. Dies three years later -- like his older brother, John, who had died
the previous year, aged only one year old. |
1858 |
|
Bisset |
JamesBisset |
Cape Town |
Scottish engineer. Arrives at the Cape, aged 22, to
construct beginnings of railway system. Does many other engineering-type
jobs. |
1858 |
|
Molteno |
HenryMolteno |
England |
Born. (Not clear how this family & descendants
related to George Anthony Molteno, printseller in Pall Mall) |
1858 |
|
Molteno |
MaryMolteno |
? |
Dies. (Who is she? Not known) |
1858 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
Gives up his seat on Beaufort West Municipal
Council. Now a member of the Beaufort West Divisional Council and the Cape
Colony's Legislative Council, and spending some time in Cape Town again as a
result. |
1858 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
Beaufort West Divisional Council starts its first
big project -- to build proper wagon track over mountains beyond Wellington
on way to Cape Town. |
1859 |
|
Currie |
MariaCurrie |
Scotland |
Born. Daughter of Donald Currie. Eventually marries
Wisely and lived in the house next door to Percy & Bessie Molteno, 12
Palace Court, that her father had built for them. |
1859 |
|
Jackson |
HarryJackson |
Nelspoort |
Born. Son of Henry Jackson, first cousin of John
Charles Molteno. Destined to play crucial role in management of Nelspoort
farms in next generation. |
1859 |
|
Molteno |
FredMolteno |
Australia? |
Frederick Molteno & Laura Sheridan's eldest son,
born. Becomes an infant prodigy as violinist. (Born in England or Australia?) |
1860 |
18600305 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Beaufort West |
Born on Karoo. The last child to be born there of
John Charles Molteno's family. Eldest son to survive. Known as Charlie. |
1860 |
18600407 |
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Retires as Mayor of Cape Town. |
1860 |
|
Bower |
CarolineBower |
London |
On his second trip back to England from the Cape,
her eldest son, John Charles Molteno, brings over a dog, Punch, for her. |
1860 |
|
Jackson |
AlfreddeJagerJackson |
Nelspoort |
Born. A son of Henry Jackson. Wrote a book in 1920,
Manna in the Desert - A Revelation of the Great Karoo (reissued by Craig
Elstob in 2006). |
1860 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Nelspoort |
Fifteen years after their eldest and youngest
brothers, the two middle Jackson brothers, first cousins of John Charles
Molteno, also emigrate to the Cape. |
1860 |
|
Jackson |
SidneyJackson |
Nelspoort |
Fifteen years after their eldest and youngest
brothers, the two middle Jackson brothers, first cousins of John Charles
Molteno, also emigrate to the Cape. Aged 38, Sidney arrives at Mossel Bay,
goes to Nelspoort. Farms near there. His son, Clifford, and grandson
eventually take farm over. |
1860 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Construction of the breakwater that Hercules Jarvis
had demanded, starts at last. First step to make Cape Town into an actual
port. |
1860 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape |
Britain lowered duties on Continental wines. Cape
wine exports to Britain undermined. Hercules Jarvis's business collapses. |
1860 |
|
Molteno |
EmmaMolteno |
England |
Dies, aged 60, at St. Mary's Abbey, Suffolk. A
daughter of George Anthony Molteno & Mary Lewis, Emma had entered the
Benedictine Convent in Winchester as a young nun thirty-nine years previously
in 1821. |
1860 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
London |
For only the second time, John Charles Molteno
travels back to England -- with the de Jonghs, his wife, her sister Betty
Jarvis, and John Molteno's daughters, Betty & Caroline. The trip,
including tour of Europe, lasts 18 months. |
1860 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
London |
Visits his uncle Charles Dominic Molteno, now
retired and living in Scotland. Returns to Cape in 1861. |
1860 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
London |
John Charles Molteno, Betty & Caroline arrive
after long voyage at St Katherine's Docks, London. Bingles (Mrs Bingle being
John Charles Molteno's sister) meet them. |
1861 |
18610100 |
Molteno |
HerculesJarvisMolteno |
Beaufort West |
Dies, aged two and a half, of diptheria or white
sore throat. John Charles Molteno devastated by death of boy who, til then,
had been his eldest son. |
1861 |
18610912 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Born in his Great Uncle Charles Dominic Molteno's
house in Newton during John Charles Molteno's family trip to England &
Continental Europe. Percy is his mother, Elizabeth Maria's 7th child in ten
years of marriage. |
1861 |
|
Bingle |
NancyAliciaMolteno |
England |
Nancy and her husband, and his niece, Eliza Bingle,
living in Aylesbury where he is a schoolmaster. |
1861 |
|
Jarvis |
BettyJarvis |
Cape Town |
When John Charles Molteno returns from London, he
finds his sister in law, Betty Jarvis, is engaged to James Bisset. Close
family connection between Bissets, Jarvises and Moltenos starts. |
1861 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
He introduces his first motion in favour of
responsible government (whereby the executive arm of government is
responsible to the elected legislature). Defeated. First of several such
attempts. |
1861 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
On return from Britain, does not settle back at
Beaufort West. Instead family lives at Wheatfield, Mowbra,y for 18 mths while
looking for permanent place. |
1862 |
18621016 |
Bisset |
JamesBisset |
Cape Town |
Marries Betty Jarvis, sister of Elizabeth Maria, and
daughter of Hercules Jarvis. James Bisset is a railway engineer. |
1862 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Liverpool |
Sets up in business on his own account, aged 37
years, on Liverpool to Calcutta run. Had previously worked for Cunard
Company for years. |
1862 |
|
Daman |
ElizabethDaman |
England |
Dies. Wife of William Henry Molteno whom she had
married in 1835. (Not clear how this branch of Moltenos related to George
Anthony Molteno of Pall Mall) |
1862 |
|
Jarvis |
SophiaJarvis |
Cape Town |
Sophia and Georgina Jarvis, Hercules's only sisters,
arrive unexpectedly from Hong Kong, and settle in permanently at their
brother's home in Somerset House. (Arrival may only be in 1863) |
1862 |
|
Jones |
EllaMaryJones |
? |
Born. Of Welsh extraction. Eventually becomes Frank
Molteno's wife at age 26. |
1862 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
New Governor, Sir Philip Wodehouse, opposes
Responsible Government; holds up grant of it for years. |
1863 |
18630216 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Cape Town |
Frank born at Wheatfield, Mowbray. He is John
Charles Molteno's third eldest son to survive (after Charlie & Percy). |
1863 |
|
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Cape Town |
William George Anderson, Tom Anderson's father, buys
Erinville in Rondebosch, a year before John Charles Molteno buys Claremont
House. Huge. |
1863 |
|
Bisset |
JamesJarvisBisset |
Cape Town |
Born. Son of Betty Jarvis and James Bisset |
1863 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Becomes an elder in the Groote Kerk. |
1863 |
|
Molteno |
ElizabethTMolteno |
? |
Born. Eventually dies at age 68. (Nothing known of
her) |
1863 |
|
Molteno |
FrankGeorgeGrayMolteno |
England |
Born. (Not clear how he & his descendants
related to George Anthony Molteno, printseller in Pall Mall) |
1863 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Claremont House |
Claremont House bought by John Charles Molteno c.
1863. James Bisset, John Charles Molteno's engineer brother in law, helps
reshape its internal structure. |
1863 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno introduces his first (?) motion
in favour of responsible government. Defeated. Several more such motions
introducing during 1860s. |
1863 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
Elections. John Charles Molteno is returned
unopposed for Beaufort West (he represented the seat from 1854 to 1878). |
1864 |
18640122 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Claremont House |
Claremont House -- ownership transferred to John
Charles Molteno. Becomes family home for most of next 60 years |
1864 |
|
Alport |
PercyAlport |
Beaufort West |
Uncle Alport becomes member of Beaufort West
Municipal Council -- til 1868. |
1864 |
|
Bisset |
JamesBisset |
Beaufort West |
He builds Town Hall in Beaufort West (see plaque on
wall). Is brother in law of John Charles Molteno. |
1864 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Nelspoort |
Dies in Beaufort West, after only 4 years at the
Cape. Wife and family return to Europe. His other brothers stay on the Karoo. |
1864 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Wife dies; same year as his business collapses.
Stops being Director of SA Mutual. |
1864 |
|
Molteno |
LauraAdaMolteno |
? |
Born 1862 or 1864. Daughter of Frederick Molteno, a
brother of John Charles Molteno. Laura Ada Molteno eventually marries Durrant
in 1889. |
1864 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Claremont House |
Suburban railway line reaches Wynberg. And Claremont
Railway Station built. This is the year after John Charles Molteno buys
Claremont House. Henceforth a rail connection in to centre of Cape Town. |
1865 |
18650105 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Born in January. 4th son of John Charles Molteno. |
1865 |
|
Jackson |
ArthurJackson |
Nelspoort |
Dies aged 46. Arthur Jackson is the eldest of the
brothers (and first cousins of John Charles Molteno). Been in the Karoo
since 1946. |
1865 |
|
Jackson |
HenryJackson |
Nelspoort |
After his elder brother Arthur's death this year,
Henry Jackson becomes principal manager (& part owner) of John Charles
Molteno's farms. |
1865 |
|
Molteno |
FrancisGeorgeGrayMolteno |
England |
Born. Eventually marries Florence Daisy Olive Blake.
(Not clear how this branch of Moltenos related to George Anthony Molteno,
printseller of Pall Mall) |
1865 |
|
Molteno |
FredMolteno |
Australia |
He, Laura Sheridan & their 4 children living in
Australia. Son is a child prodigy, giving violin concerts. Fred is John
Charles Molteno's brother. |
1865 |
|
Molteno |
FredMolteno |
Australia |
His infant prodigy son, Frederick John Molteno, dies
at age about 7. |
1865 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
Beaufort West's first dam built -- Springfontein.
But it bursts three years later. |
1865 |
|
Stretton |
Stretton |
Buffelsfontein |
Strettons settled on farm of Buffelsfontein in
Eastern Cape. Widow Bosch had been farming it since 1840, situated at that
time In no man's land between Cape and Xhosa tribes. |
1865 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
Cape Colony economy badly hit by various commercial
disasters, bad crops, unbalanced budget. |
1866 |
18660328 |
Bower |
CarolineBower |
London |
Dies of bronchitis in Brixton. Mother of John
Charles Molteno. She did not live long enough to see the political eminence
reached by her eldest son. |
1866 |
18660413 |
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Cape Town |
Born. 5th son of John Charles Molteno &
Elizabeth Maria Jarvis. |
1866 |
|
Jackson |
HenryJackson |
Nelspoort |
Employs American tutor for two years (til 1868) to
educate his children. A common pattern, even into next generation of
Moltenos. |
1866 |
|
Molteno |
AlbertFrankMolteno |
London? |
Born. Younger son of Frederick Molteno, a younger
brother of John Charles Molteno. |
1867 |
18671001 |
Molteno |
AlfredBowerMolteno |
Cape Town |
Born. 6th son of John Charles Molteno &
Elizabeth Maria Jarvis, but Alfred dies six years later. |
1867 |
|
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
England |
Born. Eventually marries James Molteno. |
1867 |
|
Molteno |
FrancisMoltino |
London |
Sells his painting 'Westminster' at Royal Society of
British Artists for £28. He often paints English coastal scenes. His
paintings listed for 20 years. (But not certain he is a relative) |
1867 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
He introduces another motion in favour of
responsible government. Defeated. |
1867 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
First diamond found in late 1869 at Hope Town. Soon
lots of diamonds found, and the Kimberley diamond rush begins, transforming
economy of the Cape Colony almost overnight. |
1868 |
18680900 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Starts her journal at age 15. |
1868 |
|
Alport |
PercyAlport |
Beaufort West |
Hires land at end of village for first woolwashing
plant. |
1868 |
|
Blenkins |
WillieBlenkins |
London |
He is sent to London to attend Mr Bingle's Richmond
College; arrangement only lasts only a year. |
1868 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Aged 16, Betty, eldest child of John Charles Molteno
and Elizabeth Maria Jarvis, is sent off to boarding school in Cape Town. |
1868 |
|
Molteno |
FrancisMolteno |
? |
Dies. Husband of Jane Auvergne. (Not clear how he is
related to George Anthony Molteno's descendants) |
1868 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
Legislative Council dissolved. |
1869 |
18690301 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Hawaii |
Dies of typhus in Honolulu. Had probably recently
married for the second time. One child. Frank is a brother of John Charles
Molteno. |
1869 |
18691023 |
Molteno |
PercyAlport |
Beaufort West |
Terrible flashflood. The Springfontein Dam bursts.
The village suffers heavy damage. Uncle Alport loses £1,500 of stock. His
newly installed water-powered grain mill also destroyed. |
1869 |
18691200 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
She receives her 1st proposal of marriage, aged 16,
from Mr De Villiers. |
1869 |
18691203 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno's 7th son born. His mother,
Elizabeth Maria Jarvis, dies when Wallace is only 6. His eldest sister,
Betty, becomes a substitute mother for him. |
1869 |
|
Blenkins |
BazettBlenkins |
Cape |
Away from Cape Town learning farming, aged 19. |
1869 |
|
Merriman |
JohnXMerriman |
Cape |
Elected to Legco for 1st time for Aliwal North.
Becomes a leading Cape politician over next 40 years. |
1869 |
|
Molteno |
AgnesMaudMolteno |
Australia |
Born. Daughter of Laura Sheridan & Frederick
Molteno, brother of John Charles Molteno. Agnes Maud's mother dies in
childbirth or shortly thereafter. |
1869 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Betty Molteno, aged 17, falls for Miss Hull, her
teacher; has a breakdown of sorts. |
1869 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Her father, John Charles Molteno, gives her, aged
16, her first lesson in driving a horse & cart. |
1869 |
|
Molteno |
FredMolteno |
Australia? |
His wife, Laura Sheridan, dies in childbirth |
1869 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
The family less prosperous. Have to retrench,
following drought. |
1869 |
|
Murray |
CharlesFrederickKennanMurray |
Ireland |
Registered as a doctor on 2 February 1869. |
1869 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
New Cape parliament elected. |
1869 |
|
|
History |
Beaufort West |
First newspaper, Beaufort Courier & Government
Gazette, started. By this time, John Charles Molteno has been settled in Cape
Town some 8 years. |
1869 |
|
|
History |
Egypt |
Suez Canal opens. Hitherto all ships to Asia went
via Cape Town. Suddenly there is a need to make explicit shipping
arrangements to service the Cape. Donald Currie, an up and coming Scottish
shipowner, acts immediately. |
1870 |
18700400 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Seriously ill from April to July. |
1870 |
18700830 |
Molteno |
MargaretGlass(Scott) |
Cape Town |
Wife of Charles Dominic Molteno in Scotland sends
John Charles Molteno a copy of a portrait of his father, John Molteno, as a
child. |
1870 |
18701000 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Kalk Bay |
John Charles Molteno buys cottage in Kalk Bay as a
holiday house on False Bay about 15 miles from centre of Cape Town. Kalk Bay
becomes holiday focus for the extended family from now on. |
1870 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Castle & Union Lines about to start with 14,000
tons of shipping -- each ship still very small, mostly 1,400 -- 1,700 tons in
weight. |
1870 |
|
Jackson |
GeorgeCliffordJackson |
Beaufort West |
Does well from Beaufort West as a staging post on
wagon route to Kimberley. This boom starts with discovery of diamonds; ends
15 years later when the rail reaching Kimberley. |
1870 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Price of wool rises; stays high til 1873. Wool and
diamonds inaugurate period of prosperity at the Cape. |
1870 |
|
Molteno |
WilliamHenryMolteno |
Reading |
Marries Mary Ann Patey. He is 33. She only survives
9 years of marriage. (Not clear how related to George Anthony Molteno and his
descendants) |
1870 |
|
|
History |
Cape Town |
Breakwater, quite primitive, opens ten years after
construction started. |
1870 |
|
|
History |
Kimberley |
Kimberley founded. Start of rapidly expanding
diamond mining on a huge scale. But area still not yet formally part of Cape
Colony territory. |
1870 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
Governor Wodehouse leaves Cape; Sir Henry Barkly
becomes Governor. He favours responsible government. |
1870 |
|
|
History |
Beaufort West |
Arthur Kinnear (the farmer who first brought in
merinos) & his son start ostrich farming in the district. Boom in ostrich
feathers for women's hats in Europe starts soon. |
1871 |
18710600 |
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr Murray arrives at British naval base of
Simonstown. He is a junior surgeon on Admiral's flagship HMS Rattlesnake.
Caroline Molteno & he soon meet and fall in love. |
1871 |
18710722 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno introduces yet another
resolution into House of Assemly affirming time has arrived for responsible
government (The Times 22.7.1871) |
1871 |
18710800 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Capt. V R Vyvyan of the SS Roman falls in love with
her on board ship as she travels, aged 18, from the Cape to England with her
father and sister. |
1871 |
18710800 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
London |
John Charles Molteno leaves for his 3rd trip to
Europe (hitherto every ten years or so) with his two eldest daughters, Betty
and Caroline; they are away 9 months. |
1871 |
18710800 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
He opposes Governor's wish to annex the diamond
fields because it would antagonise the Boer republics -- South African
Republic & Orange Free State. But Griqualand West (including Kimberley)
is annexed as a British colony because of the recent discovery of diamonds. |
1871 |
18710923 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
London |
John Charles Molteno & his two daughters arrive
in London after only a 4 week voyage (the age of steamships has finally
arrived) from the Cape. Leaves his wife (pregnant with Barkly) & rest of
the children in Cape Town. (The Times 23.09.1871) |
1871 |
18711000 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
London |
John Charles Molteno gets lost in Battersea Park,
just south of the River Thames in London; having difficulties with London's
new suburban railways! |
1871 |
18711114 |
Jackson |
HenryJackson |
Nelspoort |
His first wife,Hermina de Jager, dies. |
1871 |
|
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
? |
Born. Son of Tom Anderson and his 1st wife, Miss
Baker. (Not absolutely sure of the year) |
1871 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Liverpool |
Donald Currie is invited to start a Castle line
service to the Cape; begins to compete against Union line. |
1871 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Scotland |
During his visit to Britain, John Charles Molteno,
with his eldest son Charlie Molteno, goes up to Scotland to visit Donald
Currie at Cluny. |
1871 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
Back in Cape Town, John Charles Molteno introduces
new motion in favour of responsible government. (Is this year right? Perhaps
1872) |
1871 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Gold Coast |
Caroline Molteno's father, John Charles Molteno,
objects to Dr Murray; thinks poorly of his financial prospects. So Dr Murray
continues to serves in the Royal Navy as ship's surgeon. Stationed on HMS
Rattlesnake on the Gold Coast from 1871-1874. |
1872 |
18720200 |
Bower |
CarolineBower |
London |
John Charles Molteno, Betty & Caroline visit
Nunhead Cemetery to see where John Charles' mother buried. |
1872 |
18720200 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
London |
Mr Chomley proposes to Caroline Molteno in London. |
1872 |
18720400 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno returns from Europe to the Cape
with Betty & Caroline. |
1872 |
18720430 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Born. John Charles Molteno calls him after the
incumbent Governor, Sir Henry Barkly. His mother, Elizabeth Maria Jarvis,
dies when he is only three years old. Betty became a substitute mother for
him. |
1872 |
18721200 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
1st Responsible Government formed. John Charles
Molteno is Colonial Secretary and Premier. Cabinet has 5 posts. (The Times
11.12.1872). So John Charles Molteno becomes first Premier of the Cape
Colony. |
1872 |
18721228 |
Jackson |
HenryJackson |
Nelspoort |
He marries his 2nd wife, Hendrika Jacoba Andrea
Brandt, from Cape Town. |
1872 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Liverpool |
Donald Currie forms a company to compete with Union
line on the Cape run. |
1872 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Cape |
Donald Currie sends his first ship to the Cape just
3 years after Suez Canal opens & 2 years after diamonds discovered. The
ship borrowed from his & his brother's Baltic line. |
1872 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Largely ends her Journal which she started at age
15. |
1872 |
|
Molteno |
ElizabethMaryMolteno |
England |
Mary Parker, wife of Charles Parker, dies, aged 69.
Her husband survives her by nine years. They may have had six children.
(Their descendants have not been traced) |
1872 |
|
Molteno |
ElizabethMaudMolteno |
England |
Born, daughter of William Henry Molteno, labourer.
She later marries John Thomas Cooke in 1907 (This branch of Moltenos remains
a mystery) |
1872 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Scotland |
During his trip to England, John Charles Molteno
dashes up to Scotland to see his Uncle Charles Dominic Molteno who dies the
following year. |
1872 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Gold Coast |
Serves in the Ashanti War of 1872-73. |
1873 |
18731000 |
Molteno |
AlfredBowerMolteno |
Cape Town |
Dies of scarlet fever, aged only five & a half
years old. John Charles Molteno and Elizabeth Maria Jarvis's son. |
1873 |
18731000 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Mr Vincent Rice, a very close family friend from
Beaufort West, dies of scarlet fever. |
1873 |
|
Blenkins |
BazettBlenkins |
South African Republic |
Joins first gold rush -- the gold fields round
Barberton in eastern lowveld of South African Republic. |
1873 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Cape |
New Cape Government, under John Charles Molteno as
Prime Minister, votes subsidy for Currie's new Castle Line to provide regular
mail, passenger & freight service to England. |
1873 |
|
Glass |
MargaretGlass(Scott) |
Scotland |
Wife of Charles Dominic Molteno, John Charles
Molteno's uncle, dies in late April or early May. |
1873 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Attracted to Dr Murray on HMS Rattlesnake. Her
father, John Charles Molteno, objects; does not think highly of Dr Murray's
financial prospects! |
1873 |
|
Molteno |
FredMolteno |
New York |
Fred Molteno (John Charles's brother), now a
widower, & his daughters in USA giving music concerts. Never returns to
Australia. |
1873 |
|
Molteno |
RoseMolteno |
Geneva |
Dies. Sister of John Charles Molteno & Charles
Dominic Molteno. (Is it certain Rose is a sister?) |
1873 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
London |
Now Prime Minister, John Charles Molteno takes
another extensive tour on the Continent, and visits Egypt). (But is date
right? Perhaps early 1872) |
1873 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Eastern Cape |
John Charles Molteno tours Eastern province as
Premier, with his daughters Betty & Caroline Molteno. |
1873 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
John Charles Molteno's government set up South
Africa's first examining university. Becomes University of Cape Town
eventually. |
1874 |
18740200 |
|
JohnCharlesMolteno1 |
England |
Liberals defeated in British Parliament. Disraeli
becomes Prime Minister, & Lord Carnarvon Colonial Secretary. Starts to
push his Confederation scheme for Southern Africa. Start of conflict with
John Charles Molteno, the Cape Prime Minister, who rejects scheme because of
implicit coercion of Boer Republics. |
1874 |
18740408 |
Jarvis |
ElizabethMariaJarvis |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno's (2nd) wife dies, 17 days
after birth of her new baby, Sophia Mary Molteno, who dies some ten months
afterwards. Elizabeth Maria Jarvis was only 42. |
1874 |
18740601 |
Molteno |
LauraAdaMolteno |
London |
Fred Molteno back in London from the USA. Under
patronage of Duchess of Wellington in Hanover Rooms, musicians perform,
including Laura Ada on harp, aged only ten (The Times 27.5.1874) |
1874 |
18741231 |
Molteno |
CharlesDominicMolteno |
Scotland |
John Charles Molteno's Uncle dies late in 1874, just
half a year after his wife. |
1874 |
|
Alport |
PercyAlport |
Beaufort West |
Uncle Alport builds double-storeyed shop with plate
glass windows in Donkin St., Beaufort West. It houses 1st telegraph office
& local newspaper. |
1874 |
|
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Cape Town |
His 1st wife, Amelia Dyer Baker, dies aged 23.They
had only one child, Willie Anderson. |
1874 |
|
Bingle |
ElizaBingle |
Greece |
Eliza -- Mr Bingle's niece and part of his & his
wife, Nancy Molteno's, family in London -- goes off to Greece to learn Greek. |
1874 |
|
Blenkins |
BazettBlenkins |
South African Republic |
Dies in rockfall in goldmine at Pilgrim's Rest,
eastern part of South African Republic. |
1874 |
|
Jackson |
ArthurSoulbyJackson |
Beaufort West |
Arthur Jackson attends first confinement of his wife
in order to see how it is done so that he can help in future births on the
farm. |
1874 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Nelspoort |
As a youngster, Julius Jackson farms Hopewell for
John Charles Molteno under his father's control. Later becomes partner of
Charlie Molteno. Close farming connection between the Molteno & Jackson
cousins now been going 30 years. |
1874 |
|
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Hercules Jarvis leaves Somerset House & moves to
Beaufort Villa in Claremont with daughter Emmie. Lives there 15 years til his
death. |
1874 |
|
Mitchell |
LucyBlairMitchell |
USA |
Born. Later marries Charlie Molteno (she was only 23
at that time). |
1874 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Capt. Shaw pesters her. Caroline not interested. |
1874 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
His government takes over the few private short
rail lines that exist. Begins huge rail building programe into interior to
cater to diamond fields at Kimberley. |
1874 |
|
Molteno |
SophiaMaryMolteno |
Cape Town |
Born. Her mother dies 17 days after the birth. John
Charles Molteno & Elizabeth Maria Jarvis's last child. |
1874 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Resigns from Royal Navy; decides to settle at the
Cape; and becomes partner of Dr Wright in Wynberg. |
1874 |
|
Roberston |
EthelRobertson |
England |
Born into affluent banking family. Eldest of 3
children, including her sister, Hilda Robertson. Ethel eventually marries 3
times, including Barkly Molteno (their marriage lasts 37 years). |
1874 |
|
|
History |
Eastern Cape |
Village of Molteno in the Eastern Cape founded after
discovery of coal in area. Called after the Prime Minister & its streets
after his ministers. |
1875 |
18750200 |
Molteno |
SophiaMaryMolteno |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno & Elizabeth Maria Jarvis's
last child dies aged just 10 months. |
1875 |
18750500 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno and Dr C F K Murray get engaged. |
1875 |
18750601 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno suddenly announces his
engagement to Minnie Blenkins, daughter of Major Blenkins & his 1st wife.
This happens within days of his own daughter, Caroline, announcing her
engagement to Dr Murray. |
1875 |
18750707 |
Blenkins |
SobellaMinnieBlenkins |
Cape Town |
Minnie, aged 29, marries John Charles Molteno, aged
61. |
1875 |
18750707 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno and Sobella Minnie Blenkins
marry after only one month's engagement. |
1875 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Cape |
First regular mail service between England and the
Cape now operational, run by Donald Currie's Castle Line. |
1875 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Southern Africa |
Donald Currie mediates successfully between British
Government and the two Boer republics. |
1875 |
|
Molteno |
AdelineMaryMolteno |
England? |
Born. (Which branch of the Molteno family is she
part of?) |
1875 |
|
Robertson |
HildaRobertson |
England |
Born into affluent City of London banking family.
She is 2nd of 3 children, including her elder sister Ethel. Hilda eventually
marries Dr Kenah Murray. |
1876 |
18760224 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK Murray get married, 7
months after her father, John Charles Molteno's own remarriage. |
1876 |
18760300 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Sir Henry and Lady Barkly leave. He is outgoing
Governor of the Cape. John Charles Molteno, as Prime Minister, will have to
build relationship with Barkly's successor. |
1876 |
18760513 |
Molteno |
MinnieMolteno |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno & Minnie Blenkins' first
child, Minnie, born 10 months after their marriage. Minnie is eldest of her
parents' four children. |
1876 |
18760707 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
London |
John Charles Molteno, his new wife Minnie, & his
eldest sons, Charlie and Percy, leave for a 5 month trip to Europe. He wishes
to confer with British Government over Lord Carnavon's Confederation scheme. |
1876 |
|
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Scotland |
Bessie, aged 18, Donald Currie's daughter, falls in
love with Percy Molteno, who has accompanied his father to stay with Donald
Currie at his home, Cluny. |
1876 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Cape |
By this time, Donald Currie's Castle Company has a
mail contract & subsidy from both the Cape & Natal governments. |
1876 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno and her husband, Dr CFK Murray,
initially live after their marriage at Greenfield House. This is next door to
her family home at Claremont House, and had been bought for them by her
father, John Charles Molteno. |
1876 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Percy's 1st trip to Europe. Accompanies his father
& stepmother to Cluny - Donald Currie's home. Percy Molteno, just 15
years old, meets Bessie, Donald Currie's daughter, for first time at her
home, Cluny. Bessie, 18 years old, falls in love with him at 1st sight. |
1876 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Claremont House |
John Charles Molteno buys more land from Pine Rd to
Station Road, Kenilworth. Becomes part of his Claremont House Estate. Later
sold off in building plots. |
1876 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
John Charles Molteno agrees to annexation of
Griqualand West (containing the diamond fields) & incorporation into the
Cape Colony. |
1876 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
John Charles Molteno extends Cape colonial authority
over much of Tembuland; it is fully incorporated only after the 9th Frontier
War of 1877-78. |
1876 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Start of terrible drought in the Karoo. Nelspoort
gets only one inch of rain in over two years, 1876-78. Two-thirds of stock
lost. Wild birds die. |
1876 |
|
|
MoltenoVillage |
Italy |
Idea first mooted of building railway to Molteno
& Lecco. Ironically this is just after John Charles Molteno at the Cape
plans to build a long distance railway to Kimberley. |
1877 |
18770331 |
|
History |
Cape |
Tension mounts between the new Governor, Sir Bartle
Frere, and John Charles Molteno, Prime Minister. |
1877 |
18770400 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
British Government had not consulted John Charles
Molteno as Cape Premier on the annexation of Transvaal. John Charles refuses
to have any part in it. |
1877 |
18770400 |
|
DonaldCurrie |
Southern Africa |
Shepstone annexes Transvaal on behalf of British
Government. Paul Kruger visits Britain to demand restoration of the Republic
and asks Donald Currie for his help. |
1877 |
18770531 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Cape Town |
Born. John Charles & Minnie Molteno's eldest
son, and 2nd child (Minnie is the eldest child). |
1877 |
18770700 |
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape |
He spends a week with his grandsons, Percy and
Charlie Molteno, in mountains near Wellington; they do some hunting. |
1877 |
18771228 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
John Charles Molteno hurries to E. Cape Frontier to
challenge Governor, Sir Bartle Frere, over his Disarmament Proclamation and
conduct of the 9th Frontier War. |
1877 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
England |
British Government awards him a CMG, partly because
of his earlier mediation in Britain's dispute with the two Boer republics. |
1877 |
|
Lee |
ArthurLee |
Hereford |
Born. Later marries Elsie Rose Molteno in 1909, aged
34. |
1877 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Following her mother's death & her sister
Caroline's marriage, Betty, now 25 years old. Is thinking of going to
England. |
1877 |
|
Molteno |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray and Caroline Molteno's first son,
Charles Molteno Murray, born at the family home, Kenilworth House. He is
called 'Kenah'. |
1877 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno leaves school aged 17. Becomes his
father, John Charles Molteno's private secretary while the latter is still
Prime Minister. |
1877 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Governor Sir Henry Barkly departs; the new Governor,
Sir Bartle Frere, arrives. |
1877 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Eastern Cape |
John Charles Molteno tours E. Cape as Prime Minister
with son Charlie Molteno. Concernd over new Frontier War that has broken out. |
1877 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
South West Africa |
He agrees to British Government establishing a
Resident there, with the costs to be borne by Cape government. |
1877 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
During John Charles Molteno's term of office (but
not in this precise year), Griqualand East and Fingoland annexed to the Cape. |
1877 |
|
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Cape Town |
At age 11, Victor Molteno already very interested in
hunting and shooting. |
1877 |
|
|
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Eastern Cape |
9th (and last) Frontier War breaks out over
Tembuland. John Charles Molteno, the Prime Minister, clashes with Governor
Sir Bartle Frere over who should control the colonial forces. This leads
eventually to the latter's dismissal. |
1878 |
18780206 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno, having withdrawn his
resignation, is now dismissed as Prime Minister in a letter from the
Governor. Sir Bartle Frere also sacks Merriman as a minister. Rest of the
Cabinet resigns. |
1878 |
18780725 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Percy matriculates top of the list; wins lots of
prizes; and wins a £30 per annum scholarship. |
1878 |
18780802 |
Molteno |
CliffordMolteno |
Cape Town |
Clifford Molteno born. The 3rd of John Charles
Molteno & Minnie Blenkins' 4 children. |
1878 |
18781200 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno, now 64 years of age, resigns
his Beaufort West seat in the Legislative Assembly and retires from public
life. This is some 10 months after his dismissal as Prime Minister. |
1878 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Starts his Diary. |
1878 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno gets ill after his dismissal
from office. Never fully regains his old vigour and strength. |
1878 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
The terrible drought at Nelspoort breaks at last. |
1878 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Cape Town |
Jarvis Murray, 2nd eldest son of Dr CFK Murray and
Caroline Molteno, born. |
1878 |
|
|
History |
Southern Africa |
E. Cape Frontier War is followed by various other
wars in the region -- the Zulu War, Batlapin War, Griqua War, Sekhukhuni War,
and First Boer War. |
1879 |
18790122 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Cetewayo, King of the Zulus, defeats British at
Isandhlwana (over 800 British soldiers killed). John Charles Molteno and his
son in law, Dr CFK Murray, rush to Natal. |
1879 |
18790300 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Colonial Secretary censors Governor Sir Bartle Frere
for attack on Cetewayo; and two months later dismisses him as High
Commissioner for South Africa. |
1879 |
18790700 |
Jackson |
AlfreddeJagerJackson |
Nelspoort |
Alfred Jackson, son of Henry Jackson, is appalled by
1876-78 drought. Decides to leave farming in the Karoo. Moves to Transvaal. |
1879 |
18790700 |
Jackson |
HarryJackson |
Nelspoort |
Aged 20, gets a part share in the farms. |
1879 |
18791230 |
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Cape Town |
Tom Anderson, aged 35, and Maria Molteno, aged 23,
get married. This is his 2nd marriage (his first wife had died 5 years
earlier). They live at Barkly House, next to Claremont House which had been
Maria's family home. |
1879 |
18791230 |
Molteno |
MariaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Maria Molteno, aged 23, and Tom Anderson, aged 35,
get married. This is his 2nd marriage (his first wife had died 5 years
earlier). They live at Barkly House, next to Claremont House which had been
Maria's family home. |
1879 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
England |
Like John Charles Molteno, Donald Currie opposes
looming British annexation of Transvaal, a de facto independent.
Boer-controlled Southern African state. |
1879 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Betty Molteno begins a diary (largely untranscribed)
about now; continues it for four years before going to Newnham College in
1884. She writes a diary again later in life. |
1879 |
|
Molteno |
FrederickJohnMolteno |
England |
Frederick John Molteno, grandson of James Anthony
Molteno of Pall Mall, marries Georgiana Pope White in Chelsea. He is already
39; she 27. Her family is from Guernsey. They are Elsie Rose Molteno's
parents. |
1879 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Percy starts his BA at Cape university. First
Molteno to undertake university studies. |
1879 |
|
Patey |
MaryAnnPatey |
England |
Wife of William Henry Molteno dies. (Not clear how
this branch of family related to George Anthony Molteno, printseller of Pall
Mall) |
1879 |
|
White |
GeorgianaPopeWhite |
England |
Marries Frederick John Molteno. She was from a
Guernsey family, granddaughter of a Royal Navy captain. |
1879 |
|
|
History |
|
Most ships now wholly steam-powered. SS Pretoria
sets record of 19 days London to Cape Town. |
1880 |
18800100 |
|
History |
Beaufort West |
Railway initiated by John Charles Molteno's
government reaches Beaufort West, 350 miles from Cape Town. |
1880 |
18800500 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
Less than a year and a half after resigning his
seat, various constituencies ask John Charles Molteno to return to public
life. Elected unopposed for Victoria West which is part of his old Beaufort
West constituency. |
1880 |
18800801 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor, recalled at last. |
1880 |
18800823 |
Murray |
PercyAlportMurray |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno & her husband christen their
new-born son Percy Alport Murray after Uncle Alport. This boy dies the
following year. |
1880 |
18800930 |
Molteno |
HarryMolteno |
Cape Town |
Harry Molteno, the youngest of John Charles Molteno
& Minnie Blenkins' 4 children is born. |
1880 |
18801000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Percy Molteno gets BA after two years study;
prepares to leave for England. |
1880 |
18801000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Charlie and Percy Molteno, & their father,
accompanied by Dr CFK Murray visit Nelspoort; Percy & Charlie go on to
the diamond fields at Kimberley. |
1880 |
18801000 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
10 mths after the line's official opening as far as
Beaufort West, John Charles Molteno and his young son in law, Dr CFK Murray
(Caroline Molteno's husband) celebrate by taking train to Beaufort West. |
1880 |
18801200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Knysna |
Goes on a shooting expedition by foot in Knysna,
George, & Plettenberg Bay. No roads yet in this district. |
1880 |
18801200 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
First Boer War breaks out. British troops occupy
Transvaal and Orange Free State. |
1880 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Cape Town |
Tom Anderson and Maria Molteno's first (of three)
children, Ernest Anderson, born. |
1880 |
|
Bingle |
NancyAliciaMolteno |
London |
Wallace Molteno writes to his Aunt, Nancy Molteno,
who is married to Mr Bingle, in Richmond, England. |
1880 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for
Perthshire for 1st time. Supporter & friend of Gladstone, but disagrees
with him over Home Rule for Ireland. Donald Currie remains an MP in House of
Commons for 20 years (but from 1885 as Liberal Unionist MP for W.
Perthshire). |
1880 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Increasingly affluent as a shipowner, Donald Currie,
now 55 years of age, buys his second Scottish estate. He already owns
Clunie. Garth is 8,000 acres, costs £30,000. Glen Lyon is bought later. |
1880 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Beaufort West |
Molteno Pass running up from Beaufort West on to the
Nieuwveld, started in 1878, completed. John Charles Molteno consents to it
being called after him. About 80 years later, the Nationalist Party
government in South Africa renamed Bergpas or Mountain Pass (sic). |
1880 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
Afrikander Bond founded. First political expression
of Afrikaner nationalism in the Cape in the wake of Britain's abortive
annexation of the Transvaal. J H Hofmeyr its principal leader. |
1881 |
18810100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Sails for England to go to Trinity College,
Cambridge; sees the Bingles (Nancy Molteno, who is married to Mr Bingle, is
his aunt), Stanley Murray (Dr CFK Murray's brother in London), & Donald
Currie's family when he arrives. |
1881 |
18810300 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Charlie Molteno, now 21, moves to Nelspoort to help
run the family farms. But this lasts only a short time at this stage. |
1881 |
18810300 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
1st Boer War over. Has lasted just 3 or 4 months and
ended in defeat for British troops and restoration of independence of the
Transvaal, known as the South African Republic, and of Orange Free State. |
1881 |
18810509 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Gordon Sprigg stops being Prime Minister. New
Ministry is formed. John Charles Molteno refuses to be Prime Minister again,
but rejoins Ministry led by Scanlen for a year as Colonial Secretary. |
1881 |
18810900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Now at Trinity College, Cambridge. Stays with the
Curries at Donald Currie's newly acquired Garth Estate two miles from Loch
Tay in Highlands. Percy renews his acquaintance with Donald Currie's
daughter, Bessie Currie. |
1881 |
18810900 |
Molteno |
CharlesDominicMolteno |
Scotland |
Percy Molteno goes to see his late Uncle Charles
Dominic Molteno's stepdaughters and see his gravestone. |
1881 |
18811000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno goes up to Trinity College, Cambridge
for his 1st term. Joins the Magpie & Stump for debating. Rows. |
1881 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Donald Currie awarded a new honour, a KCMG, and
becomes Sir Donald Currie, for help in transporting British troops to Natal
during recent Zulu war. This is a the year before his friend, John Charles
Molteno, is also knighted. |
1881 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Worry about what Charlie Molteno will do in life. He
acts as Secretary to his father, John Charles Molteno, for some time. At a
later date, he spends some 4 years in Canada. |
1881 |
|
Molteno |
FrederickJohnMolteno |
London |
Frederick John Molteno, his wife Georgiana Pope
White, and their eldest child, Frederick William, are only Moltenos registed
in 1881 census as living in 'London'. |
1881 |
|
Molteno |
FrederickWilliamMolteno |
England |
Born 1881. Eldest son of Frederick John Molteno
& Georgiana Pope White. Years later, becomes a stoker in the Royal Navy
during First World War. |
1881 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Nelspoort |
James Molteno spends several happy months on his
father farms at Nelspoort. |
1881 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Matriculates with honours at age 16. James Molteno
wants to be a barrister. His father Col. Secretary in Scanlen's new cabinet |
1881 |
|
Molteno |
MaryMolteno |
London |
Charles Parker, who married Elizabeth 'Mary'
Molteno, dies. |
1881 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno is a bit worried about money while at
Cambridge. Always travels 3rd class by train to London. |
1881 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy and his elder sister, Betty Molteno, are
already interested in finding out history of their family. (Various letters
to this effect) |
1881 |
|
Molteno |
History |
Cape |
Dutch admitted as an optional language in Cape
Parliament for the first time after nearly a century of British rule! |
1881 |
|
Murray |
PercyAlportMurray |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno and Dr CFK Murray's son, Percy
Alport Murray, dies in early 1881, aged about 6 months. |
1881 |
|
Parker |
CharlesParker |
England |
Husband of Elizabeth Mary Molteno dies. |
1881 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Cape Town |
Elizabeth Maria Murray, eldest daughter of Caroline
Molteno & Dr CFK Murray, born. Called after her grandmother, Elizabeth
Maria Jarvis. Called May. |
1881 |
|
Robertson |
ManwaringRobertson |
England |
Manwaring, the 3rd & youngest of the Robertson
children, born. He is Ethel and Hilda Robertson's brother. |
1882 |
18820300 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Within 9 mths of becoming his father's secretary,
Charlie Molteno not getting on with John Charles Molteno in the role. |
1882 |
18820500 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
London |
Charlie Molteno arrives in London unexpectedly. Sees
Percy at Cambridge. Also Sir Donald Currie. (Is Charlie on his way to Canada,
or does he go later?) |
1882 |
18820600 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy & Charlie Molteno dine with Sir Donald
Currie; he takes them to a dance given by the First Lord of the Admiralty. |
1882 |
18820600 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Europe |
Charlie & Percy Molteno take
their first tour of Europe together. Travelling in Europe becomes an annual
passion for Percy. |
1882 |
18820630 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
John Charles Molteno, now aged 68, resigns from Sir
Thomas Scanlen's ministry as Colonial Secretary after only a year in office.
And retires finally from politics. |
1882 |
18820821 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Made Knight Commander of Order of St Michael and St
George (KCMG). Becomes Sir John Charles Molteno. (The Times 21.8.1882) |
1882 |
18821200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Still a student at Cambridge, Percy Molteno starts
looking into history of the Molteno family in Italy, its coat of arms etc. |
1882 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Cape |
Donald Currie & Co. is being paid by the Cape
& Natal governments £102,000 basic subsidy a year. This is about £5
million at today's values. |
1882 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno, still a student at Cambridge, is not
happy with British bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt. |
1882 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Betty Molteno, now aged 30, decides to become a
teacher, and earn her own living. |
1882 |
|
Molteno |
ElizabethMaryAgnesMolteno |
? |
Dies. Probably did not marry. (How is she related
other Moltenos?) |
1882 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno, after matriculating at school,
serves his father, John Charles Molteno, for 6 months as his private
secretary while his older brother, Charlie Molteno, is overseas. |
1882 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno is still very devout in his second
year at Cambridge. Attends chapel twice a week |
1882 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Molteno Reservoir opened in Cape Town. Named after
Sir John Charles Molteno, the Cape's first Prime Minister. |
1882 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape |
Sir John Molteno's eyesight begins to fail. His son,
James Molteno, reads aloud to him a lot. |
1882 |
|
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Victor Molteno goes hunting at Nelspoort with his
second cousin, Arthur Jackson. |
1883 |
18830318 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno speaks in the Cambridge Union for 1st
time. |
1883 |
18830400 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy sees Sir Donald Currie's art collection;
visits the National Gallery; likes Turner's paintings in particular. |
1883 |
18830400 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno visits the Curries in London. He makes
his first reference to Sir Donald's daughter, Bessie Currie. He is already in
love. |
1883 |
18830600 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy discovers a reference to the Molteno family
being noble in University of Cambridge Library. |
1883 |
18830800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Sails for Cape, having been away from home for over
two & half years at Trinity College, Cambridge. |
1883 |
18831100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno goes to listen to Ruskin lecturing.
Reads Ruskins' Modern Painters. |
1883 |
18831200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
Percy Molteno sails back from the Cape to resume his
Cambridge degrees. His sisters, Betty & Caroline Molteno, come with him. |
1883 |
18831200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno listens to William Morris speaking.
There is an uproar at Cambridge when Morris declares himself a socialist. |
1883 |
18831211 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape Town |
Sir John Charles Molteno is thinking of taking his
son, Wallace, who is only 14 years old, out of school & sending to farm
at Nelspoort. Wallace's elder brother, Percy disagrees with their father
& wins. Wallace stays on at Diocesan College, 'Bishops'. |
1883 |
|
Alport |
PercyAlport |
Beaufort West |
Uncle Alport's firm imports Beaufort West's first
fire engine. |
1883 |
|
Anderson |
HaroldAnderson |
Cape Town |
Born. Son of Maria Molteno & Tom Anderson.
Married Dot Anderson eventually. |
1883 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Ten years after the start of the Castle Line service
to the Cape & Natal, the two lines serving the route have ships totalling
100,000 tons. The new Hawarden Castle weighs 4,000 tons. |
1883 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
On the ship going to England & Newnham College,
Cambridge, Betty Molteno meets Miss Hall. They become friends. |
1883 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Betty Molteno's first diary seems to have come to an
end the year before she goes to Newnham College. (Needs checking) |
1883 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Sir John Charles Molteno resigns his seat in
Parliament and retires from public life for second and final time. |
1883 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Drought again. |
1883 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
Cape Town |
Born. Son of Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK Murray. |
1883 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
Severe economic depression at the Cape at this time.
Affected Sir John Charles Molteno's financial position badly. |
1884 |
18840100 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno is back at the Cape. Again working
for his father as his Secretary. This role relates primarily now to Sir
John's business affairs. |
1884 |
18840500 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno writes his Maths Tripos finals while
quite ill with measles. |
1884 |
18840600 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Claremont House |
Sir John Charles Molteno is still living at
Claremont House, but planning to go and live in Britain for a longish time. |
1884 |
18840700 |
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Cambridge |
Sir John Charles Molteno suddenly decides that his
son, Victor Molteno, should qualify as a doctor at the University of
Cambridge. Victor leaves for England. |
1884 |
18841100 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape |
Betty cuts short her time at Newnham College,
Cambridge, and returns to the Cape to take up a post at Miss Hall's school at
Graaff Reinet. |
1884 |
18841100 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Kalk Bay |
Sir John Charles Molteno is still at the Cape, but
planning to come to England for prolonged stay soon. Urges need for economy
on his son, Percy Molteno. |
1884 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
South West Africa |
Sir Donald Currie MP introduces a deputation to Lord
Derby to persuade the British Government to annex South West Africa. HMG
delayed and Germany annexes Damaraland. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Betty Molteno spending time at Newnham College,
Cambridge, at same time as Percy is at Trinity College, Cambridge. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Graaff Reinet |
Miss Hall arrives at the Cape to start a school for
girls, the Young Ladies Seminary. Betty Molteno is to join her. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cambridge |
At Newnham College, Cambridge, Betty Molteno's
studies are interrupted by Miss Hall persuading her to join her Young Ladies
Seminary at Graaff Reinet. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
London |
Caroline Molteno & her husband, Dr CFK Murray,
& Betty Molteno, come over to London. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Cape Town |
Frank Molteno passes his surveyor exams, as does his
cousin, Jim Bisset (James Bisset's son?). |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
England |
Herbert George Molteno, son of Frederick John
Molteno & Georgina Pope White, born. He is the elder brother of Elsie
Rose Molteno. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Port Elizabeth |
Represents Western Province at 1st inter-colony
cricket tournament at Port Elizabeth to mark the town's railway link-up via
De Aar with Cape Town. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Graduates in the Mathematical Tripos, Cambridge. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
England |
Sir John Charles Molteno and his wife, Minnie
Blenkins, and their four children,go to Britain for about two years. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Terrible drought. Arthur Jackson loses half his
stock. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Sir John Charles Molteno is having increasingly
frequent fainting fits. May prompt decision to move to Britain for extended
stay later this year. |
1884 |
|
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
London |
Victor Molteno spends a pre-university year at a
London hospital. |
1884 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Cape Town |
Lenox Murray born. Son of Caroline Molteno & Dr
CFK Murray. |
1884 |
|
Stanford |
ElliotStanford |
Eastern Cape |
Walter 'Elliot' Stanford born. Later becomes one of
the first Rhodes Scholars to go to Oxford University. Married Effie Anderson,
daughter of Tom Anderson & Maria Molteno.Farmed at Inungi. |
1884 |
|
Stanford |
WalterStanford |
East Griqualand |
Sir Walter Stanford, Elliot Stanford's father,
acquires the farm, Inungi, about this date. It lies on the Umzimvubu River,
about 20 miles west of Kokstad, near Mt Currie. |
1884 |
|
|
History |
South African Republic |
Convention of London. Transvaal recovers its
independence. Paul Kruger becomes President. |
1884 |
|
|
History |
Africa |
Scramble for Africa agreed by the European Powers.
Most of Africa is very rapidly divided up among the European powers. |
1885 |
18850300 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Sir John Charles Molteno in poor health; having
fainting fits. On arrival in London, his son, Percy Molteno, takes him to
see specialist. |
1885 |
18850600 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Simons Bay |
Barkly Molteno, Sir John Charles Molteno &
Elizabeth Maria Jarvis's youngest son, aged 13, is examined on board ship for
colonial cadetship in the Royal Navy. |
1885 |
18850600 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno graduates from Trinity College,
Cambridge, having taken a double tripos, just as James arrives there to start
his studies. |
1885 |
18850700 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Barkly Molteno, still a boy of 13, leaves with elder
brother, James Molteno, for Britain to become naval cadet on the Britannia,
Dartmouth. |
1885 |
18850700 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno leaves for London with his younger
brother, Barkly Molteno, to go to Trinity College, Cambridge. Their elder
brothers, Percy & Victor Molteno, already there. |
1885 |
18850817 |
Jackson |
ArthurSoulbyJackson |
Nelspoort |
Tragic death of his wife, Sally, in a cart accident
-- like Alicia Hartley (nee Molteno) in Australia 30 years before. Several
very small children now motherless. |
1885 |
18850900 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno arrives in England from Cape with his
brother, James. They rush to Wales to see their father, Sir John Charles
Molteno, who is living there with his wife, Minnie Blenkins. |
1885 |
18851000 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno goes up to Trinity College, Cambridge,
to read Law. |
1885 |
18851000 |
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Cambridge |
Victor Molteno goes up to Clare College, Cambridge,
to read Medicine. |
1885 |
18851200 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
England |
Sir John Charles Molteno, Minnie & their
children are back in London from Wales. Sir John's sons, Percy, Victor,
Barkly, & James also all there. |
1885 |
18851225 |
Bingle |
NancyAliciaMolteno |
England |
Sir John Charles Molteno, Minnie, their children,
and the four Molteno brothers all spend Christmas with Sir John's sister,
Nancy Molteno, her husband Mr Bingle, and his niece, Eliza Bingle in London. |
1885 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Glen Lyon |
Sir Donald Currie, now 60 and still very active in
business, buys his third estate in the Highlands, Glen Lyon. He rebuilds and
enlarges Glen Lyon House itself. Later buys the Chesthill estate in the Glen. |
1885 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno joins his first Royal Navy training
ship, Brittania. He is only 13 years old. |
1885 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Graaff Reinet |
Betty Molteno in the Eastern Cape teaching at Miss
Hall's school. |
1885 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Southern Africa |
Frank Molteno, newly qualified, is earning his
living, surveying in remote parts of Southern Africa in 1885-86. |
1885 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno graduates from the Cape University,
like his brother Percy before him, with honours in literature and philosophy.
Is going to Trinity College in England in October. |
1885 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno does his Bar Finals in the summer;
then returns to Cambridge to do an LLB. |
1885 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno speaks Dutch & English. Now has an
easy command of French. Hopes to at least read Italian soon in pursuit of his
researches into his family's history. |
1885 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno graduates in the Law Tripos,
Cambridge. He now has two degrees -- in Mathematics and in Law. |
1885 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
England |
Sir John Charles Molteno & his wife, Minnie
Blenkins living for a time in King Henry's Road, Chalk Farm, London. And
later in Ealing just before return to the Cape in March 1886. |
1885 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Wales |
Sir John Charles Molteno and his wife, Minnie
Blenkins, visit Ireland after their stay in Wales. |
1885 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray, who is a fine singer, sets up the
Committee of the Choral Union in Cape Town. |
1885 |
|
|
History |
Bechuanaland |
Britain further extends its territory in Southern
Africa by declaring a protectorate over British Bechuanaland, to the
immediate west of the South African Republic. |
1885 |
|
|
History |
Kimberley |
The railway, initiated by John Charles Molteno,
finally reaches Kimberley, some 14 years after diamonds first found there.
It means the end of transport riding and the wagon trail via Beaufort West to
Kimberley. |
1886 |
18860400 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Sir John Charles Molteno did not settle happily in
Britain. Returns, accompanied by his son, Percy, to the Cape. Is dead within
6 months. |
1886 |
18860700 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Port Elizabeth |
After two years at Graaff Reinet, Miss Hall moves to
Port Elizabeth to become the Lady Principal of the Collegiate School there.
Betty Molteno goes with her. |
1886 |
18860901 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Claremont House |
Dies at his home, Claremont House. |
1886 |
18860903 |
Jackson |
ArthurSoulbyJackson |
Nelspoort |
Young Arthur Jackson remarries urgently following
death of his wife, Sally, in August the previous year. Marries his first
cousin, Nettie Jackson.He had to have someone to look after his small
children. |
1886 |
18860921 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Having been called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in
September, Percy returns to the Cape, determined to set up as a barrister at
the Cape Bar. (The Times 21.9.1937) |
1886 |
18861002 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Port Elizabeth |
Four girls drown at school while Betty Molteno was
in charge. This happens 6 months after her father's death. Her sister,
Caroline, rushes to Port Elizabeth to support Betty. |
1886 |
|
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
Cape Town |
Effie Anderson eldest child of Tom Anderson &
Maria Molteno, born. |
1886 |
|
Bingle |
NancyAliciaMolteno |
London |
Nancy Molteno and her husband, Mr Bingle, no longer
have a servant. Must be hard up in old age. |
1886 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Elected as a Liberal Unionist for West Perthshire.
Keeps seat til 1900. Opposed to Home Rule for Ireland. But remains a friend
of Gladstone's, the Liberal leader. |
1886 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Charlie Molteno, Sir John Charles Moltenos eldest
son, responsible for the family's financial affairs, following Sir John's
recent death. Charlie now farms in partnership with his cousin, Julius
Jackson. This goes on for about 20 years. |
1886 |
|
Molteno |
ElsieRoseMolteno |
England |
Daughter of Frederick John Molteno & Georgiana
Pope White of Guernsey born. Marries Arthur Lee in 1909. |
1886 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
South African Republic |
Gold discovered on the Reef in South African
Republic. A seminal year in South African history. Frank Molteno goes up
there prospecting. Had been prospecting in Namaqualand in the Northern Cape
previously. |
1886 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cambridge |
Elected President of his College Union (a debating
society) at Cambridge University. |
1886 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Bought Greenfield House for Union Castle Co-to-be.
This is where his sister, Caroline, & Dr CFK Murray had lived at first
after their marriage. (Date wrong?) |
1886 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
Imposing tomb, with armorial bearings, is built for
Sir John Charles Molteno in graveyard of St Saviour's Church, Claremont. |
1886 |
|
|
History |
Johannesburg |
Jobannesburg founded. The centre of the rapidly
expanding, huge gold mining industry. |
1887 |
18870322 |
Molteno |
AgnesMolteno |
London |
Agnes Molteno hard up. Advertises herself as wanting
to be a companion. Mentions she is niece of Sir 'Charles' (sic) Molteno
(Times 22.3.1887) |
1887 |
18870325 |
Molteno |
AgnesMolteno |
London |
Agnes Molteno performing as a professional musician
in London (Times 25.3.1887) |
1887 |
18870400 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Cape Town |
Frank Molteno gets engaged. This is 6 months after
his father's death. His brother, Percy, for some reason doesn't approve. |
1887 |
18870600 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno in the Royal Navy sent off on his
first overseas posting. |
1887 |
18870700 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cambridge |
Endof the Cambridge University academic year. First
reference to James Molteno being in love with Clare Holland Pryor, &
having become engaged. |
1887 |
18870900 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Cape Town |
Very godfearing all his life. He is asked to be a
delegate to the Anglican Church Synod. Accepts. |
1887 |
18871000 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Southern Africa |
Sir Donald Currie pays his first visit to Southern
Africa. Sadly this is after Sir John Charles Molteno had already died. |
1887 |
18871100 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Southern Africa |
Sir Donald Currie tours Southern Africa for 2 or 3
months. Percy Molteno is very attentive on the party in Cape Town. |
1887 |
|
Bingle |
NancyAliciaMolteno |
London |
Ted Molteno, Sir John Charles Molteno's 2nd youngest
son, is now a boy of ten. Living with his aunt, Nancy Molteno, in London,
& her husband, Mr Bingle, Doing brilliantly. |
1887 |
|
Bingle |
Bingle |
London |
Mr Bingle's health breaking down. |
1887 |
|
Jackson |
HenryJackson |
Nelspoort |
Henry Jackson retires; and moves from Nelspoort to
live in Beaufort West. His son, Harry Jackson, takes over principal
management of the farms. |
1887 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Johannesburg |
Frank Molteno now in Johannesburg. This is just
after gold rush has started. Uncle James Bisset there too. |
1887 |
|
Molteno |
SobellaMinnie Blenkins |
London |
Lady Minnie Molteno (nee Blenkins) in the UK
following her husband, Sir John Charles Molteno's death. Has a house in
Roehampton near the Common. |
1887 |
|
Molteno |
SobellaMinnieBlenkins |
England |
Lady Minnie Molteno appoints Betty Molteno as
guardian for Minnie's two sons, Ted & Harry Molteno. |
1887 |
|
Molteno |
SobellaMinnieBlenkins |
England |
Lady Minnie Molteno, Sir John Charles's widow, moves
to Eastbourne where her 3 boys, Ted, Clifford and Harry, are at New College
school. Their half brothers, Percy, Victor, James & Barkly are also in
Britain at this time. |
1887 |
|
Molteno |
Molteno |
Cape Town |
After Sir John Charles Molteno's death, Frank
Molteno lived when in Cape Town with his sister, Maria & her husband, Tom
Anderson; and Wallace Molteno, only 17, with his sister, Caroline & Dr
CFK Murray. |
1887 |
|
Murray |
VictorBlenkinsMurray |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno and Dr CFK Murray's 3rd child is
born. Does not long survive. |
1887 |
|
|
ClaremontHouse |
Claremont House |
Claremont House: Lady Minnie Molteno, now a widow,
no longer staying there. She goes to live in Britain again. The house has
tenants at end of 1887. |
1888 |
18880100 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cambridge |
James Molteno is still at Cambridge. Postpones
getting married to Clare Holland Pryor. |
1888 |
18880100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno follows Sir Donald Currie & his 2
daughters, Bessie and (?), back to Britain at end of their trip to Southern
Africa. |
1888 |
18880100 |
|
ClaremontHouse |
Claremont House |
The process of dividing up the Claremont House
estate & selling off plots takes place, presumably to realize some cash
for Sir John Charles Molteno's widow, and numerous offspring. |
1888 |
18880103 |
Molteno |
AgnesMolteno |
London |
Agnes Molteno again noticed in the Times as a
professional musician performing in London (Times 3.1.1888) |
1888 |
18880112 |
Molteno |
AgnesMolteno |
London |
Agnes Molteno performing in long-running Sultan of
Mocha (Times 12.1.1888) |
1888 |
18880200 |
Molteno |
AgnesMolteno |
London |
James Molteno comes across her in music hall where
she is performing. He doesn't realize she is his first cousin! |
1888 |
18880200 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
England |
Betty Molteno and Miss Hall arrive in London from
Port Elizabeth. Miss Hall is incurably ill. When she dies, Betty takes over
as Head of the Collegiate in PE. |
1888 |
18880300 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Percy Molteno back in Cape Town winding up his
affairs before moving to England permanently where he hopes to marry Bessie
Currie, Sir Donald's daughter. Percy thus becomes one of Sir John Charles
Molteno's only two offspring to move back to Britain permanently and settle
there (the other being Barkly in Royal Navy). |
1888 |
18880500 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cambridge |
James Molteno mentions having been quite ill for
several months; it continues through 1888. |
1888 |
18880600 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cambridge |
James Molteno's illness does not stop him graduating
in the Law Tripos (LL.B.) at Cambridge. He is a prizeman at Trinity College. |
1888 |
18880613 |
Bingle |
Bingle |
London |
Mr Bingle dies, aged 73. He is survived by his wife,
Nancy Molteno. Charlie and Victor Molteno attend funeral. |
1888 |
18880700 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
England |
Miss Hall dies. Percy Molteno, who has just arrived
in London from the Cape, attends the funeral. His sister, Betty Molteno, who
was close to Miss Hall, is not able to since she has had to return to Port
Elizabeth to run the school. Miss Hall leaves Betty £500, & her books
& furniture to Alice Greene. |
1888 |
18880700 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Percy Molteno arrives from the Cape in London. Goes
straight up to Scotland. He and Bessie Currie, Sir Donald's daughter, get
engaged (in August). |
1888 |
18880900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno decides not to return to the Cape.
Devils for a London barrister. He and his fiance, Bessie Currie, will not
make life in Southern Africa. |
1888 |
18881008 |
Glass |
MargaretGlass(Scott) |
Scotland |
Margaret Scott Glass, the elder unmarried daughter
of Charles Dominic Molteno's wife, Mrs Margaret Glass (nee Scott) by her
first marriage, dies. |
1888 |
18881200 |
Molteno |
SobellaMinnieBlenkins |
England |
Lady Minnie Molteno has big Christmas Party in
Wandsworth, London. Aunt Nancy Molteno & present. Minnie is returning to
the Cape. |
1888 |
18881200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno gets into chambers at 2 King's Bench
Walk. Lodges just a mile from his fiance, Bessie Currie's, home in Hyde Park
Place. |
1888 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Kimberley |
Sir Donald Currie, in addition to his shipping
interests, is a major shareholder in Bultfontein Mining Co. It yield £3.8
diamonds during 1882-8 -- only a bit less than De Beers. |
1888 |
|
Jackson |
HenryJackson |
Nelspoort |
Henry Jackson dies, aged 58, a year after retiring
& two years after his cousin, Sir John Charles Motleno. Had farmed as
manager & partner for Sir John, & later for Charlie Molteno, at
Nelspoort from age of 19. |
1888 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Uncle Alport had been executor of Sir John Charles
Molteno's estate. Proves not able to be effective. Charlie Molteno has to
take responsibility for executing his father's will. |
1888 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Cape Town |
Marries Ella Mary Jones. They settle in Cape Town. |
1888 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cambridge |
It becomes clear that James Molteno has been having
a sort of nervous breakdown. |
1888 |
|
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Cambridge |
Gets his MB degree at Cambridge. Now a doctor. |
1888 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape Town |
Wallace Molteno, now 19, is living at his sister
Caroline's home. Talks of going into a commercial company. Works for his
brother in law, Tom Anderson's shipping firm, Anderson & Murison. No talk
of (perhaps no money for) a university education for him. |
1888 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape Town |
Wallace Molteno finds his much older sister, Betty,
very much his emotional mainstay in the first years after their father's
death. |
1888 |
|
Murray |
JackMurray |
Cape Town |
Son (slightly simple) of Caroline Molteno & Dr
CFK Murray is born. His condition prompts his mother eventually to start a
campaign for disabled persons. |
1888 |
|
Murray |
VictorBlenkinsMurray |
Cape Town |
Dies. Dr CFK Murray & Caroline Molteno's
child. |
1888 |
|
|
History |
Transvaal |
Value of gold mined on the Reef reaches £1million;
had been only £134,000 two years before. Economic centre of gravity begins
moving away from the Cape to South African Republic. |
1889 |
18880906 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Sir Donald Currie gives Percy Molteno his first
lucrative job -- arbitrator between the 2 huge diamond mining companies, De
Beers and Bultfontein. Percy leaves for Cape. |
1889 |
18890128 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
England |
James Molteno, now 24 years old, is called to the
Bar at the Inner Temple in London. Leaves for the Cape immediately
afterwards. |
1889 |
18890200 |
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Hercules Jarvis dies. He was Elizabeth Maria
Jarvis's father, and so grandfather to Sir John Charles Molteno's first ten
offspring. End of an era. |
1889 |
18890200 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno is on his way to the Cape, but without
having got married. Southern Africa in the grip of gold fever. On his return,
he spends several months James touring the 4 Southern African states. Thinks
of settling down in Johannesburg. |
1889 |
18890315 |
Molteno |
AgnesMolteno |
London |
Review by The Times of her performance in a musical
(or an opera? (Times 15.3.1889) |
1889 |
18890400 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Aged 17, Barkly Molteno has just returned from his
1st overseas posting -- in the South Atlantic off the Latin American coast. |
1889 |
18890400 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Claremont House |
Already talk of the family selling Claremont House.
Percy Molteno sad. Mrs Lindley staying there at this time ; the Lindleys are
one of the families close to the Moltenos. |
1889 |
18890500 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno back in Cape Town. Hopeful he and
Clare Holland Pryor will be able to marry soon. |
1889 |
18890516 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cape Town |
Barkly Molteno, a young midshipman in Royal Navy,
advises his sister, Caroline, that her eldest son, Kenah Murray, now aged 12,
should not join Royal Navy. |
1889 |
18890918 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Percy Molteno and Bessie Currie get married. |
1889 |
18891000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Italy |
Percy Molteno and Bessie Currie spend their
honeymoon on the Continent. Percy visits the Italian village of Molteno for
1st time. |
1889 |
18891100 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno and Clare Holland Pryor about to get
married. James' brother, Percy, thinks it unwise. |
1889 |
18891100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
On return from the honeymoon, Percy Molteno starts
working for his father in law, Sir Donald Currie, at his Castle Co. Offices
3, 4 Fenchurch St. Quite soon, Percy is made a director. |
1889 |
18891130 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno already involved in a commercial
property company -- Real Estate Corporation of South Africa (Times
30.11.1889) |
1889 |
18891221 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno and Clare Holland Pryor marry. |
1889 |
18900100 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Port Elizabeth |
Miss Hall having died in England, Betty Molteno now
becomes head of Collegiate School for Girls in Port Elizabeth. Continues til
1900. Alice Greene is the Vice-Principal. |
1889 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
London |
Sir Donald Currie commissions James MacLaren, a
young Scot prominent in the Arts & Crafts movement, to design two ad
jacent houses for Bessie Molteno & Maria Wisely's new families in London. |
1889 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Glen Lyon |
Four years after purchasing it, James MacLaren, a
young Scottish architect, completes for Sir Donald Currie the new cottages,
farm buildings, hotel at Fortingall & Glen Lyon. |
1889 |
|
Jackson |
ArthurSoulbyJackson |
Nelspoort |
Arthur Jackson sells up at Nelspoort. For next 14
years becomes an itinerant farmer. |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
AlbertFrankMolteno |
England |
Albert Molteno marries Sarah Emma Louisa Mills. He
is the youngest child of Fred Molteno, & so, though not knowing, it a
first cousin of Sir John Molteno. |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
She visits London; possibly twice that year |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Port Elizabeth |
At end of term, Betty Molteno travels to England to
recruit staff. Returned to Port Elizabeth at end of 1889. |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Charlie Molteno, Sir John's eldest son, now farming
in partnership with some of his Jackson cousins. This lasts roughly 1889 to
1904. |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Frank Molteno does first trigonometrical survey of
the Nelspoort Farms. About 50,000 morgen. Worth perhaps £40,000 at this time. |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
HenryVyvyanMolteno |
Cape Town |
Frank Molteno & his wife Ella Jones' eldest son
born. V. bright. Eventually goes to Cambridge. Killed tragically on his
motorcycle near Petersfield while still a student. |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno starts his legal practice as a
barrister in Cape Town. |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
LauraAdaMolteno |
England |
Laura Ada Molteno, daughter of Fred Molteno (one of
Sir John Molteno's brothers) marries Arthur Isaac Durrant. |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Sir John Molteno's estate at last taken properly in
hand. Molteno & Co set up with his offspring as shareholders. Charlie
Molteno to run the farms on its behalf. |
1889 |
|
Molteno |
RoseMaryMolteno |
? |
Rose Mary Molteno, sister of John Molteno, and so an
aunt of Sir John Molteno, dies, aged 78. |
1889 |
|
|
History |
Southern Africa |
British Government expands its territories in
Southern Africa further by granting Royal Charter to Cecil Rhodes's British
South Africa Co. formed to conquer the lands north of the South African
Republic. Hope of new mineral riches there. |
1890 |
18900717 |
|
History |
Cape |
Economic boom caused by the Rand goldrush bursts.
Gordon Sprigg's administration voted out of office. Cecil Rhodes forms his
1st administration. Within 3 months James Molteno is elected an MP in the
Cape Parliament. |
1890 |
18900718 |
Jackson |
GeorgeCliffordJackson |
Nelspoort |
George Jackson enters into a contract with the
Molteno Syndicate to run Upper & Lower Nelspoort farms. |
1890 |
18900718 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Nelspoort |
Lady Minnie Molteno & seven Molteno siblings
form the Molteno Syndicate which owns Upper & Lower Nelspoort as part of
wind-up of Sir John Molteno's estate. |
1890 |
18901000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno stops trying to set up a practice as a
barrister in London. Starts working for and with his new father in law, Sir
Donald Currie. |
1890 |
18901100 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno elected unopposed to the Cape Colony
Parliament as MP for for Namaqualand in the Northern Cape. He is aged just
25. |
1890 |
|
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Kalk Bay |
His Cape of Good Hope Savings Bank collapsed in late
19th Century. And he is bankrupted. |
1890 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Glen Lyon |
Tragedy at Macgregor's Leap, the very narrow
entrance where the river flows out of Glen Lyon. A French gymnast tries to
leap the river across the high cliffs to repeat a Scottish chieftain's feat
in 1565. Fails and falls to his death. |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Italy |
Percy Molteno follows up his visit to the village of
Molteno during his honeymoon by commissioning research into the family's
origins in the Bibliotheca Ambrosia in Milan. |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Barkly, still only 18 years old, is able to spent a
short spell at the Cape seeing his brothers & sisters; returns to the
Royal Navy at Greenwich. |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK Murray, who have now
been married for 14 years and have a growing family, get Kenilworth House
built. |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
ConstanceVioletMolteno |
England |
Constance Violet Molteno, Albert Frank Molteno's
daughter, granddaughter of Fred Molteno, & greatniece of Sir John
Molteno, is born. The family is living in Camberwell, London. She becomes Jim
Molteno-Mills' mother. |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
ClarissaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Clarissa Molteno, eldest child of James Molteno and
Clare Holland Pryor, born. She later died young at age of only 56. |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
FrankGeorgeGrayMolteno |
England |
Aged 27, he marries Elizabeth Taylor Faunt. They
eventually have 2 daughters. (How related to George Anthony Molteno's
descendants?) |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
FrankEdmundMolteno |
Cape Town |
Edmund Molteno, 2nd son of Frank Molteno & Ella
Jones, born. Subsequently drowned at age 8 at Kalk Bay where his parents had
a holiday house. |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesJarvisMolteno |
London |
Charlie Molteno, as his parents Percy Molteno &
Bessie Currie called their eldest son, born. |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno made a director of Sir Donald Currie's
Castle line. |
1890 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
In early 1890s Percy Molteno initiates transport of
bananas from Canary Islands. Looks to the prospects of importing fruit from
the Cape. |
1891 |
18910215 |
Molteno |
VictorGreyMolteno |
England |
Registers as a doctor, having got his medical degree
from University of Cambridge. |
1891 |
18910526 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno attends his first parliamentary
session, exactly 10 years after his father,Sir John Molteno, finally retired
from parliament. |
1891 |
18910800 |
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
England |
Victor Molteno returns to Cape at end of his medical
studies at Cambridge. His brother, Charlie Molteno, is travelling with him. |
1891 |
18910800 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
England |
Wallace resigns from his job with Anderson &
Murison, and visits England for the 1st time. He travels with his brother
Percy and Bessie in Europe. Worries about his future continue through 1890s. |
1891 |
18910900 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Claremont House |
Betty Molteno has the idea of converting Claremont
House, currently unoccupied, into a ladies college for Cape Town. |
1891 |
18911000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
10 Palace Court completed and Percy Molteno and
Bessie Currie move in. It is their London base for the rest of their lives
(until the late 1930s). |
1891 |
|
Molteno |
AliceEdithMolteno |
England |
Alice Edith Molteno, marries W. Wallis. She is a
daughter of Fred Molteno, brother of Sir John Molteno. |
1891 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno, now a young MP, sits on backbenches
with Hofmeyr. Supporting Cecil Rhodes' first Administration. Close to Rhodes
personally until 1893. |
1891 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno, his brother Charlie, & others
found the Cape Fruit Syndicate with a capital £3,000 to encourage export of
fresh fruit from the Cape. |
1892 |
18920200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno persuades the Castle Company to fit
cool chambers; the Union Company follows suit. The 1st shipment of peaches
arrive in Covent Garden market on the Drummond Castle. |
1892 |
18920527 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
England |
Jervis Molteno born. Percy Molteno & Bessie
Currie's 2nd child. |
1892 |
18920700 |
Molteno |
NancyAliciaMolteno |
England |
Nancy Molteno, Mr Bingle's widow and a sister of Sir
John Molteno, dies. Eliza Bingle arrives too late to see her stepmother. |
1892 |
18920716 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Acting Sub-Lt. Vincent B. Molteno, ie Barkly, is
appointed to No. 25 Torpedo Boat -- 6 years after his father's death (The
Times 16.7.1892) |
1892 |
18921000 |
Parker |
MayMurray |
England |
Betty Molteno takes her little 11 year-old niece,
May Murray (Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK Murray's eldest daughter) with her
to England. |
1892 |
18921100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
Percy Molteno & his wife, Bessie Currie, sail
for the Cape. Hey stay several months. This becomes a frequent habit, & a
tradition their son, Jervis, and his wife Islay Bisset, continued into the
1960s. |
1892 |
|
Bisset |
JamesBisset |
Beaufort West |
James Bisset, the late Sir John Molteno brother in
law, is now 66. Designs the Municipal offices and NG Kerk (Church) in
Beaufort West. |
1892 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
England |
Betty Molteno is in London in latter part of the
year. |
1892 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Charlie Molteno is managing the family farms on the
Karoo. |
1892 |
|
Molteno |
SobellaMinnieBlenkins |
England |
Lady Minnie Molteno,Sir John's widow, settles in
Eastbourne where her four children are in school (New College). |
1892 |
|
Molteno |
LeopoldFGGMolteno |
England |
born. (How related to George Anthony Molteno and his
descendants?) |
1892 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno publishes his pamphlet, The Export of
Cape Fruit. |
1892 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno realises he cannot enter Cape politics
& follow in his father's footsteps; so begins to think in terms of a
British political career. |
1892 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
? |
James Molteno, only son of James Molteno & Clare
Holland Pryor, born. |
1892 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Eastern Cape |
Wallace Molteno is now 23. He has decided to leave
the world of commerce. He leaves Cape Town and starts life as a farmer. His
fruit business doing well. |
1892 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Cape Town |
Kathleen Murray, 2nd daughter of Caroline Molteno
& Dr CFK Murray, born. Never marries. |
1892 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Port Elizabeth |
May Murray is back at home at the Cape. But her
parents, Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK Murray, send her to Betty Molteno's
school in Port Elizabeth. |
1892 |
|
Syme |
JohnSyme |
South Africa |
Born. |
1892 |
|
Wilson |
EileenWilson |
Cape Town |
Born, daughter of local Cape Town businessman. She
eventually becomes Vincent Molteno's wife in 1915. |
1892 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
The first manipulation of the franchise in the Cape
for racist purposes. Initiated by Cecil Rhodes. The Cape Parliament raises
franchise qualifications & thereby excludes many potential African
voters. |
1893 |
18930500 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Logan Contract scandal. Rhodes's three ministers
(Merriman, Sauer, Rose Innes) resign. James Molteno ceases to support Rhodes. |
1893 |
18930710 |
Molteno |
AgnesMaudMolteno |
Peckham |
Agnes Maud Molteno, daughter of Fred Molteno and a
niece of Sir John Molteno, marries Frank George Land in St John's, East
Dulwich, parish of Camberwell. |
1893 |
18930929 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray |
Cape |
Dr CFK Murray & Caroline Molteno's youngest son,
born. Eventually dies on active service in First World War. |
1893 |
|
Bingle |
ElizaBingle |
Cape |
Eliza Bingle visits the Cape for the 1st time. Her
stepmother, Nancy Molteno (Mr Bingle's wife), has just died the previous
year. |
1893 |
|
Molteno |
AnnetteFeodoreMolteno |
England |
Daughter of FGG Molteno & Elizabeth Faunt born.
(How related to George Anthony Molteno & his descendants?) |
1893 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Zanzibar |
Now a most junior officer in the Royal Navy, he is
sent on an anti-slaving expedtion to Zanzibar. |
1893 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno is serving as a lieutenant in the
sloop, Swallow, with the naval brigade in Zanzibar. He is mentioned in
despatches (The Times 15.11.52). |
1893 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
London |
Beatrice Lilian Molteno, daughter of Albert Frank
Molteno and Sarah Mills, is born. She becomes known in her branch of the
family as Great Aunt Molly. They live in Camberwell at this time. |
1893 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Percy buys an acre of land at Princess Vlei on the
Cape Flats as a potential boating & fishing holiday spot, half a mile
from where Robert Molteno later grew up! |
1893 |
|
|
History |
Rhodesia |
Matabele War in Rhodesia takes place. The forces
financed by Cecil Rhodes win. |
1894 |
18940100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
Cape Fruit Syndicate has done badly. Is wound up.
Problem is no effective refrigeration techniques for soft fruit have yet been
developed. |
1894 |
18940306 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno elected a member of The Royal
Institution (The Times 6.3.1894) |
1894 |
18940308 |
Bisset |
BessieBisset |
Cape |
Bessie Bisset marries Bert Beard. |
1894 |
18940630 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
London |
Margaret Molteno born at Palace Court. She is the
3rd and last child of Percy Molteno and Bessie Currie. |
1894 |
18940900 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
England |
Charlie Molteno and his sister, Maria Molteno who is
Tom Anderson's wife, are both in London |
1894 |
18940900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Parklands |
Percy Molteno & Bessie Currie buy this farm near
Gomshall and Shere just south of London. Each pays half the cost.
Enlargements (incl. a library & stables) completed. Now room to have
guests. It becomes Percy's favourite home. Bessie loves horseriding. |
1894 |
18940900 |
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Cape Town |
Dr Victor Molteno gets engaged to Mildred Jones,
sister of his brother Frank's wife, Ella. |
1894 |
|
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
Oxford |
Willie Anderson, Tom Anderson and Maria Molteno's
son, is at Christ Church College, Oxford. |
1894 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape |
Sir Jacobus de Wet wants to marry Betty Molteno who
is now 42 and partner of Alice Greene. Nothing comes of it. |
1894 |
|
Molteno |
BrendaMolteno |
Cape |
Brenda Molteno born. The 3rd child of Frank &
Ella Molteno. She eventually married Tommy Thomas. |
1894 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno follows his brother James and stands
for Parliament. Wins Tembuland seat in Transkei, a seat with probably more
African voters than almost any other. He holds it until 1898. |
1894 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno fights his first contested
parliamentary election. He and Merriman are re-elected for Namaqualand.
Hofmeyr continues to support Rhodes as Prime Minister & Hofmeyr's
newspaper attacks James. |
1894 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno opposes Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes's
Glen Grey Act because it introduces racially discriminatory labour tax to
push Africans into the mines. Overt racism infusing policy even in the Cape.
This eventually sets stage for a new axis in politics in Southern Africa that
comes to the fore in the 20th century. |
1894 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Mollteno visits Basuto Paramount Chief
Lerothodi in a courtesy call in Cape Town. |
1894 |
|
Molteno |
LeonardClarkMolteno |
England |
Born, 5th child of Fred John Molteno & Georgiana
Pope White of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. |
1894 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno already hard at work on a biography of
his father, Sir John Molteno. Only completed and published six years later. |
1894 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Eastern Cape |
Wallace is living in digs in Bedford; learning
farming. |
1894 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Nelspoort |
Jarvis Murray, Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK
Murray's son, still only 16, is staying on the family farm. Shoots two large
buck. |
1894 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
Pondoland in Transkei annexed by Cape Government.
For 1st time, Cape shares a common boundary with Natal. End of the socalled
'Frontier' with incorporation of all African-ruled lands into British
Government controlled entities. |
1894 |
|
|
History |
Rhodesia |
Rhodes appoints his friend, Dr Jameson, as
Administrator of Southern Rhodesia for his Royal-chartered British South
Africa Company. |
1894 |
|
|
History |
Cape Town |
Crown Colony of Bechuanaland annexed. This takes the
Cape border North of the Orange River up to what is becoming German South
West Africa & the South African Republic. |
1895 |
18950200 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
England |
Caroline Molteno, wife of Dr CFK Murray, arrives in
England. Throughout her life, she visits England frequently. This stay in
1895-96 is a long one & lasts 15 months, including a European tour. |
1895 |
18950216 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno as a very young, very junior Royal
Navy officer, is presented to H.R.H.the Prince of Wales (The Times 16.2.1895) |
1895 |
18950400 |
Molteno |
MariaMolteno |
Italy |
Caroline Molteno & her husband Dr CFK Murray
become the first Moltenos, after their brother Percy, to visit village of
Molteno. Liber Chronicus records visit. |
1895 |
18950600 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
England |
Gladstone, now in extreme old age, takes his last
holiday voyage with Sir Donald Currie on the Tantallon Castle to the opening
of the Kiel Canal in Germany. |
1895 |
18951005 |
Land |
EileenMoltenoLand |
Southsea |
Daughter of Agnes Maud Molteno & Frank George
Land born. (What happens to her has not been researched) |
1895 |
18951100 |
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
England |
Clare Holland Pryor is in England not with her
husband, James Molteno. She has a very difficult birth (her daughter,
Monica's?). Is ill for some time. James comes over to London from the Cape. |
1895 |
18951200 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno is living temporarily in Kenilworth
with his brother Charlie Molteno, also an MP. |
1895 |
18951200 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
The Jameson Raid is launched. This lights the fuse
of rapidly accelerated Afrikaner, anti-British nationalism and the resultant
Afrikaner/English-speaking divide in 'white' South African politics from
henceforth. |
1895 |
18951231 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
As news of the Jameson Raid breaks, James Molteno
tells dramatic story of how he experienced it. Rhodes resigns as Prime
Minister on 6 January 1896. |
1895 |
|
Bingle |
ElizaBingle |
Cape |
Eliza Bingle, now deprived of her step parents, Mr
Bingle & Nancy Molteno, is at the Cape, apparently for some considerable
time. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Port Elizabeth |
Three of Caroline Molteno's childen -- Kathleen,
George and Jack Murray -- are at her sister Betty's school in Port Elizabeth
-- in kindergarden. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno MP successfully opposes Cecil
Rhodes' attempt to grab Bechuanaland for his British South Africa Charter
Company. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Drought again. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
FredMolteno |
London |
Fred Molteno, brother of Sir John Molteno, dies.
Very musical children. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
NestaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Nesta Molteno, daughter of Frank Molteno & Ella
Jones, born. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno tells his sister, Betty, that he
intends to get cracking on writing the life of their father,Sir John Molteno. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno experiencing a period of difficulty in
his relations with his father in law, Sir Donald Currie, over his management
role, remuneration etc. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
A British general election looms as Lord Rosebery's
government falls. Percy Molteno already wants to enter Parliament. Sir Donald
Currie puts his foot down. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno gets diverted from writing his
biography of his father; & starts a monograph on a scheme for federation
of the various states & territories of Southern Africa. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Cape Town |
Dr Victor Molteno and Mildred Jones marry. |
1895 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Eastern Cape |
Wallace Molteno finds a farm in Molteno District
that he likes. Buys it by September. |
1895 |
|
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cambridge |
Kenah Murray, Caroline Molteno & her husband Dr
CFK Murray's eldest child, is at Cambridge studying medicine. |
1895 |
|
Roberston |
EthelRobertson |
England |
Ethel Robertson marries Arthur Batley, her 1st
husband. He died 3 years later. |
1895 |
|
|
History |
South African Republic |
South African Republic still has tiny white
population -- some 70,000 Boers and 100,000 Uitlanders who have flocked in to
the goldmines on the Reef. |
1896 |
18960100 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
London |
Caroline Molteno, Dr CFK Murray's wife, is still in
London staying with her brother Percy at time of the Jameson Raid. Tells how
they heard the news at a dinner party at Sir Donald Currie's. |
1896 |
18960100 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
James Molteno's wife, Clare Holland Pryor, still in
England; has been ill. |
1896 |
18960100 |
|
History |
Cape Town |
In wake of Rhodes's resignation after the Jameson
Raid, Sir Gordon Sprigg became Prime Minister once again. |
1896 |
18960310 |
Molteno |
AgnesMolteno |
London |
Agnes Molteno performs in a grand concert in Langham
Place (The Times 10.3.1896) |
1896 |
18960400 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno, Dr CFK Murray's wife, back in
Cape Town after 15 month trip to England and the Continent. |
1896 |
18960430 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Cape Town |
John Molteno, Victor Molteno and Mildred Jones's
first child, born. |
1896 |
18960500 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno resolves the difficult period in his
relations with Sir Donald Currie with persuading him to sign a formal
agreement. |
1896 |
18960513 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno publishes his first book, A Federal
South Africa. Eminent British politicians -- Gladstone, Chamberlain and
James Bryce -- congratulate him. Timing is perhaps apposite in view of the
Jamieson Raid. (The Times 15.5.96) |
1896 |
18960600 |
Molteno |
DonaldCurrie |
England |
The Drummond Castle hits rocks off French island in
the Channel and sinks. Terrible blow to Sir Donald Currie. |
1896 |
18960919 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
James Molteno, in London because of his wife's
illness, is in London. Outside Holborn Restaurant he refuses to sign a
petition for President Kruger of the SAR to release of Jameson. Causes
jingoistic indignation. |
1896 |
18961000 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Cambridge |
Ted Molteno goes up to Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Boxes. Had intended to study Natural Sciences; but switches to law. |
1896 |
18961226 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James sails for the Cape from Southampton, having
spent 3 months in the UK. |
1896 |
|
Bisset |
IslayBisset |
Cape Town |
Islay Bisset born. Later marries Jervis Molteno. |
1896 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
England |
Sir Donald Currie agrees, aged 71, to new management
contract with his three sons in law (including Percy Molteno), and brother
David Currie, with the successon in mind. |
1896 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
|
Barkly Molteno already in love with 'his dear
friend'. A most moving story. |
1896 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno qualifies in gunnery, a field he
continues to specialise in in the Royal Navy. |
1896 |
|
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
England |
Monica Molteno born at Southsea near Portsmouth.
Daughter of James Molteno and Clare Holland Pryor. |
1896 |
|
Wallis |
WilliamMoltenoWallis |
London |
William Molteno Wallis, son of Edith Alice Molteno
& William Wallis, born in East Dulwich. (His possible descendants not
researched yet) |
1896 |
|
|
History |
Southern Africa |
A series of African tribal risings in wake of the
Jameson Raid -- in Southern Rhodesia, Bechuanaland, Pondonland & E.
Griqualand. |
1896 |
|
|
History |
Cape Town |
The 1896 Session of Cape Parliament convulsed by
aftermath of the Jamieson Raid. Parliament votes to condemn it. Sets up &
accepts a critical Report into it. |
1896 |
|
|
History |
Cape Town |
Jingoist storm breaks out in the Cape. Loyal Leagues
of English-speaking whites are formed set on invading the Boer Republics.
English/Dutch relations deteriorate. |
1897 |
18970300 |
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Cape |
Tom Anderson goes on supporting Cecil Rhodes. Tom is
very hostile towards Dutch-speaking South Africans in aftermath of Jameson
Raid and the Inquiry. This causes tension in the Molteno & Murray
families. |
1897 |
18970400 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape |
Frank Molteno visiting London, staying with his
brother, Percy. Percy hears their younger brother, Wallace, thinking of
moving to Rhodesia. Percy discourages him. |
1897 |
18970500 |
|
History |
Cape Town |
Sir Alfred Milner arrives as new Governor of the
Cape & High Commissioner to Southern Africa. Begins to meddle in internal
Cape politics. |
1897 |
18970700 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
England |
Betty Molteno & Alice Greene have just spent 1st
half of this year in England & Europe, including Paris (possibly with
Eliza Bingle who spends time there). Betty returns to the Cape in July.
Europe has taken a real hold of her. |
1897 |
18970800 |
Molteno |
Molteno |
Nelspoort |
Fate of the Molteno family farms (Sir John Molteno's
estate) still not clear. |
1897 |
18971200 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
USA |
Charlie Molteno visits USA to bring back his wife,
Lucy Mitchell. The marry in New Jersey just before Christmas. Spend part of
their honeymoon at Percy Molteno's in England. |
1897 |
18971200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno is becoming close friends with a
leading Liberal politician, John Morley. |
1897 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Cape Town |
Gets a first class degree at the Cape University.
Falls in love, aged only 17, with a Miss de Villiers. His family disapproves
and ships him off to England. (Ernest never marries) |
1897 |
|
Batley |
PaulBatley |
England |
Born. His mother is Ethel Robertson. His father dies
when Paul is still a tiny child. |
1897 |
|
Bingle |
ElizaBingle |
Paris |
Eliza Bingle is back in Europe. Staying in Paris
now. Kenah Murray stays with her there. She visits the Cape often. |
1897 |
|
Molteno |
AgnesMaudMolteno |
London |
Eileen Molteno Land, Agnes Maud Molteno & her
husband Mr Land's daughter, born. (What happens to Eileen not yet researched) |
1897 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno, who is about to go to the US to get
married, buys 40 acres on the Rondebosch 'flats'. Will build his family home
of Sandown there. |
1897 |
|
Molteno |
LeopoldFGGMolteno |
England |
Dies. (How related to George Anthony Molteno's
descendants?) |
1897 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Claremont House |
Claremont House sold to a syndicate.Then the sale is
reversed & returned to the ownership of the Molteno family. |
1897 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Eastern Cape |
Wallace Molteno leases his Eastern Cape farm on
which coal has been discovered to a Jewish businessman. Wallace gets good
terms. It is a financial breakthrough for him. The arrangement lasts at least
until 1906. |
1897 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Cape Town |
Jarvis Murray fails his surveyor's exams. |
1897 |
|
|
History |
Cape Town |
Drift to war in Southern Africa between Britain and
the two Boer Republics begins to gather pace. |
1898 |
18980800 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape |
Betty Molteno's political views also radicalising,
like her brothers Percy, Charlie & James. She renews her subscription to
Jabavu's Imvo Zabantsundu newspaper. Jabavu commiserates over Charlie losing
his Tembuland seat. |
1898 |
18980100 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
England |
On way back from marriage in US, spends part of
honeymoon with Percy in England. |
1898 |
18980300 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Claremont House |
The Molteno family decides to keep Claremont House
in the family |
1898 |
18980302 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
England |
Ted Molteno still at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Boxes & beats his opponent. Reported in The Times (2.3.1898) |
1898 |
18980314 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno promoted to Lieutenant in the Royal
Navy (The Times 14.3.98) |
1898 |
18980520 |
|
History |
Cape Town |
Cape Parliament meets. Very short session. |
1898 |
18980600 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Italy |
Wallace Molteno, now 29 and with some income from
coal mine on his farm, holidays in England. He and his elder brother, Percy,
cycle round the Lombardy Plain near Milan examining its irrigation system! |
1898 |
18980600 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
While Percy Molteno is in Lombardy with Wallace
Molteno, his wife Bessie & the kids are on the family steam yacht off
West Coast of Scotland with her parents, Sir Donald & Lady Currie. |
1898 |
18980625 |
|
History |
Cape Town |
The Cape Prime Minister, Sir Gordon Sprigg, is
defeated in a No Confidence vote. Parliament dissolved. A bitter election
ensues, corrupted by Cecil Rhodes' lavish spending. Charlie & James
Molteno both face election fights. |
1898 |
18980800 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape |
Charlie Molteno loses his Tembuland seat in Cape
elections. But is soon elected to one of 16 new seats at the end of the year. |
1898 |
18980800 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno wins re-election for Parliament. |
1898 |
18980800 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape |
After his election defeat in Tembuland, Charlie
Molteno initially wants to stay out of politics while winding up both Uncle
Alport's estate and his father's (Sir John Molteno) |
1898 |
18980823 |
Molteno |
JamesTennnantMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno is elected as and Afrikaner Bond
member by narrow majority for Somerset East; his opponents were jingoist
Progressives. |
1898 |
18980900 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape |
Wallace Molteno, back at the Cape but having leased
out his farm, is now thinking of moving to Bechuanaland. He wants loan from
his brother, Percy, to buy new farm. Percy opposes the move; thinks
Bechuanaland is too remote for a viable faming operation. |
1898 |
18980905 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
Following the elections, Rhodes invites James
Molteno to dine in his railway car; tries to detach him from the Afrikaner
Bond. James refuses possible inducements. |
1898 |
18981000 |
Molteno |
HarryMolteno |
Cambridge |
Ted Molteno's two younger brothers, Clifford and
Harry, (20 & 18 years of age respectively) join him at Cambridge to study
law, & modern & medieval languages. |
1898 |
18981000 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
As Spriggs' Progressive administration tottered,
James Molteno is offered the Speakership & a pay rise to £2,000 if he
would not vote to bring down the administration. James refuses. |
1898 |
18981000 |
|
History |
Cape |
The Cape Parliament meet following the elections
which Sir Gordon Sprigg lost by 1 seat. He refuses to resign. W. P.
Schreiner wins vote of confidence, and becomes new Prime Minister on platform
opposing Britain attacking the Boer Republics & dragging the Cape into
war in its wake. |
1898 |
18981200 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno has been so busy politically, that he
has had to reject briefs in his legal practice as a barrister. His brother,
Percy, rescues him financially with £500. |
1898 |
18981223 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno, having been defeated in the
elections earlier in the year, now regains a seat (Jansenville) in elections
for 16 new seats; which he retains until 1903. Both brothers now back in
Parliament, and opposed to Rhodes and his plans. |
1898 |
|
Alport |
PercyAlport |
Cape Town |
Uncle Percy Alport dies. A close family friend and
business partner of Sir John Molteno in Beaufort West. Charlie Molteno is his
executor. |
1898 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Cambridge |
After his forced removal to England, Ernest goes up
to Pembroke College, Cambridge to study Medicine. His half-brother, Ted, is
now in his final year there. |
1898 |
|
Batley |
EthelRobertson |
England |
Arthur Batley dies (of syphilis?). Leaves his wife
Ethel Robertson a widow after only 3 years of marriage, and their son Paul
Batley. |
1898 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno, with Percy's support, is trying to
get a new newspaper going to break Cecil Rhodes' press monopoly in the Cape.
The South African News is started with Cartwright as Editor. Charlie is on
the new paper's first board of directors. |
1898 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape |
Charlie & Percy Molteno are directors of the
Cape Suburban Estate Development Co. This is busy selling plots on the Cape
Flats for Cape Town's growing suburbs. |
1898 |
|
Molteno |
FrancisGeorgeMolteno |
London |
Francis George Molteno born. (How related to George
Anthony Molteno & his descendants?) |
1898 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Hawaii |
USA takes over Hawaii. This is two generations after
Frank Molteno originally settled there. |
1898 |
|
Molteno |
SobellaMinnieBlenkins |
England |
Lady Minnie Molteno, Sir John Molteno's widow, is
still in Eastbourne though her boys are almost grown up and all now at
Cambridge. |
1898 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Parklands |
Wallace Molteno loves staying at Parklands, Percy
Molteno and Bessie Currie's new home in Surrey. Wallace also has a lovely
time with his younger brother, Barkly. |
1898 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Intensifying competition on the Cape route by German
and British shipping lines threatens to force Sir Donald Currie's Castle
Company to cut its rates. |
1898 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is spending whatever spare time he has
at British Museum working on a biography of his father, Sir John Molteno. |
1898 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray, Caroline Molteno's husband, is
elected President of the Cape Medical Council. He is re-elected for the next
20 years. |
1899 |
18990100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy continues his involvement in Cape affairs from
a distance. He persuades the Attorney-General & others to oppose the Inns
of Court idea to exclude aliens from being called to the bar. |
1899 |
18990300 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno in London in March. Then back to Port
Elizabeth where she is still head of the Girls Collegiate. |
1899 |
18990300 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno wants to stand for Parliament. Herbert
Gladstone, the Liberal chief whip, tells him of a possible North
Buckinghamshire seat. |
1899 |
18990700 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
South African Republic |
Betty Molteno travels to Pretoria in order to see
President Kruger of the South African Republic, just months before the Boer
War broke out. Growing alarm at the inevitability of Britain going to war
against the Boer Republics. |
1899 |
18990700 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno helps form a committee in London to
monitor Southern African developments and counteract the war lobby's
influence in Britain. |
1899 |
18990700 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
The Manchester Guardian sends J A Hobson to Southern
Africa; Percy Molteno gives him introductions. The upshot was an insightful
book published in 1900 only after war had broken out. |
1899 |
18990701 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno is trying to avert war all year.
Writes letter to The Times in reply to Rider Haggard. It causes a huge stir.
15,000 copies of his letter are distributed. |
1899 |
18990704 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Cape Parliament reassembles. Schreiner the new Prime
Minister. Just 3 months before Boer War starts |
1899 |
18990719 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno speaks at the first public meeting in
St Martin's Town Hall in London to oppose the drift to war with the Boer
Republics. |
1899 |
18990800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Renewal of the valuable mail contract with the
Castle & Union lines successfully negotiated and ratified by the Cape
Parliament. |
1899 |
18990800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno is in close touch with the Liberal
Leader of the Opposition, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, via his private
secretary, Capt. Sinclair, over deteriorating situation. |
1899 |
18990900 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Lord Salisbury's Conservative administration orders
10,000 troops to Southern Africa as a means of putting pressure on the two
Boer Republics. |
1899 |
18990927 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno hand delivers a Loyal Petition signed
by a large majority of Cape M.P.s to Governor Milner in a last attempt to
forestall drift to war. |
1899 |
18991000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno is already friends with Sir F C
Selous, big game hunter & explorer. They share a common position on
disastrous likely consequences of the Boer War. |
1899 |
18991000 |
|
History |
Cape |
Hofmeyr's Afrikaner Bond, of which James Molteno is
a member, & its supporters decide Schreiner shld stay in office; and to
bend its efforts to restore peace now war has broken out. |
1899 |
18991004 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno hears from Sir Alfred Milner that his
Loyal Petition had been rejected a week before the War starts. James has his
controversial conversation with Milner that is soon splashed in the British
papers. |
1899 |
18991011 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Boer War breaks out. Britain is now at war with the
South African Republic and Orange Free State. |
1899 |
18991012 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Fighting begins. Many districts of the Northern Cape
fall under Boer control until earlyish 1900. |
1899 |
18991193 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno sends his brother James' minute of his
meeting with Sir Alfred Milner to Daily Chronicle which publishes it. A
political storm breaks out in London & Cape Town since it shows British
authorities' attitude to the Boers and determination to go to war. |
1899 |
18991200 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Severe defeats for British forces at Magersfontein,
Stormberg and Colenso. Lord Roberts & Kitchener despatched to take
command. |
1899 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Charlie Molteno and his 2nd cousin, Harry Jackson,
buy Bleakhouse together, next door to Nelspoort. |
1899 |
|
Molteno |
FrankEdmundMolteno |
Kalk Bay |
Frank Edmund Molteno, Frank & Ella's 2nd son, is
tragically drowned at Kalk Bay while fishing on the rocks, aged only eight. |
1899 |
|
Molteno |
LucyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Lucy Molteno, eldest child of Charlie Molteno and
Lucy Mitchell is born. |
1899 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Italy |
Percy Molteno visits the ancestral village of
Molteno. He leaves his visiting card and his visit is recorded in Liber
Chronicus. |
1900 |
19000200 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Lord Roberts & Kitchener turn the military tide.
British forces ccupy Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State. |
1900 |
19000200 |
|
History |
England |
Pro-war hysteria sweeps Britain. Leonard Courtney, a
leading Liberal opposed to the Boer War, gets anonymous letters, threats to
shoot him etc! |
1900 |
19000300 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno's legal practice in Cape Town
collapses as a result of his prominent anti-Milner position. His brother
Percy rescues him again with a gift of £500. |
1900 |
19000300 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Boers sue for peace. But Britain demands
unconditional surrender. So the long guerrilla war starts. |
1900 |
19000316 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno publishes his Life & Times of Sir
John Charles Molteno (The Times 16.3.1900); the Boer War is in full swing. |
1900 |
19000317 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
The South African Conciliation Committee is formed;
Percy Molteno is one of its founders (The Times 17.3.1900). |
1900 |
19000428 |
Molteno |
AliceEdithMolteno |
London |
Alice Edith Molteno, a daughter of the late
Frederick James Molteno, one of Sir John Molteno's brothers, plays harp at
Victoria Madrigal Society (The Times 28.4.1900) |
1900 |
19000428 |
|
History |
Cape |
Cape Prime Minister W P Schreiner's Afrikaner Bond
government issues Amnesty Minute calling for better British treatment of Cape
Rebels (Boers supporting their fellow Boers across the border) -- no
disenfranchisement. |
1900 |
19000600 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Lord Kitchener occupies Pretoria, capital of the
South African Republic. President Kruger leaves for Europe. But occupation of
Boer Republics does not end the war. |
1900 |
19000600 |
|
History |
Cape |
Dr Jameson, who had led the abortive invasion of the
South African Republic in 1896, is elected as MP for Kimberley. This diamond
town is a pocket borough in the hands of Cecil Rhodes. Jamieson's election
inflames feelings. |
1900 |
19000615 |
|
History |
Cape |
Afrikaner Bond government in the Cape is disunited
and falls. Sir Gordon Sprigg takes over. Within months, the Cape Parliament
is soon prorogued; remains so for duration of the War. Britain has in effect
suspended responsible government at the Cape. |
1900 |
19000618 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Cambridge |
Ted Molteno passes Part 1 of Law Tripos at Pembroke,
Cambridge (Times 18.6.1900) |
1900 |
19000622 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno's engagement with the Liberal Party in
Britain deepens. He is one of the guests, with C P Scott M.P., at a New
Reform Club dinner on South Africa (The Times 22.6.1900) |
1900 |
19000700 |
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno says his little girl, Monica, refuses
to leave him. So she stays behind when her mother, Clare Holland Pryor, moves
to Britain. James takes Monica to Kalk Bay each day. |
1900 |
19000700 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
Cape Town |
Vincent Molteno, James Molteno & Clare Holland
Pryor's son, aged 8, is taken off to England by his mother. He does not see
the Cape again til December 1913 when he is posted on a Royal Navy ship to
the British base at Simonstown. |
1900 |
19000700 |
Pryor |
ClareHollandPryor |
Cape Town |
Clare Holland Pryor, James Molteno's wife, sails
from Cape Town with Vincent & Clarissa, but leaves Monica, aged six,
behind. James & Clare do not see each other for the next two years. |
1900 |
19000700 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
British forces start burning Boer farmsteads and
other anti-guerilla measures in OFS & Transvaal. Causes international
outcry. |
1900 |
19000800 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Port Elizabeth |
Betty Molteno forced out of her headship of
Collegiate School because of her stance on the War. |
1900 |
19000822 |
Molteno |
JamesTennnantMolteno |
Cape Town |
In Cape House of Assembly, during debate on a
Treason Bill, The Times (22.8.1900) alleges James Molteno "spoke in
justification of the conduct of the Rebels". |
1900 |
19000929 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Socalled Khaki election in Britain. Sir Donald
Currie again objects to Percy Molteno standing despite the mid Bucks Liberals
asking him to stand. Percy withdraws. (Times 29.9.1900). |
1900 |
19001000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
In late 1900 Percy Molteno helps found a Distress
Fund for Boer War victims in London. |
1900 |
19001013 |
|
History |
Cape |
Cape Parliament prorogued by Sprigg, the new Prime
Minister. It does not meet again til after the end of the Boer War. |
1900 |
19001100 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
England |
Charlie Molteno MP travels to London in bid to raise
funds for continuation of the anti-War paper, South African News, which is
about to collapse. He sees leading British politicians. |
1900 |
19001200 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Betty Molteno, staying with her sister at Kenilworth
House, welcomes the Quaker Joshua Rowntree & Emily Hobhouse who are
coming to investigate conditions in the War. |
1900 |
19001200 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
England |
Small dinner is given for Percy & Charlie
Molteno to meet the Liberal leader, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, &
discuss how the Liberal opposition should respond to the War. |
1900 |
19001200 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
The long guerrilla war in South Africa under way.
Last one and a half years. |
1900 |
19001208 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno returns from Britain to Cape Town on
the Tantallon Castle, a Union Castle ship. Rudyard Kipling & his wife are
on board. (The Times 8.12.1900) |
1900 |
19090900 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Sir Donald Currie, now 75 years of age, does not
stand again in general election & ceases to be an MP in the British
Parliament. |
1900 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Cambridge |
Ernest Anderson is still studying Medicine at
Cambridge. He is close friends with Mabel Elliott, a schoolmate of May
Murray's. Their cousin, Ted Molteno, makes mischief by spreading idea that
their friendship is improper. |
1900 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
England |
The Union Company and Castle Company are
amalgamated. This is Sir Donald Currie's last great commercial coup, just 9
years before his death. |
1900 |
|
Jackson |
GladysJackson |
? |
Gladys Jackson born. Possibly not of the Jacksons
who are related to the Moltenos via Caroline Bower & her sister. Gladys
later marries John T. Molteno, and lives on Karoo. |
1900 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
England |
Caroline Molteno, wife of Dr CFK Murray, had gone to
London with her brother, Charlie Molteno. She also is very active in the
pro-Boer cause. |
1900 |
|
Molteno |
HaroldVictorMolteno |
Cape Town |
Harold Molteno, Dr Victor Molteno & Mildred
Jones's second son, is born. Later dies tragically in Burma in 1925. |
1900 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno chairs South African Conciliation
Committee in the Cape. He struggles to get the facts out about what is
actually happening in the War. |
1900 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Just before Cape Parliament is prorogued
indefinitely, Sir Gordon Sprigg administration passes the Treason and
Indemnity Act. This paved way for the treason trials. James Molteno defends
the Cape Rebels in courts in Aliwal North, Barkly East, Wodehouse etc during
1901-2. |
1900 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno becomes quite unpopular in England
because of his criticism of High Commissioner Sir Alfred Milner and the War
Britain is prosecuting in South Africa. |
1900 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
England |
Vincent is schooled from now on in Britain. He
becomes very close to his cousin, Jervis Molteno, who is also growing up
there. |
1900 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Aliwal North |
Wallace Molteno buys a farm in Aliwal North which is
in the Cape, but near the Orange Free State border and has a significant
British military presence. |
1900 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
Nelspoort |
Gordon Murray, a son of Dr CFK Murray and his wife,
Caroline Molteno, matriculates from school at age 17, spends several months
on the farm; then goes to London. |
1900 |
|
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
London |
Kenah Murray, Dr CFK Murray & Caroline Molteno's
eldest son, after Cambridge, goes to Guys Hospital, London, to complete
medical training. |
1901 |
19010100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno refuses to stand as a Progressive for
the London County Council. Presumably his sights are still set on getting
into Parliament. |
1901 |
19010100 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Aliwal North |
Wallace, although a civilian and farmer, is plunged
into the War. The situation at Aliwal North becomes dire situation. His
remaining animals are commandeered by the British forces. |
1901 |
19010100 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Cape |
Jarvis Murray and his younger brother Gordon think
of volunteering on the British side! They give up the idea, presumably much
to the relief of their mother, Caroline Murray, given her own criticism of
Britain waging war on the Boer Republics. |
1901 |
19010100 |
|
History |
Cape |
The Boers invade the Cape Colony again. There is
virtual civil war in parts of the Cape. Beaufort West & most of Colony
are placed under British martial law. |
1901 |
19010100 |
|
History |
Cape |
Circulation of the anti-war newspaper, the South
African News, is prohibited under martial law in most of the Colony. |
1901 |
19010200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is critical of atrocities committed by
European & Japanese forces during suppression of Boxer Rebellion in
China. |
1901 |
19010200 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Lord Kitchener meets General Botha, commander in
chief of the Boer forces. Kitchener drops the condition of unconditional
surrender, but the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, vetoes the
concession. So the war resumes and becomes increasingly bitter. |
1901 |
19010200 |
|
History |
London |
Leading anti-war Cape politicians, Merriman &
Sauer, come to London. The Liberal Party is totally divided totally over the
War. |
1901 |
19010300 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
After the collapse of peace feelers, British
authorities establish treason courts. A reign of terror begins. James Molteno
goes to Dordrecht; has 124 cases of Cape Rebels to defend. |
1901 |
19010417 |
Glass |
CatherineGlass |
Scotland |
Catherine Glass, the younger unmarried daughter of
Charles Dominic Molteno's wife, Mrs Margaret Glass (nee Scott), by her first
marriage, dies. |
1901 |
19010500 |
|
History |
Cape |
Cartwright, Editor of the South African News, is
gaoled for publishing a paragraph which the British authorities take
objection to, and which had appeared in The Times. |
1901 |
19010600 |
Molteno |
HarryMolteno |
Cambridge |
Harry Molteno, youngest of Sir John Molteno &
his wife Minnie Blenkins, graduates in Modern & Medieval Languages at
Cambridge. |
1901 |
19010600 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno now busy in Aliwal North providing
legal defence to the Cape Rebels appearing in the Treason Courts. James
spends time with his brother, Wallace, on his farm there. |
1901 |
19010600 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
1000s Boers, mainly women & children from the
burned out farms, held in concentration camps. The South African Women &
Children's Distress Fund Cte active. Percy Molteno addresses its meetings at
the homes of Lord Hobhouse & Lady Farrar in London. |
1901 |
19010700 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape |
Caroline Murray, her sister Betty Molteno, Mrs Sauer
& others see the Governor, Hely-Hutchinson, to protest against executions
of Boers under martial law. |
1901 |
19010700 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape |
Caroline Murray & her sister Betty Molteno
chance to meet Prime Minister, Sir Gordon Sprigg, in the street. Quite a
confrontation. |
1901 |
19010700 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape |
Charlie Molteno M.P. goes to see Sprigg, the Prime
Minister, in effort to halt the executions. Sprigg says his Government
consents to hanging Cape Rebels. |
1901 |
19010700 |
Molteno |
MariaMolteno |
London |
Maria Molteno, wife of Tom Anderson, learns she is
seriously ill; still in her 40s. She & Tom set off on a long tour of
Europe. |
1901 |
19010700 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
From July to December James Molteno is in Mafeking,
Kimberley & Colesberg defending Cape Rebels in the treason trials. |
1901 |
19010800 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape |
Caroline is on an official black list. Her husband,
Dr CFK Murray, is invited to the Governor's functions, but her name is
dropped. |
1901 |
19010800 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Destruction of farms continues by the British
military. Charlie Molteno reckons he has lost £15,000 in livestock. Julius
Jackson gets some ostriches back. |
1901 |
19010800 |
|
History |
Cape |
Merriman, prominent politician and post-Boer War
Cape Prime Minister, is arrested and confined to his farm. |
1901 |
19010900 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Charlie Molteno experiences all donkeys on the farm
requisitioned by British soldiers. Crops taken. All farmwork ceases. No
foodstuffs can be grown. |
1901 |
19011000 |
Hobhouse |
EmilyHobhouse |
Cape Town |
Arrest and forcible removal from the Cape of eminent
British humanitarian who has exposed conditions in the concentration camps.
Betty Molteno & Caroline Murray active in support of her. |
1901 |
19011000 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno describes riding through the
platteland and finding huge smouldering piles of cattle carcases killed by
British troops as part of policy to burn all Boer farms. |
1901 |
19011000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno instructs and pays lawyers on
Merriman's behalf. This pressure gets restrictions on Merriman lifted. |
1901 |
19011100 |
Hobhouse |
EmilyHobhouse |
Cape Town |
Emily Hobhouse finally deported forcibly. Her uncle
is a leading Liberal politician, Lord Hobhouse. Caroline and Betty closely
involved in giving her support. |
1901 |
19011200 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno hears rumours at Christmas time that
the new Governor, Sir Alfred Milner, wants to abolish self-government at the
Cape. He rushes down to Cape Town to throw himself into the fray. Seeks
permit to be allowed to travel to London. |
1901 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
China |
Barkly Molteno in the Royal Navy receives a new
posting -- to the China Station in 1901. Serves there til 1904. |
1901 |
|
Molteno |
CarolMolteno |
Cape Town |
Carol Molteno born. She is Charlie Molteno & his
wife Lucy Mitchell's second child. |
1901 |
|
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
England |
Clare Holland Pryor, though separated de facto from
her husband James, goes with his brother Percy Molteno & Bessie Currie on
holiday to Italy. |
1901 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James spends most of this year (18 mths) defending
Cape rebels charged with high treason after the Boer invasion of the Cape. |
1901 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno publicly rejects Britain's annexation
of the South African Republic. This is an obstacle to his standing for
Parliament. |
1901 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Aliwal North |
Wallace Molteno, trying to farm in this area, is
caught up in the thick of the fighting on the frontier during the War. |
1901 |
|
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cambridge |
Dr Kenah Murray, Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK
Murray's eldest son, announces he wants to marry Hilda Robertson, daughter of
a City banker, currently living at Boyle farm in Thames Ditton on outskirts
of London. |
1901 |
|
Roberston |
EthelRobertson |
England |
Marries her 2nd husband, J C Swantson (Malcolm's
father). Later divorced. |
1902 |
19020300 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Millers Point |
Boer War dragging to an end. Percy Molteno &
Bessie Currie planning to visit the Cape with their 3 children. Percy
negotiates to rent Millers Point on the False Bay coast a few miles beyond
Simonstown. |
1902 |
19020400 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Lord Kitchener allowed at last to offer the Boers
tolerable terms. Negotiations take place. Peace of Vereeniging followed in
May. |
1902 |
19020500 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
After months of struggle with High Commissioner Sir
Alfred Milner, James Molteno M.P. Eventually gets permission to sail for
England. Arrives the day before peace declared. |
1902 |
19020531 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
Coming up from Southampton on the train, James
Molteno hears the bells in London celebrating the outbreak of peace at end of
Boer War. |
1902 |
19020531 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
Boers accept British terms. Peace declared. The 2
republics surrender their independence. |
1902 |
19020600 |
Molteno |
MariaMolteno |
Europe |
Tom Anderson and his wife Maria Molteno are in
Florence when they hear Boer War has finally ended. |
1902 |
19020600 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cambridge |
Kenah Murray, a keen oarsman, rows in the Henley
Regatta. |
1902 |
19020600 |
|
History |
London |
The Colonial Conference held. Canadian Prime
Minister & other leaders scotch Milner & Chamberlain's intention to
scrap self-government at the Cape. |
1902 |
19020602 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
James Molteno meets with senior Liberal Party
leaders (Campbell Bannerman et al.) to mobilise opposition to Tory Government
intention to abrogate Cape self-government. |
1902 |
19020800 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty travels to London to join up with her
brothers, Percy & James, and sister Caroline, already there. She travels
with three leading Boer War generals also going to London to lobby for
restoration of self-government. |
1902 |
19020800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno looks after the 3 Boer War generals
who have come to London at the end of the war in order to lobby. |
1902 |
19020800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno books hotels for the three Boer War
generals; each hotel refuses to have them! |
1902 |
19020800 |
|
History |
Elgin |
The first train reaches Elgin via a new railway pass
over Hottentots Holland Mountains. The potential economic future of the
valley transformed. |
1902 |
19020802 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
After 3 months in London, James Molteno sails back
to Cape Town for the 1st post-war session of Cape Parliament on 20 August
1902. This is the first time it has met since October 1900. |
1902 |
19020820 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Cape Parliament reconvenes & votes down, with
Sir Gordon Sprigg's support, the idea of suspending self-government at the
Cape. James Molteno overjoyed. |
1902 |
19021000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
Percy Molteno & his family arrive in the Cape.
Stay with his brother Charlie Molteno & his wife Lucy Mitchell in
Rondebosch. Percy spends at least 6 months in South Africa. |
1902 |
19021200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
At end of 1902, Percy Molteno is touch about various
parliamentary seats where he might stand in the next general election. |
1902 |
19021200 |
Murray |
GordonMurray |
Elgin |
Gordon Murray, the second of Caroline Molteno &
Dr CFK Murray's sons, finishes agriculture training at Elsenberg College. |
1902 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Cambridge |
Ernest Anderson, Tom Anderson & Maria's
Molteno's son, qualifies as doctor. Placed 2nd on the lists. His first
cousin, Kenah Murray, & his brother, Harold Anderson, also at Cambridge
at this time. |
1902 |
|
Bingle |
ElizaBingle |
London |
Eliza Bingle, now elderly and long accepted as part
of the Molteno family, is living in small flat in Streatham. |
1902 |
|
Bingle |
ElizaBingle |
London |
May Murray sees Eliza Bingle at her flat in
Streatham. Eliza takes her & Helena (Bisset?) to Paris, a city Eliza
knows well. |
1902 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
England |
Caroline Molteno, wife of Dr CFK Murray, visits
Berkhamstead School; decides to send their youngest children, Kathleen and
George, there. |
1902 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Generals Botha, de Wet & de la Rey return via
Cape Town from London. James Molteno has his 1st chance of getting to know
them; also General Smuts. |
1902 |
|
Molteno |
MildredNanceMolteno |
Cape Town |
Nance Molteno born. 4th child of Victor &
Mildred Molteno. |
1902 |
|
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Monica Molteno, now seven, still in Cape Town. How
much she has seen of her father, James Molteno, who has been upcountry
through most of the War, uncertain. She & James by chance on the beach
nearby when Rhodes dies at his cottage in Muizenberg. |
1902 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Wallace Molteno starts farming the family farm of
Kamfers Kraal about now. |
1902 |
|
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cambridge |
Dr Kenah Murray gets engaged to Hilda Robertson. |
1902 |
|
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Guernsey |
Dr Kenah Murray and his bride, Hilda Robertson, play
golf in Guernsey -- not realizing he has Molteno relations living on the
island! |
1902 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Cape |
Lenox Murray, one of Dr CFK Murray & Caroline
Molteno's sons, also being sent to Agricultural College, as has his brother,
Gordon. |
1902 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
England |
May Murray wants to join her close friend Mabel
Elliott at Cheltenham College. But her mother, Caroline, insists sh e on Mme
Osterberg's Swedish College instead. |
1902 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
Thousands of Boer 'Rebels' remain disfranchised in
1st post-war election. So jingoistic Progressives win election when held. |
1903 |
19030100 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Betty Molteno leaves England & returns to South
Africa. No longer being Headmistress of the Collegiate, she is free
henceforth re how she spends her time, and where. She is 51. |
1903 |
19030100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
In January, Percy Molteno & his wife Bessie
Currie & their family move to Millers Point. Love it. Percy buys it a
couple of months later. |
1903 |
19030100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
British plans, on behalf of the mineowners, to cut
African minewages by half & to import Chinese instead. Percy Molteno,
along with many in South Africa of all races, opposed. He writes to Captain
Sinclair, a key Liberal Party figure in London, about this. |
1903 |
19030100 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape |
Percy Molteno sees him. Finds his brother, Wallace,
more cheerful about his farm than expected. |
1903 |
19030129 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Elgin |
Percy Molteno buys Oak Lodge farm on the Palmiet
River at Elgin for his sister Caroline & her husband Dr CFK Murray. It is
in part for their son, Gordon, to start farming. |
1903 |
19030200 |
|
James Molteno |
Southern Africa |
Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, tours
Southern Africa for the 1st time; reaches Cape Town. Meets the Afrikaner Bond
MPs in the Cape Parliament, including James Molteno. An uncomfortable
occasion. |
1903 |
19030300 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Southern Africa |
Percy Molteno leaves Cape & tours Orange Free
State, Transvaal and Natal to see post-war situation at first hand. Shocked
at the destruction. |
1903 |
19030300 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
The 200,000 British troops now down to 30,000.
Economic recession sets in with the rapid winding down at the end of the war.
Most of the concentration camps closed. |
1903 |
19030324 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesJarvisMolteno |
Millers Point |
Tragedy strikes Percy & Bessie eldest son,
Charlie Molteno. Aged 12. he contracts meningitis and dies at Millers Point.
(The Times 20.4.1903) |
1903 |
19030400 |
Murray |
CarolineMolteno |
Elgin |
Caroline Molteno, Dr CFK Murray's wife, moves into
the tiny cottage on Oak Lodge farm with her son, Gordon Murray, who starts
farming it. Her husband still practising Medicine in Kenilworth. |
1903 |
19030500 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy & Bessie return to Britain, bringing the
body of their eldest son, Charlie Molteno, for burial at Glen Lyon in
Scotland. Percy has a huge asthma attack. Plagued by asthma henceforth. |
1903 |
19030500 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted & Harry Molteno, Sir John's youngest sons,
both back at the Cape. Cycle round the Boland looking for farm. On way back,
they stay with their half sister, Caroline Murray, at Oak Lodge. Buy their
1st farm there. |
1903 |
19030600 |
Anderson |
HaroldAnderson |
Cambridge |
Harold Anderson, a son of Maria Molteno & Tom
Anderson, hurries back from Cambridge to the Cape, along with his sister
Effie, when they hear their mother is dying. |
1903 |
19030700 |
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
England |
Bertie Molteno, a son of Frederick Molteno and his
wife, Georgina Pope White, is living in Bath, circa 1903-1905. |
1903 |
19030700 |
Molteno |
MariaMolteno |
Cape Town |
aria Molteno dies at her and her husband Tom
Anderson's home in Kalk Bay aged only 47. Their daughter, Effie, has to
return to South Africa from Scotland where she had been in boarding school. |
1903 |
19030729 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted & Harry Molteno buy Glen Elgin farm,
adjoining their elder brother Frank Molteno's Evergreen Farm. Percy Molteno
lends them the money -- £6,000. They do not farm fruit initially; instead
have some vines, and pigs and potatoes. |
1903 |
19030800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Dumfriesshire Liberal Association asks Percy Molteno
to become their candidate. He agrees. Will eventually fight 3 general
elections there. |
1903 |
19030800 |
Murray |
GordonMurray |
Elgin |
Gordon Murray trying to make a go of the small
family farm, Palmiet River. This is before growing fruit in Elgin has become
established. His cousins, Ted & Harry Molteno staying with him for a time
waiting for their house at Glen Elgin to be built. |
1903 |
19030900 |
|
History |
England |
Chamberlain resigns over the move by the
Conservative Government away from imperial preference (whereby exports from
the colonies got a tariff advantage in the British market). Henceforth the
Tories are split by tariff reform. |
1903 |
19030903 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno adopted as the Liberal parliamentary
candidate for Dumfriesshire. (The Times 3.9.1903) |
1903 |
19040300 |
Murray |
GordonMurray |
Elgin |
Gordon Murray starts farming at his parents' place,
Oak Lodge, in Elgin. |
1903 |
19030500 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Elgin |
A few months after Percy Molteno had bought Oak
Lodge for their sister, Caroline, Frank Molteno bought Evergreen farm in
Elgin (eventually Brenda, his daughter, & her husband Tommy Thomas take
it over in 1919, and farm it. |
1903 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Cambridge |
Ernest Anderson and Prince Yusuf have become friends
at Cambridge in the years before 1903. |
1903 |
|
Henderson |
ThemaJanetHenderson |
England |
Thelma Henderson, daughter of Admiral Henderson, is
born. She later marries Malcolm Molteno. |
1903 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno returns from the China Station;
becomes Firing Commander of the Gunnery School, Portsmouth. |
1903 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno opposes Britain imposing Imperial
Preference on the four South African colonies since, being reciprocal, it
would make their imports more costly. |
1903 |
|
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm Swantson, Ethel Robertson's second son, is
born. He changes his surname to Molteno when his stepfather, Barkly Molteno,
adopts him at some point after Barkly marries Malcolm's mother after 1915. |
1903 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
The ostrich farming farm, because of the feathers in
ladies' hats, starts. This is about the time Wallace Molteno starts farming
at Kamfers Kraal. The boom lasts 10 years until the outbreak of the First
World War. |
1903 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
A terrible drought in the Beaufort West district
again. |
1903 |
|
|
History |
Cape |
The Afrikaner Bond and the new South African Party
unite. |
1903 |
|
|
History |
Cape Town |
The pro-British Progressive Party in the Cape elects
Dr Jameson (Rhodes had just died) as its leader. This further exacerbates
English/Dutch feeling. |
1904 |
19040101 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno promoted to rank of Commander -- one
rank below Captain (The Times 1.1.1904) |
1904 |
19040108 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is a member of the New Reform Club. Is
at a dinner addressed by Lloyd-George. Sir Harry Johnston, H W Massingham, L
V Harcourt present. (Times 8.1.1904) |
1904 |
19040200 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape |
In the Cape Colony general election, Charlie Molteno
is defeated because he falls foul of jingoist feeling among Englishspeaking
voters & because many Boer voters are still disqualified as a result of
penalties imposed during the Boer War. |
1904 |
19040213 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
The jingoist Progressives under Dr Jameson win the
General Election in the Cape. James Molteno retains his Somerset East seat,
with his fellow candidate Mr Vosloo, as an Afrikaner Bond candidate &
becomes Leader of the Opposition for a few months until Merriman wins a
by-election and takes over. (Times 13.2.1904) |
1904 |
19040318 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Sir Donald Currie donates £2,500 to University
College Medical School in London on behalf of his 3 daughters, Mrs
Mirrielees, Mrs Molteno, Mrs Wisely for a library & piano in the Nursing
Home. (Times 18.3.1904) |
1904 |
19040325 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
England |
Dr Kenah Murray registered as a doctor. Holds a
medical degree from University of Cambridge. A Member by 1913 of the Royal
College of Surgeons. |
1904 |
19040500 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
A South Africa Party MP resigns to make way for
Merriman to win a by-election. Merriman replaces James Molteno as leader of
the Opposition. |
1904 |
19040516 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cape Town |
Mrs C M Murray -- Hilda Robertson, Kenah's wife --
is presented at Court to their Majesties at Buckingham Palace (Times
16.5.1904). |
1904 |
19040528 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
Cape Parliament prorogued 28 May. James Molteno
sails to London. It is nearly 2 years since he was last there. He sees his
largely estranged wife, Clare Holland Pryor. Tours Europe in the summer with
his brother, Percy. |
1904 |
19040600 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Cape |
Barkly Molteno spends a little time on leave at the
Cape. Despite his Royal Navy career, he retains his close links with his
family there and visits when he can. |
1904 |
19040616 |
Molteno |
CliffordMolteno |
Cape Town |
Clifford Molteno, one of Sir John Molteno &
Minnie Blenkins' sons, is called to the Bar, the Inner Temple, aged 26.
(Times 16.6.1904) |
1904 |
19040900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno resigns on a point of principle as a
director of Durban Roodepoort & Vogelstruis mining companies because they
agree to take on cheap imported Chinese labour. |
1904 |
19041000 |
Molteno |
MinnieMolteno |
Cape |
Minnie Molteno, daughter of Sir John & his wife,
Minnie Blenkins, becomes infatuated again with her first cousin, Harold
Anderson. Lady Molteno objects. Minnie leaves for Europe to study singing.
Never marries. |
1904 |
19041100 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
After some six months away, James Molteno returns
from England to Cape Town. |
1904 |
19041200 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
England |
At end of year, Betty returns to England from the
Cape. |
1904 |
|
Jackson |
ArthurSoulbyJackson |
Loxton |
Arthur Jackson at last settles in the tiny dorp of
Loxton on the Karoo as postmaster and justice of the peace. The family is
quite hard up. |
1904 |
|
Molteno |
AudreyMolteno |
England |
Audrey Molteno, youngest daughter of James Molteno
& Clare Holland Pryor, born. Never marries. |
1904 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno is trying to help the eminent Black
South African journalist & intellectual, Jabavu, save his Xhosa-language
newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu. |
1904 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Tension between Charlie Molteno & his
half-brother, Ted Molteno, & Ted's mother Lady Minnie Molteno, over Elgin
farming. |
1904 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
In the years 1904-06, Charlie Molteno, the eldest of
Sir John Molteno's sons, largely withdrew from management of the family
farms. |
1904 |
|
Molteno |
MinnieMolteno |
Europe |
Clifford Molteno and sister Minnie tour Europe.
Minnie runs away. Consternation in the family as they try to find where she
is. |
1904 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno involved in a new struggle. Opposes
Prime Minister Jameson's attempt to gerrymander the next general election by
creating many more mainly pro-Progressive seats in big coastal towns of the
Cape. |
1904 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
England |
Vincent Molteno, James & Clare Holland Pryor's
son, is sent, aged 12, to the Royal Navy officer training school at Dartmouth
like his Uncle Barkly Molteno 20 years earlier. |
1904 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Wallace Molteno considers buying an interest in the
family farms on the Karoo. |
1904 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
Elgin |
Gordon Murray doesn't make a success of farming Oak
Lodge. He goes off to Nelspoort & spends some years farming sheep there. |
1904 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Elgin |
While Gordon & Lenox Murray trying to farm at
Oak Lodge in Elgin, their eldest brother Jarvis is helping his uncle Frank
Molteno farm at Evergreen nearby. |
1904 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Elgin |
After completing his agricultural training at
Elsenberg, Lenox takes over the family's farm, Palmiet River, from his elder
brother Gordon who has gone up to Nelspoort. Lenox also is not successful on
this farm. |
1904 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Elgin |
May Murray, after 2 yrs at the Swedish College in
England, is back with her parents at Palmiet River in Elgin. |
1905 |
19050200 |
Molteno |
SobellaMinnieMolteno |
Elgin |
Sir John Molteno's widow, Minnie Blenkins, buys a
farm in Elgin. Her sons, Ted & Harry, farm it for her and pay her an
income. |
1905 |
19050526 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is involved in another business
initiative of Sir Donald Currie in South Africa -- Vogelstruis Estates &
Gold Mines Ltd. It is now making a profit for 1st time. (Times 26.5.1905) |
1905 |
19050624 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Real Estate Corp. of SA Ltd. Holds its 14th AGM at 3
Fenchurch Street, the head office of the Union Castle Line. Percy Molteno
presides. Depression in Southern Africa continues. (Times 24.6.1905) |
1905 |
19050706 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Commander Barkly Molteno posted to HMS Pembroke, the
Royal Naval Barracks at Chatham. (Times 6.7.1905) |
1905 |
19050713 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
John Molteno, the eldest son & third child of
Charlie Molteno & Lucy Mitchell, is born. His father dies when Long John,
as he was affectionately known, was 19. |
1905 |
19051100 |
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Bath |
Bertie Molteno leaves Bath. Joins his father, Fred
Molteno, at Kandy in Ceylon where he has a photographic studio. Bertie spends
3 or 4 years there before moving on Australia. |
1905 |
19051200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
British general election campaign starts. Percy
Molteno launches his election campaign in Dumfries. His wife, Bessie Currie,
hates election campaigning. |
1905 |
|
Birch |
SydneyBirch |
Vogelvlei |
Sydney Birch is born on his father's farm in the
Eastern Cape. He eventually took the farm over. |
1905 |
|
Bisset |
NellieBisset |
Kalk Bay |
Nellie Bisset & her husband have a house in Kalk
Bay, adding to the cluster of related families with homes there -- Moltenos,
Andersons, Bissets. |
1905 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
? |
Barkly Molteno's 'sweet friend' dies. Barkly
devastated. |
1905 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno in the years 1905-11, moves to and fro
between London & Geneva where she has a new close woman friend, Countess
Evelyn degli Asinelli . |
1905 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Some of the biggest Molteno farms sold -- Baakensrug
and Hopewell. |
1905 |
|
Molteno |
MinnieMolteno |
Cape |
Minnie returns from her escapade in Europe when her
brother Clifford chased round looking for her. |
1905 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
London |
Wallace visits England again. Wallace admires his
brother, Barkly, enormously. The two brothers are close. Both are still
unmarried. |
1905 |
|
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
England |
Dr Kenah Murray marries Hilda Robertson. |
1905 |
|
Murray |
LornaMurray |
Cape Town |
Lorna Murray, daughter of Dr Kenah Murray &
Hilda Robertson, is born. |
1906 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno, a new MP, puts a Parliamentary
Question re the danger to African land rights in Transvaal on Crown land
which may be leased to immigrant white farmers. (The Times) |
1906 |
19060112 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno addresses a public meeting. He argues
Liberal Party policy is Social Reform rather than Tariff Reform. (Times
12.1.1906) |
1906 |
19060112 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno speaks at a meeting & calls for a
halt to the shooting down of 'Natives' by the Belgians in the Congo Basin.
(Times 12.1.06) |
1906 |
19060120 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
The Unionists swept from office in a Liberal Party
landslide. Percy Molteno wins Dumfries by 4,814 to 3,431 votes. His wife,
Bessie Currie, & son, Jervis, join him at Commercial Hotel for a victory
drive through town. (Times 22.1.1906) |
1906 |
19060200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno still very active in business. He
persuades the Union-Castle shipping line to use coal mined in Natal. This is
successful and savings result. |
1906 |
19060200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Following his election victory, Percy Molteno is
elected a member of the Reform Club. He retains his membership of the
National Liberal Club. |
1906 |
19060200 |
|
History |
Southern Africa |
The King's Speech under the new Liberal Government
promises immediate full responsible government for Orange Free State &
Transvaal. Critics of Britain's Boer War vindicated & sharp decline in
British influence over South Africa as a whole begins. |
1906 |
19060306 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
England |
Dr Ernest Anderson registered as a doctor on 6 March
1906. Has a Bac. Surgery from University of Cambridge. |
1906 |
19060427 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno, as a new MP, makes clear his aversion
to warfare by joining six other Liberal MPs in calling for a cut in the
Government's Army and Navy manoeuvres estimates. (Times 27.4.06) |
1906 |
19060500 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno in deputation to Lord Elgin, the new
Colonial Secretary, opposing British troops being sent to suppress an African
rising in Natal against the imposition of a poll tax. Percy also presses for
a non-racial franchise (like the Cape Colony) for the newly constituted
Orange Free State & Transvaal administrations. He fails, with dire
longterm consequences for South Africa in the 20th century. |
1906 |
19060500 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Lil Sandeman has just got engaged to Wallace Molteno
during her sic-month visit to the Cape from Scotland. She visits Wallace's
farm, Kamfers Kraal, for first time with her best friend Effie Anderson. |
1906 |
19060515 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno has a strong interest in Europe.
Attends, for example, reception for German Burgomasters of British Cte for
Study of Foreign Municipal Institutions. (Times 15.5.1906) |
1906 |
19060524 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy attends Peace Society annual meeting and
speaks. Times (24.5.1906) |
1906 |
19060600 |
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Ceylon |
Bertie Molteno is living during the first half of
1906 in Kandy, Ceylon, helping his father in photographic business. |
1906 |
19060704 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Report of forthcoming marriage between Wallace
Molteno & Lilias, only daughter of Col. J.E. Sandeman, Indian Army.
(Times 4.7.06) |
1906 |
19060800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Elgin |
Percy Molteno gets idea of the potential for a big
SA/UK potato trade. Persuades his brother Ted to grow potatoes on large scale
in Elgin. |
1906 |
19060803 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is part of deputation visiting
Budapest and Hungary (Times 3.8.1906) |
1906 |
19061000 |
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Malaya |
From Oct 1906 to Sept 1907, Bertie Molteno seems to
be working on Morandal Estate, Johore, Strait Settlements. |
1906 |
19061026 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno puts parliamentary question worried re
rising car accidents & wanting safe use of roads restored to all. (Times
26.10.1906) |
1906 |
19061100 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Scotland |
Lil Sandeman, back in Britain, prepares to go out to
the Cape for her wedding to Wallace Molteno. |
1906 |
19061100 |
Parker |
MayMurray |
England |
May Murray falls in love with Dr Freddie Parker;
they get engaged in late 1906. |
1906 |
19061200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno presses Winston Churchill on question
of African forced labour in Natal & Transvaal. |
1906 |
19061214 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno asks parliamentary question re the
lawfulness of Africans being forcibly removed from Natal to Transvaal after
Langalibele poll tax rising. (Times 14.12.06) |
1906 |
19061217 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno continues during his first year as an
MP to raise South African questions in Parliament. He raises issue of African
land rights in post-Boer War Transvaal in a parliamentary question. (Times
18.12.06) |
1906 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
Charlie Molteno & his second cousin, Harry
Jackson, buy another farm together. |
1906 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Nelspoort |
For some reason, Charlie Molteno sells up & his
cousin Julius Jackson buys him out and continues farming there. |
1906 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno is a key link between the new Liberal
Government in Britain & the Boer & Cape leaders. Percy helps ensure
new constitutions for OFS & Transvaal drawn up speedily. |
1906 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Wallace Molteno has started farming at Kamferskraal;
wants to buy another. |
1907 |
19070100 |
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
London |
Bessie Currie's leg, injured in a childhood
accident, continues to trouble her. Consults Sir Lauder Brunton. |
1907 |
19070300 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
General Botha takes office as Prime Minister of
newly self-governing Transvaal. Percy Molteno cables congratulations. He is
still close to some of the Boer War generals. |
1907 |
19070400 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Percy Molteno, as a new Scottish MP, writes A Plea
for Small Holdings. This becomes a handbook for 100s of speakers during the
years of parliamentary campaigning to pass a bill. The Small Landholders
(Scotland) Bill, due to obstruction in the House of Lords, only becomes law
in 1912. |
1907 |
19070600 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape |
Charlie Molteno, who had lost his seat in 1904 Cape
elections, is elected for Jansenville. Remains an MP til Cape Parliament
abolished with Act of Union in 1910. |
1907 |
19070600 |
Molteno |
CliffordMolteno |
Cape Town |
Stands in Simonstown for Cape parliament. Not
elected. Increasingly eccentric. |
1907 |
19070704 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
Dr Antonie Viljoen's motion to women the right to
vote to is defeated. James Molteno votes for women's suffrage. |
1907 |
19070904 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno writes a strong article in The Nation
putting the case for serious reform of the House of Lords. |
1907 |
19071100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
Percy Molteno and his family visit the Cape. Stay
til March 1908. He takes a car, a Humber, with him! Very few cars in South
Africa at this time. |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
For 3 years, starting 1907, Barkly Molteno works in
the Admiralty supervising gunnery fittings on new Dreadnoughts being built.
(Times 15.11.52) |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno, wife of Dr CFK Murray, becomes 1st
President of the Cape Women's Enfranchisement League. A new issue for the
family to confront. |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
ClarissaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Clarissa Molteno, James Molteno & Clare Holland
Pryor's eldest child, has been ill for two years. She travels with Bessie
Currie, Jervis Molteno and May Parker from Cape to stay with her grandma in
Britain. |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
ElizabethMaudMolteno |
England |
Elizabeth Maud Molteno marries John Cooke, labourer.
(Not clear how related to George Anthony Molteno's descendants) |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
ElsieRoseMolteno |
England |
Elsie Rose Molteno for a year or two (1907 or 8) is
a pupil primary school teacher in Leominster.This is where she meets Arthur
Lee, corn chandler. |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Claremont House |
Frank Molteno and his wife, Ella Jones, living at
the old family home in Cape Town, Claremont House, from about this date. |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Clare Holland Pryor going to England. She and James
Molteno seem to be separating quite consciously. |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
London |
Margaret Molteno, Percy Molteno & his wife
Bessie Currie's daughter, has a governess at Palace Court. She is called Miss
Cowan. |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
PeterMolteno |
Cape Town |
Peter Molteno, formally christened Christopher
Jarvis, born. Charlie Molteno and Lucy Mitchell's 2nd son. |
1907 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape |
Wallace Molteno marries Lil Sandeman. |
1907 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
East Griqualand |
Lenox Murray moves to East Griqualand to try farming
in this quite remote region. His brother, Gordon, follows soon. |
1908 |
19080203 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno plays a leading role in the Cape
general election. Delivers over 100 speeches all over the Cape Colony. Very
combative in style. |
1908 |
19080203 |
|
History |
Cape |
Merriman's party sweeps the Cape elections. He
becomes, at last, Cape Premier. |
1908 |
19080213 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape |
Donald Molteno, son of Wallace Molteno & Lil
Sandeman, born. |
1908 |
19080321 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno & family sail for England from
Cape Town in the SS Briton after a three month stay. (Times 23.3.1908) |
1908 |
19080400 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal Prime Minister,
dies. Percy Molteno's link to the heart of the Liberal Party is weakened,
especially on questions of war and peace. |
1908 |
19080422 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Following Merriman's election victory, James
Molteno, aged 43, & who was returned unopposed, is elected Speaker of the
Cape House unanimously. |
1908 |
19080500 |
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Australia |
Bertie Molteno has now moved to Australia. He is
living in Rockdale, Sydney, New South Wales. He is the start of an
Australian branch of the Molteno family that exists to this day. |
1908 |
19080515 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Percy Molteno speaks in favour of Charles
Trevelyan's Access to Mountains Bill. Percy believes in the right to roam. |
1908 |
19080724 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno asks a parliamentary question on
behalf of British shipowners about why Suez Canal tariffs have not been
reduced as promised by the Canal's builder, Ferdinand de Lesseps. (Times
25.7.08) |
1908 |
19080912 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Berlin |
Percy Molteno is one of 60 British members (mainly
MPs) of Inter-Parliamentary Union attending a Conference in Berlin . (Times
12.9.08) |
1908 |
19081012 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Durban |
James Molteno attends opening session of the
National Convention in Durban that is negotiating the unification of the 4
South African colonies into one state. |
1908 |
19081100 |
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
In late 1908 Gordon Murray stops farming Kamfers
Kraal with Wallace Molteno, & follows his brother Lenox to East
Griqualand. He is looking for farm in Cedarville to buy. |
1908 |
19081118 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno attends a dinner given by the New
Reform Club for Col.Seely, Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. Percy
praises the Cape's treatment of its African population. (Times 18.11.08) |
1908 |
19081223 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno joins many MPs & others praising
British Government criticism of the Belgian King Leopold's administration of
Congo - 'irresponsible European autocracy in heart of Africa'. (Times
23.12.08) |
1908 |
19081224 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno asks a parliamentary question about
forced labour in Papua (Times 24.12.08). He is active in House of Commons re
Africa, Europe, & Scottish issues. |
1908 |
|
Anderson |
ThomasHaroldAnderson |
Cape |
Tommy Anderson born, the son of Harold & Dot
Anderson. Tommy is Maria Molteno's grandson. |
1908 |
|
Bristow |
JohnJackTrotmanBristow |
Australia |
Jack Bristow, about this date, emigrates to
Australia. But he is killed in World War I and so does not start a branch of
the family there. |
1908 |
|
Molteno |
CatherineMolteno |
Portugal |
The King & Crown Prince of Portugal, whom James
Molteno knew the latter quite well at the Cape, are assassinated. King
Manuel II abdicates. Revolution is proclaimed. Catherine Molteno, working as
a governess for a Portuguese aristocratic family, is forced to flee Portugal.
She is almost penniless. |
1908 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Drought. |
1908 |
|
Murray |
Murray |
Bedales |
Bedales is an avant garde private school near
Petersfield. Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK Murray send their youngest
children, Kathleen & George, there. Percy Molteno & Bessie Currie
also send their children, Margaret and Jervis. |
1908 |
|
|
History |
Turkey |
The Turkish Revolution takes place. End of the
Ottomans. This leads to various Balkan Wars in which Ernest Anderson, a newly
qualified young doctor, serves twice with the British Red Cross. |
1909 |
19090116 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno writes to Prime Minister Asquith's
private secretary urging the Government not to stall on legislation to reform
House of Lords. |
1909 |
19090200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno presses Cape Premier, Merriman, &
others during the National Convention to insist on a non-racial franchise for
all South Africa. It is a make or break issue for the Boer leaders. They will
not consent to a Union with a non-racial franchise. So Percy fails. |
1909 |
19090203 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
The last session of the National Convention takes
place in Cape Town. James Molteno, as Speaker, is in charge of arrangements
for its months of meetings. |
1909 |
19090223 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno criticises House of Lords for standing
in the way of the elected House of Commons. This is the political issue of
the day. (Times 23.2.09) |
1909 |
19090300 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Disastrous flood after several years of drought. The
Soutrivier comes down in spuit and destroys the original weir at
Kamferskraal; it takes 1 & a half years to rebuild. And Charlie Molteno
rushes to Nelspoort. Percy Molteno cables £500 to help repair the damage. |
1909 |
19090413 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Sir Donald Currie dies aged 83. The Union Castle
Company has 47 steamers, with a gross tonnage of 295,000.(Average tonnage of
a ship: 6,000) |
1909 |
19090421 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Memorial service is held for Sir Donald Currie at St
Paul's Cathedral in London & in Cape Town. The King sends a lovely
message. Funeral takes place in Fortingall, the village outside Glen Lyon.
(Times 21.4.09) |
1909 |
19090430 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
In Sir Donald Currie's will, he leaves each of his 3
daughters an estate; plus the islands of Scalpay, Longay, Guillamon &
Pabbay near Skye. (Times 30.4.09) |
1909 |
19090525 |
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
Scotland |
Sir Donald Currie's estate valued at £2,305,000 net.
He left his wife an annual annuity of £279,000. Estate duty of £279,000 is
paid. (Times 25.5.09) |
1909 |
19090600 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
James Molteno also travels to London to watch the
passage by the House of Commons of the South Africa Act. He Introduces Dr
Abdurahman to 2 Turkish MP friends. |
1909 |
19090600 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno speaks during passage of the South
Africa Act. His brother, James, hears him -- the only occasion on which he
heard Percy speak in House of Commons. |
1909 |
19090600 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
London |
Vincent Molteno, now 17, is at Dartmouth as a Royal
Navy midshipman & about to go to sea. His father, James, goes down for a
few days to see him. |
1909 |
19090600 |
|
History |
London |
WP Schreiner (a former Cape Premier), Dr Abduruhman,
Tengo Jabavu travel to London to try and block the South Africa Act creating
a Union of South Africa with an overly racist franchise in 3 of the 4
provinces. |
1909 |
19090728 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Second reading of the South Africa Bill. Many white
South African leaders present at a dinner for them at the House of Commons,
attended by Percy Molteno. legates. (Times 28.7.09) |
1909 |
19090729 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
James Molteno is still in London. Attends a Foreign
Office dinner for colonial delegates to the Imperial Defence Conference.
Prime Minister Asquith presides. (Times 29.7.09) |
1909 |
19090729 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is in the habit of attending many
luncheons, dinners, banquets,receptions. This one for the inauguration of the
British Empire Club. (Times 29.7.09) |
1909 |
19090800 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
James Molteno returns to Cape Town for the last
session of the Cape Parliament; he presides as Speaker. |
1909 |
19090802 |
|
History |
England |
A gigantic Royal Navy Review held. The colonial
premiers are among those present. Issue with some of the South Africans not
wanting to attend? (Times 2.8.09) |
1909 |
19090807 |
|
History |
London |
The South Africa Act finally passed. Union of South
Africa comes into existence, comprising Britain's two former colonies plus
the two defeated Boer Republics. Britain accepts white South African
politicians to erect the new state on an explicitly racist political basis. |
1909 |
19091015 |
Hofmeyr |
JHHofmeyr |
London |
The great Cape Dutch leader of the Afrikaner Bond,
'Onze Jan' Hofmeyr, dies. James Molteno has been a friend & supporter of
his from 1890, and especially after the Jamieson Raid of 1896. |
1909 |
19091200 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
South Africa |
Merriman, the last Cape Prime Minister, contacts
Percy Molteno. The British Government is passing him over as the first South
African Prime Minister on favour of General Botha. Merriman also worried
whether James Molteno will be elected Speaker of the South African
Parliament. |
1909 |
19091203 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno presides over last session of the Cape
Parliament. |
1909 |
|
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
England |
Willie Anderson, Tom Anderson & his first wife
Amelia Baker's son, is a novitiate. And ill. |
1909 |
|
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Scotland |
Following Sir Donald Currie's death, Lady Currie
stays at Garth. Her daughter, Bessie, begans to spend summers at Glen Lyon
which she has inherited from her father. |
1909 |
|
Durrant |
ArthurDurrant |
England |
Arthur Durrant, husband of Laura Ada Molteno,
becomes Principal Clerk, Office of Works. (Times 25.8.1939) |
1909 |
|
Molteno |
CharlesBrunetteMolteno |
Cape Town |
Charles Brunette Molteno, youngest of Victor Molteno
& Mildred Jones' five children, born. |
1909 |
|
Molteno |
ElsieRoseMolteno |
England |
Elsie Rose Molteno marries Arthur Lee, Hereford corn
chandler. Her father, Fred Molteno, dies tragically while returning from
Ceylon for the wedding. |
1909 |
|
Molteno |
FrederickJohnMolteno |
Ceylon |
Frederick Molteno dies tragically on his way back
from Ceylon to attend his only daughter, Elsie Rose's, wedding. |
1909 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
London |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno's Music Hall and theatrical
career starts, aged 16 -- appearing in the Water Rat. Thereafter she appears
in many West End choruses. She is Albert Frank Molteno's daughter and a
granddaughter of Frederick James Molteno & Laura Antoinette Sheridan. |
1909 |
|
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Australia |
Sometime after father's death in 1909, he leaves
Ceylon and goes to Australia, founding Molteno branch there |
1909 |
|
Molteno |
LauraAdaMolteno |
London |
Laura Ada Molteno, now Mrs Durrant, continues to use
her maiden name in the Musical Directory & lists herself as violinist and
vocalist. |
1909 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno supports Lord Morley's reforms for of
the Government of India as a step in moving the country towards responsible
government like the socalled white colonies. |
1909 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Salt River came down in flood. Destroyed the old
weir. Took 1.5 years to repair |
1909 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
Gordon Murray marries Evelyn Southey. They settle
down in East Griqualand. The Southeys are one of the small number of families
close to the Moltenos & Murrays at this time. |
1909 |
|
Murray |
StewartMurray |
Cape Town |
Stewart Murray, eldest son of Dr Kenah Murray &
Hilda Robertson, is born. Stewart eventually farms at Elgin. |
1910 |
19100100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
The first of 2 general elections in 1910. Percy
Molteno wins Dumfries: 4,666 vs 4,091 for his opponent. |
1910 |
19100207 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Following the first election, Percy writes to Prime
Minister Asquith & insists reform of the Lords must take place forthwith. |
1910 |
19100400 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno,50 years of age, is not renominated
by his party for a seat in the South African House of Assembly. Retired from
politics. |
1910 |
19100400 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno elected as member for Ceres in Western
Cape in the first Union Parliament. Becomes the first Speaker of the South
African House of Assembly in an acrimonious fight for the premiership between
Botha & Merriman. |
1910 |
19100400 |
Murray |
Dr CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray, Caroline Molteno's husband, makes a
foray into politics & stands for the new Union of South Africa
parliament. Not elected. But a Bisset relation is elected. |
1910 |
19100531 |
|
History |
South Africa |
First Union of South Africa Government takes office
under General Botha, Percy Molteno having failed to persuade British
Government to call Merriman to be first PM. |
1910 |
19100900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
South Africa |
Percy Molteno and family sail for Cape Town. Percy
has to negotiate a renewal of the valuable mail contract with the new South
African Government. Despite his good links with key South African leaders,
Percy fails. And he is hurt by this failure. The rift between his values and
those of South Africa's new leaders becomes wider & wider. |
1910 |
19100900 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
South Africa |
Barkly Molteno gets leave from the Royal Navy and
goes with his brother, Percy Molteno, to South Africa. |
1910 |
19101100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
The 2nd general election of 1910. The issue is
whether the House of Lords can block budgets, including taxation, agreed by
the House of Commons. |
1910 |
19101215 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Percy Molteno wins his Dumfriesshire seat again:
4,708 vs 4,146 votes for his opponent.. |
1910 |
|
Anderson |
PeggyAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Peggy Anderson, daughter of Harold & Dot
Anderson. Is born. She is a niece of Effie Stanford (nee Anderson) |
1910 |
|
Durrant |
ArthurDurrant |
England |
Arthur Durrant, Laura Ada Molteno's husband, becomes
Director of Supplies, Office of Works (Times.25.8.1939) |
1910 |
|
Lee |
DenisArthurLee |
Hereford |
Denis Lee, eldest son of Elsie Rose Molteno &
Arthur Lee, is born. |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
AimeeJoanMolteno |
Cape Town |
Joan Molteno, elder daughter of Wallace Molteno
& Lil Sandeman, born. |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
DoraOliveMolteno |
London |
Born. Never marries. (How is she related to George
Anthony Molteno's descendants?) |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Elgin |
Frank Molteno now has Jarvis Murray working for him,
but also not making a commercial success of Evergreen. Jarvis Murray moves to
Kenya. |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Australia |
Bertie Molteno moves to Adelaide, South Australia,
soon after his arrival in the country. |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Kenilworth |
James Molteno acquires Ballochmyle in Kenilworth;
lives there for next four & half years. |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Bedales |
Jervis Molteno has to leave Bedales. Instead he has
a tutor to help get him into Cambridge (where his father had been). |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Bedales |
Margaret Molteno, her brother Jervis, and their
first cousin, George Murray, are all at Bedales together for a time. |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Millers Point |
Percy Molteno, whose links with South Africa are now
weakening, nearly sells Millers Point. But the sale falls through. |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno opposes a series of women's suffrage
bills in House of Commons, using the excuse 'til the electorate have voted on
it'. He sticks to this position throughout. In contrast to his brother James
Molteno's support for women's suffrage at the Cape! And what did his sister,
Caroline Murray, think of his opposition? |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno becomes increasingly uneasy about a
possible European War. This becomes the touchstone of his political activity
from now on. But marginalises him within the Liberal Party. |
1910 |
|
Molteno |
VivienBirse |
Moscow |
Daughter of Scottish businesspeople in Moscow, is
born. Vivien spends her first seven years in Tsarist Russia. Some 40 years
later, she becomes Malcolm Molteno's second wife. |
1910 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Elgin |
Still working Evergreen farm for Uncle Frank
Molteno. Not a success. |
1911 |
19110300 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
South Africa |
The Union Castle Co., under Percy Molteno's
leadership, appeals to Parliament for the new government to enter into a
renewed mail contract -- in vain. |
1911 |
19110600 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
James Molteno leads the South African delegation to
coronation of George V. Knighted. Henceforth Sir James Molteno. |
1911 |
19110600 |
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray retires as a much loved general
practitioner. But he sets up as a specialist consulting physician. |
1911 |
19110619 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
James Molteno speaks at the Coronation Banquet of
King George V at Westminster Hall. |
1911 |
19110700 |
|
History |
Britain |
Agadir Crisis. The British Foreign Secretary,
without consulting Cabinet or Parliament, nearly threatens Germany with war.
European tensions mounting. |
1911 |
19110900 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
England |
Margaret Molteno, Jervis's sister, feels that Jervis
is flirting with his cousin, Brenda Molteno. Margaret disapproves. |
1911 |
19110921 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
First letter home from Jarvis Murray after his and
Lenox's arrival in Kenya. |
1911 |
19111000 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Durban |
Caroline Murray (nee Molteno) attends the inaugural
meeting of the new Women's Enfranchisement Association of South Africa. |
1911 |
19111000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
The Union-Castle Line directors, in disgust at their
failure to get a renewed mail contract to South Africa, sell the company to
Sir Owen Philipps (Lord Kylsant) of Royal Mail & Elder Dempster. The 7
partners, including Percy Molteno, sell their holdings in Union Castle for
£6.5 million. |
1911 |
19111100 |
Molteno |
VyvyanMolteno |
England |
Vyvyan Molteno, Frank Molteno & his wife Ella
Jones' son, is killed in motorbike accident on the A3 near Petersfield. An
good athlete & scholar, he just 22 & has just got his Jurisprudence
degree from Oxford. Frank & Ella have now lost both their sons
tragically. |
1911 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
The Jabavus dine with her in mid 1911. Dr Jabavu is
an eminent Black South African whom both Percy & Charlie Molteno had long
supported, and who in turn had supported Charlie when standing for the
Tembuland seat in the Eastern Province. |
1911 |
|
Molteno |
CatherineMolteno |
England |
Catherine Molteno who had fled Portugal during the
Revolution the previous year, is now living in a Catholic institution in
Stone, Staffordshire. She was a staunch Roman Catholic all her life, one of
the few Moltenos in England to retain their original religious affilation. |
1911 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
South Africa |
The new Union of South Africa Parliament passes Post
Office Bill. Percy Molteno leads British shipowners to press the British
President ofthe Board of Trade to veto it. Fails. |
1911 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Percy Molteno helps pilot Small Landholders
(Scotland) Bill through the House of Commons. This encourages
re-establishment of small agricultural holdings (crofters) in Scotland. |
1911 |
|
Molteno |
VirginiaMolteno |
Cape |
Virginia Molteno, youngest daughter of Charlie
Molteno & Lucy Mitchell, born. |
1911 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray does not settle in East Griqualand.
Instead he, now aged 24, and his brother Jarvis go to Kenya as surveyors
demarcating lands round Mount Kenya which Britain is allocating to incoming
white farmers on the socalled White Highlands. The two brothers hope to
acquire farms themselves. |
1911 |
|
Murray |
MaryGordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
Mary Murray, eldest daughter of Gordon Murray and
Evelyn Southey, born. |
1911 |
|
Parker |
FreddieParker |
Wales |
Dr Freddie Parker is trying to practise in
Llandrindod Wells in Wales. |
1911 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Natal |
May Murray, Dr FK Murray & Caroline Molteno's
elder daughter, visits John Dube at his increasingly famous Ohlange Institute
in Natal. A year later, May's aunt, Betty Molteno, is back in South Africa
and gets a cottage in the Ohlange grounds or next door. |
1911 |
|
Payne |
GedPayne |
London |
Ged Payne born. He later marries Cynthia Stanford,
Effie Anderson & Elliot Stanford's daughter. |
1911 |
|
|
History |
England |
The Parliament Act, reforming House of Lords, is
passed at last. |
1911 |
|
|
MoltenoVillage |
Italy |
The railway reaches Molteno village 15 miles from
Milan. This is a generation after a railway has reached Nelspoort, the South
African Molteno's original base in the Karoo, 350 miles northeast of Cape
Town. |
1912 |
19120203 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno dines at his old college, Trinity, to
mark 100th anniversary of the Magpie & Stump, Cambridge University's
oldest debating society. Arranges for his son Jervis Molteno and his nephew,
George Murray, to get into Trinity. |
1912 |
19120203 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno also arranges for his daughter,
Margaret, to enter Newnham College, Cambridge, to study Agriculture. |
1912 |
19120400 |
Greene |
AliceGreene |
South Africa |
Alice Greene, Betty Molteno's lifelong partner,
travels to the Cape on SS Bulawayo. She meets Betty in Cape Town & they
travel up coast via Port Elizabeth (where Betty speaks to pupils at the
school where she had been Principal for many years) to Durban. |
1912 |
19120400 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno appoints H B Johnson as his Private
Secretary. They work closely & happily together for next 25 years right
up to Percy's death. |
1912 |
19120400 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis and Lenox Murray decide they must buy land.
Want to buy 12,000 acres, 130 miles from Nairobi, near Nyeri. |
1912 |
19120418 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Retires from the Union-Castle Line. He and fellow
directors have surrendered management to the new owners. A sad day, and only
three years after the Company's founder, Sir Donald Currie, has died. |
1912 |
19120500 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
On retirement from Union-Castle, Percy Molteno buys
a Rolls Royce. It runs beautifully for over 20 years. |
1912 |
19120523 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Natal |
Betty Molteno & Alice Greene staying at Rev.
Dube's Ohlange Industrial Institute, next door to Gandhi's Phoenix
Settlement. They seem to be the only white people actually living there at
this time. |
1912 |
19120700 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
UK |
Percy Molteno is part of a group of independent
Liberals who launch a strong protest against Sir Edward Grey's foreign policy
& the arms race. |
1912 |
19120700 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
UK |
Vincent Molteno, formerly second in command of the
destroyer, HMS Hind, is made a full lieutenant and posted to HMS Lion, a new
Dreadnought battle cruiser, 27,000 tons, & the largest warship afloat.
Percy Molteno visits him, his nephew, on board. |
1912 |
19120813 |
Molteno |
EdwardMolteno |
Cape Town |
Edward Molteno, younger son of Wallace Molteno &
Lil Sandeman, born. |
1912 |
19120900 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray |
Cape |
George Murray and his elder sister,May, come out to
Cape to see their parents, Dr CFK Murray & Caroline Molteno, just before
Cambridge University year starts. George is at Trinity College. |
1912 |
19120907 |
Blenkins |
MaryBlenkins |
Cape |
Mary Blenkins dies. (Was she Hercules Jarvis's
daughter?) |
1912 |
19121016 |
Bisset |
JamesBisset |
Cape Town |
James Bisset and his wife, Betty Jarvis, one of
Hercules Jarvis's daughters, celebrate golden wedding anniversary. James, an
engineer, was the first Bisset to settle in the Cape. |
1912 |
19121019 |
Bisset |
NellieBisset |
Cape Town |
Nellie Bisset holds a sale of work in Kenilworth in
aid of Freed Slaves Home in the Sudan. |
1912 |
19121100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno puts questions in House of Commons
about the tendency of magistrates to sentence people to flogging. |
1912 |
19121102 |
Jones |
EllaMaryJones |
Claremont House |
Ella Jones, Frank Molteno's wife, holds her annual
bazaar in aid of Dr Barnardo's Homes. |
1912 |
19121121 |
Murray |
RhonaMurray |
Cape Town |
Rhona Murray, Kenah & Hilda Murray's daughter,
is born. |
1912 |
19121125 |
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Cape |
Tom Anderson (now a widower again), his Willie (by
his first marriage) & daughter, Effie (by his second marriage -- to Maria
Molteno) return to the Cape on same boat as Col Sandeman. Willie Anderson's
health is better. |
1912 |
19121125 |
Sandeman |
Sandeman |
Kamferskraal |
Col. Sandeman, Lil's father, arrives to spend some
months with Wallace & Lil Molteno. He tends to make an annual visit to
the Cape. |
1912 |
19121209 |
Anderson |
ThomasHaroldAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Tommy Anderson, son of Harold and Doris Anderson, is
born at their farm, Nooitgedacht, Norvals Pont. |
1912 |
19121225 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Parklands |
George Murray is back in England. He, his cousins
Islay Bisset and Ursula Bisset, Vincent Molteno, as well as Doris Beard all
spend Christmas with Percy Molteno & Bessie Currie. |
1912 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Turkey |
At outbreak of the Turkish War, Dr Ernest Anderson
volunteers with the British Red Cross Society; is in charge of their 2nd
Unit. |
1912 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Kenya |
Dr Ernest Anderson, with his Egyptian prince friend,
visit Jarvis and Lenox Murray at their new farm in Kenya. |
1912 |
|
Currie |
DonaldCurrie |
England |
3 yrs after Currie's death, mail contract
negotiations fail. 7 partners sell holdings in Union Castle for £6.5 m |
1912 |
|
Hirst |
FrancisHirst |
London |
Editor of the Economist at this time. Later during
World War I, he edits a small independent journal. A great friend of Percy
Molteno. |
1912 |
|
Lee |
KennethLee |
Hereford |
Kenneth Lee, 2nd son of Elsie Rose Molteno, is born. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno meets Annie Besant, the Theosophist,
at the Races Congress. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno reads the works of Rudolf Steiner for
the first time. Very impressed. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
South Africa |
Betty returns to South Africa, but the long way
round via the East Coast of Africa. She seems to be in South Africa
throughout the years 1912-1916. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
South Africa |
1912-16: Seems to have been in SA continously |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Millers Point |
Betty Molteno, her partner Alice Greene, Charlie
& Lucy Molteno's children (Lucy, Carol, & John); Minnie Molteno, May
& Kathleen Murray spend last 3 months of the year there. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
London |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno appears in 1912-13 in the
musical, Hello, Ragtime, at the Hippodrome in London. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno speaks in favour of Home Rule for
Ireland in House of Commons, a line consistent with his deep belief in
self-government for the colonies. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno opposes a Women's Suffrage Amendment
to the Franchise Reform Bill. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Prime Minister Asquith sacks Captain Sinclair,
Secretary of State for Scotland. If Percy had been an Imperialist, he would
have been offered the post. Offered a baronetcy instead. Percy Molteno
rejected it. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno becomes a Vice-President of the
British Council fo Fostering Friendly Relations between the British &
German Peoples. This at a time of worsening European tensions. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Parklands |
Percy Molteno builds a loggia in the garden at
Parklands; also new gates at Glen Lyon. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno supports the eminent Black South
Africa, Jabavu, to take degree in London; then gets him a journalism
apprenticeship on the Kent Messenger. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno subscribes to a bronze bust in Sierra
Leone in memory of Dr Edward Blyden, the black American-Liberian black
scholar, writer and political figure. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Italy |
Percy Molteno pursues his interest in history of the
Molteno family. Is in touch with the College of Arms about the Molteno coat
of arms and gets a search for it in Italy undertaken. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Turkey |
Percy Molteno makes a donation to the Committee
supporting the Red Cross & Red Crescent in Tripoli, Salonica &
Constantinople. |
1912 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Parklands |
Percy Molteno engages in constant crop experiments
at Parklands, and wins Agricultural Show prizes for his crops and livestock. |
1912 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Cambridge |
Kathleen Murray wants to go to university. Cambridge
in particular. Her brother, George, and several cousins are there. But Dr
CFK Murray & Caroline Murray cannot afford to send her. |
1912 |
|
|
History |
South Africa |
General Hertzog is left out of new Cabinet by
General Botha. Hertzog forms his own National Party which is now the leading
expression of Afrikaner nationalism and racism against South Africans of
colour. |
1913 |
19130200 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Claremont House |
Betty Molteno and Alice Greene staying for a time at
Betty's old family home, Claremont House (now her brother Frank Molteno &
Ella Jones' house). |
1913 |
19130200 |
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
Gordon Murray & his wife Evelyn Southey, and
their daughter Mary, on holiday in Cape Town early this year. |
1913 |
19130211 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Kalk Bay |
Lil Sandeman (Wallace Molteno's wife) and Nellie
Bisset give a picnic at Fish Hoek to mark Donald Molteno & Betty Bisset's
birthdays. |
1913 |
19130222 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Kalk Bay |
John Molteno, Charlie & Lucy's son and just
seven years old, is swept off the rocks. Nearly drowned. Fishermen save him.
General Hertzog lends his tie! |
1913 |
19130224 |
Molteno |
ClarissaMolteno |
Kenilworth |
Clarissa Molteno, James & his wife Clare Holland
Pryor's daughter, is 23. She is at the Cape & gives a dance in her
father's house of Ballochmyle in Kenilworth. |
1913 |
19130300 |
Anderson |
HaroldAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Harold Anderson, Effie Stanford's brother, sells
Nooitgedacht. Buys larger farm at junction of Orange River & Zuurberg
Spruit. |
1913 |
19130300 |
Molteno |
LucyMolteno |
Europe |
Lucy Molteno, Charlie & Lucy's eldest daughter
and now thirteen years old, leaves the Cape to visit Europe. She intends to
meet up with her sister Carol in Switzerland. (Can this date be right?) |
1913 |
19130400 |
Sandeman |
Sandeman |
England |
Colonel Sandeman, Lil Molteno's father, returns to
England. |
1913 |
19130400 |
|
ChronicleoftheFamily |
Cape Town |
The first issue of this remarkable printed journal
about the Molteno, Murray, Anderson & related families' doings comes out.
May Murray & Effie Anderson are the coeditors who initiate it. It is
produced every 4 months for the next seven years. |
1913 |
19130425 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape |
The annual agricultural show in Cape Town, the
Rosebank Show. Wallace Molteno wins four first prizes for ostrich feathers. |
1913 |
19130500 |
Molteno |
AgnesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Agnes Molteno, who had married Mr Land, is hard up.
She is touring from England & performing in Cape Town. Gets in touch with
Caroline Molteno (Dr CFK Murray's wife) and asks for £60. Caroline meets her.
Percy Molteno vetoes any help. |
1913 |
19130600 |
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
England |
Willie Anderson returns from South Africa to
England. Stays at Burton Hill, Petwork. Father MacLear pleased with his
progress. Goes on this year's pilgrimage to Lourdes. He intends to winter in
Palermo, Italy. |
1913 |
19130600 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox and Jarvis Murray already have a farm together
in Kenay -- Nioru River, P O Nyeri. Are building a house. |
1913 |
19130604 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
London |
Dr Ernest Anderson decides to go into the British
Army and not return to the Cape and live there. Appointed Surgeon-Lieutenant,
in the 1st Life Guards (part of the prestigious Household Cavalry). (Times
4.6.13) |
1913 |
19130613 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Claremont House |
Frank Molteno and Ella Jones celebrate their Silver
Wedding at Claremont House. |
1913 |
19130700 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Karoo |
Dr Ernest Anderson, just before joining up, dashes
back to Montenegro for 2nd spell with Red Cross. Also visits the Cape. Goes
to stay on his brother, Harold Anderson's farm at Norvals Pont nr Venterstad. |
1913 |
19130700 |
Anderson |
HaroldAnderson |
Karoo |
Harold Anderson has a new farm at Rietfontein. It is
going well. He installs a Tangye engine to pump water for irrigation. |
1913 |
19130709 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno & her husband Dr CFK Murray
leave for England. Will be away til December. They have let Kenilworth House
for a year. |
1913 |
19130721 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Europe |
Ted Molteno takes holiday away from his &
Harry's Glen Elgin farms to visit Europe. He returns to the Cape impressed by
progress into psychic investigation! |
1913 |
19130800 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
London |
As a new British Army officer, Dr Ernest Anderson
attends banquet at Windsor Castle given by the King. (Chronicle, Aug 1913) |
1913 |
19131000 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Cambridge |
Jervis Molteno is also at Trinity College, Cambridge
for his 1st year. |
1913 |
19131000 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray |
Cambridge |
George Murray is Trinity College, Cambridge for his
1st year. |
1913 |
19131104 |
Bisset |
BazettBisset |
Kenilworth |
Bazett Bisset, son of James and Betty Bisset,
marries Ethel Rowe. |
1913 |
19131200 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Natal |
Betty Molteno is back in Natal, but without Alice
Greene. She is deeply involved in the Indian Question in South Africa, and
Gandhi's campaign against the £3 tax. |
1913 |
19131200 |
Molteno |
Molteno |
Cape |
Several members of the family now have cars -- Dr
Victor Molteno in Cape Town; Ted Molteno at Elgin; Wallace Molteno at
Kamferskraal in the Karoo. |
1913 |
19131200 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
Simonstown |
Vincent Molteno is posted to Simonstown on HMS
Hyacinth. He had left Cape Town 13 years before, aged only 8. Presumably sees
something of his father, Sir James Molteno, who is still Speaker of the Union
House of Assembly. |
1913 |
19131215 |
Hobhouse |
MayMurray |
Kenilworth |
May Murray invites Emily Hobhouse to stay for a few
weeks to end January 1914. Emily is ill, having come out for the unveiling of
the Vrouemonument commemorating the Boer women & children who died in
British concentration camps during the Boer War. |
1913 |
19131216 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Bloemfontein |
Betty Molteno rushes to Bloemfontein for the opening
of Die Vrouemonument, commemorating the women & children who died in
British concentration camps during the Boer War. |
1913 |
19131217 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is the spokesman for about 100 Liberal
MPs who meet Prime Minister Asquith in order to urge him to mediate between
France and Germany. They also express anxiety over the naval race between
Britain and Germany. |
1913 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Egypt |
Ernest Anderson's address at some point in 1913 is
Khedivial Bldgs, Cairo. |
1913 |
|
Bisset |
IslayBisset |
Berkhamsted |
Islay and Ursula Bisset at this school. Murray
children had previously attended it. |
1913 |
|
Bowring |
JohnBowring |
? |
John Bowring born. In his 40s, he marries Iona
Murray. |
1913 |
|
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Glen Lyon |
Bessie Currie, Percy Molteno's wife, has a bad fall
from her horse. She loves riding, part because walking has been difficult for
her due to crippled leg injured in a childhood accident. |
1913 |
|
Greene |
AliceGreene |
Claremont House |
Alice Greene, Betty Molteno's partner, gives talk on
the franchises in the four provinces, the Native Land Bill etc. |
1913 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Beaufort West |
Julius Jackson, a cousin of the South African
Moltenos, retires from farming. Moves to Beaufort West. Throws himself into
civic affairs. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
AgnesMolteno |
London |
Agnes Molteno, following her tour of the Cape,
writes to Percy Molteno, again begging for £60. Percy refuses. (Does he
realize that he & Agnes are first cousins, her father & Percy's
father being brothers?) |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno gets command of HMS St George. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Natal |
Betty Molteno engaged in the emerging political
agenda of racial disabilities suffered by South Africans of colour. She
protests at treatment of Indian labourers in Natal. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Betty Molteno moves into Sandown House & looks
after Charlie Molteno & Lucy Mitchell's children while Charlie & Lucy
in UK. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
South Africa |
Betty Moltno opposes the Natives Land Bill. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie & Lucy on holiday in Europe; Betty
Molteno looking after kids at Sandown |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
South Africa |
Charlie Molteno disagrees with his brother Percy
over trade protection. He is in favour of it because he is in South Africa
which is just starting to develop a modern economy; Percy, who favours free
trade, lives in the industrially much stronger Britain. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
SobellaMinnieBlenkins |
Gordons Bay |
Lady Minnie Molteno, Sir John's widow, has taken a
house there on other side of False Bay from the Cape Peninsula. Her daughter,
Minnie Molteno, living with her. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
LeonardAllenMolteno |
Australia |
Leonard Molteno, Bertie Molteno & Ruby Allen's
son, born. Start of the second generation of Australian Moltenos. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno and Gordon Harvey issue statement with
100 fellow Liberal MPs concerned with Britain's drift to war. (See HIrst
buography for precise date) |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
South Africa |
Percy Molteno is opposed to emerging racism against
Black South Africans, as evinced in the new Natives Land Act. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno describes Ireland as Britain's first
and oldest colony; backs Home Rule strongly. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno supports his friend, Professor H F
Nuttall FRS, who wants to start a parasitology laboratory at Cambridge
University. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Percy Molteno, who loved hiking all his life,
subscribes to the Commons & Footpaths Preservation Society, this at a
time when enclosure of Common land still continuing, for example in London. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Percy Molteno installs electric light at Glen Lyon
House (this is long before his hydro-electric scheme to generate electricity
for the house). |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Percy Molteno & his wife Bessie Currie builld 4
cottages at Fortingall, the village just outside Glen Lyon. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
South Africa |
Percy Molteno, now in his early 50s, loses several
South African friends: J W Sauer, Sir Richard Solomon, Abram Fischer, Lachlan
MacLean. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted and Harry Molteno have not yet started growing
apples & deciduous fruit on any scale. Mainly farming potatoes under
primitive irrigation. Also putting in vineyards for grapes. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Wallace Molteno & his wife Lil Sandeman get
their first car -- a Hupmobile. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kalk Bay |
Wallace Molteno & his wife Lil Sandeman now have
a house in Kalk Bay, like other members of the family. They come down from
Karoo during the hottest months. |
1913 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Wallace Molteno's ostrich farming doing very well.
At Port Elizabeth he sells a bunch of primes at £125 a lb, the highest price
for ostrich feathers since 1880s. |
1913 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Kathleen, youngest daugther of Dr CFK Murray &
Caroline Molteno, starts a bee enterprise on her parents' farm at Elgin. |
1913 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Terrible fire on his farm. His house being built and
the kraals burned down. |
1913 |
|
Parker |
FrancesParker |
England |
Frances Parker dies. She is from a branch of George
Anthony Molteno's descendants who remain Roman Catholics. She is a Lady
Abbess. Daughter of Mary Parker; and a granddaughter of James Anthony
Molteno. |
1913 |
|
Sandeman |
Sandeman |
England |
Col. Sandeman, Lil's father, remarries -- a Miss
Somerville. |
1913 |
|
Sandeman |
LilSandeman |
Kamferskraal |
Janet, Lil Sandeman's Scottish housemaid returns to
Scotland after 6 years with Lil & Wallace Molteno on the farm; Janet
gives a farewell party for the Coloured servants & farm workers. |
1914 |
19140100 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno & her husband Dr CFK Murray
staying at Palace Court with Percy & Bessie, prior to returning to the
Cape from long visit to England; Bessie Currie, Percy's wife, goes with them
& stays at the Cape for three months. |
1914 |
19140200 |
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Kathleen Murray wins first prize for her honey in
annual Rosebank Show. This is the first time she exhibits. |
1914 |
19140210 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno chairs a meeting in the Grand
Committee Room for MPs; it deplores the growth in arms expenditure. |
1914 |
19140300 |
Bisset |
ArthurBisset |
Cape |
Arthur Bisset captains Western Province cricket team
at Newlands against the MCC in their last game. |
1914 |
19140300 |
Jarvis |
AnnieJarvis |
Cape Town |
Annie Jarvis, who married Major Blenkins, dies in
early 1914. |
1914 |
19140300 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Percy Molteno writes his brother Wallace about
Curragh Incident. Percy is outraged; sees it as Army officers telling
Parliament which laws they are ready to enforce. |
1914 |
19140300 |
Selous |
Selous |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno takes Sir Frederick & Lady Selous,
& his daughter Margaret, on a visit to Cambridge. The see Professor
Nuttall. |
1914 |
19140312 |
Jongh |
MissdeJongh |
Cape Town |
The sister of Elizabeth Maria Jarvis, Sir John
Molteno's 2nd wife, dies. (Can this be right? Perhaps a cousin?) She is
survived by another sister, Mrs Botha. |
1914 |
19140329 |
Blenkins |
WilliamBlenkins |
Cape Town |
Lord Gladstone, the Governor General, confers on
Willie Blenkins the badge of Honorary Associate of Order of St John. |
1914 |
19140329 |
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Lord Gladstone, the Governor General, confers on Dr
CFK Murray the badge of Honorary Associate of Order of St John. |
1914 |
19140400 |
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Cape |
Bessie Currie sails back to England; it turns out
this is only 3 months before the First World War breaks out in August. |
1914 |
19140400 |
Molteno |
HaroldVictorMolteno |
Cape |
Dr Victor Molteno & his wife Mildred Jones's 14
year old son, Harold Molteno, sails with his aunt Bessie Currie to England to
go to Bedales School, like several members of the family before him. |
1914 |
19140400 |
Molteno |
NestaMolteno |
Berkhamsted |
Two first cousins, Nesta (daughter of Frank Molteno
& Ella Jones's daughter) and Mary, Dr Victor Molteno & Mildred
Jones's daughter, sail with Aunt (by marriage) Bessie Currie, Percy Molteno's
wife for England to go to Berkhamsted school. |
1914 |
19140400 |
Parker |
MayMurray |
Cape |
May Murray now expecting to get married to Dr
Freddie Parker in December. |
1914 |
19140500 |
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
Basutoland |
Effie Anderson and her former schoolfriend, Lilian
Blackburn, go on horseback visit to Basutoland. |
1914 |
19140611 |
Bisset |
ArthurBisset |
Rhodesia |
Arthur Bisset marries Beryl Hutton; they settle
temporarily at Kalk Bay. |
1914 |
19140628 |
|
History |
Europe |
At Sarajevo in Bosnia, Archduke Ferdinand & his
wife, heir to Austrian throne, are shot dead by Pincip of the Greater Serbian
Party. |
1914 |
19140700 |
Blackburn |
HarryBlackburn |
Cape |
Harry Blackburn and Marjorie Lindley marry. |
1914 |
19140800 |
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
Cape |
Effie Anderson and May Murray announce in the
Chronicle of the Family that they are both marrying; but will carry on as
Editors. |
1914 |
19140800 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
At outbreak of the First World War, Barkly Molteno
is Flag Captain of HMS Antrim, 3rd Cruiser Squadron, North Sea Fleet. |
1914 |
19140800 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
England |
At outbreak of the First World War, Vincent Molteno
is a Sub Lieutenant on MHS Hyacinth. |
1914 |
19140800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Percy Molteno is horrified as War breaks out. |
1914 |
19140800 |
Parker |
MayMurray |
Cape |
May Murray sails with her mother Caroline Molteno to
Britain to get married. No inkling that the World War is about to start. |
1914 |
19140803 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
War imminent. Lord Grey, Foreign Secretary, makes
statement to House of Commons. Percy Molteno makes a great speech opposing
going to war. He is henceforth marginalised within his own Party for the
duration. |
1914 |
19140803 |
|
History |
London |
Asquith announces German army has violated Belgian
neutrality; HMG sends ultimatum. |
1914 |
19140803 |
|
History |
London |
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Commitee
resolved, before the British ultimatum expired at midnight, resolved against
Britain intervening in the War -- to no avail. |
1914 |
19140804 |
|
History |
Europe |
World War I starts. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Bisset |
GladysBisset |
Cape Town |
Gladys Bisset attends nursing lectures and starts
working at Wynberg Hospital. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Bristow |
FrankBristow |
Europe |
Charles Frank Bristow (known as Frank Bristow), like
so many of his brothers, fights in the War. Eventually becomes a Major. He is
a descendant of Mary Molteno. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Bristow |
EddieBristow |
France |
Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant Edwin ÔEddieÕ Ewart
Bristow also fights in the War, as do several brothers. They are descendants
of Mary Molteno. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Jackson |
Jackson |
South Africa |
Three of Henry Jackson's sons, Robert Stanley,
Leslie Ray & Lionel George, join up & help round up the Rebels
objecting to South Africa being dragged into Britain's war with Germany. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno encourages recruiting once the War
breaks out, but he always opposed conscription. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Molteno |
BrendaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Brenda Molteno, daughter of Frank Molteno & Ella
Jones, attends nursing lectures and starts working at Woodstock Hospital. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
England |
Clare's brother, General Sir Pomeroy Holland-Pryor,
involved in the War. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Cape Town |
Frank Molteno is Commanding Officer of the Claremont
branch of the Citizens' Training Association. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Cape |
John Molteno, Dr Victor Molteno & Mildred Jones'
son, has left school at the Diocesan College and is doing an agricultural
course at Middelburg. While there, he joins the Graaff Reinet Commando and is
sent off to Upington to quell the Rebellion. Without knowing it, his cousin,
Dr Kenah Murray, is also in Uppington for the same purpose. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Molteno |
LeonardClarkMolteno |
England |
Leonard Molteno is a training as a primary school
teacher at Clifton College, Bristol. He joins the Gloucestershire Regiment as
an ordinary private. Is killed two years later. His brother, Leonard William
Molteno, is also in the War, as a naval rating and stoker with the Royal
Navy. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Walllace Molteno volunteers all aid to the
authorities in repressing the Rebellion in which General de Wet is one of the
main leaders. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr Kenah Murray joins the South African Defence
Force's Ambulance Corps. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis Murray joins the East African Mounted Rifles.
Spends rest of the War fighting in German East Africa. |
1914 |
19140900 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray, along with his brother Jarvis Murray,
joins the East African Mounted Rifles. Later in the War he serves in
Intelligence in East Africa. |
1914 |
19140918 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Percy Molteno and Bessie Currie celebrate their
Silver Wedding (25 years). |
1914 |
19141000 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
France |
Dr Ernest Anderson, serving with the Life Guards
Brigade, leaves for the Western Front in France on horseback! |
1914 |
19141000 |
Bisset |
IslayBisset |
Cambridge |
Islay Bisset is at Newnham College, Cambridge,
taking the History Tripos. Her cousin, Jervis Molteno, also at Cambridge. |
1914 |
19141000 |
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
France |
Bessie Currie's nephew, Leslie Wisely, is at the
front in France with the Artillery; another of her nephews, Donald Mirrilees,
is with the Surrey Yeomanry in Kent. |
1914 |
19141000 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
Barkly Molteno's Royal Navy ship is nearly torpedoed
by a submarine in the North Sea. |
1914 |
19141000 |
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
Millers Point |
Clare Holland Pryor and family spend two weeks
there; sees her son, Vincent Molteno, who aged 22 is on his first overseas
posting, at the British naval base of Simonstown. |
1914 |
19141000 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Cambridge |
Jervis Molteno joins the Officer Training Corps at
Cambridge. There are only 1,200 students left at the University of
Cambridge, of whom 700 join OTC. |
1914 |
19141000 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
The ostrich feather market collapses with the
outbreak of War. Wallace Molteno is hard hit financially. Wisely, he had
continued to farm sheep as well. |
1914 |
19141100 |
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
France |
Having left Tunis, Willie Anderson is in a
sanatorium in Limoges, France, in late 1914. |
1914 |
19141100 |
Craven |
Capt.WSDacreCraven |
France |
Capt. Dacre Craven, serving In the Royal Horse
Artillery, is wounded. He marries Celia Mirrielees in Scotland roundabout
this time. |
1914 |
19141100 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Cambridge |
Margaret Molteno goes up to Girton College,
Cambridge, to start her Agriultural Diploma. |
1914 |
19141100 |
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Kenilworth |
Dr CFK Murray moves into his son Kenah's house in
order to carry on his medical practice while Kenah is away on war service. No
one realizes the War will last four & a half years. |
1914 |
19141100 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Bloemfontein |
Dr Kenah Murray is posted to Bloemfontein where the
South African Defence Force is crushing the Rebellion against fighting
automatically on Britain's side against Germany in the war. |
1914 |
19141100 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
World |
Dr Kenah Murray starts his remarkable, but
unpublished, war diary, which he keeps writing til the end of 1918. It
covers South Africa, German South West Africa, Egypt, and the Western Front
in France. |
1914 |
19141100 |
Wiseley |
MarjorieWiseley |
Scotland |
Marjorie Wiseley is engaged to Sub. Lieutenant
Ferguson RN, stationed in the Mediterranean in late 1914. |
1914 |
19141121 |
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Kathleen Murray returns to the Cape after a 7 month
stay in England. She cannot study Agriculture at Cambridge because her
parents cannot afford it. On arrival she is determined to start farming
seriously and makes big changes on her parents' farm, Oak Lodge. |
1914 |
19141125 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
East Africa |
Vincent Molteno's ship is despatched from
Simonstown. He participates in the Royal Navy's bombardment of Dar es Salaam,
the main port in German East Africa. |
1914 |
19141200 |
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Kenilworth |
Tom Anderson, Effie's father, is living at
Tressilian Cottage, Kenilworth. |
1914 |
19141200 |
Molteno |
ClarissaMolteno |
France |
Captain Newcomen is wounded. Clarissa Molteno, who
is living with her father at his home, Ballochmyle, in Kenilworth, rushes to
England. |
1914 |
19141200 |
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Wynberg |
Dr Victor Molteno and his wife Mildred Jones are
living at Fir Lodge, Wynberg. |
1914 |
19141200 |
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Cape |
Brenda Molteno takes over as Treasurer, and Kathleen
Murray as Secretary, of the Chronicle of the Family. From the April 1915
issue, Kathleen takes over as Editor. |
1914 |
19141200 |
|
History |
South Africa |
Rebellion against going into the War collapses. Gen
Beyers drowned. |
1914 |
19141215 |
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
Claremont House |
Effie Anderson, daughter of Tom Anderson & his
late wife,Maria Molteno, marries Elliot Stanford from Claremont House, the
family home that is big enough to host the event. |
1914 |
19141225 |
Molteno |
ClarissaMolteno |
London? |
Clarissa Molteno, Sir James Molteno & Clare
Holland Pryor's daughter, announces her long expected engagement to Capt.
Newcomen of the East Lancashire Regiment. |
1914 |
19141226 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
England |
Ted has a harebrained scheme to recruit Belgians
displaced by the German invasion to become farmworkers in South Africa. Sails
for England, having placed his services at the disposal of the Government! |
1914 |
19141226 |
Parker |
MayMurray |
Cape Town |
May Murray's long postponed wedding now set for
March 1915; May sails for England with her mother, Caroline Molteno (Dr CFK
Murray's wife) & her cousin Ted Molteno. |
1914 |
19141231 |
Jones |
EllaJones |
Rondebosch |
Ella Molteno's mother dies. Ella was very close to
her mother. |
1914 |
|
Bingle |
ElizaBingle |
London |
Eliza Bingle is now elderly. In late 1914 she moves
to West Norwood. |
1914 |
|
Bisset |
MurrayBisset |
Cape |
Murray Bisset joins the DEOVR. But he is forced to
resign after just one month's training on doctor's orders. |
1914 |
|
Bisset |
UrsulaBisset |
Cape |
Attends nursing lectures and works at Wynberg
Hospital |
1914 |
|
Blenkins |
WillieBlenkins |
West Africa |
Willie Blenkins takes time off to travel up West
Coast of Africa. But because of the outbreak of the War, he has to
discontinue his projected two year world trip. |
1914 |
|
Bristow |
WhistonAlfredBristow |
France |
Whiston Bristow, a descendant of Mary Molteno
(daughter of George Anthony Molteno), aged 36, is an engineer serving in
Royal Flying Corps. Rose to be a Colonel. After war, became wealthy
consultant & Managing Director. |
1914 |
|
Henderson |
Henderson |
Netherlands |
Commodore the 1st Royal Navy Brigade, he commands it
during the abortive Antwerp landing. The Germans intern him & his men at
Groningen for the rest of theWar. |
1914 |
|
Jarvis |
EmmieJarvis |
Cape Town |
Emmie Jarvis settles in Beaufort Villa with Miss
Twycross. |
1914 |
|
Mirrielees |
FrederickMirrielees |
Britain |
Sir Frederick Mirrielees, Bessie Currie's brother in
law, dies. |
1914 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLillianMolteno |
England |
She is the daughter of Albert Frank Molteno. She
entertains the troops in World War One. |
1914 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Betty Molteno lives in Cape Town at this time. She
takes two rooms in Church Street; hangs her pictures for the first time since
leaving Port Elizabeth. |
1914 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno, Dr CRK Murray's wife, retires as
President of Women's Enfranchisement League of the Cape of Good Hope. |
1914 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK Murray are a bit hard
up because of trying to set up some of their sons, and their daughter
Kathleen, in farming. |
1914 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
London |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno appears in throughout the
War in the Keep Smiling musical at the Alhambra in London. |
1914 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
The Labour Party Opposition in the South African
House of Assembly move a reduction of Sir James Molteno's salary as Speaker.
Many criticisms of him made, including his weak command of Afrikaans. |
1914 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Percy Molteno helps his nephews, Jarvis (&
Lenox) Murray, financially to develop their farm. |
1914 |
|
Sandeman |
LilSandeman |
Kamferskraal |
Lil Sandeman, Wallace Molteno's wife, has two
brothers -- Donald & Gerald -- who are professional soldiers, one with
the Borders Regiment,the other in India. |
1914 |
|
Sandeman |
LilSandeman |
Kamferskraal |
Lil's brother, Captain Donald Sandeman, visits her
& Wallace Molteno in the Karoo. Thisis the first time they have seen each
other since her marriage in 1907. |
1914 |
|
Southey |
MauriceSouthey |
Kenya |
Maurice Southey joins the East African Mounted
Rifles. (Brother of Gordon Murray's wife, Evelyn Southey?) |
1915 |
19150100 |
Parker |
MayMurray |
London |
Caroline Molteno (Dr CFK Murray's wife), her
daughter May, and Ted Molteno arrive in Britain safely. |
1915 |
19150120 |
Craven |
Capt.WSDacreCraven |
France |
Captain Dacre Craven is in the Royal Horse
Artillery. Mentioned in despatches 20 January and 31 May. Promoted to Major. |
1915 |
19150200 |
Jackson |
Jackson |
South West Africa |
Ernest Gordon & Alfred Oswald Jackson, grandsons
of Arthur Jackson (and so cousins of the Molteno descendants), are part of
the South African forces who invade German South West Africa and wrest it
from German colonial control. |
1915 |
19150200 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Cape |
Betty Molteno spends time at the Moravian mission
station of Genadendal. She is interested in their work. |
1915 |
19150200 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
London |
Caroline Molteno, wife of Dr CFK Murray, is in
London for her daughter May's wedding. She sees her old friends from Boer War
days -- Olive Schreiner, Emily Hobhouse. Caroline & her half-brother Ted
Molteno oppose war in principle. |
1915 |
19150200 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted Molteno is a pacifist. He is on his way back
from Belgium where he had been trying to recruit settlers to come to South
Africa. He falls in love with Irene Sanderson. His affection for her lasts a
lifetime. |
1915 |
19150200 |
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Kathleen Murray moves from the family home,
Kenilworth House, to a tiny cottage at Oak Lodge (Palmiet River Farm), Elgin,
to farm seriously. She has a Swiss friend, Mme Geneguand. |
1915 |
19150223 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
South West Africa |
Dr Kenah Murray, after two months with South African
Forces suppressing the Rebels in Upington, leaves by sea for Swakopmund for
the invasion of German South West Africa. He keeps a diary throughout the
six month campaign. |
1915 |
19150300 |
Newcomen |
BrabNewcomen |
France |
Capt. Newcomen is in the battle of Neuve Chapelle.
Of his regiment, 1,000 strong, only 300 survive. Most of its officers are
killed or wounded. |
1915 |
19150300 |
Wiseley |
LesleyWiseley |
France |
Lesley Wiseley is with the Artillery at the battle
of Neuve Chapelle; his first cousin, Donald Mirrielees, is also at the front. |
1915 |
19150324 |
Parker |
MayMurray |
London |
May Murray & Dr Freddie Parker are at last
married in St Matthews Church, Bayswater. She is married from her Uncle Percy
Molteno's London home of Palace Court. May & Freddie live in Wales until
his death in 1922. He was 38 at the time of his marriage. |
1915 |
19150331 |
Molteno |
ClarissaMolteno |
London |
Clarissa Molteno & Capt G. Brabazon Newcomen are
married at St Matthews, Bayswater just a week after her cousin May Murray's
marriage there. |
1915 |
19150400 |
Batley |
PaulBatley |
Dardanelles |
Paul Batley, still only about 18 or 19, fights in
the abortive 1915-16 Dardanelles Campaign & Gallipoli Landings. A
terrible experience. |
1915 |
19150400 |
Bristow |
AnthonyMoltenoBristow |
Dardanelles |
Lieutenant Anthony Bristow, descended from Mary
Molteno, is part of the British allied force that landed Gallipoli. He had to
lived off onions only for 3 weeks on the beaches with his fellow soldiers. He
also fought in France during the War. |
1915 |
19150400 |
Bristow |
JohnTrotmanBristow |
Dardanelles |
Jack Bristow had emigrated to Australia. He is a
member of the Australian Commonwealth Forces landed at Gallipoli. He is
wounded and dies en route to Alexandria in Egypt. |
1915 |
19150400 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Kenilworth |
Clare Holland Pryor in the Cape. She & James
Molteno leave his house of Ballochmyle. She goes to Millers Point for a time;
he stays at the Palace Hotel in Kenilworth during what is his last
parliamentary session; thereafter often at Glen Norman on Ted & Harry
Molteno's at Glen Elgin. |
1915 |
19150400 |
Sandeman |
GeraldSandeman |
France |
Major Gerald Sandeman, Lil's brother, is fighting in
the trenches on the Western Front. A professional soldier, he is Adjutant to
the 6th West Yorks. |
1915 |
19150400 |
|
History |
Dardanelles |
Several relatives fight in this diversionary
campaign against Turkey, including Fergusson (who is engaged to Marjorie
Wiseley), Paul Batley (son of Ethel Robertson), and at Anthony Bristow and
John Jack Bristow. |
1915 |
19150400 |
|
History |
Mediterranean |
Britain launches the diversionary Dardanelles
Campaign against Turkey. Attempts to land troops at Gallipoli. Several
members of the family take part. |
1915 |
19150500 |
Molteno |
ClarissaMolteno |
France |
Clarissa Molteno's husband Capt. Brab Newcomen
rejoins his regiment in France. Clarissa stays with her maternal aunt, Mrs
Muriel Nott, in Surrey. |
1915 |
19150500 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
By mid 1915, John Molteno's Graaff Reinet commando
is disbanded. He goes to Kamfers Kraal to learn farming with his Uncle
Wallace Molteno before volunteering to serve overseas with the South African
forces. |
1915 |
19150500 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray leaves BEAMR (British East Africa ...
); becomes an intelligence agent in East Africa for the British forces. |
1915 |
19150500 |
|
History |
Britain |
The ruling Liberal Party forms a Coalition Goverment
with the Conservatives. |
1915 |
19150500 |
|
History |
France |
Lord Kitchener announces that the Allies will use
poison gas, as the Germans are also doing. |
1915 |
19150504 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
France |
Dr Ernest Anderson is serving in France with the 7th
Household Cavalry Brigade. His uncle, Percy Molteno, replies to his letter
about Bromine gas. |
1915 |
19150600 |
Anderson |
Ernest Anderson |
France |
Dr Ernest Anderson is mentioned in despatches for
gallant conduct. Promoted to the rank of Captain in the Guards. |
1915 |
19150600 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Gordons Bay |
Betty Molteno and Alice Greene take a house near
Lady Minnie Molteno for six months. |
1915 |
19150617 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
France |
Percy Molteno writes to Prime Minister Asquith's
brother-in-law at the War Office, H J Tennant, to urge Allied airmen not to
bomb towns & hit civilians. |
1915 |
19150623 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Cambridge |
Margaret Molteno finishes her 1st year at Girton
College, Cambridge, as her beloved cousin, George Murray, completes his 3rd
year and gets his Science degree. |
1915 |
19150623 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray |
Cambridge |
George Murray graduates from Cambridge with a
Science degree. His commission is gazetted in the Special Reserve of Officers
to the Royal Field Artillery. |
1915 |
19150626 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Following May Murray's wedding, her mother,
Caroline, returns to the Cape. |
1915 |
19150700 |
Mitchell |
LucyBlairMitchell |
Serbia |
Lucy Mitchell, Charlie Molteno's wife, sees her
sister, Miss Nan Mitchell, going to Serbia with the American Red Cross. |
1915 |
19150700 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Wallace Molteno sells his famous ostrich cock, Karoo
King, for just a £100, the 'finest bird in the world'. |
1915 |
19150800 |
Bisset |
MurrayBisset |
Cape Town |
Murray Bisset intends to stand in forthcoming South
African general election as the Unionist candidate for South Peninsula in
Cape Town. He is successful and becomes an MP in the South African
Parliament. |
1915 |
19150800 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Barkly Molteno, still on active service with the
Royal Navy, announces his engagement to Ethel Robertson. It surprises
everyone in the family. They marry almost immediately. |
1915 |
19150800 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
The Karoo is suffering its worst drought in a
generation. Wallace Molteno's farm has had less than 2 inches of rain.
Wallace treks with his stock to Prieska to find water and grazing. Drought
lasts into 1916. |
1915 |
19150800 |
Molteno |
MaryMolteno |
Berkhamsted |
Mary Molteno finishes school at Berkhamsted. Sails
for the Cape in the middle of the year with Aunt Ida Jones. |
1915 |
19150800 |
Wiseley |
MarjorieWiseley |
Scotland |
Marjorie Wiseley marries Lieutenant Edmund
Fergusson, Royal Navy, in Dunkeld Cathedral. He has been wounded in the
Dardanelles Campaign. |
1915 |
19150812 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
South West Africa |
The South African conquest of German South West
Africa is over. Dr Kenah Murray returns to Cape Town by sea. |
1915 |
19150900 |
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Tom Anderson, Effie's father, travels from Cape Town
to East Griqualand to pay her and her new husband, Elliot Stanford, his first
visit on their farm. |
1915 |
19150900 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
England |
Jervis Molteno, Percy & Bessie's son, is at
Sandhurst training for the Cavalry. His health breaks down. |
1915 |
19150900 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
Cape Town |
Vincent Molteno is back in Cape Town from the Royal
Navy operation in East Africa he was part of, and where he got gravely ill.
Gets engaged, and immediately marries, Eileen Wilson at St Thomas's,
Rondebosch. |
1915 |
19150900 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray |
France |
George Murray completes his officer training. Comes
2nd out of 50. Is sent to the Western Front. Serving with the Artillery. |
1915 |
19150900 |
Wiseley |
LesleyWiseley |
France |
Lesley Wiseley is in the Royal Field Artillery in
France.He marries Miss Barton. |
1915 |
19150906 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
Barkly Molteno is mentioned in despatches during his
directing an attack on Westende and bombarding German positions on the
Belgian coast. He is commanding HMS Redoubtable (and later HMS Revenge)
(Times 15.11.52) |
1915 |
19151000 |
Molteno |
NestaMolteno |
Berkhamsted |
Mary Molteno & Gwen Bisset return from finishing
at Berkhamsted School in England; only Nesta Molteno is still at school
there. |
1915 |
19151000 |
Newcomen |
BrabNewcomen |
France |
Brab Newcomen takes part in huge & bloody battle
at Loos. Two whole British & French divisions fled in the German
counterattack. Brab had been wounded earlier (?) at Ypres. |
1915 |
19151006 |
Murray |
ElizabethMoltenoMurray |
Cape Town |
Gordon Murray & Evelyn Southey's 2nd daughter,
Elizabeth Murray, is born. (She later marries Frank Walker) |
1915 |
19151017 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
England |
Dr Kenah Murray is promoted to rank of Major after
the German South West Africa campaign. On his return, he volunteered for
France; and left with his family for England. |
1915 |
19151021 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Not clear whether James Molteno did not stand for
re-election, or lost his seat in Ceres, in the South African General
Election. But he ceases to be the Speaker of Parliament & his political
career came to an end. He is aged 50. |
1915 |
19151025 |
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
Cape Town |
After Vincent Molteno's hasty wedding in Cape Town,
his mother Clare Holland Pryor, and Vincent's sisters, Monica & Audrey,
sail for England. |
1915 |
19151100 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Cambridge |
Dr Ernest Anderson is on leave from the Western
Front. He has tea with Jervis Molteno and Jervis's sister Margaret, and Islay
Bisset. The Vice-Principal (of the girls' Cambridge college?) insists on a
chaperon being present! |
1915 |
19151100 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Cambridge |
Margaret Molteno and her first cousin, George
Murray, get secretly engaged, about the time he sets off for active service
on the Western Front. |
1915 |
19151100 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Cambridge |
In late 1915, Jervis Molteno and Islay Bisset get
engaged. |
1915 |
19151200 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
Barkly Molteno takes command of HMS Warrior, one of
the Royal Navy's latest battlecruisers & he is also 2 i/c First Cruiser
Squadron. He is the youngest man in the Navy to occupy such a senior
position. |
1915 |
19151200 |
Molteno |
ClarissaMolteno |
France |
Clarissa Molteno's husband, Capt. Brab Newcomen, has
had a terrible time in trenches. Buried by a bursting shell at one point.
Now on leave in London. Clarissa herself working in a Depot in London. |
1915 |
19151200 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Egypt |
Major Kenah Murray is sent from England to Cairo
with the South African Field Ambulance for a short posting. There is some
fighting in North Africa at this time. |
1915 |
19151200 |
|
History |
Dardanelles |
Casualties in the Dardanelles Campaign to date:
115,000 (out of total British casualties of 550,000 as of December 1915). |
1915 |
19151200 |
|
History |
Britain |
The Liberal Conservative Coaltion Government, still
led by Asquith, adopts conscription. Percy Molteno with 35 Liberal &
Labour MPs, opposes it. 227 abstentions. |
1915 |
|
Anderson |
HaroldAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Harold Anderson is having a tough time farming due
to the massive drought of 1915-16 and the collapse of the ostrich feather
market. |
1915 |
|
Bissett |
WillieBisset |
Cape Town |
Willie Bisset saves a man from drowning at St James
in early 1915. |
1915 |
|
Bissett |
WillieBisset |
Cape Town |
Willie Bisset serves as an Assistant Field Cornet of
the Constantia & Wynberg Defence Rifle Association. |
1915 |
|
Capps |
AgnesCapps |
England |
Agnes Capps starts working for May Murray &
Freddie Parker this year. She later works for Margaret Murray at Painswick,
where she stays for the rest of her life. |
1915 |
|
Craven |
Capt.WSDacreCraven |
France |
Capt Dacre Craven, husband of Celia Mirrielees, is
mentioned in despatches. He had bee wounded early in the War; but returned to
the front. |
1915 |
|
Genequand |
MargueriteGenequand |
Elgin |
Mademoiselle Marguerite Genequand comes from
Switzerland to help Kathleen Murray start her farm. They fell out much later. |
1915 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Lord Pakenham (in the Royal Navy) tries to get
Barkly Molteno married! |
1915 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno is appointed to a commission of
inquiry into scandals over awarding of war contracts. He has to tour the
country. |
1915 |
|
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Australia |
Bertie Molteno is now living in Mitcham, Victoria.
Continues to live there until at least 1923. Attends the local Presbyterian
Church. |
1915 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape |
James Molteno attends the unveiling of a monument to
Dr Andrew Murray (his spiritual hero) at Stellenbosch (Andrew Murray is an
ancestor of Marion Molteno). |
1915 |
|
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Cambridge |
Both Jervis Molteno and Islay Bisset at Cambridge
get appendicitis. Sir Arbuthnot Lane operates on them. |
1915 |
|
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Cape |
Dr Victor Molteno is an Assistant Field Cornet of
the Constantia & Wynberg Defence Rifle Association. |
1915 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
Britain |
Vincent Molteno is promoted to the rank of full
Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. |
1915 |
|
Moodie |
GeorgeMoodie |
France |
George Moodie was wounded early in the War; returns
to the Western Front; is mentioned in despatches. |
1915 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray is appointed Officer Commanding,
Citizens Training Force Ambulance, Cape Peninsula. |
1915 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Oak Lodge turns from being Caroline Molteno & Dr
CFK Murray's holiday home into a successful farm when Kathleen Murray takes
charge. She started with bees. Planted apple orchards on a serious scale,
initially for the bees. |
1915 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
England |
Lily Jenkins joins Dr Freddie Parker and his wife
May Murray's employ in Wales where they are running a small convalescent
home. |
1915 |
|
Schreiner |
OliveSchreiner |
Wales |
Olive Schreiner stays with May Murray and her
husband Dr Freddie Parker at their convalescent home in central Wales. |
1916 |
19150906 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
Barkly Molteno is Captain of HMS Redoubtable. He is
involved in the shelling of German positions at Westende on the Belgian coast
with two other Royal Navy ships. |
1916 |
19160100 |
Fergusson |
EdmundFergusson |
Dardanelles |
Marjorie Wiseley's young husband, Edmund Fergusson,
is so badly wounded in the Dardanelles campaign that he has to be Invalided
out of the Royal Navy |
1916 |
19160100 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
England |
Jervis Molteno is still training at Sandhurst. He
may go into Scots Greys. |
1916 |
19160100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
There are moves in the Dumfriesshire Liberal Party
against Percy Molteno as their MP because of his unpopular opposition to
conscription. |
1916 |
19160100 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Early in the year , Wallace Molteno & Lil
Sandeman are with their children at Kalk Bay. Some rain falls at Kamferskraal
and Wallace hurries back to the Karoo. But it turns out the drought has not
really broken. |
1916 |
19160100 |
Sandeman |
GeraldSandeman |
France |
Gerald Sandeman is awarded the Military Cross (MC).
He is then made Brigade Major. |
1916 |
19160105 |
Bisset |
ArthurBisset |
Cape Town |
Arthur Bisset has enlisted as a private in the 9th
South African Infantry. He leaves with his unit for East Africa in order to
take part in the attempted defeat of German forces in German East Africa. |
1916 |
19160110 |
|
History |
Dardanelles |
The British Government abandons its Dardanelles
Expedition after 8 months of bloody & abortive fighting against the Turks
& withdraws all troops from Gallipoli. End of this disastrous initiative.
|
1916 |
19160129 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Cape Town |
Frank Molteno's wife, Ella Jones, and her daughter
Brenda, sail from Cape Town to take Helen Bisset to Berkhamsted school where
their daughter, Nesta Molteno, still is. |
1916 |
19160200 |
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
Kalk Bay |
Effie Anderson, wife of Elliot Stanford, comes down
from East Griqualand for a holiday with her father Tom Anderson at his home,
Quarter Deck. |
1916 |
19160200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno meets Herbert Hoover, the prominent
American in charge of Belgian Relief. Hoover lives near Percy in London. They
become friends. |
1916 |
19160200 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
East Africa |
Still in the Royal Navy's Cape Squadron. He had
taken part off the East African coast in operations against the German
battleship Konigsberg. |
1916 |
19160300 |
Bisset |
IanBisset |
East Africa |
Ian Bisset leaves by train for East Africa where
Arthur Bisset is already serving in campaign to defeat the German forces in
German East Africa. |
1916 |
19160300 |
Blackburn |
HarryBlackburn |
Cape Town |
Harry Blackburn has joined a Mounted Regiment in the
South African forces. Early in the year, he leaves for East Africa to fight
there. His wife Marjorie says goodbye. |
1916 |
19160400 |
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Kalk Bay |
tom Anderson let his house, Tressilian, in
Kenilworth, and lives at his holiday home, Quarterdeck in Kalk Bay. |
1916 |
19160400 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno gets 8 days leave from active service
in the Royal Navy. He has a motor accident on his way to stay with his
brother, Percy, at Parklands in Surrey. Neither he nor his wife, Ethel
Robertson, are seriously hurt. |
1916 |
19160400 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Wallace Molteno hopes the terrible and prolonged
great drought is at an end. He brings his sheep back to the Karoo from Orange
Free State where he had taken them in search of emergency grazing. |
1916 |
19160400 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Wallace's hopes dashed. The drought continues all
year. From 2,000 ewes, he gets only 400 lambs. And in August, he has to trek
away from this part of the Karoo again with half his stock. |
1916 |
19160400 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
James Molteno, now retired from Parliament, has some
kind of stroke. His eyesight affected for a time. His brother, Dr Victor
Molteno, fetches him. James spends several months with his brother Wallace
Molteno's family at Nelspoort recuperating. |
1916 |
19160400 |
|
History |
Ireland |
The Easter Rising in Ireland. |
1916 |
19160417 |
Stanford |
SheilaStanford |
Kenilworth |
Sheila Stanford, the eldest daughter of Effie
Anderson & her husband, Elliot Stanford, is born. |
1916 |
19160418 |
Molteno |
BrendaMolteno |
|
Brenda (now 22 years old), Frank Molteno & Ella
Jones' daughter, announces her surprise engagement to Lieutenant Gordon
Thomas, Royal Navy, while on board ship bound for England. |
1916 |
19160500 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
France |
Dr Kenah Murray, after a short posting in Egypt, is
transferred to the Western Front in France with his South African Ambulance
Unit. He continues to keep his daily diary throughout the war until the end
of 1918. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Beard |
DorisBeard |
Cape Town |
Doris Bear, in mid year, she gets engaged to Rev. E
W Lasbrey, Rector St Johns Wynberg & Christ Church Kenilworth. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Bisset |
IslayBisset |
Cambridge |
Islay Bisset finishes her degree at Cambridge. She
hopes to marry Jervis Molteno before he is posted to the Front. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Bisset |
HelenBisset |
Berkhamsted |
Ella Jones, Frank Molteno's wife, settles Helen
Bisset in at the school here and returns to the Cape. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
England |
Clare Holland Pryor, and her daughters, Monica and
Audrey Molteno, are back living in England at Bracknell, Berkshire. Clare
has started small school. Probably quite hard up. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Cambridge |
Margaret Molteno, Percy & Bessie Currie's
daughter, finishes her 2 year Agricultural Diploma at Cambridge; goes to her
family's Scottish home, Glen Lyon, to learn hands on farming. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Molteno |
NestaMolteno |
Berkhamsted |
Nesta Molteno, Frank & Ella's daughter, finishes
school. She has been head of School House. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Molteno |
ClarissaMolteno |
England |
Brab Newcomen & his fiance Clarissa Molteno
spent some time at Bitchington (Bridlington?) on Sea during his recovery from
wounds. In the middle of the year, he is about to rejoin his unit in France
again. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Molteno |
FrederickWilliamMolteno |
North Sea |
Frederick William Molteno, Elsie Rose's brother, is
a Royal Navy rating & stoker. Is in the Battle of Jutland. But neither he
nor Barkly Molteno know each other or that they are cousins, or that the
other is there. His only other brother in Britain, Leonard Clark Molteno,
also fights in the War. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Molteno |
LeonardClarkMolteno |
France |
Len Molteno, aged only 22, dies -- killed by a bomb
-- in the Battle of the Somme. He is a son of Frederick John Molteno &
Georgiana Pope White. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
By mid year, clear the drought has not really
broken. Wallace may have to trek with his stock again. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
England |
Dr Kenah Murray's wife, Hilda Robertson, & their
children, Lorna and Stewart, are at school near Guildford. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
In mid year, Jarvis Murray gets a commission as a
First Lieutenant in the Kings Afroican Rifles, based at Bombo in Uganda. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Parker |
MayMurray |
Wales |
Ella Jones, Frank Molteno's wife, and their
daughter, Brenda, visit May Murray and Dr Freddie Parker who are busy
beekeeping and gardening. |
1916 |
19160600 |
Southey |
MauriceSouthey |
EastAfrica |
Maurice Southey is a Lieutenant. Appointed Assistant
Police Commissioner, Moshi, in German East Africa in mid 1916. |
1916 |
19160601 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
Barkly Molteno is commanding HMS Warrior in Admiral
Beattie's forward squadron at the Battle of Jutland that starts today. It is
the only fullscale engagement between the Royal Navy and the German Imperial
fleet. |
1916 |
19160601 |
Thomas |
GordonThomas |
North Sea |
Lieutenant Gordon Thomas, Brenda Molteno's fiance,
is also fighting in the Battle of Jutland; he is serving on HMS Warspite . |
1916 |
19160602 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
Barkly Molteno's ship, HMS Warrior is hit by 15
heavy shells. Fatally damaged. 100 casualties. Limps out of the battle, but
sinks the next day ship. The crew saved by HMS Engadine. |
1916 |
19160627 |
Jones |
EllaMaryJones |
Cape Town |
Ella Jones, Frank Molteno's wife, arrives in Cape
Town safely from England. |
1916 |
19160700 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Kenya |
John Molteno has been with the Mounted Field
Ambulance of the South African forces fighting in German East Africa. Got
very ill. By July he is in his 5th hospital, living on milk. |
1916 |
19160700 |
Sandeman |
GeraldSandeman |
France |
Brigade Major Gerald Sandeman, Lil's brother, is
wounded on the head, but not too seriously. |
1916 |
19160800 |
Bisset |
IslayBisset |
Cambridge |
Islay Bisset returns to the Cape. She had spent 2
years at Berkhamsted School; and then 2 years at Cambridge (but did not
complete her degree?). |
1916 |
19160800 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Europe |
Betty Molteno and Alice Greene leave South Africa at
short notice. Betty never returns to South Africa til her death in 1927. |
1916 |
19160800 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
As soon as Betty Molteno arrives in England, she
sees Nan Mitchell (Lucy Molteno's sister who has been serving in a nursing
capacity in the War), Betty's close friends Olive Schreiner and Emily
Hobhouse, & lots of the family. |
1916 |
19160800 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
England |
Jervis Molteno appears before the Board and is given
2 months sick leave from Sandhurst. |
1916 |
19160800 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
East Africa |
Vincent Molteno is transferred to a monitor, HMS
Severn, working along East African Coast. |
1916 |
19160800 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis Murray is now Acting Regimental
Quarter-Master to the 4th Kings African Rifles, an African unit commanded by
white officers. |
1916 |
19160809 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
Two months after the Battle of Jutland, Captain
Barkly Molteno is appointed to command the super-dreadnought, HMS King George
V, flagship of the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet. He is the Flag
Captain of the Squadron. |
1916 |
19160809 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray |
France |
George Murray moved from Arras to the Somme. He is
in action almost continuously from 9 August to 1 October. The Battle of the
Somme is one of the most terrible engagements in the First World War. |
1916 |
19160900 |
Molteno |
BrendaMolteno |
England |
Brenda Moltenlo returns to the Cape after her short
trip to England and surprise engagement to Lieutenant Gordon Thomas, Royal
Navy. She brings her younger sister, Nesta Molteno, who has just finished
school at Berkhamsted with her. |
1916 |
19160915 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray |
France |
George Murray is awarded the Military Cross (MC) on
the very day tanks were first used during the Battle of the Somme. |
1916 |
19161000 |
Hirst |
FrancisHirst |
London |
Francis Hirst, ceases to be the Editor of the
Economist. He starts an independent weekly, Common Sense. Percy Molteno is
one of the six directors. |
1916 |
19161000 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
East Africa |
Vincent Molteno goes ashore in charge of the naval
field guns, just south of Rufiji River in German East Africa (today's
Tanzania). |
1916 |
19161100 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
Wales |
Betty Molteno, newly arrived in England, visits her
niece May Murray & her husband Dr Freddie Parker at Llandindod Wells. |
1916 |
19161100 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Towards the end of the year, Jarvis Murray, while
still on active service, gets engaged to Rosamund Eustace, the widow of Capt
Eustace. They don't marry til the war ends. |
1916 |
19161100 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
In late 1916 Lenox Murray gets a commission as a
Lieutenant in the East African Mounted Rifles. He has to buy cattle from
African tribesmen to supply the British forces. |
1916 |
19161100 |
Newcomen |
BrabNewcomen |
France |
Brab Newcomen is back from the front in late 1916
with concussion of the spine. He & Clarissa Molteno take a cottage on the
Thames near Maidenhead temporarily. |
1916 |
19161100 |
|
History |
Britain |
Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister, is preparing to
take up Germany's offer to negotiate an end to the war. The press barons,
Lords Northcliffe & Beaverbrook, collude with Lloyd George to overthrow
him. Lloyd George becomes the new Prime Minister. Britain pursues the War
with renewed vigour and sacrifice. |
1916 |
19161125 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Claremont House |
Jervis Molteno who has been invalided out of the
British Army temporarily at this stage, arrives at the Cape. He stays at with
Frank Molteno & Ella Jones at Claremont House til his wedding to Islay
Bisset. |
1916 |
19161200 |
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
Tunisia |
Willie Anderson still staying at Bleu Castel
Belvidere Superieure, Tunis. His health is better. He tours Algeria. |
1916 |
19161200 |
Beard |
RonaldBeard |
Cambridge |
Ronald Beard leaves Cambridge University before
finishing his degree in order to do a gunnery course to get into the Royal
Field Artillery. |
1916 |
19161200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
UK |
Percy Molteno critical of the British Government's
decision in late 1916 not to take up a German offer of negotiation. |
1916 |
19161200 |
Robertson |
HildaRobertson |
England |
Hilda Robertson, Dr Kenah Murray's wife, & their
two children, are staying at Alice Holt with her parents, the Robertsons, and
Ethel, Barkly Molteno's wife. |
1916 |
19161200 |
|
ChronicleoftheFamily |
Cape |
Some dissension in the family over the Chronicle of
the Family. Two (unnamed) subscribers withdraw, alleging the 'results too
poor'! |
1916 |
19161211 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Kenya |
John Molteno arrives in Cape Town from East Africa
with a batch of the sick and wounded. The white South African soldiers in
East Africa suffered greatly from illness in that climate. |
1916 |
19161213 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Lloyd George is now Prime Minister. The War grinds
on. A handful of Liberals are now formally in opposition, including Percy
Molteno. They sit below the gangway in the House of Commons alongside a
'pacifist' group of Labour MPs -- including their leader Ramsay Macdonald,
and Philip Snowden. |
1916 |
19161215 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Claremont House |
Jervis Molteno and Islay Bisset's wedding at
Claremont House. Her parents are Willie & Nelly Bisset. |
1916 |
19161222 |
Molteno |
JocelynMolteno |
Cape Town |
Jocelyn Lilias Molteno, Wallace Molteno and Lil
Sandemans's last child, is born. |
1916 |
|
Alport |
PercyAlport |
BeaufortWest |
The firm in Beaufort West is taken over. This is
many years after deaths of its founders Uncle Percy Alport and his partner
& brother in law, John Charles Molteno. |
1916 |
|
Durrant |
ArthurDurrant |
London |
The husband of Laura Ada Molteno is knighted -- Sir
Arthur Durrant. He is a senior public servant. |
1916 |
|
Jackson |
Jackson |
EastAfrica |
Five Jacksons -- Ernest, Alfred, Leslie, Lionel
& William -- served in the War with the South African forces in German
East Africa. |
1916 |
|
Mirrielees |
DonaldMirrielees |
France |
Captain Donald Mirrielees is promoted to the rank of
Acting Major. He has served originally in France. By early 1916, he is
serving in Salonika. |
1916 |
|
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
London |
Clare Holland Pryor remains friends with her
estranged husband, James Molteno's brother Percy and his wife, Bessie Currie.
Clare visits Palace Court quite often. |
1916 |
|
Molteno |
KathleenWhiteMolteno |
Australia |
Kathleen Molteno, Bertie Molteno & Ruby Allen's
second child, is born. |
1916 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
Wilfred Southey, brother of Gordon Murray's wife,
Evelyn, buys a new farm near them. He has a little daughter, Pauline
Southey. |
1916 |
|
Murray |
HaroldMurray |
Egypt |
Harold Murray is a Staff Officer attached to the
General in Command, Egypt. Has got Military Cross (MC). (But who is he? How
related?) |
1916 |
|
Wiseley |
LeslieWiseley |
France |
Leslie Wiseley is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal
Field Artillery. Promoted to full Lieutenant. Invalided out of France. |
1917 |
19170100 |
Molteno |
NanceMolteno |
Cape Town |
Nance Molteno, a daughter of Dr Victor Molteno &
his wife Mildred Jones, goes as a boarder to the Diocesan School for Girls at
Grahamstown. Her mother takes her up there. |
1917 |
19170100 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Early 1917, wonderful rains fall. The drought is
broken and the Karoo transformed. |
1917 |
19170200 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
East Africa |
Vincent Molteno, still in the Royal Navy posted to
East Africa, is very ill. Has to be invalided out from Kilwa. Sent to
Simonstown. |
1917 |
19170200 |
Murray |
GordonMurray |
Cape Town |
Gordon Murray & his wife Evelyn Southey come
down for the annual Rosebank Show; they try to get down to the Cape at least
once a year. |
1917 |
19170213 |
Bisset |
IanBisset |
East Africa |
Ian Bisset dies on active service in East Africa
after having been hospitalised. (Obituary to him in Chronicle of the Family,
April 1917). |
1917 |
19170223 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Percy Molteno criticises the Government for removing
some of the powers of Parliament & transferring them to ministers (Times
23.2.1917). |
1917 |
19170224 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Cape Town |
Two months after their wedding, Jervis Molteno &
Islay Bisset sail for England on the last ship to carry women passengers. The
German submarine campaign is now a serious threat to the British war effort. |
1917 |
19170313 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
Cape Town |
Vincent arrives back in Cape Town very ill. He sees
his wife, Eileen Wilson. Hitherto they have only spent 10 days of married
life together since getting married in September 1915. |
1917 |
19170315 |
|
History |
Russia |
The Russian Revolution. The Czar abdicates. Kerensky
comes to power for a few months. His government carries on the War. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
France |
Dr Ernest Anderson, still serving on the Western
Front, is slightly wounded in the foot, but has to go to hospital. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Anderson |
HaroldAnderson |
Kalk Bay |
Harold and Doris Anderson, with their children,
Peggy & Thomas, arrive to stay with Harold's father, Tom Anderson, for a
holiday. This is the first time they have managed this in six years. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Beard |
RonaldBeard |
England |
Ronald Beard's training in the Royal Field Artillery
is complete. He is commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and is about to be posted
to France. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Bisset |
HelenBisset |
Glen Lyon |
Helen Bisset spends two months with Margaret Molteno
working on the land at Glen Lyon; then stays on for the rest of the year. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Jarvis |
EmmieJarvis |
Cape |
Emmie Jarvis, Hercules Jarvis's unmarried daughter,
is getting very old. She moves from Beaufort Villa into a small house. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Mays |
JohnMays |
USA |
After taking a degree at the University of Georgia,
John Mays worked for Norwich Union insurance company. He joins up as a 2nd
Lieutenant in the US Infantry when the US enters the War. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Elgin |
James Molteno has been ill and is no longer an MP;
his wife, Clare Holland Pryor is living in England most of the time. James
moves to Elgin to stay in a cottage on his half-brothers, Ted and Harry
Molteno's farm of Glen Elgin. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
England |
Jervis Molteno appears before a board on his return
from the Cape; he is declared permanently medically unfit for active service.
|
1917 |
19170400 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Jervis Molteno & his wife Islay Bisset take a
house near his parents' Scottish Home, Glen Lyon. He intends to study
agriculture & forestry. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno & her close friend Olive Schreiner
attend a huge meeting at the Royal Albert Hall to welcome the Russian
Revolution in which the Czar abdicated and Kerensky led a Social Democrat
government. |
1917 |
19170400 |
Sandeman |
GeraldSandeman |
France |
Gerald Sandeman, one of Lil's brothers, is promoted
Deputy Assistant QuarterMaster General on the Divisional Staff in early 1917. |
1917 |
19170400 |
|
ChronicleoftheFamily |
Cape Town |
Charlie, Percy, Bessie, Ernest, Kenah. George,
Jarvis, Lenox & other members of the family express strong support for
the Chronicle of the Family to continue. |
1917 |
19170403 |
|
History |
USA |
President Wilson proclaims war on Germany. This
ultimately proves a decisive factor in tje struggle against Imperial Germany
late the next year. |
1917 |
19170407 |
Jones |
EllaMaryJones |
Cape Town |
Ella Mary and Mildred Jones's father, Mr Henry
Jones, dies at age 89. |
1917 |
19170417 |
Beard |
DorisBeard |
Cape Town |
Doris Beard marries the Reverend Ernest William
Lasbrey. Dr CFK Murray, who is still renowned for his wonderful singing
voice, sings at the service. |
1917 |
19170420 |
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
England |
Viola Barkly Mary Molteno, Barkly Molteno &
Ethel Robertson's daughter, is born. |
1917 |
19170422 |
Bisset |
ArthurBisset |
East Africa |
Arthur Bisset arrives home in the Cape from East
Africa, having been discharged on grounds of serious illhealth like John
Molteno before him. |
1917 |
19170425 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Britain bombs Freiburg after the Germans sank a
British hospital ship; Percy Molteno asks in Parliament whether this is the
British Government competing with Germany in reprisals. (The Times, 22 April
1917) |
1917 |
19170500 |
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Tom Anderson makes one of his frequent visits to his
daughter, Effie & her husband Elliot Stanford, and to his son Harold
& wife Doris Anderson, in East Griqualand. |
1917 |
19170500 |
Jackson |
SidneyDouglasJackson |
France |
Sidney Douglas Jackson, who has fighting in France,
is killed in action. |
1917 |
19170500 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
England |
Margaret Molteno and her first cousin George Murray,
who is on the Western Front in France, make their engagement public. |
1917 |
19170500 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
East Africa |
Lenox Murray, who got swamp fever in late 1916 and
who has been Ill on & off for months, gets leave and dashes down to South
Africa for a short visit. |
1917 |
19170502 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
Cape Town |
Vincent Molteno, who is still serving in the Royal
Navy despite having been taken so ill in East Africa, is ordered to England.
His wife, Eileen Wilson, is allowed to go too, despite the growing German
submarine danger. |
1917 |
19170515 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno M.P. protests at the British military
inflicting punishment on the wrong people. 'Let us keep our own hands clean.'
(Times 15.5.1917) |
1917 |
19170525 |
Batley |
PaulBatley |
England |
Paul Batley, Barkly Molteno's wife Ethel Robertson's
son by her first marriage, is a junior Royal Navy officer posted to a
destroyer, aged 20. He has already seen action at Gallipoli in 1915. |
1917 |
19170525 |
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm Molteno, Captain Barkly Molteno's stepson,
is about to go to the Royal Navy school at Osborne. |
1917 |
19170600 |
Bisset |
GwenBisset |
Cape Town |
Gwen Bisset is engaged to Vivyan Watson. He had
served with the South African forces in German South West Africa. Now he
leaves for Britain to join the Royal Flying Corps. |
1917 |
19170600 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
East Griqualand |
Caroline Molteno, Lenox Murray's mother, sails up
the coast with him from Cape Town to Durban to see him off after his 3 weeks
leave (he is returning to the war in East Africa). On her way home, she
visits her niece Effie Anderson (Elliot Stanford's wife), her son Gordon
Murray, & the Southeys in nearby East Griqualand. |
1917 |
19170600 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Pretoria |
John Molteno's leave expires. He is at South African
Defence Force headquarters at Robert's Heights in Pretoria, waiting to be
sent back to East Africa. |
1917 |
19170621 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
UK |
Percy Molteno again votes against women's suffrage
in the House of Commons. He finds himself in a minority of only 55 MPs
opposing votes for women (Times 21.6.1917) |
1917 |
19170700 |
Beard |
RonaldBeard |
France |
Ronald Beard, who has only been in France with the
artillery a few weeks, is wounded in the face and arm. |
1917 |
19170700 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno is living at 48 Tavistock Square and
experiences her first German air raid. |
1917 |
19170700 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Cape Town |
Frank Molteno buys his family's first car -- a
Buick. |
1917 |
19170700 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Pretoria |
John Molteno is taken ill again at Robert's Heights.
He can clearly not return to East Africa; is discharged; and returns to Cape
Town. |
1917 |
19170714 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Percy Molteno is worried by the forced recruitment
of Africans for Britain's East African campaign against Germany. He worries
about their rations and medical care. (Times 14.7.1917) |
1917 |
19170719 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
London |
Lieutenant Vincent Molteno, Royal Navy engineer, is
awarded a DSC (Distinguished Service Cross). (Times 19.7.1917) |
1917 |
19170800 |
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
England |
Willie Anderson moves from Tunis via France to
England. He is in good health and spirits. |
1917 |
19170900 |
Bisset |
UrsulaBisset |
Cape Town |
Ursula Bisset gets engaged to Advocate R H
Gregorowski of Pretoria. |
1917 |
19170900 |
Mitchell |
NanMitchell |
France |
Lucy Molteno's sister, Nan Mitchell, who is an
American, is now doing canteen work with the Allied Forces in France. She had
previously been in the Balkans. |
1917 |
19170901 |
Stanford |
CynthiaStanford |
East Griqualand |
Cynthia Stanford, Effie Anderson and her husband
Elliot Stanford's daughter, is born in Kenilworth, Cape Town. |
1917 |
19171000 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
After the rains have broken one of the Karoo's
longest droughts, Wallace Molteno faces a new threat -- swams of locusts move
in to the Karoo in October and November. |
1917 |
19171000 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Jervis Molteno is still hoping to get into the army;
he appears once more before a medical board. |
1917 |
19171000 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray |
France |
George Murray, Dr CFK Murray and Caroline Molteno's
youngest son, is wounded on the Western Front. He is promoted to the rank of
Captain. |
1917 |
19171100 |
Beard |
KenBeard |
Cambridge |
Ken Beard sails to England. He is going to Clare
College, Cambridge, where he also wants to do his OTC Officer Training. |
1917 |
19171100 |
Mays |
JohnMays |
France |
John Mays is serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US
Army. He is seriously wounded in the trenches shortly after his arrival at
the front near Soissons in late 1917. Evacuated to hospital in London. There
he meets Monica Molteno. |
1917 |
19171100 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
In late 1917 Captain Barkly Molteno is put in
command of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron under the Commander-in-Chief. |
1917 |
19171100 |
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
London |
Monica Molteno is working at the American Hospital
at Lancaster Gate; there she meets John Mays who has been seriously wounded. |
1917 |
19171100 |
Molteno |
VivienBirse |
Finland |
Vivien Birse (later Vivien Molteno)'s father leaves
Moscow in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. He relocates his business
after the War to Helsinki. |
1917 |
19171100 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
East Africa |
Jarvis Murray, Dr CFK Murray & Caroline
Molteno's eldest son, is slightly wounded in the neck. He is awarded the
Military Cross (MC). |
1917 |
19171100 |
Thomas |
GordonThomas |
North Sea |
Gordon Thomas is serving in the Royal Navy. He is
involved in naval firefight with the Germans in the Heligoland Bight. |
1917 |
19171113 |
Robertson |
HildaRobertson |
Alice Holt |
The funeral is held for Hilda & Ethel
Robertson's father who has died. |
1917 |
19171116 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
East Africa |
Slightly wounded while with 1st BAt. 4th KAR |
1917 |
19171129 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Lord Lansdowne in a letter to the Daily Telegraph
calls for peace by negotiation. Huge support for this position wells up after
three and a half years of war. Percy Molteno is very active in support of his
initiative. |
1917 |
19171200 |
Molteno |
CarolMolteno |
Cape Town |
Carol, Charlie Molteno and Lucy Mitchell's second
daughter, gets a First Class in the School Higher Examination. |
1917 |
19171200 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
France |
Dr Kenah Murray relates that the United States
Army's new official book on surgical appliances lists his Murray's Splint as
the recommended procedure. The British forces have still not done so! |
1917 |
19171225 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
North Sea |
Vincent Molteno, despite his exceptional height, has
been made a submariner. He spends Christmas 1917 in one of the Royal Navy's
early submarines, rolling horribly on the floor of the North Sea. He can
hardly eat anything. On surfacing, he is nearly washed off the sub by a wave. |
1917 |
|
Bristow |
MaryBristow |
France |
Mary Bristow, who is a descendant of Mary Molteno,
experiences her fiance, F. Parnum, killed while serving in the Royal Flying
Corps killed. |
1917 |
|
Jackson |
FrederickStanleyJackson |
France |
Frederick Stanley Jackson is fighting on the Western
Front in France. |
1917 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Beaufort West |
Julius Jackson becomes a member of Beaufort West
Municipal Council. Serves for many years. |
1917 |
|
Molteno |
AmbroseFrancisMolteno |
London |
Ambrose Francis Molteno is born. (Not clear how he
is related to George Anthony Molteno's numerous descendants.) |
1917 |
|
Molteno |
FrederickGeorgeMolteno |
Australia |
Frederick George Molteno, Bertie Molteno (who
emigrated to Australia from Guernsey)'s son, is born. |
1917 |
|
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
England |
The Board of Agriculture makes Margaret Molteno,
after qualifying in Agriculture at Cambridge, an Inspector of Potato
Diseases. |
1917 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
France |
Percy Molteno presses for measures to improve the
welfare of the South African Labour Corps (composed of Africans) serving in
France. |
1917 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
East Africa |
Percy Molteno presses constantly for better diet and
a halt to the sweating & flogging of Africans forced into the Labour
Corps in East Africa. |
1917 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
The Representation & Redistribution Bills merge
Dumfries County & Borough seats; Percy Molteno loses the Liberal Party
nomination to the new seat at the post-war general election. |
1917 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray is promoted from Captain to Lieutenant
Colonel in the Citizens Training Force Ambulance Corps. |
1917 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis Murray is engaged to Rosamund Eustace, who is
a widow. They only get married (at the Cape) after the War ends. |
1917 |
|
Newcomen |
BrabNewcomen |
England |
Brab Newcomen, having been seriously wounded, is
made Garrison Adjutant in Southampton. His wife, Clarissa Molteno, serves as
his (only) clerk. He has subsequently to be invalided out of the service. He
and Clarissa take a cottage in Cornwall. |
1917 |
|
Parker |
FreddieParker |
Wales |
Dr Freddie Parker, May Murray's husband, is nearly
conscripted despite being crippled with arthritis. |
1917 |
|
Sandeman |
DonaldSandeman |
Mesopotamia |
Donald Sandeman, Lil's brother, is a Captain in the
Corps of Guides. Previously stationed on India's North West Frontier, he is
now fighting in Mesopotamia against Turkish forces there. |
1917 |
|
Selous |
Selous |
France |
Sir Frederick Selous, a friend of Percy Molteno, is
killed on active service. |
1918 |
19180100 |
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
Cape Town |
Willie Anderson arrives from England; stays with his
father Tom Anderson, at his home, Quarterdeck, Kalk Bay. |
1918 |
19180100 |
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Wales |
Bessie Currie, Percy Molteno's wife, goes for
several months to May Murray & Freddie Parker's nursing home at
Llandrindod Wells in Wales for treatment in the baths there. |
1918 |
19180100 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno & his wife Ethel Robertson,
following her father's death a couple of months ago, move from the Robertson
family home at Alice Holt to Alton, Hampshire. Barkly is still away almost
all the time on active service with the Royal Navy. |
1918 |
19180100 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
London |
Jervis Molteno & his wife Islay Bisset are now
settled in Hampstead; Jervis is working at the Defence of the Realm Losses
Commission. |
1918 |
19180100 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Egypt |
John Molteno, despite being invalided out of the
South African Defence Force, is determined to continue in a fighting
capacity. He now joins the Flying Corps. Goes to Durban en route for Egypt,
but his ship lands up in Bombay! |
1918 |
19180131 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Percy Molteno is part of a deputation of MPs &
Members of the House of Lords who thank Lord Lansdowne for his unsuccessful
call a month before for peace by negotiation. |
1918 |
19180200 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
North Sea |
In early 1918 Barkly Molteno is given the command of
HMS Bellerophon. |
1918 |
19180200 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
In early 1918 Betty Molteno attends a dinner at the
Lyceum Club with Olive Schreiner to celebrate women getting the vote in
Britain for the first time. |
1918 |
19180200 |
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Kathleen Murray is expanding her farming operation
at Palmiet River farm.She wins 1st prize for the two best South African-bred
Berkshire sows and for the best beeswax at the Western Province Agricultural
Society Show. |
1918 |
19180223 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
London |
Margaret Molteno & Captain George Murray, M.C.,
Royal Field Artillery, can see no end to the War. So they get married anyway
in Marylebone Presbyterian Church, Edgeware Road, during a few days' leave
that George obtains from the Front. (The Times 26.2.1918) |
1918 |
19180300 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
France |
Dr Ernest Anderson's Guards Regiment is moved far
behind the front line; and, almost four years into the War, at last
dismounted & turned into a machine gun section. |
1918 |
19180300 |
Anderson |
HaroldAnderson |
Kalk Bay |
Harold Anderson motors down with his family from
their farm in East Griqualand to spend 6 weeks with his father, Tom Anderson
at Quarterdeck. |
1918 |
19180300 |
Mitchell |
LucyBlairMitchell |
USA |
Charlie Molteno's wife, Lucy Mitchell sails for the
USA to spend 6 months or so with her family there. |
1918 |
19180300 |
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
London |
Clare Holland Pryor moves to London. Her elder
daughter, Monica Molteno, is working in the Admiralty; and the youngest,
Audrey, is at the independent girls day school, Queen's College London, in
Harley Street. |
1918 |
19180300 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Egypt |
John Molteno now reaches Egypt and starts his
training at the School of Military Aeronautics outside Cairo. |
1918 |
19180300 |
Murray |
HaroldMurray |
Palestine |
Harold Murray is a Major on the Staff. Having been
in Egypt for one and a half years, he is now part of the British advance into
Palestine. He is wounded in a battle in Gaza. |
1918 |
19180300 |
Sandeman |
DonaldSandeman |
Palestine |
Major Donald Sandeman, one of Lil's brothers, takes
part in the big British advance into Turkish-controlled Palestine. |
1918 |
19180300 |
|
History |
France |
The German army makes a huge and sustained
breakthrough, forcing the British army back a significant distance. Dr Kenah
Murray is critical of the cowardice of several British divisions, in contrast
to the French forces which this time hold on. |
1918 |
19180314 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Beaufort West |
An unbelievable eight inches of rain falls on the
village of Beaufort West in 12 hours and does huge damage. |
1918 |
19180323 |
Molteno |
DonaldIanCurrieMolteno |
London |
Donald Molteno, Jervis & Islay's first child, is
born. |
1918 |
19180400 |
Mitchell |
NanMitchell |
France |
Nan Mitchell, who is the sister of Lucy Mitchell,
Charlie Molteno's wife, is nursing in an American military hospital in
France. She is caught up in the German breakthrough which she graphically
describes. |
1918 |
19180400 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
Wallace Molteno & Lil Sandeman move to
Nelspoort. But Wallace decides not sell his previous farm at Kamferskraal;
instead he leases it to Joe Wilmot. (Robert thinks it is Joe's son who was
Jocelyn Molteno's first love -- Jocelyn being Wallace and Lil's youngest
daughter.) |
1918 |
19180400 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Wallace is a Field Cornet and a Justice of the
Peace. |
1918 |
19180400 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Kamferskraal |
George Jackson retires from farming Nelspoort.
Wallace Molteno moves from Kamferskraal and takes over at Nelspoort. Instead
of selling Kamferskraal, he leases it to Joe Wilmot. |
1918 |
19180405 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray |
France |
George Murray, Margaret Molteno's husband of five
weeks' standing, is killed while in command of his battery of Royal Field
Artillery on the Western Front, aged 24. (The Times 23.4.1918) |
1918 |
19180500 |
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
Kalk Bay |
Willie Anderson, having spent several months with
his father, Tom Anderson, at Kalk Bay, goes and stays with his half-brother
Harold Anderson. Then stays two months with his half-sister Effie (Elliot
Stanford's wife). Both families are farming in East Griqualand. Willie then
goes to live for a while at a Trappist monastery at Marianhill, Natal. |
1918 |
19180500 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
On hearing of George Murray's death, his Uncle
Barkly Molteno tells George's young widow, Margaret Molteno, of his own most
precious (but impossible) love that he had kept secret for so many years. |
1918 |
19180500 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
England |
Margaret Molteno (George Murray's wife) and her Aunt
Betty Molteno have an intense correspondence for several months after
George's death, including 'messages' from beyond. |
1918 |
19180500 |
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Africa |
Gets leave plus Lenox; visits SA; Aunt Emmie Jarvis
vacates cottage for them |
1918 |
19180500 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
East Africa |
Jarvis and Gordon Murray get leave from East Africa.
They visit their parents, Dr CFK Murray & his wife Caroline Molteno, in
Cape Town and comfort them over George's death. Aunt Emmie Jarvis vacates
her cottage to make room for them. |
1918 |
19180530 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
East Africa |
Percy Molteno asks a parliamentary question about
the rates of sickness of African porters for the British forces in East
Africa. 7% of the total are in hospital at any one time. Over 100 are dying
weekly. (The Times 30.5.18) |
1918 |
19180600 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno continues to be very excited by the
overthrow of the Czar in Russia.She attends a Labour Party Conference at
Central Hall, Westminster which welcomes Kerensky. |
1918 |
19180600 |
Molteno |
HaroldVictorMolteno |
England |
Harold Molteno, Dr Victor Molteno & Mildred
Jones's son, leaves Bedales School. But he cannot get a passage on a boat to
return to South Africa, presumably because of the shortage of shipping. |
1918 |
19180600 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
In mid 1918 Barkly Molteno & his wife Ethel
Robertson take a house at Alton, Hampshire. |
1918 |
19180600 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
England |
In mid 1918, Jervis Molteno and his wife Islay
Bisset move house from Hampstead in London to the ten acre estate of
Woodlands in West Byfleet, Surrey. |
1918 |
19180600 |
Molteno |
LilSandeman |
Nelspoort |
In mid 1918, Lil Sandeman is busy rearranging her
and Wallace Molteno's new home at Nelspoort. She is also acting in an amateur
play in Beaufort West. The Bisset children, Eldred & Gwen, are staying
with the Moltenos. |
1918 |
19180603 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Captain Barkly Molteno is awarded the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath in recognition of services during the ongoing
World War (The Times 3.6.18) |
1918 |
19180629 |
Lindley |
BobLindley |
France |
Bob Lindley (the Lindleys are close family friends
of the Moltenos and Murrays at the Cape) is in the Royal Flying Corps. Has
won the Military Cross. His aircraft is brought down over Belgium & he
dies in Bruges Hospital, aged 19. |
1918 |
19180700 |
Horsley |
OswaldHorsley |
France |
Major Horsley, M.C., George Murray's very close
friend, is serving in the Royal Flying Corps. He is killed over France just
four months after George's death. |
1918 |
19180700 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Percy Molteno and Bessie Currie, as usual, spend
July and August there. There is a big party, so they stay at the nearby
little Fortingall Hotel. (Are Percy & Bessie yet in possession of Glen
Lyon?) |
1918 |
19180800 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
Scotland |
Vincent Molteno is stationed at Garelochhead in
Scotland putting a submarine through its trials. His wife, Eileen Wilson, is
able to join him there. |
1918 |
19180800 |
Newcomen |
BrabNewcomen |
Ireland |
Brab Newcomen is now stationed in the West of
Ireland on the staff of the Army of Occupation! Ie British forces tasked with
suppressing the Irish nationalist movement that has resorted to arms. |
1918 |
19180826 |
Beard |
RonaldBeard |
Cape |
Ronald Beard is back in Cape Town on leave from
three years serving with the forces overseas. His arm is still injured. |
1918 |
19180831 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
France |
Dr Kenah Murray is back to France after a period of
leave. But he is soon transferred to Perham Down in Wiltshire -- where the
South African Discharge Depot is situated. |
1918 |
19180900 |
Blackburn |
HarryBlackburn |
Cape Town |
Harry and Marjorie Blackburn lease Greenfield House
nextdoor to the Moltenos' Claremont House. |
1918 |
19181000 |
Molteno |
HaroldVictorMolteno |
Cambridge |
Harold Molteno goes up to Pembroke College,
Cambridge from the independent progressive Bedales School outside Petersfield
in Hampshire. |
1918 |
19181000 |
|
History |
World |
The great flu epidemic breaks out; it eventually
kills possibly more people around the world that the First World War itself. |
1918 |
19181010 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno attends a meeting in Central Hall,
Westminster, supporting a call for the League of Nations to be founded. |
1918 |
19181100 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
East Africa |
The War may be almost over, but Jarvis Murray is
wounded yet again, although not too seriously (through the arm and side).
This happens near Kasama in Northern Rhodesia where the German forces are
operating, but not seriously. |
1918 |
19181111 |
|
History |
Germany |
The Armistice with Germany is signed, the Kaiser
having abdicated the week before. |
1918 |
19181115 |
Thomas |
GordonThomas |
North Sea |
Gordon Thomas is present at the surrender of the
German High Sea Fleet; he is promptly posted to the Baltic as part of a Royal
Navy flotilla sent to the North German coast and Russia at the end of the
War. |
1918 |
19181200 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Immediately after the end of the War, Barkly Molteno
is appointed to a post in the Admiralty in London. It is 'heaven' compared to
his previous seven years in the North Sea. He and his wife, Ethel Robertson,
are Living in Alton, Hampshire. |
1918 |
19181200 |
Molteno |
CarolMolteno |
Elgin |
Carol Molteno gets flu in the great epidemic, but
recovers. She then has to nurse six members of her family, including the
servants. |
1918 |
19181200 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
From the end of 1918 to 1921, Barkly Molteno is in
charge of the Auxiliary Patrol Section at the Admiralty. (Times 15.11.1952) |
1918 |
19181200 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
East Africa |
Jarvis Murray helps capture the still undefeated
General Von Lettow, commanding all German forces in East Africa. Jarvis gets
a bar to his Military Cross, and escorts von Lettow as a prisoner of war to
the coast at Dar es Salaam. |
1918 |
19181200 |
Sandeman |
GeraldSandeman |
France |
Major General Sandeman, Lil's brother, is invested
with the DSO (Distinguished Service Order). Is currently posted to HQ as
Deputy Assistant Adjutant General on the Army's Demobilisation Staff. |
1918 |
19181214 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Prime Minister Lloyd George cashes in on the
Armistice to stage an instant 'Coupon' election. Percy Molteno loses the
Liberal Party nomination for the new consolidated Dumfries seat. He had
rejected offers to stand in various other Scottish seats. |
1918 |
19190100 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Kalk Bay |
Frank Molteno has demolished his original holiday
house at St James next door to Kalk Bay; and is building an Italian-style
house in its stead. |
1918 |
|
Currie |
LadyCurrie |
Glen Lyon |
Lady Currie, Sir Donald's widow, is now 89. She is
living at the family's Garth Estate. |
1918 |
|
Jackson |
ArthurSoulbyJackson |
Loxton |
The Spanish Flu even hits this tiny village in the
Karoo. Arthur Jackson's wife, Lettie, throws herself into the care of the
sick. One Jackson child dies. In the nearby district of Beaufort West, some
3% of the population (100 whites and 900 non-whites) die in the epidemic. |
1918 |
|
Jackson |
LeslieJackson |
Germany |
Leslie Jackson, who had fought the Rebels in South
Africa in 1914, and then the German forces in East Africa, joins the German
Occupation Force in 1918-19. |
1918 |
|
Jackson |
ErnestJackson |
France |
Ernest Jackson who had fought in German South West
Africa, and subsequently in German East Africa, was posted to France in 1918,
and soon wounded. |
1918 |
|
Jackson |
AlfredJackson |
France |
Alfred Jackson, who fought in German South West
Africa, and subsequently in German East Africa, was posted to France in 1918
where he was captured and became a German POW. |
1918 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno & Bessie Currie put £4,000 into a
trust for Percy's brother Barkly Molteno, his wife Ethel, & their baby
daughter Viola. |
1918 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Captain Barkly Molteno is awarded the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military Division). |
1918 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Bleakhouse |
Charlie Molteno still owns Bleakhouse, one of the
complex of Molteno farms at Nelspoort in the Karoo. |
1918 |
|
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
London |
Monica Molteno, Sir James & his wife Clare
Holland Pryor's daughter, is working in the Code Department of the Admiralty;
and at weekends in an American Hospital in London. |
1918 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
England |
Vincent Molteno has command of a submarine and is
based in Harwich. |
1918 |
|
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
France |
Dr Kenah Murray is awarded a DSO (Distinguished
Service Order). |
1918 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
East Africa |
Lenox Murray is awarded an OBE. |
1919 |
19190100 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Cambridge |
Jervis Molteno stops working at the Admiralty in
London and returns to Cambridge to finish and get his War degree. Has to
attend for 3 terms. |
1919 |
19190100 |
Robertson |
HildaRobertson |
England |
Hilda Robertson, Dr Kenah Murray's wife, is
seriously ill in London early in 1919. |
1919 |
19190131 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis Murray is discharged from the British forces
at the end of January. On February 3, he and Rosamund Eustace marry. |
1919 |
19190200 |
|
|
Kalk Bay |
As usual, the various families -- Wallace Molteno's,
Effie Stanford's, Gordon Murray's, the Bisset & other families -- are
down from their farms up-country spending the summer at their holiday homes
at Kalk Bay. |
1919 |
19190300 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Egypt |
John Molteno continues to suffer serious illhealth
from the War; is admitted to hospital in Egypt; then transferred to England. |
1919 |
19190300 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray discharged from war service. He joins
his brother Jarvis & Rosamund on the farm. He & Jarvis sell three of
their farms in Kenya. |
1919 |
19190308 |
Beard |
BessieBeard |
Cape |
Bert & Bessie Beard (is she a Bisset?) celebrate
their Silver Wedding. |
1919 |
19190319 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War,
continues the war, but now against Bolshevik Russia. Percy Molteno, no longer
an MP, speaks at Essex Hall denouncing this & opposing the Allied
intervention in Russia. |
1919 |
19190321 |
Batley |
PaulBatley |
England |
Paul Batley resigns from the Royal Navy. His life
having been spared at Gallipoli, he wishes to become a Roman Catholic monk.
His mother, Ethel Robertson, who is a High Anglican, is upset. |
1919 |
19190400 |
Bisset |
HelenBisset |
Cape |
Helen Bisset arrives home from Britain after several
years away. |
1919 |
19190400 |
Greene |
AliceGreene |
Wales |
Alice Greene, Betty Molteno's partner, is seriously
ill. She goes & spends the summer with May Murray and Dr Freddie Parker
at their convalescent home. |
1919 |
19190400 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
London |
John Molteno reaches England. Is sent to the huge
Territorial Force hospital (in the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building) in
Wandsworth, London. He wants to learn about farming in England (which his
Uncle Percy Molteno arranges) and to go to Cambridge and do Agriculture; his
brother Victor Molteno is already there. |
1919 |
19190400 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis is building his farmhouse out of wood. |
1919 |
19190406 |
Thomas |
GordonThomas |
Elgin |
Lieutenant Gordon 'Tommy' Thomas has at last been
released from the Royal Navy four months after the end of the War. He arrives
in Cape Town to marry his fiance, Brenda Molteno. |
1919 |
19190500 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Europe |
The Versailles Peace Treaty: Percy Molteno is
critical of it, believing it will not create a durable peace because of the
terms imposed on Germany. |
1919 |
19190506 |
Molteno |
BrendaMolteno |
Claremont House |
Brenda Molteno, daughter of Frank Molteno & Ella
Jones of Claremont House, marries Lieutenant Gordon Victor 'Tommy' Thomas,
who has retired from the Royal Navy after the end of the War. (Times
9.5.1919) |
1919 |
19190600 |
Hobhouse |
EmilyHobhouse |
England |
Emily Hobhouse dies. May Murray sends a wreath.
Emily's friends and supporters, Olive Schreiner, Betty Molteno & Sir
James Rose Innes, attend the funeral. (Alice Greene & Olive Schreiner die
the following year. Betty is losing her closest friends.) |
1919 |
19190600 |
|
History |
Germany |
Germany signs the Versailles Treaty under duress of
starvation; only then is the Allied blockade of Central Europe lifted. |
1919 |
19190700 |
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr Kenah Murray & his family get back to the
Cape at last. His cousin and sister-in-law, Margaret Molteno, now a widow,
travels with them. |
1919 |
19190709 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Karoo |
2nd Lieutenant John Molteno is transferred to the
Unemployed List in the Flying Branch (Royal Air Force) (Times 9.7.1919) |
1919 |
19190800 |
Molteno |
KathleenMurray |
Southern Africa |
Margaret Molteno & her cousin Kathleen Murray go
on a three-month tour of South Africa, Rhodesia and Basutoland. They visit
the Pickstones fruit farm by chance; Kathleen is very impressed by their
nurseries. (It may be this visit that stimulates her to start growing fruit
commercially on her parents' farm in Elgin) |
1919 |
19190800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Herbert Hoover, the prominent American and future
President who had organised food distribution in Belgium during the War,
writes to Percy Molteno about the famine in Central Europe. Percy Molteno is
very concerned. |
1919 |
19190800 |
Parker |
MayMurray |
Wales |
May Murray, Dr Freddie Parker's wife, is trying to
raise funds for the Famine Fund for starving children in Europe; she runs
into anti-German hostility. |
1919 |
19190900 |
Beard |
RonaldBeard |
England |
Ronald Beard is in London for an operation on his
hand (necessitated by a War wound). He hopes to go back to Clare College,
Cambridge in October. |
1919 |
19190900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno lunches with Herbert Hoover who has
been overseeing US relief in Europe. The discuss the serious humanitarian
crisis on the Continent. |
1919 |
19190900 |
Molteno |
HaroldVictorMolteno |
Cambridge |
Harold Victor Molteno is in his second year at
Pembroke College, Cambridge University, studying Natural Sciences. |
1919 |
19191000 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis & Lenox Murray decide to farm separately.
So they divide up the farm & stock. |
1919 |
19191000 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis Murray wins a 3,400 acre farm in the post-war
lottery organised by the colonial administration to reward white (but not
African) veterans. His brother, Lenox, has no such luck and does not get
one. |
1919 |
19191009 |
Bisset |
JamesBisset |
Cape Town |
James Bisset, founder of the Bisset family in South
Africa, dies at his home, Beauleigh, in Kenilworth. He had married Aunt Betty
Jarvis nearly 60 years ago, aged 25. (This is how the Bissets, Moltenos,
Andersons and Murrays are originally related) |
1919 |
19191031 |
Bisset |
GwenBisset |
Cape |
Gwen Bisset marries in late October. This is just
after her grandfather, James Bisset, has died. |
1919 |
19191100 |
Greene |
AliceGreene |
England |
Alice Greene is very ill. Betty Molteno is with her
at High View, Trevore, Padstow in Cornwall. |
1919 |
19191100 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray is building a house on his part of the
farm he had previously shared with his brother, Jarvis. Situated on the
slopes of Mount Kenya, this is the definitive start of the Murray family's
life in Kenya. The third generation is farming there to this day. |
1919 |
19191106 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Europe |
Percy Molteno speaks at an international conference
on the dire economic situation in Europe. It has been organised by the Fight
the Famine Council. The Times reports no public interest in the issue.
(Times 6.11.1919) |
1919 |
19191117 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is still interested in what is
happening in Africa. His name heads the list of supporters (Percy
contributing £1,500 to the Clarendon Press's costs of publication) of Sir
Harry Johnston's book, Comparative Study of Bantu & Semi-Bantu Languages
(Times 17.11.1919) |
1919 |
19191195 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno and Bessie Currie donate £30,000 to
build a Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology at the University of
Cambridge (Times 5.11.1919) |
1919 |
19191218 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Europe |
Percy Molteno speaks on the economic situation in
Europe at a Delphian Coterie dinner at Cannon Street Hotel. (Times
18.12.1919) |
1919 |
19191228 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
Percy Molteno gets a passage to the Cape after
several years of being unable to do so. He arrives in Cape Town in January
1920. |
1919 |
19191231 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Vienna |
Percy Molteno helps found and serves on the General
Committee of the Vienna Emergency Relief Fund for women & children. He
mobilises the great and the good to support it; they raise half a million
pounds. Percy is one of nine people to donate £1,000 each. (Times
31.12.1919) (This eventually turned into Save the Children Fund) |
1919 |
|
Beard |
KenBeard |
Cambridge |
Ken Beard is back at Clare College, Cambridge, once
the War is over. |
1919 |
|
Jackson |
ArthurSoulbyJackson |
Uilspoort |
Arthur Soulby Jackson retires as postmaster of
Loxton on the Karoo. Moves to Uilspoort not far away -- into a house vacated
by his daughter Edith. (Later John Tennant Molteno owns this farm and his
descendants still farm there!) |
1919 |
|
Mays |
JohnMays |
New York |
John Mays returns home to the United States at the
end of the War. He continues to correspond with Monica Molteno who had
befriended him when he was in hospital in London recovering from wounds. |
1919 |
|
Molteno |
AmbroseFrancisMolteno |
London |
Ambrose Francis Molteno dies, aged 16 months. (Not
clear how he and his parents are related to George Anthony Molteno's
descendants) |
1919 |
|
Molteno |
AnnetteFeodoreMolteno |
England |
Annette Feodore Molteno marries Corporal Charles
Gillis, a Canadian MP (Mountie?), at the end of World War One. (Not clear how
she is related to George Anthony Molteno's descendants) |
1919 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Britain |
Barkly Molteno is put in command of the Royal Naval
Reserve. He is promoted to Rear-Admiral. He signs himself as Vice-Admiral. |
1919 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno continues her intense political
interest. Attends various meetings in Central Hall & Royal Albert Hall in
support of President Wilson's peace policy during the years 1919-21. |
1919 |
|
Molteno |
BrendaMolteno |
Elgin |
Brenda Molteno & her husband Gordon 'Tommy'
Thomas settle on her father, Frank Molteno's farm of Evergreen (later renamed
Applegarth) in Elgin where Tommy builds a successful apple growing
enterprise. Brenda is still Treasurer of the Chronicle of the Family. |
1919 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno settles £2,000 on Gordon Thomas
because of his service in the War. He also settles £3,000 each on his brother
Barkly Molteno and his nephew, Dr Kenah Murray because of their War service. |
1919 |
|
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Elgin |
His Elgin farm, Evergreen, (later called Applegarth)
only becomes a commercial success when his son-in-law, Gordon 'Tommy' Thomas,
Brenda Molteno's husband, takes it over. |
1919 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Africa |
Percy Molteno is in touch with the Anti-Slavery
& Aborigines Protection Society; he argues for a League of Nations
Mandate system with teeth in order to protect African interests effectively
in the former German colonies. |
1919 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Lil Sandeman, Wallace Molteno's wife, starts a
school for the farm workers' children at Nelspoort. |
1919 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray, Caroline Molteno's husband, is given
an OBE. |
1919 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray sells 9,250 acres for £9,250; this is
the start of a turnround in his financial fortunes. |
1920 |
19200100 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray gets a passage from Nairobi to spend a
holiday at the Cape, and see his parents, and brothers and sisters. |
1920 |
19200128 |
Greene |
AliceGreene |
England |
Alice Greene dies at her home in Trevone, Cornwall.
Betty's brother, Percy Molteno, writes her a beautiful letter of condolence.
Betty thinks of moving back from England to the Cape, but in the end decides
against. |
1920 |
19200207 |
Molteno |
PamelaElizabethMolteno |
Scotland |
Pamela Molteno, eldest daughter (and 2nd child) of
Jervis Molteno & Islay Bisset, is born. (Times 17.2.1920) |
1920 |
19200300 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Cape |
Margaret Molteno, George Murray's widow, who has
been at the Cape since the previous July, is still there when Lenox Murray,
George's brother, arrives from Kenya. |
1920 |
19200400 |
|
ChronicleoftheFamily |
Elgin |
This is the last issue of the Chronicle of the
Family. It has been going for seven years. Now no one was ready to take over
from Kathleen Murray and keep it going. |
1920 |
19200500 |
Mitchell |
LucyBlairMitchell |
USA |
Lucy Mitchell, Charlie Molteno's wife, arrives in
England from a visit to her family in the USA on her way back to South
Africa. |
1920 |
19200500 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
|
Margaret Molteno announces that she and Lenox Murray
want to marry. |
1920 |
19200531 |
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
England |
Margaret Molteno's mother, Bessie Currie,
immediately consents to her daughter's intended marriage to her cousin, Lenox
Murray. But Bessie doesn't yet know what her husband (Percy Molteno)'s views
will be. Percy is still at the Cape. |
1920 |
19200600 |
Batley |
PaulBatley |
England |
Paul Batley, Ethel Robertson's eldest son, is at
Downside Monastery, preparing to become a monk. |
1920 |
19200600 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
Percy Molteno, who has been at the Cape for the past
six months, returns to England. |
1920 |
19200700 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
England |
Caroline Molteno and her husband Dr CFK Murray
visit England in order to see their daughter, May, who is still living in
Wales; their son George's grave in France; and their handicapped son, Jack
Murray. |
1920 |
19200724 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
London |
Lieutenant Vincent Holland Pryor Molteno DSC is
placed on the retired list of the Royal Navy as medically unfit (he had got
acute malaria and dysentery when serving on the East African Coast during the
War). (Times 24.7.1920) |
1920 |
19200800 |
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
England |
Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK Murray arrive from the
Cape. They stay with her brother, Percy Molteno, and his family at their
various homes -- Glen Lyon, Parklands, and Palace Court in London. |
1920 |
19200800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Percy Molteno suffers from very acute asthma. This
summer it is so bad that he has to leave Glen Lyon and go south. |
1920 |
19200900 |
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
Rome |
Willie Anderson leaves South Africa and arrives in
London. The next month, he went on to Rome. |
1920 |
19200900 |
Currie |
LadyCurrie |
Scotland |
The Currie family's steam yacht, Iolaire, has spent
the past five years doing patrol work and submarine chasing. When it is
returned to the family for civilian use, Lady Currie takes her family for a
holiday trip off the West Coast of Scotland. (The year is either 1919 or
1920) |
1920 |
19200900 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray leaves Kenya. |
1920 |
19201000 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Cambridge |
John Molteno is now at Pembroke College, Cambridge
University, studying Agriculture; his younger brother Harold Victor Molteno
is at the same college. |
1920 |
19201200 |
Bingle |
ElizaBingle |
Cape Town |
Eliza Bingle, the last surviving link with Sir John
Molteno's sister Nancy's generation, is going out to the Cape. She wants to
live there. Percy Molteno is looking after her financial affairs. |
1920 |
19201211 |
Schreiner |
OliveSchreiner |
Cape Town |
Olive Schreiner dies. |
1920 |
19230724 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
London |
On retirement from Navy, Vincent Molteno throws
himself into Christian Science as a minister and healer during the 1920s
& 30s. The family live in London from then on. |
1920 |
|
Bristow |
CharlesBristow |
Kenya |
Charles Bristow, like Eddie Bristow, joins the East
African Police and emigrates to Kenya. Unknown to Jarvis and Lenox Murray, a
new branch of Molteno descendants now exist in Kenya. (This branch has not
been further traced by Robert Molteno) |
1920 |
|
Bristow |
EddieBristow |
Kenya |
Eddie Bristow, who had been a Quartermaster-Sergeant
in the British Army at the start of the Great War joins the East African
Police, in the CID, and emigrates to Kenya. Unknown to Jarvis and Lenox
Murray, a new branch of Molteno descendants now exist in Kenya. (This branch
has not been further traced by Robert Molteno) |
1920 |
|
Durrant |
ArthurDurrant |
England |
Sir Arthur Durrant, husband of Laura Ada Molteno,
becomes Director of Lands and Accommodation, Office of Works (Times
25.8.1939) |
1920 |
|
Lee |
DenisLee |
England |
Shortly after their youngest brother born, sent off
as young kids to minor boarding schools because Elsie Rose cld not easily
cope |
1920 |
|
Lee |
KennethLee |
England |
Shortly after their youngest brother born, sent off
as young kids to minor boarding schools because Elsie Rose cld not easily
cope |
1920 |
|
Lee |
RichardLee |
England |
Richard John Molteno Lee, youngest son of Elsie Rose
Molteno & her husband Arthur Lee, is born. |
1920 |
|
Mills |
JimMoltenoMills |
London |
Born. Illegitimate son of Constance Molteno and
Currie, director of Unilever |
1920 |
|
Molteno |
ConstanceMolteno |
London |
Constance Molteno, a daughter of Albert Frank
Molteno, never married. But roundabout this time, she became the mistress of
a Unilever director. She and her partner has one son, Jim Molteno-Mills. |
1920 |
|
Molteno |
FrederickWilliamMolteno |
Guernsey |
Frederick William Molteno who was a Royal Navy
rating during the War, returned to his mother's home in the Channel Islands,
and in the 1920s & 30s runs a small bicycle and radio repair shop in St
Peter Port, Guernsey. |
1920 |
|
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
London |
Monica Molteno is working in the Editorial
Department of the League of Nations Union. |
1920 |
|
Molteno |
NanceMolteno |
East Cape |
Nance Molteno is still at the Diocesan School for
Girls at Grahamstown. |
1920 |
|
Molteno |
PatriciaMolteno |
England |
Patricia Molteno, daughter of Lieutenant Vincent
Molteno RN & Eileen Wilson, is born in Plymouth. Her parents have a flat
there. Her father is likely to be posted there to the Royal Navy College at
Devonport for a year. |
1920 |
|
Molteno |
RonMolteno |
Australia |
Ron Molteno, son of Ruby Allen and Bertie Molteno
who emigrated to Australia from Guernsey via Ceylon, is born. |
1920 |
|
Newcomen |
BrabNewcomen |
China |
Brab Newcomen has at last recovered fully from his
war wounds. His regiment is posted to China. Clarissa Molteno, his wife, goes
with him to China. |
1920 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Cape Town |
May Murray & her husband Dr Freddie Parker visit
the Cape for the first time time in 6 years. |
1920 |
|
Stanford |
MargaretStanford |
East Griqualand |
Margaret Stanford, 3rd daughter of Walter Elliot
Stanford and Effie Anderson, is born. |
1921 |
19210100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
South Africa |
The Hon. John X Merriman, former Prime Minister of
the Cape, promises Percy Molteno help to get the South African law changed
in order to allow Percy's daughter, Margaret, to marry Lenox Murray. |
1921 |
19210207 |
Molteno |
DierdreMolteno |
Scotland |
Dierdre Molteno, daughter of Islay Bisset &
Jervis Molteno, is born at St James near Cape Town. (Times 17.2.1921) |
1921 |
19210303 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Barkly Molteno is at the head of the Captains' List
in the Royal Navy. (Times 3.3.1921) |
1921 |
19210319 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Vincent Barkly Molteno C.B., A.D.C., head Auxiliary
Patrol Section of the Royal Navy, is promoted Rear-Admiral. He is also an
Aide-de-Camp to the King. (Times 19.3.1921) |
1921 |
19210321 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Rear-Admiral Barkly Molteno is placed on the Retired
List 'at his own request' -- and promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral
(Rtd.). He has been serving in the Royal Navy since 1885 (ie for 36 years).
(Times 26.3.1921) |
1921 |
19210331 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno, on retirement, buys house at Farnham
near his wife Ethel Robertson's mother. |
1921 |
19210600 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
France |
Visiting England. He & Percy holiday in Europe.
Insists on taking P to see M. Coue for hsi hayfever |
1921 |
19210606 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Cape Town |
The South African Parliament, at Percy Molteno's
urging, passes a bill allowing a widow to marry a brother of her deceased
husband, thereby making it possible for Margaret Molteno to marry Lenox
Murray, her late husband George Murray's brother. |
1921 |
19210615 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Cape Town |
Margaret Molteno and Lenox Murray get married within
a week or two of the South African Parliament passing a law permitting a
widow to marry her deceased husband's brother. Margaret's mother, Bessie
Currie is present. After the wedding, they leave for England. |
1921 |
19210700 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
England |
Lenox Murray and his wife Margaret Molteno are
temporarily in England. |
1921 |
19210800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
This summer, Percy Molteno's asthma is again so bad
in Scotland, he has to leave Glen Lyon prematurely and go to Eastbourne for a
cure. |
1921 |
19210800 |
Murray |
RosamundEustace |
Kenya |
Rosamund Eustace, Jarvis Murrray's wife, is
suffering from high blood pressure. Goes to London for treatment. |
1921 |
19210802 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Bedales |
Margaret Molteno, Lenox Murray's wife, attends a
ceremony at Bedales to dedicate an alcove in the school library for George
Murray. It exists to this day, beautifully built of wood, alongside similar
alcoves to others who died in the First World War. |
1921 |
19210803 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno thanks General JBM Hertzog, a Boer War
general and now leader of the Nationalist Party, for his crucial help in
getting South African marriage law changed to make Margaret Molteno's
marriage to Lenox Murray possible. |
1921 |
19210804 |
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
London |
Monica Molteno and John Mays, 2nd son of late J G
Mays of Georgia, get married in the Savoy Chapel some three years after they
had met as a result of his being wounded when serving with his American unit
in France. (Times 4.8.1921) |
1921 |
19210900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Paris |
Percy Molteno consults Monsieur Coue in Paris. He
recommends him to Dr Freddie Parker, May Murray's husband, who is dying. |
1921 |
19211000 |
Molteno |
CatherineClaraMolteno |
England |
Elsie Rose Molteno goes to visit her aunt, Catherine
Clara Molteno, the ex-governess who had to flee Portugal during the
Revolution, and who now, aged 74, is living in dire poverty in a Catholic
convent. |
1921 |
19211000 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Paris |
Margaret Molteno, Lenox's wife, meets practitioner
M. Coue who has been treating her father for his asthma. She urges both Dr
Freddie Parker and her sister in law, Rosamund Eustace (Jarvis Murray's wife)
to consult him. |
1921 |
19211128 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Bessie Currie & Percy Molteno attend the opening
of the Molteno Institute of Parasitology at the University of Cambridge which
they both endowed. |
1921 |
|
Blackburn |
HarryBlackburn |
Elgin |
Harry Blackburn gives up his directorship in the
shipping company, W M Anderson & Co. Buys a farm jointly with Ted &
Harry Molteno. |
1921 |
|
Fourie |
MagsFourie |
Cape |
Mags Fourie, who later became Edward Molteno's
lifelong friend, is born in Robertson, Western Cape. |
1921 |
|
Molteno |
AlbertFrankMolteno |
England |
Albert Frank Molteno dies. He was the youngest
offspring of Frederick James Molteno, Sir John Charles Molteno's younger
brother. |
1921 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Barkly Molteno is an aide-de-camp to His Majesty the
King. He is listed by the Times in 1920 and 1921 attending various of the
King's levees at St James's Palace. |
1921 |
|
Molteno |
CatherineClaraMolteno |
England |
Catherine Clara Molteno is in correspondence with
her quite distant cousin, Betty Molteno, in the years 1921 to 1926, and tells
Betty something of her life. |
1921 |
|
Molteno |
ElsieRoseMolteno |
England |
Elsie Rose Molteno contacts her distant relative,
Betty Molteno, for the first time. It is almost the only case of the South
African descendants of Sir John Charles Molteno connecting with their Molteno
relatives who did not emigrate from England. |
1921 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
Canada |
Great Aunt Molly is still in the music hall. She
tours Canada and the USA as a member of the cast in de Courville's
extravaganza, 'Hello, Canada'. |
1921 |
|
Molteno |
NestaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Nesta Molteno, daughter of Frank Molteno & Ella
Jones, marries John Syme. |
1922 |
19220100 |
Murray |
StanleyMurray |
London |
Dr. Stanley Murray, Dr CFK Murray's brother, dies. |
1922 |
19220200 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 1 |
Cape Town |
A portrait of Sir John Charles Molteno, commissioned
by his son Percy, is unveiled by John X. Merriman who had served in Sir
John's Cabinet, in the South African House of Assembly. |
1922 |
19220300 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
France |
M. Coue continues to be highly regarded by the
Moltenos. Betty Molteno takes her sister-in-law, Lady Mirrielees, to Nancy in
France to consult him. |
1922 |
19220300 |
|
History |
South Africa |
The Rand Rebellion breaks out on the Reef. Percy
Molteno is very critical of the white mineworkers' rising and the racist
politics it represents. He approves General Smuts military crushing of it. |
1922 |
19220328 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno sets out his views in The Times
(28.3.1922) on foreign affairs following World War 1. |
1922 |
19220418 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno and his wife Bessie Currie give a
further £6,000 to Cambridge University for the Molteno Institute of
Parasitology. (Times 18.4.1922) |
1922 |
19220500 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
London |
Dr Ernest Anderson, on returning to London from the
Cape, brings back samples of Elgin apples grown by his cousins, Ted &
Harry Molteno. The King sees them at the home of a friend of Ernest and is
impressed. So apples are starting to be grown seriously in Elgin. |
1922 |
19220500 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted Molteno, who has a strong tendency to fall out
with members of the family, now has a dispute with his half-brother, Frank
Molteno, over their farm boundary. The dispute drags on for two years! |
1922 |
19220500 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted gets into dispute with Frank Molteno over mutual
boundary between their farms! Drags on through all of 1924. |
1922 |
19220500 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
South West Africa |
The South African Government led by General Smuts
used aircraft to bomb a handful of people in SWA called the Bondelswartz who
rely on their dogs for hunting and who have refused to pay a newly imposed
dog tax. Percy Molteno is shocked at the Government's brutality that leads to
about 100 people being killed. |
1922 |
19220509 |
Jarvis |
HerculesJarvis |
Cape Town |
Percy Molteno writes to his aunt, Emmie Jarvis, that
he is thinking of writing a biography of his grandfather, Hercules Jarvis,
and is collecting material for it. (Sadly, nothing comes of this project) |
1922 |
19220600 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Tulbagh |
Margaret Molteno & her husband Lenox Murray
decided after their marriage to try farming in South Africa rather than
Kenya. In mid 1922, they buy a farm in Kruis Vallei, Tulbagh, with Margaret's
father, Percy, providing £5,000 towards the cost. |
1922 |
19220626 |
Molteno |
HaroldVictorMolteno |
Cambridge |
Harold Victor Molteno gets a First in the Natural
Sciences tripos at Cambridge. And he gets a post-graduate scholarship of £40
to do further study at Pembroke College, Cambridge (Times 26.6.1922) |
1922 |
19220800 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Elgin |
Sir James Molteno, retired Speaker of the South
African Parliament, finishes a draft of his first book of political
reminiscences. Sends it to his brother Percy Molteno for comment (Percy does
not like its tone), and help in getting it published in London. |
1922 |
19220800 |
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Houw Hoek |
Dr Victor Molteno, who is now 56, follows in several
of his siblings' footsteps and buys a farm, Korteshoven, just beyond Elgin.
(It was later farmed for a short while by his eldest son, John Tennant
Molteno) |
1922 |
19220809 |
Parker |
FreddieParker |
Wales |
Dr Freddie Parker, May Murray's beloved husband,
dies after years of suffering from increasingly acute ill-health. |
1922 |
19220900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno sends Davidson Tengo Jabavu at Fort
Hare a book about M. Coue for his wife. |
1922 |
19220900 |
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm Molteno, who has been adopted by his
stepfather, Barkly Molteno, is very able intellectually. Gets a place at
Balliol College, Oxford. |
1922 |
19221000 |
Jabavu |
Jabavu |
South Africa |
Davidson Tengo Jabavu sends Percy Molteno a copy of
his biography of his father, The Life of John Tengo Jabavu: A great Bantu
Patriot, which has just been published. It is dedicated to Percy. |
1922 |
19221000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
The Conservatives throw over Lloyd George's
coalition government. He resigns. A new General Election is imminent.
Gladstone's son presses Percy to stand for Parliament again. |
1922 |
19221016 |
Murray |
IonaMurray |
Tulbagh |
Iona Murray, Lenox Murray and his wife Margaret
Molteno's first child, is born at Hamilton House, Kalk Bay. (Times
20.10.1922) |
1922 |
19221100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
Percy Molteno holds 1 or 2 meetings in Montrose
Burghs, but finds the Liberals with no organisation. He withdraws from
seeking a nomination. In the subsequent election, there is a Tory landslide.
Only 64 Asquith Liberals and 53 Lloyd George National Liberals are elected. |
1922 |
19221200 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Elgin |
Percy Molteno arranges the publication of his
brother James's first book despite not liking its tone. Methuen & Co.
charge Percy £167/10s. Percy also copyedits the book; proofreads it etc. |
1922 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Britain |
Dr Ernest Anderson stays in the British Army after
the end of the War, but transfers from the First Life Guards to the Royal
Life Guards. |
1922 |
|
Batley |
PaulBatley |
England |
Paul Batley takes his first monastic vows to commit
himself to the life of a monk for three years. |
1922 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno starts her Journal that she keeps in
her last years. |
1922 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Sol Plaatje, the famous Black South African writer
and activist, is in quite close touch with Betty Molteno during his time in
London in 1922 and 1923. |
1922 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
East Griqualand |
Sir James Molteno loves staying with his various
relations. This year, he goes and stays with his nephew, Gordon Murray, on
his farm in Griqualand East. |
1922 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is preparing a series of eight
newspaper articles on the Cape fruit trade; there were afterwards reissued as
a booklet. |
1922 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno continues his efforts to bring the
Liberal Party back to its Gladstonian principles -- free trade, public
economy, and so on. |
1922 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Wallace Molteno feels sadly that all the brothers
and sisters are getting out of touch with one another. |
1922 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
For the first time, the railway reaches a point
fairly near his remote farm. |
1922 |
|
Murray |
LornaMurray |
England |
Lorna Murray, Dr Kenah Murray and Hilda Robertson's
daughter, is now 17. She falls very ill, possibly psychological in origins. |
1923 |
19230200 |
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Cape |
Bessie Currie sails for the Cape in order to see her
daughter, Margaret who, with her husband Lenox Murray, are farming in the
Western Cape. She sits at the Captain's table, presumably out of respect for
her father, Sir Donald Currie, who used to own the shipping line. |
1923 |
19230500 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
Sir James Molteno's first volume of reminiscences is
published -- The Dominion of Afrikanerdom: Recollections Pleasant and
Otherwise. It is mentioned in The Times (25.5.1923) |
1923 |
19230500 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Percy Molteno tells his brother-in-law, Dr CFK
Murray, he wants to sell his acre at Princess Vlei (which he had bought back
in 1893). |
1923 |
19230718 |
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
London |
Lieutenant Vincent Molteno retires from the Royal
Navy after the War and is promoted to the rank of Lt.-Commander (Retd.).
(Times 18.7.1923) |
1923 |
19230820 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Germany |
Percy Molteno writes to The Times about the
situation in the Ruhr which Allied troops have occupied. (Times 20.8.1923) |
1923 |
19230900 |
Eustace |
RosamundEustace |
Kenya? |
Rosamund Eustace, Jarvis Murray's first wife, dies
after they have only been married for five years. They had no children.(Year
of death may be wrong) |
1923 |
19230900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Percy Molteno tries to sort out difficulties between
his brothers over the management of Nelspoort. Wallace Molteno, who is
farming it, wants to give up, but in the end does not. |
1923 |
19231000 |
Molteno |
Molteno |
Nelspoort |
There is dissension among the family members who are
shareholders in Molteno & Co. which owns the farms. Frank & Wallace
Molteno pull out of the Company. |
1923 |
19231124 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Scotland |
The Conservative Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin,
backs protection & calls a general election. The two Liberal Parties
unite in opposition. Percy Molteno, calling himself an Independent Liberal,
contests the Kinross & West Perth seat, which is where his Glen Lyon
estate is situated. He loses by only 150 votes to a Unionist, the Duchess of
Atholl who is one of only eight women elected to the House of Commons. (Times
24.11.1923) |
1923 |
19231124 |
Molteno |
IslayBisset |
Scotland |
Islay Bisset, Jervis Molteno's wife, addresses many
gatherings on her father-in-law Percy Molteno's behalf and proves herself a
successful public speaker. |
1923 |
19231231 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno writes to The Times about the Imperial
Conference, arguing for British recognition of the full sovereign
independence of the Dominions. (Times 31.12.23) |
1923 |
|
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Gordon Murray tries to buy his cousin, Effie
Anderson, & her husband, Elliot Stanford a new farm. |
1923 |
|
Mays |
JohnMays |
USA |
John Mays, Monica Molteno and John Mays' son, is
born. |
1923 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
Canada |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno marries Bert Lang, manager
of His Majesty's Theatre in Montreal. The marriage does not last long. There
are no children. |
1923 |
|
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Houw Hoek |
John Molteno, back from his Agriculture degree at
Cambridge, is temporarily farming his father's farm. |
1923 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Marion Cran, author of The Gardens of Good Hope,
visits Elgin. She meets & writes a delightful account of Ted & Harry
Molteno arriving at a picnic. |
1923 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Elgin farmers, including Brenda Molteno's husband,
Gordon 'Tommy' Thomas & Harry Blackburn (but not Ted & Harry
Molteno), form Elgin Coop Fruitgrowers Ltd. |
1923 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape |
Dr CFK Murray is elected President of the Medical
Association. He gives an address on psychotherapy. |
1923 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis Murray is farming in Kenya. He is in close
touch with his Uncle Percy Molteno. Percy's East African Fibre Company is in
some trouble as prices tumble. |
1923 |
|
Murray |
MayMurray |
London |
May Murray, recently widowed, takes a flat in
Hamilton Terrace, Hampstead, near her aunt Betty Molteno. |
1924 |
19230100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno and Bessie Currie give a third
donation, £5,000, to Cambridge University for the Molteno Institute on
Parasitology. (The Times, January 1924) |
1924 |
19240100 |
Molteno |
HaroldVictorMolteno |
Burma |
Harold Victor Molteno, Frank Molteno & Ella
Jones' son, having completed his Science degree brilliantly at Pembroke
College, Cambridge, is in Burma prospecting for oil from at least the
beginning of this year. |
1924 |
19240100 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Tulbagh |
Margaret Molteno & her husband Lenox Murray have
had an unhappy year and a half trying to settle into the farming community at
Tulbagh; they decide to move to England and start again. |
1924 |
19240100 |
Molteno |
History |
Britain |
Tory Prime Minister Baldwin loses a vote in the
House of Commons. The Labour leader, Ramsay Macdonald, forms the first Labour
Government in British history. Percy Molteno knows him, his Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Philip Snowden, from their shared opposition to the First
World War. |
1924 |
19240124 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Charlie Molteno dies unexpectedly, aged 64, after
what should have been a routine operation. (Obituary in The Times 24.1.1924) |
1924 |
19240208 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno invites the new Labour Prime Minister,
Ramsay Macdonald, to breakfast at Palace Court ; Macdonald admires the
collection of Turner's paintings. |
1924 |
19240500 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno lobbies the Master of Pembroke
College, Cambridge, to admit his brother Charlie's son, John Molteno, to
study Agriculture. John passed his Little Go. |
1924 |
19240501 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Scotland |
Loveday Molteno, Jervis Molteno & Islay Bisset's
daughter, is born. |
1924 |
19240600 |
Molteno |
CarolMolteno |
London |
Carol Molteno, her brother John Molteno, and their
cousin Kathleen Murray on a visit to England, probably arriving in the
summer. |
1924 |
19240600 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Wallace tries in mid 1924 to sell Nelspoort. Deal
falls through. He manages it and his 3 other farms. |
1924 |
19240700 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Elgin |
Sir James Molteno completes his second volume of
political reminiscences. |
1924 |
19241000 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
England |
Margaret Molteno & Lenox Murray, with their two
children Iona & George, arrive in England from the Cape. |
1924 |
19241008 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is part of a deputation to Philip
Snowden, the Labour Chancellor of Exchequer, with a petition calling for
retrenchment in public expenditure. (Times 8.10.1924) |
1924 |
19241100 |
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Glen Lyon |
Bessie Currie's sister, Maria Wiseley, dies. She is
buried in the little cemetery at Fortingall just outside Glen Lyon. |
1924 |
19241100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald resigns. Liberals in
two constituencies ask Percy Molteno to stand. Now in his mid 60s, he
refuses. In the ensuing general electionm, the Liberals are nearly wiped out;
reduced to 42 seats. |
1924 |
19241200 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
England |
Shortly after starting at Cambridge, John Molteno
abandons his studies. He goes to Morocco where an independent republic has
been set up and the Rif War is raging . |
1924 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
England |
Dr Ernest Anderson tours the North of England with
his Turkish friend, Prince Yusuf. |
1924 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
USA |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno, shortly after marrying
Bert Lang, joins actor Sir John Martin-Harvey's touring company, doing
character parts in its tour of the USA. |
1924 |
|
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Australia |
Bertie Molteno moves back to Sydney living at
Rockdale. He works for Beale & Co., piano manufacturers, as a skilled
marquetry cutter. |
1924 |
|
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
England |
Margaret Molteno & Lenox Murray & their
family live at Haslemere for a short time after returning from the Cape. |
1924 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Wallace Molteno buys Nelspoort from the family
trust. But drought strikes again, and he has to sell 1,000 merino sheep at
great loss & move 3,000 others to pastures in the Orange Free State. OFS |
1924 |
|
Murray |
GeorgeMurray 2 |
Tulbagh |
George Murray, Lenox Murray and his wife Margaret
Molteno's son, is born in South Africa. |
1924 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Kathleen Murray's farming enterprise has prospered.
She has built a beautiful new house, with terraces cascading below it. This
is finished c.1924. |
1924 |
|
|
History |
South Africa |
General Hertzog forms the first Nationalist
Pary/Labour Party Pact Government. Its political platform of Afrikaner
nationalism and legislatively enshrined racism against South Africans of
colour runs contrary to everything the South African Moltenos have stood for
over two generations. |
1925 |
19250100 |
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Cape |
Bessie Currie, Percy Molteno's wife, & a family
party go to the Cape. Percy has gone to Pontresina, his favourite part of
Switzerland. |
1925 |
19250200 |
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
South Africa |
John Molteno, Dr Victor Molteno & Mildred
Jones's eldest son, is very ill early in the year. |
1925 |
19250800 |
Mirrielees |
LadyMirrielees |
England |
Lady Mirrielees, Sir Frederick's widow and Bessie
Currie's other sister, dies. |
1925 |
19250900 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Painswick |
Margaret and Lenox enter into possession of
Painswick. |
1925 |
19251100 |
Molteno |
MaryGreyMolteno |
South Africa |
Mary Molteno, Dr Victor Molteno & Mildred
Jones's eldest daughter, now aged 25, is profoundly deaf. Her aunt, Bessie
Currie, takes an instrument to help when she visits the Cape from England
this year. |
1925 |
19251113 |
Molteno |
HaroldVictorMolteno |
Burma |
Harold Molteno, Dr Victor Molteno & Mildred
Jones's brilliant second son, dies tragically at Akyab in Burma. |
1925 |
19251200 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Cape Town |
Long John' Molteno is back from less than a year at
Cambridge and without completing his degree. His Uncle Frank Molteno gets him
a job in a bank. |
1925 |
19251200 |
Molteno |
Molteno |
Cape |
At the end of the year, there is a gathering of the
UK-based clan at the Cape, including Percy Molteno & his wife Bessie
Currie, Mrs Selous; Jervis Molteno & his wife Islay Bisset, and Dr Ernest
Anderson. |
1925 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
England |
A friend of Dr Ernest Anderson, Prince Wahbi, asks
him to befriend Egyptian medical student. |
1925 |
|
Bisset |
EldredBisset |
Cambridge |
Eldred Bisset tries to pass the Cambridge University
entrance exam, but fails French. |
1925 |
|
Jackson |
ArthurSoulbyJackson |
Beaufort West |
Arthur Jackson dies in Beaufort West where he has
been retired for some years. |
1925 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Europe |
Admiral Barkly Molteno (now retired) and his nieces,
Kathleen Murray & Carol Molteno, tour Europe. |
1925 |
|
Molteno |
MargaretMarionMolteno |
Australia |
Margaret Marion Molteno, the youngest of Bertie
Molteno & his wife Ruby Allen's five children in Australia, is born. |
1925 |
|
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
London |
Monica Molteno visits her mother and sister in
London with her young two-year old son, John Mays. |
1925 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted and Harry Molteno build the first privately
owned coldstore in South Africa. After 1918 Elgin's soft fruit exports to
Britain have been rising rapidly. |
1925 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted & Harry Molteno's home burns down while
their new coldstore is being built. They suffer heavy losses. Their
half-brother, Percy Molteno, lends them £1,000. |
1925 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Wallace considers standing as an Independent in
Beaufort West. Nothing comes of it. |
1925 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Kenya |
Jarvis Murray remarries. His new wife is Gladys
Cooper. They have no children. |
1925 |
|
Murray |
LornaMurray |
England |
Lorna, Dr Kenah Murray & Hilda Robertson's
daughter, has a breakdown and is treated at the Maudsley in London. Later in
the year, she & her parents, and Kathleen Murray and John Molteno all
return to the Cape by sea. |
1925 |
|
Stanford |
EleanorStanford |
East Griqualand |
Eleanor Stanford, Elliot Stanford and Effie
Anderson's fourth daughter, is born. |
1926 |
19260500 |
|
History |
Britain |
The General Strike. |
1926 |
19260600 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno once again approaches the Master of
Pembroke College, Cambridge to get a relative admitted; this time it is his
brother Wallace's son, Donald Molteno. |
1926 |
19260600 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
Sir James Molteno's second volume of reminiscences,
Further South African Recollections, is published. |
1926 |
19260600 |
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
London |
Dr Victor Molteno, his wife Mildred Jones, and their
two daughters Nance & Mary, on a visit to England. |
1926 |
19260608 |
Hobhouse |
EmilyHobhouse |
England |
Emily Hobhouse, the famous British critic of the
concentration camps in the Boer War, dies. |
1926 |
19260609 |
Molteno |
FrankMolteno |
Cape Town |
Frank Molteno, Sir John Charles Molteno &
Elizabeth Maria Jarvis's third son, described as 'an enterprising fruit
farmer' at Elgin, dies in the Salt River train crash, aged 62. (Times
11.6.1926) |
1926 |
19260700 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno's friend, M. Coue, dies. Percy has
lost two brothers, Frank and Victor, & two friends, Mr Bland and M. Coue,
in the space of a couple of months. |
1926 |
19260700 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is still a free market liberal. He
subscribes a large sum to the Individualist Bookshop to promote Liberal ideas
& combat socialist policies. He remains a director of the Bookshop til
his death. |
1926 |
19260700 |
Molteno |
NestaMolteno |
Claremont House |
After her father Frank Molteno's death, Nesta
Molteno & her mother are on their own living at Claremont House (Nesta's
sister, Brenda, now with her husband Tommy Thomas at Applegarth in Elgin). |
1926 |
19260710 |
Molteno |
VictorGreyMolteno |
London |
Dr Victor Molteno (M.B. Cantab) of Wynberg dies
unexpectedly at age 60 on a visit to England just a month after his brother
Frank's tragic death. The funeral is at Peaslake, near his brother Percy
Molteno's home, Parklands, in Shere. (Times 13.7.1926) |
1926 |
19260800 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
John X Merriman, Percy Molteno's lifelong friend,
dies. |
1926 |
19260800 |
Murray |
LornaMurray |
England |
Lorna Murray is suddenly taken ill. Her father Dr
Kenah Murray rushes down from Glen Lyon to be with her. |
1926 |
19260918 |
Molteno |
SobellaMinnieBlenkins |
Cape |
Lady Minnie Molteno, Sir John Charles Molteno's
third wife, dies, aged 80. She has been a widow for 40 years. |
1926 |
19261000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
USA |
Percy Molteno & his friend, Francis Hirst, go on
a study trip to the USA. It makes a huge impression on them. They see various
VIPs, Detroit car factories etc. Percy visits the Black University of
Tuskegee in Alabama and is very impressed. On his return, he writes and
speaks about the economic lessons learned. |
1926 |
19261100 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Barkly Molteno, after his retirement, has long
wanted to visit the Cape. His wife, Ethel Robertson, has strongly resisted
his going, let alone accompanying him. But in late 1926, he departs for the
Cape despite this. |
1926 |
19261100 |
Molteno |
CarolMolteno |
Cape Town |
Carol Molteno and Arthur Williamson, a barrister,
get married after her return from Europe in late 1926. |
1926 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Beaufort West |
Julius Jackson founds the Beaufort West Club. |
1926 |
|
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno, now in her mid 70s, is living alone
at 34 Southhill Park just near the ponds on Hampstead Heath. |
1926 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Caroline Molteno, Dr CFK Murray's wife, goes to
Bloemfontein for the interring of Emily Hobhouse's ashes at the Vroue
Monument erected to commemorate the women & children who died in British
concentration camps during the Boer War. |
1926 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
Elgin |
Caroline Molteno and Dr CFK Murray celebrate their
Golden Wedding. In recent years, they have been living with their daughter
Kathleen on the farm at Elgin. |
1926 |
|
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
USA |
Clare Holland Pryor, Sir James Molteno's estranged
wife, visits (her one and only visit) to the US to see her daughter Monica
Mays & grandchild, John. |
1926 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
Sometime after 1926, Sir James Molteno moves from
Glen Norman on Ted & Harry Molteno's farm in Elgin; and instead lives in
the Palace Hotel, Kenilworth. |
1926 |
|
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Houw Hoek |
John Molteno takes over his father, Dr Victor
Molteno's, farm for a time before going to farm on the Karoo. |
1926 |
|
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Painswick |
Margaret Molteno & her husband Lenox Murray are
now farming at Painswick Lodge that her father, Percy Molteno, had bought for
them. |
1926 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Drought lasts through much of 1926 and 1927 |
1926 |
|
White |
GeorgianaPopeWhite |
Guernsey |
Georgiana White, widow of Frederick John Molteno who
had died in 1909 on his way back from Ceylon for their daughter Elsie Rose
wedding, dies. She has been living in a flat aboverher sister's shop in St
Peter Port, Guernsey. |
1926 |
|
|
History |
South Africa |
South African Prime Minister, General Hertzog,
proposes abolishing Africans' franchise in the Cape Province. Instead there
would seven White MPs with limited voting rights in Parliament. The bill is
not passed. |
1927 |
19270204 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Writes 2 articles in Times (4 & 8.2.27) on
causes of American prosperity; Writes in The Contemporary Review, August 1927
-- free trade & and genius of AngloSaxon race. |
1927 |
19270300 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Barkly Molteno's marriage with Ethel Robertson is
under great strain. They nearly separate. During his visit to the Cape, his
brother Wallace & Lil Sandeman offer him a home at Nelspoort if life with
his wife proves impossible. |
1927 |
19270722 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno is back in England after his long
Africa trip. He attends a Royal Navy Club dinner, which he does once or twice
a year. It is a huge assembly of RN's top officers (Times 22.7.1929) |
1927 |
19270825 |
Molteno |
BettyMolteno |
London |
Betty Molteno ended her Journal in May and dies
three months later. Her niece and nephew, May Murray Parker & Dr Ernest
Anderson, have been looking after her. The funeral is held at St Merryn, near
Padstow in Cornwall, where she is buried next to her lifelong partner, Alice
Greene. The Times publishes an obituary. |
1927 |
19270900 |
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm, Barkly Molteno's adopted son, gets engaged
to Thelma Henderson, the daughter of Admiral Henderson. |
1927 |
19270900 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
England |
Wallace Molteno & Lil Sandeman come over to
England to settle their son, Donald Molteno, at Cambridge. |
1927 |
19271000 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cambridge |
Donald Molteno arrives in England, stays with
various members of the family, and goes up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, to
start a law degree. His first cousin, Stewart Murray, is also at Pembroke. |
1927 |
19271000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Percy Molteno donates £1,000 to the newly founded
Royal Institute of International Affairs, the socalled Chatham House. He is
one of its founders and active in its proceedings. |
1927 |
19271126 |
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm Molteno gets degree at Balliol College,
University of Oxford (Times 26.11.1927) |
1927 |
|
Anderson |
WillieAnderson |
Rome |
Willie Anderson, who has become a Roman Catholic
priest, dies in Rome, A sad story about this is told by his half-brother, Dr
Ernest Anderson. |
1927 |
|
Bisset |
Bisset |
South Africa |
Mrs Bisset, widow of James Bisset, Percy Molteno's
aunt and a daughter of Hercules Jarvis, dies. |
1927 |
|
Bower |
Bower |
London |
Percy Molteno gets in touch with the Bower family
(his grandmother having been Caroline Bower). |
1927 |
|
Jones |
MildredJones |
East Griqualand |
Following her husband Dr Victor Molteno's death,
Mildred Jones goes for a time to stay with family on their farms in East
Griqualand. |
1927 |
|
Mays |
RussellMays |
USA |
Russell Mays, Monica Molteno & her husband John
Mays' second son, is born. |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Australia |
Bertie Molteno moves to Eastwood and lives there for
the rest of his life. |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
LauraAdaMolteno |
England |
Laura Ada Molteno, the wife of Sir Arthur Durrant
& ddughter of Frederick J. Molteno, dies. The Times (in subsequent
obituary for her husband) says she was Laura Annie. (Times 25.8.1939) |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Elgin |
Long John' Molteno is sacked by the Standard Bank.
Then works for his Uncle Ted Molteno on the farm, but Ted sacks him too. |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Kenya |
Long John' Molteno then goes to Kenya where his
cousin, Jarvis Murray, employs him on his farm. John does a lot of hunting
etc in East Africa for 4 years. |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy sets up a family trust. This provides for
legacies to about 62 of his nephew and nieces over next 70 years! |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is still active in public life. He
writes to the press a lot (as he always did) -- The Times, Scotsman,
Guardian, Spectator, Contemporary Review etc. |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno subscribes to & is on the board of
the Dunford House Association for Americans & Britons to promote Cobden's
ideas. |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
SybilMolteno |
South Africa |
Sybil Molteno, John T Molteno & Gladys Jackson's
eldest child, is born. |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
The first complaints from London about Ted &
Harry Molteno's Glen Elgin peaches arriving at Covent Garden market spoilt.
This becomes an ongoing saga & struggle on Ted's part. |
1927 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Dirk Steyn becomes Wallace Molteno's manager. He
manages the farms for Wallace from 1927 on. |
1927 |
|
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray, and his son Dr Kenah Murray &
Hilda Robertson (Kenah's wife), attend the Governor General's garden party. |
1927 |
|
Murray |
PatrickMurray |
Painswick |
Patrick Murray, the youngest son of Margaret Molteno
& Lenox Murray, is born. |
1927 |
|
Williamson |
DeneysWilliamson |
Cape Town |
Deneys Williamson, Carol Molteno & Arthur
Williamson's elder son, is born. |
1928 |
19280100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Europe |
Bessie Currie goes to Monte Carlo for a break; her
husband Percy Molteno goes to Pontresina, a favourite corner of Europe for
him. |
1928 |
19280112 |
Molteno |
AnnePenelopeMolteno |
England |
Penelope Molteno, Jervis Molteno & Islay
Bisset's daughter, is born at their home, Woodlands, in Surrey (Times
12.1.1928) |
1928 |
19280222 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno attends the funeral of Herbert
Asquith, now Lord Oxford & Asquith. (Times 22.2.1928) |
1928 |
19280400 |
Currie |
BessieCurrie |
Europe |
Bessie Currie is not well. She & Percy Molteno
take a Mediterranean sea voyage to Athens & Constantinople. Their son,
Jervis Molteno & Islay Bisset, meet them in Naples. |
1928 |
19280600 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
England |
Wallace, Lil & Jocelyn arrive to see Donald
during 1st vac. V. interested in Percy's new diary at Parklands. |
1928 |
19280630 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
He advertises in Times for naval officer's daughter
between 11 & 12 to attend 'very good, inexpensive day school' & be
companion to their only daughter (Times 30.6.28) |
1928 |
19280700 |
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm Molteno, Barkly Molteno's adopted son,
marries Thelma Janet Henderson, daughter of Admiral Henderson, in Ropley
Church, Hampshire. |
1928 |
19280700 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
England |
Ted Molteno arrives in England. He and his
half-brothers, Percy & Wallace Molteno, have long conversations about
farming. |
1928 |
19281031 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cambridge |
Donald Molteno eats his Dinners and does his English
bar exams for the Inner Temple during his three years as a student at
Cambridge (Times 31.10.1928) |
1928 |
19281207 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Percy Molteno & Bessie Currie leave the British
winter and sail to the Cape. |
1928 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Glen Elgin, Ted & Harry Molteno's farm, has
become the largest peach exporting farm in South Africa. |
1928 |
|
Molteno |
VictorMolteno |
Karoo |
Victor 'Vicky' Molteno, John T Molteno & Gladys
Jackson's elder son, is born. |
1928 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
London |
Vincent Molteno and his family move from Regents
Park to a maisonette in Bayswater in same block as his mother, Clare Holland
Pryor, is now living. |
1929 |
19290400 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Percy Molteno has arrived back in London from
wintering in the Cape. A new general election looms. Liberal candidates ask
for his suport. Percy is still very anti-Lloyd George. |
1929 |
19290600 |
|
History |
Britain |
Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin resigns. The
Labour leader, Ramsay Macdonald, forms his second Labour Administration.
Percy Molteno congratulates those new ministers he is friends with. |
1929 |
19290708 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International
Affairs) endowment fund is set up. Percy Molteno, along with Sir Otto Beit
& J.D. Rockefeller, is thanked as one of the most eminent donors. (Times
8.7.1929) |
1929 |
19290716 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
England |
Sir James Molteno arrives in London from Cape Town
for one of his periodic visits. (Times 16.7.1929) |
1929 |
19290829 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno writes in The Contemporary Review on
the recent South African elections, pointing out that 'its most important
consequence is its bearing on the native question'. The main political axis
is moving from relations between Afrikaans & English-speaking Whites to
Black/White relations. |
1929 |
19291000 |
|
History |
World |
Black Monday -- the Wall Street Crash hits the
world's stock markets. The Great Depression begins. This hits the finances of
most members of the family severely during the early 1930s. |
1929 |
19291100 |
|
History |
South Africa |
Following the election, Prime Minister J B M Hertzog
tries for the second time to abolish the Cape African franchise. He fails to
get a two-thirds majority to pass the bill in Parliament. |
1929 |
19291105 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno leads an Anti-Slavery Society
delegation to see the new Labour Colonial Secretar, Lord Passfield, seeking
an improvement of the conditions of Africans in East Africa. |
1929 |
19291200 |
Mays |
JohnMays |
New York |
The Great Crash soon destroys Monica Molteno's
husband John Mays' independent insurance business in New York. |
1929 |
19291200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
In the wake of the unfolding Great Depression, Percy
Molteno writes to General Hertzog, the South African Prime Minister, trying
to persuade him of the evils of trade protectionist measures -- in vain. |
1929 |
19291221 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno, Lord Cowdray & Francis Hirst are
part of a deputation to the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer &
President of the Board of Trade to urge Free Trade. (Times 21.12.1929) |
1929 |
|
Anderson |
MargaretMoltenoAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Peggy Anderson, Harold and Dot Anderson's daughter
(and granddaughter of Maria Molteno), marries Sydney Birch, a prominent South
African horse breeder. They farm at Venterstad initially. |
1929 |
|
Batley |
PaulBatley |
England |
Virginia Molteno, Charlie Molteno & Lucy
Mitchell's youngest daughter, is at Cheltenham Ladies College. She knows her
step-cousin, Paul Batley, who is now a monk. She introduces him to her
friend, Miss Faraday, & they fall in love. |
1929 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
USA |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno's marriage with Bert Lang
ends after 6 years. She returns to London from North America. Resumes
acting. Lives with her mother. |
1929 |
|
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Australia |
Bertie Molteno is made redundant in the Great
Depression by Beale & Co. He starts making a living independently by
making dolls houses called Loktyte. |
1929 |
|
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Karoo |
John T. Molteno and his wife Gladys Jackson are now
established farming at Rocklands in the Karoo. (Their grandson is still
farming there today) |
1929 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted & Harry Molteno buy plots in Kleinmond, just
over the mountains from Elgin and on the coast. Their bees, needed to
pollinate their orchards, are taken there for holidays! |
1929 |
|
Molteno |
VirginiaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Virginia Molteno is sent to Cheltenham Ladies
College for a year to prepare her to go up to for Girton College, Cambridge. |
1929 |
|
Stanford |
JohnStanford |
East Griqualand |
John Stanford, eldest son (and fifth child) of
Walter Elliot Stanford and Effie Anderson, is born |
1929 |
|
Williamson |
PookWilliamson |
Cape Town |
Jean Cambier Molteno 'Pook' Williamson, youner son
of Carol Molteno & Arthur Williamson, is born. |
1929 |
|
|
|
Claremont House |
Claremont House, the family home in Cape Town since
the 1860s, is sold in the depths of the Great Depression. It is the end of an
era in the Molteno family's history. |
1930 |
19300306 |
Murray |
CFKMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr CFK Murray, Caroline Molteno's husband, dies.
Following his death, Caroline visits England to see her beloved brother,
Percy Molteno, and other members of the family. |
1930 |
19300507 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno writes to The Times arguing against
high death duties as a drain on capital and undermining British industry.
(Times 7.5.1930) |
1930 |
19300516 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Francis W Hirst, Percy Molteno's close friend and
Hon. Sec. of the League to Enforce Public Economy, criticises the Labour
Chancellor Philip Snowden's budget; he quotes Percy's views approvingly
(Times 16.5.1930) |
1930 |
19300604 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cambridge |
Percy Molteno takes his sister, Caroline, who has
just been widowed, to the installation of Stanley Baldwin as the new
Chancellor of Cambridge University. They dine at the High Table at Trinity
College with Einstein, Rutherford and others. |
1930 |
19300614 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno visits the Labour Chancellor of the
Exchequer Philip Snowden at home. He urges public economy on him, beleagured
by the Great Depression. |
1930 |
19300807 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno is a member of a new 'non-party'
group, The Friends of Economy. This stands for the 'need to curb public &
private extravagance'. Lords Cowdray, Leverhulme & others are members.
(Times 7.8.1930) |
1930 |
19300813 |
Molteno |
AlisonJanetMolteno |
England |
Alison 'Janet' Molteno, Malcolm Molteno & his
wife Thelma Henderson's first child, is born at 46 Burnham Court, London W2.
(Times 16.8.1930) |
1930 |
19301117 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
London |
Donald Molteno, aged 22, is called to the Bar at the
Inner Temple. He had graduated in the summer with Honours in Law from
Pembroke College, Cambridge. He gets a pupillage in a London set of chambers.
His family regard him as left-wing. He lives at the university settlement of
Toynbee Hall in London's East End, and dispenses free legal advice to local
people in the Depression. (Times 18.11.1930) |
1930 |
|
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
Cape Town |
Tom Anderson, Maria Molteno's husband, dies, aged 86
years old. |
1930 |
|
Bristow |
EdwinBristow |
Kenya |
Edwin Bristow, son of Edwin Bristow & Bessie
Morgan, is born. (He is subsequently sent to school in England, but returned
to Kenya & became a lawyer in Nairobi. (Are he, or his son Whiston
Bristow, still in Kenya?) |
1930 |
|
Lee |
DenisLee |
Hereford |
Denis Lee, who is in his twenties in the 1930s, gets
a job in a bank. Hates it. |
1930 |
|
Molteno |
CatherineClaraMolteno |
England |
Catherine Molteno, the unmarried daughter of William
Frederick Molteno who had died in Jamaica, dies in extreme poverty. |
1930 |
|
Molteno |
FrancisGeorgeGrayMolteno |
England |
Francis George Molteno dies, aged 65. (Not clear how
he is related to George Anthony Molteno's descendants) |
1930 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Sir James Molteno spends a long holiday with his
brother, Wallace Molteno and Lil Sandeman, on their farm in the Karoo. |
1930 |
|
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Spain |
Jarvis Murray, now 52 years old, decides to retire
from farming in Kenya. He goes to live in Spain for about three years. |
1931 |
19310100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Switzerland |
Percy Molteno is in poor health. He winters with a
party at his favourite place, Pontresina, for 2 months. |
1931 |
19310421 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno attends the Annual Meeting of the
Anti-Slavery & Aborigines Protection Society in Central Hall. Lord
Noel-Buxton presides. (Times 21.4.1931) |
1931 |
19310521 |
Molteno |
LucyMolteno |
London |
Debutantes are presented to Their Majesties 2nd
Court. Lucy Molteno is dressed in a 'gown of pale coral-pink satin, moulded
to the figure. A train of old rose point lace lined with pink tulle'. (Times
21.5.1931) |
1931 |
19310609 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
The Royal Institute of International Affairs holds a
reception at St James's Square for Chancellor Bruning of Germany. Percy
Molteno is present. (Times 9.6.1931) |
1931 |
19310824 |
|
History |
UK |
The Labour Government under Ramsay Macdonald splits
on how far to cut the budget in the Depression. Percy Molteno backs Macdonald
& his Chancellor, Philip Snowden. In the subsequent General Election in
October, the Labour Party is routed. |
1931 |
19311005 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno, still an ardent believer in free
trade, unveils a memorial tablet for Richard Cobden, and proposes a toast to
Mr Gladstone. (Times 5.10.1931). |
1931 |
19311014 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Parklands |
The era of roadbuilding is upon Britain. Percy
Molteno opposes the Shere Valley bypass. It is 'one of the beauty spots of
England'. The road threatens to go through half a mile of his land at
Parklands & 'destroy the amenities entirely'. (Times 14.10.1931) |
1931 |
19311124 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Cape Town |
Wallace Molteno, having been taken ill on board ship
on his way back from visiting England with his wife Lil Sandeman, dies, aged
only 61. Their son, Donald Molteno, has accompanied them back from London.
(Times 26.11.1931) |
1931 |
19311200 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno |
Nelspoort |
In the wake of Wallace Molteno's death, a family
trust is set up. Dirk Steyn, his former manager, is now a partner with the
Trust in running the farm. |
1931 |
|
|
History |
Britain |
In the Statute of Westminster, Britain concedes
sovereign independence to the 'White' Dominions, meaning that never again can
a British declaration of war automatically commit them to war without their
explicit consent. |
1931 |
|
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
East Griqualand |
The Great Depression depresses agriculture and
reduces Effie Anderson and her husband Elliot Stanford to near penury on
their farm. |
1931 |
|
Birch |
DorisElizabethBirch |
Eastern Cape |
Elizabeth Birch, Sydney Birch and Peggy Anderson's
daughter, is born. (Twin sister of 'Bob' Birch?) |
1931 |
|
Birch |
ErnestBirch |
Eastern Cape |
Bob' Birch, Peggy Anderson & Syd Birch's son,
born. (Twin brother of Elizabeth Birch?) |
1931 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
London |
Donald Molteno falls ill in London while trying to
begin a legal practice there. He thinks of working for the Northern Rhodesian
colonial administration, but nothing comes of the idea. |
1931 |
|
Molteno |
ElizabethTMolteno |
? |
Elizabeth Molteno dies at age 68. (Who is she?) |
1931 |
|
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Karoo |
The Great Depression hits John T. Molteno's sheep
farming business terribly. |
1931 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno devotes his last years to labouring
for European peace in ever more adverse circumstances. |
1931 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted & Harry Molteno have their worst ever fruit
season in financial terms. Terrible losses because of the Great Depression -
peach prices down 40%. |
1931 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Elgin farmers, including Brenda Molteno's husband
Tommy Thomas, build a cooperative packing shed. Ted Molteno deliberately
obstructs it. |
1931 |
|
Molteno |
VivienBirse |
Finland |
Vivien Birse marries her first (Finnish) husband,
Bjorn Soldan. The first significant Finnish filmmaker. |
1931 |
|
Stanford |
PhilipWalterStanford |
East Griqualand |
Philip Stanford, the youngest son (and 6th child) of
Walter Elliot Stanford and Effie Anderson, is born. |
1931 |
|
Williamson |
MargaretWilliamson |
Cape |
Margaret Williamson, daughter of Carol Molteno &
Arthur Williamson, born. |
1932 |
19320427 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno still active in Liberal Party. He
attends a Liberal Social Council 'at home' for delegates of the Women's
National Liberal Federation (Times 27.4.1932) |
1932 |
19320511 |
Murray |
LornaMurray |
London |
Lorna Murray, Dr Kenah Murray & Hilda
Robertson's daughter, is going to marry Lieutenant J W R Thompson, Royal
Navy, serving with HMS Verbena. (Times 11.5.1932) |
1932 |
19320512 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno presides over an Individualist
Bookshop luncheon. Guest speaker is Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Roger Keyes,
who argues for a strong Royal Navy in a time of budget cuts. (Times
12.5.1932) |
1932 |
19321100 |
Molteno |
PeterMolteno |
Cambridge |
C J 'Peter' Molteno is doing a Science Tripos at
Downing College, Cambridge. Doing various sports -- 'putting the weight'
& pole jump in inter-college competitions. (Times 2.2.1932 &
12.11.1932) |
1932 |
|
Cowan |
MissCowan |
Ireland |
Miss Cowan retires to her native Ireland. |
1932 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Beaufort West |
Becomes Mayor of Beaufort West. |
1932 |
|
Mays |
JohnMays |
USA |
John Mays decides, probably in 1932, to go West to
California and see if he can start up his business again. |
1932 |
|
Molteno |
AlisonMolteno |
Cape |
Alison Molteno, daughter of John T Molteno &
Gladys Jackson, is born. |
1932 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
London |
Caroline Molteno, Dr CFK Murray's widow, comes over
to England to stay with her brother Percy Molteno and other relatives. |
1932 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno is starting to practise as a
barrister in Cape Town. Intensely interested politically, he joins the Cape
Town Parliament Debating Society. He serves as 'Prime Minister'. |
1932 |
|
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
Sir James Molteno comes over to England to stay with
his brother Percy Molteno and other members of the family. |
1932 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Kenya |
Long John' Molteno is prospecting in Kenya in
1932-33. |
1932 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
The Great Depression hits Percy Molteno. As
Chairman, he liquidates the British East African Fibre Company in which he
has a serious shareholding. |
1932 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
USA |
Kathleen Murray visits the USA and sees her first
cousin, Monica Mays. |
1933 |
19330112 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
England |
Jervis Molteno & Islay Bisset place an
advertisement for a nanny to look after a child one or two years old and a
baby (Fiona Molteno) they are expecting. The salary: £40-45 p.a. Salary
(Times 12.1.1933) |
1933 |
19330530 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno attends a reception at Lancaster
House, St James's, for the 6th Conf of Institutions for the Scientific Study
of International Relations. (Times 30.5.1933) |
1933 |
19330604 |
Molteno |
BessieCurrie |
London |
Elizabeth Martin 'Bessie' Molteno, wife of Percy,
the second & only surviving daughter of Sir Donald Currie, dies at Palace
Court. She is buried at Fortingall Church just outside Glen Lyon. (Times
4.6.1933 & Obituary 6.6.1933) |
1933 |
19330617 |
Molteno |
VirginiaMolteno |
Cambridge |
Virginia Molteno passes Part 1 of the English Tripos
at Girton, Cambridge,. (Times 17.6.1933) |
1933 |
19330700 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Scotland |
On his mother's death, Jervis Molteno inherits Glen
Lyon. He and his family move in and remain based there from then on. |
1933 |
19330707 |
Molteno |
VirginiaMolteno |
London |
Mrs Te Water, wife of the South African High
Commissioner, gives a reception. Charlie Molteno's widow, Lucy Mitchell, and
her daughter, Virginia Molteno, attend. (This happens on several occasions)
(Times 7.7.1933) |
1933 |
19330800 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno and Veronica Stromsoe get engaged. |
1933 |
19331021 |
Molteno |
PeterMolteno |
Cambridge |
CJ 'Peter' Molteno gets his Science degree, Downing
College, Cambridge (Times 21.10.1933) |
1933 |
19331100 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Cape |
In late 1933, Jarvis Murray and his wife Gladys
Cooper visit England on their way back to the Cape after a few years in
Spain. |
1933 |
19331204 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Parklands |
Percy Molteno's Southdowns sheep are champions at
the 66th annual Fat Stock Show at Red Hill Agricultural Society. (Times
4.12.1933) |
1933 |
19331206 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Parklands |
Percy Molteno 'swept the board in the sheep section'
of the Guildford Fat Stock Society. (Times 6.12.1933) |
1933 |
|
Molteno |
BrianMolteno |
England |
Brian Molteno, son of Malcolm Molteno & Thelma
Henderson, is born. |
1933 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
South Africa |
Long John' Molteno marries Angeline Brand. |
1933 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Germany |
The Nazis come to power in Germany. Percy Molteno
criticises their anti-semitism, including the use of the law to persecute
people on racial grounds. |
1933 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Percy Molteno builds a little barrage on the burn
running past the main house at Glen Lyon in order to generate domestic
hydro-electric power. |
1933 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Britain |
Percy Molteno criticises the British Government for
inserting a clause into a draft Disarmament Convention allowing colonial
administrations to bomb native villages & tribes (in India &
elsewhere). |
1933 |
|
Molteno |
PeterMolteno |
USSR |
Peter Molteno, Charlie Molteno and Lucy Mitchell's
second son, is leftwing at this time; like so many before him, he visits the
Soviet Union with high hopes. |
1933 |
|
Sandeman |
Sandeman |
England |
Lil Sandeman's father, Colonel Sandeman, dies --
this is two years after his son-in-law, Wallace Molteno. |
1934 |
19340614 |
Molteno |
VirginiaMolteno |
London |
Mrs J C Molteno (Lucy Mitchell) & her daughter,
Virginia, are presented by Lady Cunliffe-Lister at the 3rd Court
presentation to Their Majesties. (Times 14.6.1934) |
1934 |
19340700 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
|
Barkly Molteno and his brother Percy take a three
week trip by sea to Tennerife. |
1934 |
19341020 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Scotland |
Fiona Molteno, Jervis Molteno and his wife Islay
Bisset's youngest daughter, is born at Glen Lyon House. (Times 20.10.1934) |
1934 |
19341200 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape |
Percy Molteno, now a widower, visits Southern Africa
again, as he always loves to do. This time he travels through the 'Native
Reserves' and three High Commission Territories to see the conditions African
South Africans are living under in those restricted rural areas where their
interests are supposed to be paramount. |
1934 |
19341210 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno's Southdowns sheep are champions again
at the Horsham Fat Stock Show. (Times 10.12.1934) |
1934 |
|
Molteno |
CarolMolteno |
Cape Town |
Carol Molteno, Arthur Williamson's wife, takes a
trip to Europe roundabout this time. |
1934 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno and Veronica Stromsoe get married. |
1934 |
|
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
USA |
Relations between Monica Molteno and her husband,
John Mays, are strained at this time. John and their two sons leave her for a
time. But he decides to go back because one of the boys is very unhappy and
missing his mother. |
1934 |
|
Murray |
MaryMurray |
? |
Mary Murray, Gordon Murray and Evelyn Southey's
daughter, ends her engagement to John Butcher. |
1934 |
|
Thompson |
RobinThompson |
? |
Robin Thompson, Lorna Murray and Commander John
Thompson's son, is born. |
1935 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Vice-Admiral Barkly Molteno still attends periodic
Royal Navy Club dinners. A glittering array of top naval officers are always
present. |
1935 |
19350515 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Cape Town |
Just back from his extended trip around Southern
Africa, Percy Molteno speaks at an Anti-Slavery Society meeting on what he
saw in the South African Reserves. (Times 15.5.1935) |
1935 |
19350928 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno writes to The Times, opposing any
question of Britain going to war with Italy over its invasion of Abyssinia.
(Times 28.9.1935) |
1935 |
19351000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Geneva |
Percy Molteno, on a visit to Switzerland, sees the
League of Nations in action. |
1935 |
19351021 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Zurich |
Percy Molteno makes another start, helped by Mr
Johnson, his faithful personal assistant, on writing 'the family record'. (It
sadly did not get very far) |
1935 |
|
Anderson |
ThomasHaroldAnderson |
South Africa |
Tommy' Anderson marries Molly Clarkson. |
1935 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Cape |
Barkly Molteno & his wife Ethel Robertson visit
the Cape together at last. Ethel again reacts badly. |
1935 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineClarisMolteno |
? |
Carol Molteno, daughter of John Molteno and his wife
Angeline Brand, is born. |
1935 |
|
Murray |
StewartMurray |
Johannesburg |
Stewart Murray, Dr Kenah Murray's son, marries Molly
Whyte. |
1936 |
19360100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Percy Molteno starts building a village hall in
Fortingall in commemoration of his late wife, Bessie Currie. |
1936 |
19360100 |
Molteno |
EdwardMolteno |
Nelspoort |
Edward Molteno, who had suffered a breakdown while
studying at Cambridge, is staying with his mother, Lil Sandeman, on the
family farm. |
1936 |
19360100 |
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray, Margaret Molteno's husband, departs
from Painswick to go to Kenya by sea in early 1936. He will be away some 3
months (presumably attending to the farming enterprise he is building up
there). |
1936 |
19360102 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno writes to The Times recalling how Sir
Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary in 1914, had kept Parliament in the dark
over certain binding treaty engagements, thereby helping precipitate the
First World War. (Times 2.1.1936) |
1936 |
19360128 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno fights what turns out to be his last
battle. He, with four Lords and five baronets, becomes a patron of the
revived City Churches Preservation Society in the City of London. This
opposes the Church of England selling off the remaining famous City churches
for demolition and property development. (Times 28.1.1936) |
1936 |
19360430 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Cape Town |
The two brothers, Percy & Barkly Molteno, sail
for the Cape on the Balmoral Castle; they expect to be back in London in
August. (Times 30.4.1936) |
1936 |
19360700 |
Jarvis |
EmmieJarvis |
Cape Town |
Emmie Jarvis, Hercules Jarvis's unmarried daughter,
dies. |
1936 |
19360700 |
Molteno |
Molteno |
England |
The four remaining Molteno brothers and sisters --
Percy, his elder sister Caroline, and his younger brothers Sir James Molteno
and Admiral Barkly Molteno -- travel from the Cape to England. It is their
last time together. |
1936 |
19360712 |
Molteno |
LilSandeman |
Cape Town |
Lilias Sandeman, widow of Wallace Molteno, dies,
five years after her husband. (Times 17.7.1936). |
1936 |
19360722 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
London |
Barkly back in London from Cape. Attends dinner at
Royal Navy Club, as he frequently does (Times 22.7.36) |
1936 |
19360900 |
Batley |
PaulBatley |
England |
Paul Batley is still at Prinknash Abbey,
Gloucestershire where he is heavily involved in running the abbey farm. Sir
James Molteno goes to see him a couple of weeks just before his fatal heart
attack. James is already thinking about death and God (a moving description). |
1936 |
19360909 |
Murray |
JarvisMurray |
Cape Town |
Jarvis Murray dies in Cape Town. The Times
(9.9.1936) carries a long and informative obituary. |
1936 |
19360916 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
Sir James Molteno dies a week after falling
unconscious at his brother Percy's London home, Palace Court, aged 72. He
was in England, as usual, to stay with his brothers Percy & Barkly
Molteno. (Times obituary, 17.9.1936) |
1936 |
19360919 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
London |
May Murray, James Molteno's niece, takes
responsibility for organising the funeral which takes place at Peaslake, near
Percy's Surrey home of Parklands at Shere. The whole remaining Molteno clan
gathers, including James's elder sister Caroline Murray, who had come over to
England with Percy, Barkly & James in early July. (Times 21.9.1936) |
1936 |
19360930 |
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
England |
Viola Molteno, Barkly Molteno and Ethel Robertson's
daughter, gets engaged to Peter Hugh Macmillan, Royal Artillery, and the only
surviving son of the Bishop of Guildford. (Times 30.9.1936) |
1936 |
|
|
History |
South Africa |
General Hertzog is still Prime Minister, but now in
coalition with the opposition leader General Smuts. He succeeds at last in
abolishing the Cape African franchise. Henceforth all African South Africans
are to be content with having three3 white MPs & four Senators to
represent them. |
1936 |
|
|
History |
South Africa |
A Non-racial Franchise Association isstarted. The
former Chief Justice, Sir James Rose Innes, is associated with it (as is
Donald Molteno in all likelihood). |
1936 |
|
Anderson |
HaroldJohnAnderson |
? |
John Anderson, Tommy Anderson and Molly Clarkson's
first son, is born. |
1936 |
|
Anderson |
PeggyAnderson |
Vogelvlei |
Syd Birch, Peggy Anderson's husband, takes over the
farm of Vogelvlei in the Eastern Cape from his father & breeds racehorses
there from now on. |
1936 |
|
Molteno |
CarolineMolteno |
London |
Caroline Molteno, Dr CFK Murray's widow, is on one
of her frequent visits to England. She celebrates her 83rd birthday at her
brother Percy Molteno's London home, Palace Court. |
1936 |
|
Molteno |
CharlesMolteno |
South Africa |
Charles Molteno, John Molteno & Angeline Brand's
son, is born. |
1936 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno becomes the South African Institute
of Race Relations' first regional representative (unpaid) in the Western
Cape, giving legal advice and other help to African South Africans. |
1936 |
|
Molteno |
JocelynMolteno |
? |
Jocelyn Molteno, Wallace Molteno & Lil
Sandeman's youngest daughter, experiences the tragic loss of her beloved,
Warwick (surname?), who died unexpectedly. |
1936 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
South Africa |
Percy Molteno, his sister Caroline Murray, and their
nephew, Donald Molteno, are opposed to General Hertzog's Native Bills. |
1936 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted Molteno persuades the South African Prime
Minister, General Hertzog, to set up a government-funded research board to
help the deciduous fruit industry. |
1936 |
|
Molteno |
PeterMolteno |
Elgin |
Peter Molteno, who has got his Science degree at
Cambridge, is back in South Africa and works for his Uncles Ted & Harry
Molteno for a short time. |
1936 |
|
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno 2 |
Cape Town |
Wallace Molteno, Donald Molteno & Veronica
Stromsoe's son, is born. |
1937 |
19370100 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno, whose asthma has got worse and worse,
goes on a long sea trip to Cairo, and the Sudan. He stops over in Sicily on
the way back. |
1937 |
19370100 |
Murray |
LornaMurray |
England |
Lorna Murray, John Thompson's wife, sail to England
with their son, Robin, and her sister, Rhona Murray. |
1937 |
19370118 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno, described as 'formerly a
parishioner', takes legal action before the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council to oppose demolition of the City church, All Hallows. He is joined
in the action by the Royal Academy and the City of London Corporation. Their
action fails, but they win over public opinion on the issue. (Times
18.1.1937) |
1937 |
19370209 |
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
England |
Viola Molteno marries to Peter Macmillan at Farnham
Parish Church. Virginia Molteno, her first cousin from the Cape, attends the
wedding. (Times 12.2.1937) |
1937 |
19370400 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
On his return from Egypt, Percy Molteno hears that
his nephew Donald Molteno whom he knows well, is to stand for the South
African Parliament as a 'Native Representative' with the support of the
African National Congress. The news must have given him real pleasure. |
1937 |
19370400 |
Molteno |
PeterMolteno |
? |
Peter Molteno and Margaret Judd get engaged. They
marry later this year. |
1937 |
19370415 |
Molteno |
TinaMolteno |
Italy |
The Times (15.4.1937) under 'Broadcasting -- Foreign
Stations' reports Tina Molteno (soprano) singing on radio in Rome at 4.15
GMT! (Could this Italian Molteno be a relative?) |
1937 |
19370504 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
The Times (4.5.1937) publishes Percy Molteno's last
letter on the question of Peace in Europe. Percy takes Hitler's promises at
face value; criticises the British Government for not taking them up. He is
roundly criticsed by an anti-appeaser. (Times, 7.5.1937) |
1937 |
19370600 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape |
Donald Molteno is elected by African voters to the
South African House of Assembly as one of three 'Native Representatives'. At
29, he is the youngest MP. |
1937 |
19370601 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno attends South African High
Commissioner te Water's reception for the visiting Prime Minister, General
Hertzog, at the Imperial Conference (Times 1.6.1937) |
1937 |
19370611 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
General Hertzog, the South African Prime Minister,
comes to Percy Molteno's London home, Palace Court, to have tea with him. |
1937 |
19370616 |
Lee |
DenisArthurLee |
Hereford |
Denis Lee, Elsie Rose Molteno & xxx's son, a
former Cadet in the Allhallows School Officer Training Corps, is posted as a
2nd Lieutenant in the Territorial Army (Infantry) in Hereford. (Times
16.6.1937) |
1937 |
19370629 |
Molteno |
LucyMolteno |
London |
Lucy Molteno, Charlie Molteno and Lucy Mitchell's
daughter, gets engaged to the Cambridge psychiatrist, Dr B W F Armitage.
(Times 29.6.1937) |
1937 |
19370700 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Switzerland |
Percy Molteno is very unwell. He suffers terribly
from asthma & eczema. Goes to the Klinik Hirslanden in Zurich & tries
the Hay Diet. Various members of the family, including May Murray, his son
Jervis Molteno, and granddaughter Dierdre Molteno, visit him there. |
1937 |
19370800 |
Robertson |
HildaRobertson |
England |
Hilda Robertson, Dr Kenah Murray's wife, is very
ill. Has a major operation. |
1937 |
19370900 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Just before his death, Percy Molteno hears that his
grandson Ian Molteno wants to become a professional Army officer in the Black
Watch. Very upset. |
1937 |
19370919 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Switzerland |
Percy Molteno dies at Hirslanden Clinic in Zurich,
aged 76. (Times 19.9.1937) |
1937 |
19370921 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
The Times (21.9.37) runs a long, detailed obituary
for Percy Molteno. |
1937 |
19370924 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
A memorial service is held for Percy Molteno at St
Margarets, Westminster; a long list of those present is published in the
Times. The South African High Commissioner writes to Jervis Molteno, Percy's
son, conveying General Hertzog's 'mindful of the great public services which
your father has rendered...' Several letters in praise of Percy are
published in The Times (24 & 25.9.1937). |
1937 |
19370925 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Percy Molteno is buried at Fortingall Church just
outside Glen Lyon. |
1937 |
19371000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Percy Molteno's will leaves the mainly Black
University of Fort Hare £500. His will includes various other public and
family legacies and trusts. |
1937 |
19371000 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Francis Hirst, former Editor of The Economist and
Percy Molteno's friend, sketches out themes of his proposed biography of
Percy. |
1937 |
19371206 |
Murray |
CarolineMolteno |
London |
Caroline Molteno, the last but one of Sir John
Molteno & Maria Jarvis's children, having stayed on in London after her
brother Percy's death, dies at Palace Court, aged 84. She is buried in
Golders Green cemetery. 'No flowers'. (Times 7.12.1937) |
1937 |
|
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Elliot Stanford and his wife Effie Anderson, despite
being impoverished by the Great Depression, get a Land Bank loand and buy
some more land. |
1937 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
England |
Dr Ernest Anderson is 55 years old and retires from
the British Army. |
1937 |
|
Capps |
AgnesCapps |
Painswick |
After her father's death, Margaret Molteno asks
Agnes Capps, a faithful servant in her parents' home, to settle at Painswick.
Agnes feels she is an urban person and worries about living in the
countryside. She agrees to a six months trial at Painswick, loves it, and
stays forever. |
1937 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Beaufort West |
Julius Jackson retires as Mayor of Beaufort West,
having served for five years. |
1937 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno appears as junior counsel to the
former Chief Justice, Sir James Rose Innes, briefed by the African National
Congress, to challenge the constitutional validity of the abolition of
Africans' right to the vote in the Cape Province. The case is lost. |
1937 |
|
Molteno |
JosephineMolteno |
Cape Town |
Josephine Molteno, Donald Molteno & Veronica
Stromsoe's daughter, is born. |
1937 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Tanganyika |
Long John' Molteno is back in East Africa, this time
prospecting in Mbeya,Tanganyika. |
1937 |
|
Murray |
AnneMurray |
South Africa |
Anne Murray, Stewart Murray and Molly Whyte's eldest
daughter, is born. |
1937 |
|
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cape Town |
Dr Kenah Murray starts his new profession of laying
out golf courses. |
1937 |
|
Stanford |
SheilaStanford |
East Griqualand |
Sheila Stanford and John Kilpin marry. |
1938 |
19380117 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Jervis Molteno, Percy's son, puts an ad in The
Times, recommending J G Steele, Percy's 'chauffeur-mechanic' for 10 years as
honest, reliable, trustworthy & an abstainer. |
1938 |
19380118 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
The gross value of Percy Molteno's estate is
£107,161. He leaves legacies to the Molteno Institute; Trinity College,
Cambridge; the Royal Institution; and the largely African University of Fort
Hare. (Times 18.1.1938) |
1938 |
19381012 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Britain |
Admiral Barkly Molteno makes a rare incursion into
British politics, sending a letter (with others) to The Times supporting the
Munich Agreement as 'rectifying one of the most flagrant injustices of the
Peace Treaties'. (Times, 12.10.1938) |
1938 |
|
Anderson |
RichardAnderson |
|
Richard Anderson, Tommy Anderson and Molly
Clarkson's younger son, is born. |
1938 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Beaufort West |
Julius Jackson, after 21 years as a councillor,
retires from Beaufort West Municipal Council. |
1938 |
|
Lee |
KennethLee |
Hereford |
Kenneth Lee is trying to write a family history of
the early London printsellers. He contacts Barkly Molteno (one of the rare
connections between these two branches of George Anthony Molteno's
descendants). |
1938 |
|
Macmillan |
RobertMacmillan |
? |
Rob Macmillan, Viola Molteno & Peter Macmillan's
son, is born. |
1938 |
|
Molteno |
AnthonyMolteno |
South Africa |
Anthony Molteno, Peter Molteno and Margaret Judd's
eldest son, is born. |
1938 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
London |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno marries F. Arnott, her
second husband. |
1938 |
|
Molteno |
JocelynMolteno |
England |
Jocelyn Molteno marries Frank Morris, an engineer.
She is youngest daughter of Wallace Molteno & Lil Sandeman. |
1938 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Elgin |
Now has wife; 2 kids. Starts working for Ted, after
decade of E. Africa, incl gold prospecting in Tanganyika |
1938 |
|
Molteno |
LucyMolteno |
England |
Lucy Molteno marries Dr Bernard W.F. Armitage, a
psychiatrist. (Times obituary 10.9.1976) |
1938 |
|
Molteno |
NestaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Nesta Molteno and John Syme get divorced roundabout
this year (or is this the year she married her 2nd husband, Harold
Crosse-Jones?) |
1938 |
|
Molteno |
RosalindMolteno |
South Africa |
Ros Molteno, Charles Molteno & Runica
Leinberger's daughter, is born. |
1938 |
|
Murray |
RhonaMurray |
|
Rhona Murray, marries Commander Walter B C C
'Michael' Evans, Royal Navy. He is Welsh. |
1939 |
19390605 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno MP is thanked by the South African
Indian Congress for his work on behalf of their community. |
1939 |
19390608 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Barkly Molteno is still interested in Africa. He
attends Royal African Society functions, including to mark the completion of
Lord Hailey's huge tome, An African Survey. (Times 8.6.1939) |
1939 |
19390701 |
Molteno |
DonaldIanCurrieMolteno |
Scotland |
Ian Molteno, Jervis Molteno and Islay Bisset's son,
is at university and is inducted as a 2nd Lieutenant. (Times 1.7.1939) |
1939 |
19390713 |
Molteno |
Molteno |
England |
A Miss Molteno is a debutante at Their Majesties'
4th Court; she is introduced to them. (Times 13.7.1939) |
1939 |
19390721 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
London |
Donald Molteno MP is in London for an Empire
Parliamentary Conference, where he speaks. (Times 21.7.1939) |
1939 |
19390721 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
England |
Donald Molteno MP, while in England with his wife
Veronica Stromsoe, lobbies the Colonial Secretary to resist South African
Government pressure to allow the incorporation of Basutoland, Bechuanaland
and Swaziland. Donald Molteno meets Molly Goldsmith on the way home by ship. |
1939 |
19390825 |
Durrant |
ArthurDurrant |
England |
Sir Arthur Durrant CBE, MVO dies suddenly at
Felixstowe. He was the husband of Laura Ada Molteno. (Times 25.8.1939) |
1939 |
19390903 |
|
History |
World |
World War Two breaks out. |
1939 |
19390921 |
Molteno |
DonaldIanCurrieMolteno |
Scotland |
Ian Molteno, Jervis Molteno & Islay Bisset's
son, gets engaged to Margot Pigot (Times 21.9.1939). |
1939 |
19390930 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
England |
Dr Ernest Anderson is recalled to the British Army
on the outbreak of War. He commands the Household Cavalry Hospital, Windsor. |
1939 |
19391000 |
Anderson |
ThomasHaroldAnderson |
South Africa |
Tommy Anderson, Harold and Dot Anderson's son, joins
up. He goes through some particularly awful war experiences. |
1939 |
19391000 |
Hirst |
PercyMolteno |
England |
Francis Hirst, former Editor of the Economist and
friend of Percy Molteno, is busy writing his biography of Percy Molteno. |
1939 |
|
Berridge |
NormanBerridge |
England |
Norman Berridge,who is 23 at the outbreak of the
War, joins up. He fights on various fronts, including at Tobruk in the
Western Desert in 1941. A skilled photographer, he takes photos of his war
experience. |
1939 |
|
Birch |
SydneyBirch |
Vogelvlei |
Syd Birch, Peggy Anderson's husband, joins up in the
Army at the outbreak of World War Two. At some point, captured and becomes a
POW. He was liberated in late 1944. |
1939 |
|
Evans |
CeriEvans |
South Africa |
Ceri Evans, daughter of Rhona 'Binks' Murray &
Michael Evans, is born. |
1939 |
|
Lee |
DenisLee |
Hereford |
Denis Lee, Arthur Lee and Elsie Rose Molteno's son,
joins the Shropshire Light Infantry, aged 29. He is a good shot. Fights in
Italy, among other places, during World War Two. |
1939 |
|
Lee |
KennethLee |
Hereford |
Kenneth Lee, Denis's younger brother, has his
architectural studies interrupted by the War. He helps design aircraft in the
Bristol Aeroplane Works during the War. |
1939 |
|
Lee |
RichardLee |
Hereford |
Richard Lee, Denis and Kenneth's much younger
brother, begins working for Kodak as a 19-year old. |
1939 |
|
Macmillan |
RobertMacmillan |
HongKong |
Rob Macmillan is born in Hong Kong. His parents,
Viola Molteno and Peter Macmillan, are living there at the outbreak of the
War in Europe. His father is a British Army staff officer in Intelligence. |
1939 |
|
Mills |
JimMoltenoMills |
England |
Jim Molteno-Mills, Constance Violet Molteno's only
son, joins up and fights in World War Two. |
1939 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLillianMolteno |
England |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno's music hall and stage
career has largely ended. But she joins ENSA which tours the country during
World War Two entertaining the troops. |
1939 |
|
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Jervis Molteno, now 47 years old, joins the Home
Guard during the War. |
1939 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Elgin |
Long John' Molteno joins up. Gets a commission in
the Duke's regiment. Fights in Abyssinia, Madagascar and Germany. Is awarded
the Military Cross (MC and wins the KIng's commendation. |
1939 |
|
Molteno |
PamelaElizabethMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Pamela Molteno, Jervis Molteno and Islay Bisset's
daughter, is 20 when the War breaks out. As soon as she could, she becomes a
VAD (Volunteer Auxiliary Detachment) nurse. |
1939 |
|
Molteno |
PatriciaMolteno |
London |
Patricia Molteno, Vincent Molteno and Eileen
Wilson's only child, is at the Royal College of Music, studying the organ. |
1939 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
London |
Vincent Molteno, who has been retired from the Royal
Navy as a Lt. Commander for many years, volunteers and becomes a senior
firefighter, eventually posted to Southampton. |
1939 |
|
Molteno |
VivienBirse |
Finland |
Vivien Birse's family is evacuated to Britain on the
outbreak of the War. Vivien herself is married to a Finn, Bjorn Soldan, and
stays in Finland throughout the War. |
1939 |
|
Murray |
SusanMurray |
South Africa |
Susan Murray, Stewart Murray & Molly Whyte's
second child, is born. |
1939 |
|
Payne |
JedPayne |
Cape Town |
Jed Payne joins up. But he suffers from heart
palpitations and nearly dies on the parade ground. Invalided out. A technical
draftsman who became an architect, he designs emergency hospitals & other
facilities during the War. |
1940 |
19391215 |
Molteno |
DonaldIanCurrieMolteno |
Scotland |
Ian Molteno is commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in
the Black Watch from the Territorial Army General List/university candidate.
His is an 'Emergency Commission'. (Times 3.1.1940) |
1940 |
19400111 |
Molteno |
VirginiaMolteno |
London |
Virginia Molteno, youngest daughter of Charlie
Molteno & Lucy Mitchell, and aged 29, marries Frederick Laws. (Times
11.1.1940) |
1940 |
19400500 |
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
London |
Francis Hirst's biography of Percy Molteno is almost
finished. It is completed and typeset, but the family decide not to publish
it at present, presumably in view of the War. (It was never published) |
1940 |
19400520 |
Molteno |
DonaldIanCurrieMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Ian Molteno, a 2nd Lieutenant in the Black Watch,
marries at Fortingall Church Margot Pigot, daughter of Brigadier-General,
Sir Robert Pigot, & Lady Pigot of Old Chesthill, Glen Lyon. (Times
20.5.1940) |
1940 |
19400806 |
Molteno |
DonaldIanCurrieMolteno |
Cambridge |
Ian Molteno gets his BA degree at Trinity College,
Cambridge 'by proxy' because he is already serving in the Army. (Times
6.8.1940) |
1940 |
|
Batley |
PaulBatley |
England |
Paul Batley is now at Minster Abbey near Ramsgate,
running the farm. |
1940 |
|
Jackson |
JuliusJackson |
Beaufort West |
Julius Jackson dies at the age of 83. |
1940 |
|
Mirrielees |
FrederickDonaldMirrielees |
Glen Lyon |
Frederick Donald Mirrielees, a son of Margaret
Mirrielees (nee Currie) and grandson of Sir Donald Donald, dies in an
accident while serving in the Home Guard. He had inherited the Garth estate
near Glen Lyon. (His son was killed later in the War) |
1940 |
|
Molteno |
DierdreMolteno |
Scotland |
Pamela Molteno, her sister Dierdre Molteno, and
their cousin Margaret Mirrielees all join up as VAD nurses during the War.
Known as the Three Graces. (Exact year not known) |
1940 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno divorces Veronica Stromsoe. |
1940 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno remarries. His new wife is Molly
Goldsmith, a teacher who took Modern Languages at Girton College, Cambridge,
and who is of farming stock in Hampshire. |
1940 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Elgin |
Long John' Molteno divorces Angeline Brand. (Exact
year uncertain) |
1940 |
|
Molteno |
SelinaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Selina Molteno, daughter of Peter Molteno and
Margaret Judd, is born. |
1940 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
London |
Vincent Molteno changes his surname to his mother's
-- Holland Pryor. He is angry at being taken to be Italian now that Britain
is at war with Mussolini. His cousin and friend, Jervis Molteno, tries to
dissuade him. |
1940 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Wales |
May Murray is still living in the house in
Llandrindod Wells which she & her husband Dr Freddie Parker had shared
before his death. |
1940 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Wales |
May Murray attends a Quaker gathering;. She is
critical of the War. |
1941 |
19410227 |
Molteno |
FerelithMolteno |
Scotland |
Ferelith Molteno, Ian Molteno and Margot Pigot's
first child, is born in Perth (Times 27.2.1941) |
1941 |
|
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Effie Anderson & Elliot Stanford put up the wife
and two children of a friend of her brother's, Ernest Anderson, for a couple
of years during the War (1941-43). |
1941 |
|
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
England |
Clare Holland Pryor and her daughter, Audrey
Molteno, are living in Farnham for 6 months. They seem not to be in touch
with Barkly and Ethel Molteno, also living in Farnham. |
1941 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
England |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno marries Captain Terence
Taunton, ex-Royal Artillery,who has been involved in the Norway campaign. He
is now a manager with ENSA, the touring company entertaining the troops. He
is her third husband. |
1941 |
|
Molteno |
MargotPigot |
Glen Lyon |
Margot Pigot, Ian Molteno's wife, serves in the
Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC), the civilian uniformed women's organization
that provided drivers for ambulances etc in France, the Middle East and
Britain during the War. |
1941 |
|
Molteno |
PatriciaMolteno |
England |
Patricia Molteno joins up in the Women's Royal
Naval Service and works mainly in cyphers. At first she is a rating at
Portsmouth; later became a Wren officer. |
1941 |
|
Murray |
ElizabethMurray |
Natal |
Elizabeth 'Tiger' Murray, Gordon Murray and Isobel
Southey's daugher, works at the Red Cross Hospital in Durban during the War. |
1942 |
19420131 |
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
Philippines |
Viola Molteno and her tiny son, Rob Macmillan, are
caught in Manila by the Japanese when the ship they are on docks there, not
knowing of Japan's seizure of the islands. They spend the duration of the War
in Japanese camps. |
1942 |
19420200 |
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
Philippines |
For a long time, Viola Molteno's parents, Barkly
Molteno & Ethel Robertson, do not know where she is, or whether she and
her baby, Robert Macmillan, are still alive. |
1942 |
19420300 |
Stanford |
CynthiaStanford |
Cape Town |
Cynthia Stanford, Elliot Stanford and Effie
Anderson's daughter, is now 25. She enlisted as a Private in the South
African army, following Japan's entry into the War. She becomes a radar
operator, mainly looking out for Japanese submarines. Posted to some quite
remote spots along the South African coast. She keeps a diary of her
experiences. |
1942 |
19420523 |
Molteno |
PamelaElizabethMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Pamela Molteno, a daughter of Jervis Molteno &
Islay Bisset and working as a VAD nurse, gets engaged to Lieutenant Reginald
C. Rackham, R.E. They later get married from Glen Lyon. (Times 23.5.1942) |
1942 |
19420531 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
When his eldest daughter, Pamela, got married,
Jervis Molteno made her an annual allowance. He did the same for each of his
five daughters on marriage. |
1942 |
19420700 |
Molteno |
DonaldIanCurrieMolteno |
NorthAfrica |
Ian Molteno is wounded at El Alamein in North
Africa. He loses the sight in one eye. |
1942 |
19421102 |
Molteno |
GillianMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Gillian Molteno, the second daughter of Captain Ian
Molteno and Margot Pigot, is born in Aberfeldy. (Times 2.11.1942) |
1942 |
|
Jones |
MildredJones |
Cape Town |
Mildred Jones, Dr Victor Molteno's widow, dies. |
1942 |
|
Mays |
JohnMays |
USA |
John Mays, in apt nearby through separation, returns
& live in with wife, Monica Molteno, again. 2nd son Russell c 15 at this
time. |
1942 |
|
Molteno |
MildredNanceMolteno |
South Africa |
Nance Molteno, Dr Victor Molteno & Mildred Jones
fourth child, who was frail all her life, dies, aged 40. |
1942 |
|
Murray |
IonaMurray |
Painswick |
Iona Murray, Margaret Molteno and Lenox Murray's
daughter, who was only 17 when War broke out, later works in ba canteen and
in the Land Army during the War. |
1942 |
|
Murray |
LornaMurray |
England |
Lorna Murray and her son Robin Thompson sail to
England from the Cape safely. |
1942 |
|
Stanford |
MargaretStanford |
East Griqualand |
Margaret Stanford, Elliot Stanford and Effie
Anderson's daughter, joins the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (exact year
uncertain). She becomes a full Lieutenant in the WAAF. |
1943 |
19430507 |
Molteno |
JamesMolteno |
Cape Town |
General Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa,
accepts a bronze plaque of Sir James Molteno, the first Speaker of the House
of Assembly. The plaque was done by Gillicks and paid for by Jervis Molteno
& his sister, Margaret Molteno. (Times 7.5.1943) |
1943 |
19431216 |
Jackson |
HarryJackson |
Nelspoort |
Harry Jackson dies in Beaufort West. |
1943 |
|
Jackson |
AlfreddeJagerJackson |
Transvaal |
Alfred de Jager Jackson dies on the Rand. He is the
author of Manna in the Desert, a book about the Nelspoort farms, the Karoo
and the Jackson family. |
1943 |
|
Molteno |
EdwardMolteno |
Cape Town |
Edward Molteno, who led a largely hermit-like
existence following his nervous breakdown at Cambridge, meets Mag Fourie who
is a shop assistant at the Wellington Dried Fruit Store near the Grand
Parade. They become devoted lifelong friends. |
1943 |
|
Molteno |
LeonardAllenMolteno |
? |
Leonard Molteno, Bertie Molteno & Ruby Allen's
son, dies. |
1943 |
|
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
South Africa |
Long John' Molteno remarries. His new wife is Zoe
Holcroft. |
1943 |
|
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Painswick |
Margaret Molteno, Lenox Murray's wife, owns her
first Arab mare. It produces its first foal. This is the start of Arab horse
breeding in the family which continued at Painswick until the early 2000s. |
1943 |
|
Murray |
GeorgeMurray 2 |
Painswick |
George Murray, Lenox Murray and Margaret Molteno's
elder son, is at Sandhurst; then off to the War. |
1943 |
|
Newcomen |
BrabNewcomen |
Cape |
Brab Newcomen, husband of Clarissa Molteno (James
Molteno and Clare Holland Pryor's daughter). He had been a professional
soldier in the British Army. |
1943 |
|
Stanford |
CynthiaStanford |
East Griqualand |
Cynthia Stanford, serving in the South African armed
forces, gets engaged to a Lieutenant in the Navy, but decides to break it
off. |
1944 |
19440300 |
Molteno |
PatriciaMolteno |
England |
Patricia Molteno, now a Sub-Lieutenant in the Wrens,
is posted to Worthy Down naval air station. She sees the departure of the
troops for the Normandy Landings. |
1944 |
19440700 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray 2 |
France |
George Murray is wounded while fighting in France,
but not too seriously. |
1944 |
19440800 |
Mirrielees |
DonaldCurrieMirrielees |
France |
Major Donald Mirrielees, a grandson of Sir Donald
Currie, wins the Military Cross (MC). He is killed in August. |
1944 |
19440907 |
Molteno |
ClareHollandPryor |
London |
Clare Holland Pryor, the estranged widow of Sir
James Molteno, dies at a Hampstead nursing home. Notice in The Times says 'no
letters or flowers'. (Times 11.9.1944) |
1944 |
|
Blake |
FrancisDaisyOliveBlake |
London |
She dies, wife of Francis George Molteno. (Not yet
found out how this branch of Moltenos related to George Anthony Molteno &
his descendants) |
1944 |
|
Bristow |
RobertCharlesBristow |
|
Sir Robert Charles Bristow, a descendant of George
Anthony Molteno, writes & publishes a memoir about history of Bristow and
Molteno families. |
1944 |
|
Molteno |
LovedayMolteno |
Painswick |
Loveday Molteno, Jervis Molteno & Islay Bisset's
daughter, is only 15 when War breaks out. She later (what year?) becomes a
Land Army girl and works on her aunt, Margaret Molteno (Lenox Murray's
wife)'s farm at Painswick. |
1944 |
|
Molteno |
BrendaMolteno |
Elgin |
Brenda Molteno, Tommy Thomas's wife and a daughter
of Frank Molteno and Ella Jones, dies. She is only 50. This is four years
before her mother's death (Ella has lost three of her four children now) |
1944 |
|
Molteno |
DierdreMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Dierdre Molteno is working at Gleneagles Hospital. |
1944 |
|
Molteno |
FlorenceOliveMolteno |
London |
Florence Olive Molteno, mother of Dora Molteno, her
only daughter and unmarried, dies. (Not yet found out how this branch of
Moltenos related to George Anthony Molteno & his descendants) |
1944 |
|
Molteno |
JanetMolteno |
Bedales |
Janet Molteno, Malcolm Molteno & Thelma
Henderson's daughter, is at Bedales School. A clever artist and musician. |
1944 |
|
Molteno |
PamelaElizabethMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Pamela Molteno is nursing in Fifeshire convalescent
home. |
1944 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted Molteno thinks that 'Pook' Williamson, his niece
Carol Molteno's son, would be a good heir for him. Ted takes him out of
school aged 14. Pook's father, Arthur Williamson, objects and puts a stop to
it. |
1944 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted Molteno publishes privately a volume of his own
aphorisms -- Beyond Choice, Chance or Fate. |
1944 |
|
Murray |
ElizabethMurray |
East Griqualand |
Elizabeth 'Tiger' Murray is a Quaker. She plans to
get to Europe and do ambulance work there. |
1944 |
|
Murray |
MaryGordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
Mary Murray, Gordon Murray & Evelyn Southey's
daughter, marries Dick Martin. |
1944 |
|
Steyn |
DirkSteyn |
Nelspoort |
Dirk Steyn, Wallace Molteno's manager at Nelspoort,
dies. Following his death, Wallace and Lil's farm is sold, none of their
offspring being in a position to take it over. Their first cousin, John
Tennant Molteno, farming at Rocklands in a neighbouring district, buys one of
the four farm lots. |
1945 |
|
Lee |
KennethLee |
Hereford |
Kenneth Lee after the War returned to Hereford, like
his brother Denis. He joined the Town Planning Department and spent the rest
of his working life there. |
1945 |
19450126 |
Laws |
ElizabethCeliaLaws |
England |
Celia Laws is born in the North Oxford Nursing Home,
daughter of Virginia Molteno and Frederick Laws. (Times 26.1.1945) |
1945 |
19450300 |
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
USA |
Barkly Molteno & Ethel Robertson hear that their
daughter, Viola Molteno and grandson, Rob Macmillan, are safe and on their
way to England via San Francisco. |
1945 |
19450500 |
Lee |
DenisLee |
Italy |
Denis Lee fights in Italy from 1943. When it was
possible much later in the War, he visited the Village of Molteno. He was
warmly welcomed as a Molteno and told of the previous visits made by South
African Moltenos in 1895 & 1899. |
1945 |
19450500 |
Molteno |
DonaldIanCurrieMolteno |
Germany |
Major Ian Molteno who is back with his regiment, the
Black Watch, is killed in Germany in the closing stages of the War. (Times
16.5.1945) |
1945 |
19450600 |
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
USA |
Viola Molteno and her little son, Rob Macmillan, are
looked after by her first cousin, Monica Molteno, wife of John Mays, in San
Francisco on her way from the Japanese camp in the Philippines from which the
American forces have rescued them. |
1945 |
19450600 |
Murray |
IonaMurray |
Painswick |
Iona Murray's fiance, Jonathan Wilson, is killed in
the closing stages of the war. A tragedy that parallels her mother, Margaret
Molteno,'s own loss of her first husband, George Murray, in the First World
War. |
1945 |
19450705 |
Mills |
JimMoltenoMills |
London |
Jim Molteno-Mills returns from the War. He votes
Labour, much to the shock of his Conservative Party-supporting mother. |
1945 |
19450728 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray 2 |
Brussels |
George Murray, Lenox Murray and Margaret Molteno's
son, is serving in the First Household Cavalry. He is selected to dance with
Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen of England, at a Victory Ball. |
1945 |
19450902 |
|
History |
World |
Japan surrenders. Final end of World War Two. |
1945 |
|
Anderson |
TomAnderson |
? |
Tommy Anderson and Molly Clarkson get divorced in
1945 or 1946. |
1945 |
|
Bisset |
JamesJarvisBisset |
South Africa |
James Bisset, the son of James Bisset (the original
Bisset to settle in South Africa) and Betty Jarvis, dies at the age of 82. |
1945 |
|
Lee |
RichardLee |
Hastings |
Richard Lee, the third of the Lee brothers to serve
in the War, moved to Hastings at the end of the War. He worked for Judge's
Postcards and eventually became one of its directors. |
1945 |
|
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Chesthill |
At some point after 1945, this estate having out of
the family's hands for decades, Jervis Molteno was able to buy it. (Year not
known) |
1945 |
|
Molteno |
VivienBirse |
London |
Vivien Birse and her husband, Bjorn Soldan, move
from Finland to London. He has a job in the BBC World Service Finnish
service. |
1945 |
|
Murray |
IonaMurray |
England |
Iona Murray ends the War working as an assistant
under a matron in a boys preparatory school near Buckingham. |
1945 |
|
Murray |
PatrickMurray |
Painswick |
The War Office Selection Board gives Patr Murray,
although only aged 18 in 1945 and therefore not having fought in the War, a
year at Cambridge University studying engineering. |
1945 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Wales |
May Murray attends her first Yearly Meeting in
London at Friends House, Euston. She has become a lifelong Quaker. |
1946 |
19460400 |
Murray |
IonaMurray |
Elgin |
Iona Murray who has lost her fiance who was killed
in the War, goes out to the Cape early in the year. She stays with, and
becomes close to her Aunt Kathleen Murray who is still farming in Elgin. |
1946 |
19460516 |
Molteno |
LovedayMolteno |
Scotland |
Loveday Molteno, Jervis Molteno & Islay Bisset's
daughter, becomes engaged to Denis Winton, son of the Wintons, The North
British Hotel, Edinburgh. They marry in August. (Times 16.5.1946) |
1946 |
19460702 |
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm Molteno's wife, Thelma Janet Henderson, dies
'after a long illness', and daughter of Vice-Admiral Wilfred Henderson of
Ropley, Hants (Times 2.7.1946) |
1946 |
|
Lee |
DenisLee |
Hereford |
After the War, Denis Lee becomes a corn chandler in
Hereford like his father before him, but not in the same firm. He is also a
Freemason. |
1946 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Italian POWs in South Africa are released and leave
for Italy. Ted Molteno has been using them on his & Harry's farm. He
replaces them with African workers for the first time. The scale of this
seasonal migrant labour grows subsequently, with lorry loads of workers being
brought from the Transkei each year. |
1946 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
Germany |
Vincent Molteno spends 1946-47 in war-shattered
Germany running a Christian Science welfare/recreation centre for Allied
troops. Some Germans drop in too. |
1946 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Kenya |
Lenox Murray goes out to Kenya after the end of the
War. From now on, he throws much of his energy into his Kenyan farming
enterprise. His wife, Margaret Molteno, keeps Painswick going, specialising
in Arab horsebreeding. |
1946 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Cape Town |
May Murray and her companion, Lily Jenkins, return
to South Africa to live there permanently. |
1947 |
19470331 |
Lee |
DenisArthurLee |
Hereford |
Denis Lee, the eldest son of Arthur Lee of Putson
Manor, Hereford, has his engagement to Winsome 'Bettie' Cochrane announced
in The Times. (31.3.1947) |
1947 |
19470630 |
Molteno |
IslayDierdreMolteno |
Scotland |
Dierdre Molteno, Jervis Molteno and Islay Bisset's
daughter, gets engaged to Dr Michael James Riddell, eldest son of James
Riddell. Fellow of the Royal College of Gynaecologists. (Times 30.6.1947) |
1947 |
19470830 |
Winton |
JenniferWinton |
Scotland |
Jennifer Winton, the eldest daughter to Loveday
Molteno and Denis Winton, is born. (Times 10.9.1947) |
1947 |
|
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Elgin |
Dr Ernest Anderson is now properly retired from the
British Army once again. He leaves England and goes to live with his cousins,
Ted & Harry Molteno (also unmarried like him) on their farm for many
years. |
1947 |
|
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
Dartmouth |
Vice-Admiral Barkly Molteno takes his young
grandson, Rob Macmillan, on board the battleship that is about to take the
King & Queen on a Royal Tour of South Africa. They dine on board. |
1947 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno M.P. takes part in the Royal
Procession during the King's visit to Cape Town. His elderly red car bringing
up the rear strikes an incongruous note amid the splendid occasion. |
1947 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
England |
On his return from Germany, Vincent Molteno and his
wife Eileen Wilson, plan a visit to South Africa which neither of them has
seen for many years. At the last moment, they decide not to go. |
1947 |
|
Murray |
StewartMurray |
Elgin |
Dr Kenah Murray buys his son, Stewart Murray, a
farm. Stewart and his wife, Molly Whyte, move there. The farm is now run by
his elder son, Patrick Murray. |
1948 |
19480705 |
Molteno |
DierdreMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Dierdre Molteno and Dr Michael Riddell get married
at Fortingall Church just outside Glen Lyon. (Times 5.7.1948) |
1948 |
19481123 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno resigns from Parliament six months
after the National Party won the general Election. He decides not to stand
again for his Natives Representative seat in the House of Assembly; Sam Kahn,
a Communist, is elected in his stead. (Times 23.11.1948) |
1948 |
|
|
History |
South Africa |
The National Party under Dr D F Malan, which
embodies a new extremism in Afrikaner nationalism, win the general election.
The legal institutionalisation of apartheid proceeds apace. Donald Molteno is
hnceforth out of Parliament and active in extra-parliamentary resistance to
apartheid. |
1948 |
|
Batley |
PaulBatley |
England |
Paul Batley gets permission to start his new order
of Grey Monks near Andover. |
1948 |
|
Jones |
EllaMaryJones |
Cape Town |
Frank Molteno's wife, Ella Jones, dies. She has been
a widow for 22 years ever since Frank's death in the Salt River train crash. |
1948 |
|
Mays |
RussellMays |
USA |
Russell Mays, Monica Molteno's younger son, is at
Stanford doing law; his elder brother, John Mays, is doing his doctorate at
Columbia. |
1948 |
|
Molteno |
DierdreMolteno |
Scotland |
Marries Dr Michael Riddell. She is a daughter of
Jervis Molteno & Islay Bisset |
1948 |
|
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted Molteno gives some land on the farm to the
astronomer, Dr Harold Knox-Shaw, and wife Maisie. They build a house &
live there for the rest of their lives. |
1948 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Post-war Britain experiences great hardships;
rationing of food continues. Kathleen Murray sends her only surviving uncle,
Barkly Molteno, a huge parcel of ham, sugar, chocolate and dried fruit from
the Cape. |
1948 |
|
Stanford |
Stanford |
England |
Effie Anderson & Elliot Stanford's daughters --
Cynthia, Eleanor Mary (Tus) and Margaret -- go on a trip to England (paid
for by Ted Molteno who has a good export season with his pears. They see
various members of their extended family in Britain. |
1949 |
19491100 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted Molteno changes his will. It is the first
chapter in a lengthy conflict over Ted and Harry Molteno's properties.
Neither brother had married or had any descendants. |
1949 |
|
Birch |
ErnestBobBirch |
East Griqualand |
Bob Birch, Syd Birch and Peggy Anderson's only son,
marries Desray Phillips. |
1949 |
|
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Kenya |
Margaret Molteno and her husband Lenox Murray are in
Kenya part of this year. Margaret returns to Painswick to look after the farm
there. There is a lot of to'ng & fro'ng after 1945. |
1949 |
|
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
England |
Viola Molteno's parents, Ethel Robertson and Barkly
Molteno, give her a cottage in the grounds of their home, Goldhill. Viola and
her husband, Peter Macmillan are in the process of separating. |
1950 |
19500600 |
Mays |
JohnMays |
USA |
John Mays gets his PhD in Chemistry & Physics
from Columbia University. |
1950 |
19500625 |
|
History |
Asia |
The Korean War breaks out. |
1950 |
19500728 |
Molteno |
TedMolteno |
Elgin |
Ted Molteno, the 8th son of Sir John Charles
Molteno, dies, aged 73. (TheTimes, 1.8.1950) He leaves most of his share in
the farms to the newly created Cape Tercentenary Trust. His brother, Harry
Molteno, buys the Trust out of the farms eventually. |
1950 |
|
Mays |
RussellMays |
USA |
Russell Mays, Monica Molteno & John Mays' son,
avoids being drafted into the Korean War. Instead he joins the USAF where he
works for duration of the Korean War on psychological testing. |
1950 |
|
Molteno |
JohnTennantMolteno |
Karoo |
John T. Molteno, the eldest son of Dr Victor Molteno
& Mildred Jones, has an unexpected heart attack and dies, aged only 54.
He has been farming at Rocklands. |
1950 |
|
Molteno |
MaryGreyMolteno |
? |
Mary Molteno, a daughter of Dr Victor Molteno and
Mildred Jones, and a sister of John T. Molteno, dies. She has never married. |
1950 |
|
Molteno |
RonMolteno |
Australia |
Ron Molteno, Bertie Molteno and Ruby Allen's son,
marries 'Kitty' Greenop. |
1950 |
|
Murray |
CharlesMoltenoMurray |
Cape |
Dr Kenah Murray dies unexpectedly, aged 73. |
1950 |
|
Stanford |
CynthiaStanford |
East Griqualand |
Cynthia Stanford, a daughter of Effie Anderson &
Elliot Stanford, marries Jed Payne. |
1950 |
|
Stanford |
MargaretStanford |
? |
Margaret Stanford, a daughter of Elliot Stanford and
Effie Anderson, marries Toby Hemsted. |
1951 |
19510616 |
Molteno |
BrianMolteno |
England |
Brian Molteno, Malcolm Molteno and Thelma
Henderson's son, is at Bryanston School. He acts in new the open air theatre
at Blandford in Oedipus Tyrannus. (Times 16.6.1951) |
1951 |
19510627 |
Molteno |
BrianMolteno |
England |
Brian Molteno is Bryanston. He rows for his school
in the Henley regatta. (Times 27.6.1951) |
1951 |
19511204 |
Murray |
GeorgeMurray 2 |
Kenya |
George Murray, Margaret Molteno & Lenox Murray's
son, of 'Painswick Lodge & Marania, Timau, Kenya' gets engaged to Irralie
Nash, only daughter, Molo, Kenya. (Times 4.12.1951) |
1951 |
|
Molteno |
BrianMolteno |
England |
Brian Molteno wins a scholarship to Kings College,
Cambridge. |
1951 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno is one of the barristers in the
series of constitutional cases taking place during the next six years from
the Nationalist Government's determination to remove Coloured South Africans
from the electoral roll in the Cape, as had happened to African voters in
1936. |
1951 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno is appointed to the Council of the
University of Cape Town. He served on it until 1960 when he made way for
Frank Robb whom the Nationalist Goverment had refused to reappoint. |
1951 |
|
Molteno |
JanetMolteno |
London |
Janet Molteno, Malcolm Molteno and Thelma
Henderson's daughter, is at Chelsea Art College. She and Peter Biggs have a
flat near Percy Molteno's old London home, Palace Court. |
1951 |
|
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Palace Court |
Palace Court is still in the family. |
1951 |
|
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
England |
Viola Molteno divorces Peter Macmillan; his father
the Bishop of Guildford approves. Her son, Rob Macmillan, is at boarding
school. |
1952 |
19520220 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno is part of the legal team that
convinces Appellate Division to declare the Separate Representation of Voters
Act unconstitutional. (Times 28.10.1952) |
1952 |
19521027 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno is part of the legal team challenging
the High Court of Parliament Act (Times 28.10.1952) |
1952 |
19521114 |
Molteno |
BarklyMolteno |
England |
Vice-Admiral Barkly Molteno, CB., of Goldhill,
Farnham, dies, aged 80. He was the 7th son of Sir John Charles Molteno; his
father had died when Barkly was only fourteen. (Times 14.11.1952) (Obituary
in The Times, 15.11.1952) |
1952 |
|
Anderson |
EffieAnderson |
East Griqualand |
Effie Anderson, Maria Molteno's daughter, dies at
the age of 66. Her husband Elliot Stanford outlives her by 37 years. |
1952 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno becomes a QC (Queens Counsel). |
1952 |
|
Molteno |
VirginiaMolteno |
England |
Virginia Molteno, formerly married to Frederick
Laws, remarries. Her new husband is Robert Moody. She is the youngest
daughter of Charlie Molteno & Lucy Mitchell. Although born in the Cape,
Virginia lives her whole adult life in England. |
1952 |
|
Robertson |
HildaRobertson |
? |
Hilda Robertson, the late Dr Kenah Murray's wife,
dies. |
1953 |
19530706 |
Molteno |
MinnieMolteno |
Cape |
Minnie Molteno, the youngest daughter of Sir John
Charles Molteno, dies, aged 77. She was the eldest of his four children by
his 3rd wife. Her brother, Ted, forbad them all to marry! |
1953 |
19530904 |
Molteno |
PenelopeMolteno |
England |
Penny Molteno, the second youngest of Jervis Molteno
and Islay Bisset's daughters, is a fine horsewoman. She takes part in a three
day equestrian event at Harewood riding her mare, Carmena. Penny comes
Second. (Times 4.9.1953) |
1953 |
19530916 |
Genequand |
Marguerite Genequand |
Elgin |
Miss Genequand dies. She is buried next to Ted
Molteno. Ted had given her a house after she & Kathleen Murray had fallen
out. |
1953 |
|
Lee |
RichardLee |
England |
Richard Lee, the youngest of Elsie Rose Molteno and
Arthur Lee's three sons, marries Pauline Bayley. |
1953 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
The South African Liberal Party founded. Its
platform is non-racism. Donald Molteno joins it very soon and is elected
Vice-Chairman. |
1953 |
|
Molteno |
VivienBirse |
London |
Vivien Birse's first husband, Bjorn Soldan, dies of
cancer. |
1953 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Gold Coast |
Kathleen Murray visits the Gold Coast (today's
Ghana). |
1954 |
19540821 |
Molteno |
PenelopeMolteno |
England |
Penny Molteno is competing, again riding on her
mare, Carmena. |
1954 |
19540917 |
Molteno |
PenelopeMolteno |
England |
Penny Molteno competes at Harewood for the second
year running. Before a crowd of 20,000, she wins, riding 'with great
judgement & skill' (Times 17.9.1954) This is also the Olympic Horse
Trials (Check). |
1954 |
19541000 |
Murray |
GordonMurray 2 |
Kenya |
Gordon' Lenox Molteno Murray, George Murray &
Irralie Nash's only son, is born. |
1954 |
19541025 |
Murray |
PatrickMurray |
Painswick |
Patrick' Anthony Molteno Murray B.Sc. of Painswick
engaged to Caroline Barbara Vaux Craig, daughter of W.M. Craig of Chalford,
Glos. (Times 25.10.1954) |
1954 |
|
Mays |
RussellMays |
USA |
Russell Mays comes out of the US Air Force, probably
in 1954. He gets a government grant to go to the Yale Law School. |
1954 |
|
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
England |
Viola Molteno remarries. Her new husband is Lennox
Barrow, a member of the Colonial Service working in Nigeria. |
1955 |
19550400 |
Murray |
PatrickMurray |
Painswick |
Pat Murray and Caroline Craig marry in the Spring. |
1955 |
19550620 |
Molteno |
BrianMolteno |
Cambridge |
Brian Molteno passes Part 1 of the Classical Tripos
at King's College, Cambridge. His father, Malcolm, had been a classicist at
Balliol College, Oxford. (Times 20.6.1955) |
1955 |
|
Mays |
JohnMays |
USA |
John Mays, Monica Molteno and John Mays' son,
marries Bibi Noriega. |
1955 |
|
Molteno |
CarolMolteno |
England |
Carol Molteno has a nervous breakdown. She is
treated at Guys Hospital, London. |
1955 |
|
Molteno |
PenelopeMolteno |
Scotland |
Penny Molteno is still riding competitively. Now on
Bandoola (The Times) |
1956 |
19560600 |
Molteno |
BrianMolteno |
England |
Brian Molteno gets a 2.1 in Part 2 of the Classical
Tripos at King's College, Cambridge. (Times 20.6.1955) |
1956 |
19560914 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno speaks at a protest meeting of the
Black Sash against the Group Areas Act introducing residential ghettoisation
of Coloured, Indian, Chinese South Africans. Over 1,000 people present.
(Times 14.9.1956) |
1956 |
|
Allen |
RubyAllen |
Australia |
Bertie Molteno's wife, Ruby Allen, dies. |
1956 |
|
Mays |
ChristopherMays |
USA |
Christopher Mays, John Mays and Bibi Noriega's son,
is born. |
1956 |
|
Murray |
IonaMurray |
Painswick |
Iona Murray, Lenox Murray and Margaret Molteno's
only daughter, marries Lt. Col, John Bowring MC (Military Cross). They had
met in Malaya. |
1956 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Kathleen Murray who had accumulated by far the
biggest collection of Molteno & Murray family letters & other papers
over half a century, starts her collaboration with Dr Immelman, the
University of Cape Town Chief Librarian. The aim is for him to write a
history of the family. The project was still going in four years later in
1960, but was never completed. |
1957 |
19570626 |
Molteno |
WallaceMolteno 2 |
England |
Gets a 2.2 in Part 1 of Law Tripos, Pembroke
College, Cambridge (Times 26.6.57) |
1957 |
|
|
History |
GreenfieldHouse |
Greenfield House next door to Claremont House
becomes a girls primary school. |
1957 |
|
Murray |
IonaMurray |
Malaya |
Iona Murray and her husband John Bowring's twins,
Charles & Caroline Murray, are born in Malaya where John is serving
during the Emergency. Iona's mother, Margaret, flies out for the birth. |
1957 |
|
Robertson |
EthelRobertson |
England |
Ethel Robertson, Admiral Barkly Molteno's widow,
dies five years after him. |
1957 |
|
Stanford |
PhilipWalterStanford |
East Griqualand |
Philip Stanford, Elliot Stanford and Effie
Anderson's youngest child, marries Patricia Helena Tyrwhitt-Drake. |
1958 |
19580225 |
Bissett |
WilliamMoltenoBissett |
Cape Town |
William Bisset, one of James Bisset and Betty
Jarvis's sons, dies at age 91; had played Rugby for South African against
England in 1891 (Times 25.2.1958) |
1958 |
19581012 |
Molteno |
CliffordMolteno |
Elgin |
Clifford Molteno, the delightful but eccentric son
of Sir John Charles Molteno, dies on his brothers Ted and Harry's farm where
he has lived since his twenties. He was 80. Harry Molteno is now the sole
surviving offspring of Sir J C Molteno. |
1958 |
19581200 |
Murray |
RowenaMurray |
Kenya |
Rowena Murray, George Murray & Irralie Nash's
only daughter, is born. |
1958 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape |
Donald Molteno becomes President of the South
African Institute of Race Relations for two years. It is the leading think
tank critical of apartheid policies at the time. Donald had been active in it
since the late 1930s. |
1958 |
|
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm Molteno, who had been widowed, remarries.
His new wife, Vivien Birse, had herself been widowed, her husband Bjorn
Soldan having died of cancer like Malcolm's wife Thelma Henderson. Malcolm
and Vivien were both teaching at Frensham Heights, a progressive school near
Haslemere. |
1959 |
19590205 |
Winton |
SimonNigelWinton |
Scotland |
Simon Winton, Loveday Molteno and Denis Winton's 5th
and last child, is born. (Times 5.2.1959) |
1959 |
19590223 |
Molteno |
FionaMolteno |
Scotland |
Fiona Molteno gets engaged to Captain Gordon Lorimer
of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. |
1959 |
19590403 |
Molteno |
PenelopeMolteno |
Scotland |
Penny Molteno, five weeks after her sister Fiona's
engagement, also gets engaged. To Count Claes Henrik Lewenhaupt, elder son of
Count Lewenhaupt of Claestorp (Times 3.4.1959) |
1959 |
19590909 |
Molteno |
PenelopeMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Penny Molteno and Count Claes Lewenhaupt marry at
Fortingall Church just outside Glen Lyon. |
1959 |
19590912 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Jervis Molteno is appointed a member of the Red Deer
Commission to further the conservation and control of red deer in Scotland.
(Times 12.9.1959) |
1959 |
19590916 |
Molteno |
FionaMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Fiona Molteno and Captain Gordon Lorimer marry at
Fortingall Church just outside Glen Lyon. (Times 16.9.1959) |
1959 |
|
Bristow |
RobertCharlesBristow |
England |
Sir Robert Bristow, an engineer who had worked in
Asia, publishes his book, Cochin Saga. Despite his hopes, it is not
successful financially. |
1959 |
|
Lee |
KennethLee |
Hereford |
Kenneth Lee, one of Elsie Rose Molteno's sons, aged
47, marries Alida Florian. She is a nurse. |
1959 |
|
Mays |
ClaireMays |
USA |
Claire Mays, John Mays and Bibi Noriega's daughter,
is born. |
1959 |
|
Mays |
JohnMays |
USA |
John Mays, Monica Molteno's husband, dies. Monica
outlives him by about three decades. |
1959 |
|
Mills |
SarahEmmaMills |
England |
Sarah Emma Mills, the widow of Albert Frank Molteno
(who had died 48 years earlier) dies. Their son, Jim Molteno-Mills, had taken
care of her. |
1959 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
The Progressive Party is formed. Donald Molteno
plays a leading part, he having resigned from the Liberal Party when it
adopted a programme of universal franchise. Donald was convinced the white
South African electorate would never accept this. |
1959 |
|
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
USA |
Monica Molteno, John Mays, buys a tall antique huge
wooden rococco desk for $15,000. It comes from Central Europe and turns out
to be extremely valuable. |
1959 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
Gordon Murray helps his daughter, Elizabeth and her
husband Frank Walker, to farm nearby. |
1959 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
Gordon Murray & Evelyn Southey celebrate their
Golden Wedding anniversary. |
1959 |
|
Murray |
IonaMurray |
? |
Iona Murray and John Bowring's third child, Camilla
Murray, is born. |
1960 |
19600128 |
Lorimer |
GordonLorimer |
England |
Major G. Lorimer, 6th Gurkha Rifles, is a member of
Chris Bonnington's expedition to climb Annapurna II. (Is this Fiona Lorimer's
husband? CHECK. (Times 28.1.1960) |
1960 |
19600300 |
Molteno |
JoanMolteno |
Johannesburg |
Wallace Molteno & Lil Sandeman's elder daughter,
Joan Molteno, dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. She was only 50 years old. |
1960 |
19600826 |
|
History |
South Africa |
South Africa's apartheid government declares its
first State of Emergency, following mass protests, mainly by African South
Africans, in the months after the Sharpeville Massacre. Thousands of people
are detained. Donald Molteno is frantically involved on the legal front. |
1960 |
19600829 |
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
At her sister May Murray's request, Kathleen Murray
provides shelter for two famous Communists, Jack Simons & Ray Alexander,
the Government wants to detain during the Emergency. They hide on her farm. |
1960 |
19600900 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
During the State of Emergency, Donald Molteno is
deeply involved helping the families of detainees. |
1960 |
19600900 |
Murray |
MayMurray |
Cape Town |
May Murray, a devout Quaker, defies the Emergency
regulations. She uses her little old car to take food into the African
'location' of Langa which has been surrounded & cut off by the Army. She
has one or two contretemps with them, but refuses to be intimidated. |
1960 |
19600900 |
Murray |
MayMurray |
Cape Town |
May Murray is in touch, and remains so for a couple
of years afterwards, with Philip Kgosane, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)
young man who led famous march into central Cape Town. |
1960 |
19601013 |
Molteno |
FionaMolteno |
England |
Melissa Lorimer, Fiona Molteno and Gordon Lorimer's
daughter, is born. Her father is serving in the Parachute Regiment. (Times
13.10.1960) |
1960 |
19601018 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno acts as the defence lawyer for a
newspaper editor charged with political offence during Emergency. This is
typical of his legal work during the 1950s and 60s. (Times 18.10.1960) |
1960 |
19601115 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno has been chairing a Commission for
the newly founded Progressive Party to draw up proposals for a rigid,
non-racial constitution for the country. This is to be the basis of the
party's attempt to persuade the white South African electorate that
democratic transition is essential, but not as threatening to them as the big
political parties have always said. The Commission reports its proposals.
(Times 15.11.1960) |
1960 |
19601117 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
The Molteno Commission -- The Progressive Party
rejects certain of the recommendations (Times 17.11.1960) |
1960 |
|
Lee |
KennethLee |
Hereford |
Kenneth Lee travels from Hereford to meet his
distant cousin, Kathleen Murray, who is over from the Cape staying at
Painswick Lodge with the family. One of the rare occasions when these two
wings of the family make contact. |
1960 |
|
Mays |
RussellMays |
USA |
Russell Mays, Monica Molteno and John Mays' younger
son, after a short spell in private practice, joins the California State
Department of Agriculture where he works for the rest of his career. |
1960 |
|
Molteno |
JosephineMolteno |
London |
Josephine Molteno, Donald Molteno and Veronica
Stromsoe's daughter, is In London doing an arts & crafts course at
Chelsea College of Art. |
1960 |
|
Molteno |
SelinaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Selina Molteno, Peter Molteno and Margaret Judd's
daughter, leaves for London to pursue her ballet career which she does in
Sweden and touring Europe with the Marquis de Cuevas ballet company for
about three years. |
1960 |
|
Murray |
LornaMurray |
London |
Lorna Murray is living for a time with her son,
Robin Thompson, and his new wife Marisa, in their flat in London. |
1961 |
19610103 |
Molteno |
FerelithMolteno |
England |
Ferelith Molteno, the late Ian Molteno & Margot
Pigot's daughter, gets engaged to Timothy Ashfield of Podkin Farm House, High
Halden, Kent. She is at Manor Farm, Broughton. (Times 3.1.1961) |
1961 |
19610404 |
Molteno |
FerelithMolteno |
England |
Ferelith Molteno marries Timothy Ashfield of Podkin
Farm House, High Halden, Kent. (Times 4.4.1961) |
1961 |
19610531 |
|
History |
South Africa |
South Africa becomes a Republic and leaves the
Commonwealth. |
1961 |
19610710 |
Molteno |
MariaRosaMolteno |
England |
Maria Rosa Molteno is a ballet dancer. Having
recently returned from touring Italy, she takes the lead at Hintlesham Summer
Festival in Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers. (Times 10.7.1961) (Is she
related to George Anthony Molteno and his descendants?) |
1961 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno becomes President of the Cape Bar
Council for two years. |
1961 |
|
Murray |
IonaMurray |
? |
Iona Murray and John Bowring's fourth child, Michael
Bowring, is born. |
1962 |
19620208 |
Molteno |
PenelopeMolteno |
Sweden |
Penny Molteno and Claes Lewenhaupt's second son is
born. (Times 8.2.1962) |
1962 |
19621127 |
Molteno |
FionaMolteno |
England |
Fiona Molteno and Gordon Lorimer's first son -- and
second child -- John Gordon Lorimer is born at Aldershot (Times 29.11.1962) |
1962 |
|
Birch |
DorisElizabethBirch |
Eastern Cape |
Elizabeth Birch marries William 'Sandie'
Stretton.They settle on his family's farm of Buffelsfontein. |
1962 |
|
Lee |
ArthurLee |
Hereford |
Arthur Lee, Elsie Rose Molteno's husband, dies. She
outlives him by five years. |
1962 |
|
Molteno |
ConstanceVioletMolteno |
England |
Constance Molteno, Jim Molteno-Mills' mother and the
daughter of Albert Frank Molteno, dies. |
1962 |
|
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Millers Point |
Jervis Molteno and Islay Bisset decide to stop
wintering at the Cape. They sell their holiday home, Millers Point, which has
long been a focus for many members of the family, on False Bay beyond
Simonstown. |
1962 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
Gordon Murray & Evelyn Southey's house on the
farm is struck by lightning and burns down. |
1962 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
Cape Town |
Kathleen Murray buys a litle house for her sister in
Tamboerskloof. It nestles below Table Mountain, overlooking central Cape
Town. May calls it Villa Como, an echo of the Molteno's origins near the lake
in Nortern Italy. |
1963 |
19630221 |
Jaques |
GeorginaJaques |
Elgin |
Georgina Frances Jaques, younger d. Of Ian Hastings
Jaques & Mrs J.C. Molteno, & stepdaughter of Mr J C Molteno engaged
to Simon Paul Morrissey. (Times 21.2.63) |
1963 |
|
Anderson |
ThomasHaroldAnderson |
South Africa |
Tommy Anderson dies. (Year may be wrong) |
1963 |
|
Molteno |
BeatriceLilianMolteno |
London |
Great Aunt Molly Molteno, Constance Molteno's
sister, celebrates her 70th birthday in West Dulwich. The local newspaper
publishes an article about her. |
1963 |
|
Molteno |
LovedayMolteno |
Scotland |
Loveday Molteno and Denis Winton get divorced. |
1963 |
|
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm Molteno retires, aged 60. He and his wife,
Vivien Birse, move to Kettlebrook Spring in Hampshire, living opposite Alec
Guinness. |
1963 |
|
Murray |
LenoxMurray |
Painswick |
Lenox Murray, Margaret Molteno's husband, dies. His
elder son, George Murray, takes over his farm in Kenya; and Patrick Murray,
the younger son, takes over Painswick. |
1963 |
|
Murray |
PatrickMurray |
Painswick |
Lenox left Painswick & Kenya farms equally to
Pat & George coz of looming uncertainties of Kenya's independence |
1963 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
England |
May Murray and Lily Jenkins are living for a short
while at Croft Cottage, Bromyard, next door to Lily's sister Rose. |
1963 |
|
Stanford |
MargaretStanford |
Kenya |
Margaret Stanford & and her husband Toby
Hemstead leave Kenya at Independence. |
1964 |
19640710 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Another major crackdown by the South African
government. Donald Molteno's home is raided by the Special Branch, along with
several other prominent South African liberals and many others. (Times
10.7.1964) |
1964 |
19640730 |
Molteno |
SelinaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Selina Molteno gets detained under the 90 days
detention law during the crackdown. (Times 30.7.1964) |
1964 |
19640823 |
Molteno |
SelinaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Selina Molteno, a University of Cape Town student
& ballet dancer, leaves South Africa after two bouts of 90 day detention
within a month. Describes it as 'four weeks of terror'. (Times 24.8.1964) |
1964 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno gives up his practice at the Cape
Bar, it having been gravely undermined by his political and pro bono legal
work. He is appointed senior lecturer in Roman Dutch law at University of
Cape Town. |
1965 |
19651220 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
London |
Donald Molteno comes to England to see son Robert at
Cambridge. They spend Christmas with Donald's first cousin, Margaret Murray,
at Trench Hill, Painswick. |
1965 |
|
Anderson |
HaroldAnderson |
South Africa |
Harold Anderson, Tom Anderson & Maria Molteno's
son, dies aged 82. |
1965 |
|
Murray |
JackMurray |
England |
Jack Murray, the handicapped son of Dr CFK Murray
and Caroline Molteno, dies, aged 77. Never married. |
1966 |
19660400 |
Anderson |
ErnestAnderson |
Kalk Bay |
Dr Ernest Anderson, Tom Anderson & Maria
Molteno's son, dies, aged 84. Colonel Anderson, Harold's elder brother, was
a British Army doctor all his life. He never married. |
1966 |
|
Syme |
JohnSyme |
Cape Town |
John Syme, who had lost his wife, Joan Molteno, six
years earlier, dies. |
1967 |
19670200 |
Molteno |
MargaretMolteno |
Painswick |
Margaret Molteno, daughter of Percy Molteno and
Bessie Currie, and Lenox Murray's widow, dies, aged 73. Margaret lived at
Painswick Lodge almost all her married life where she established a major
Arab breeding stud. |
1967 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno is appointed the first Professor of
Public Law at the University of Cape Town. |
1967 |
|
Molteno |
ElsieRoseMolteno |
Hereford |
Elsie Rose Molteno, the daughter of Frederick
Molteno & Georgina Pope White, dies, aged 81. She is the widow of Arthur
Lee. She leaves a legacy to her only surviving brother, Frederick William
Molteno, in Guernsey. |
1967 |
|
Molteno |
FrederickWilliamMolteno |
Guernsey |
Elsie Rose Molteno & Arthur Lee's son, Denis
Lee, travels to Guernsey to tell his uncle Frederick William Molteno that his
sister has left him a legacy. |
1968 |
|
Molteno |
HerbertGeorgeMolteno |
Australia |
Bertie Molteno, Frederick Molteno & Georgina
Pope White's son, dies, aged 83. Bertie, who is a brother of Elsie Rose
Molteno, had emigrated to Australia via Ceylon after his father's tragic
death in 1909. He married in Australia and started the Australian branch of
the Molteno family. |
1968 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
England |
May Murray donates her papers, as her sister
Kathleen had done before, to the University of Cape Town Library's Archives.
They form a valuable part of the huge collection of Molteno & Murray
family papers, BC330. |
1969 |
19690721 |
Molteno |
HarryMolteno |
Elgin |
Harry Molteno, the last of Sir John Charles
Molteno's sons, dies, aged 89. His will sets up the Molteno Brothers Trust
which finances the Molteno Project and many other charitable activities.
There follows a long & bitter dispute over the will & codicils
between his Trustees and his nephew, John Molteno. |
1969 |
|
Mitchell |
LucyBlairMitchell |
South Africa |
Lucy Mitchell, Charlie Molteno's wife, dies, aged
95. She had been widowed for 45 years. |
1969 |
|
Southey |
EvelynSouthey |
East Griqualand |
Evelyn Southey, Gordon Murray's wife, dies, aged 85. |
1970 |
19700400 |
Molteno |
JervisMolteno |
Glen Lyon |
Jervis Molteno, Percy Molteno and Bessie Currie's
son, dies, aged 78. His wife, Islay Bisset, long outlives him. |
1970 |
|
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno becomes Dean of the Faculty of Law at
the University of Cape Town. |
1971 |
19710900 |
Molteno |
JohnCharlesMolteno 3 |
Elgin |
Long John' Molteno dies, aged 66, just four months
after the settlement of his dispute over his uncle Harry Molteno's will. He
was one of Charlie Molteno & Lucy Mitchell's two sons. |
1971 |
|
Batley |
PaulBatley |
France? |
Paul Batley, a son of Ethel Robertson by her first
husband before she married Barkly Molteno, dies, aged 74. Paul had become a
Roman Catholic monk after having fought at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles
during World War 1. |
1972 |
19721224 |
Molteno |
DonaldMolteno |
Cape Town |
Donald Molteno, Wallace Molteno & Lil Sandeman's
eldest son, dies, aged only 64. |
1972 |
|
Molteno |
HarryMolteno |
Elgin |
The Molteno Brothers Trust, set up in Harry
Molteno's will, becomes operational. |
1972 |
|
Molteno |
VincentMolteno |
London |
Vincent Molteno, the only son of James Molteno &
Clare Holland Pryor, dies at the age of 80. |
1972 |
|
Murray |
GordonMurray |
East Griqualand |
Gordon Murray, one of Caroline Molteno & Dr CFK
Murray's sons, dies, aged 89. |
1972 |
|
Parker |
MayMurray |
England |
May Murray dies, aged 91, in Bromyard. She was one
of Dr CFK Murray and Caroline Molteno's two daughters. May was survived by
her younger sister, Kathleen Murray, who was 11 years younger. |
1973 |
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Trust |
MoltenoBrothersTrust |
Elgin |
The Molteno Brothers Trust makes its first grant. It
is to Rhodes University for evaluating & improving English language
teaching in Black primary schools. This was the start of what became the
famous Molteno Project. |
1976 |
19760910 |
Armitage |
BernardArmitage |
Cape Town? |
Bernard Armitage, Lucy Molteno's husband, dies, aged
86. A psychiatrist in Cambridge, his obituary is published in the Times
(10.9.1976). |
1978 |
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MoltenoVillage |
Italy |
Carlo Marcora publishes his book -- Molteno: Memorie
di famiglia (Stampa: Tipolito P. Cattaneo, Oggione-Lecco, 1978). Only
available in Italian. |
1979 |
19790730 |
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
Dublin |
Viola Molteno's (second) husband, George Lennox
Barrow's book (with Viola's line drawings illustrating it throughout), Round
Towers of Ireland, is launched. |
1980 |
|
Molteno |
AudreyMolteno |
USA |
Audrey Molteno visits her sister, Monica Mays, in
California, USA. |
1981 |
|
Lee |
DenisArthurLee |
Australia |
Denis Lee, one of Elsie Rose Molteno and Arthur
Lee's three sons, travels by P & O liner to Australia to meet his Molteno
first cousins (Ron & Frederick Molteno) for the first time. |
1981 |
|
Molteno |
AudreyMolteno |
South Africa |
Audrey Molteno, James Molteno & Clare Holland
Pryor's daughter, visits South Africa at last after almost a lifetime away. |
1981 |
|
Wilson |
EileenWilson |
England |
Eileen Wilson, Vincent Molteno's wife, dies.
Although she grew up in Cape Town, she and Vincent spent almost all their
married life in England. |
1983 |
|
Molteno |
DoraOliveMolteno |
London |
Dora Molteno dies. (Not yet been possible to find
out how this branch of the family related to all the other branches.) |
1983 |
|
Molteno |
LucyMolteno |
Cape |
Lucy Molteno, Charlie Molteno & Lucy Mitchell's
daughter, dies, aged 84. She was the wife of the Cambridge psychiatrist, Dr
Bernard Armitage. |
1983 |
|
Molteno |
MalcolmMolteno |
England |
Malcolm Molteno, the adopted son of Barkly Molteno,
dies, aged 80. Survived by his widow, Vivien Birse. |
1984 |
|
Murray |
KathleenMurray |
Elgin |
Kathleen Murray dies at the age of 92. She was the
last surviving offspring of Dr CFK Murray & Caroline Molteno. She was a
successful deciduous fruit and apple farmer. She was also responsible for
collecting a mass of family papers & donating them to the archives at the
University of Cape Town Library. |
1985 |
|
Jackson |
GladysJackson |
South Africa |
Gladys Jackson, the widow of John Tennant Molteno
who had died 35 years earlier, dies. |
1985 |
|
Molteno |
NestaMolteno |
Cape Town |
Nesta Molteno, a daughter of Frank Molteno &
Ella Jones, dies. She was the widow of Harold Crosse-Jones. |
1986 |
|
Stanford |
SheilaStanford |
Cape Town |
Sheila Stanford, a daughter of Effie Anderson &
Elliot Stanford, dies. |
1988 |
|
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MoltenoProject |
South Africa |
The Molteno Project, largely funded initially by
Harry Molteno's Molteno Brothers Trust, and is 14 years old. It has reached
14,000 African teachers & 2.5 million African primary school children
with its innovative English language teaching programmes. |
1989 |
|
Molteno |
CarolMolteno |
South Africa |
Carol Molteno, one of Charlie Molteno and Lucy
Mitchell's three daughters, dies, aged 88. You can read her reminiscences on
this Website. |
1989 |
|
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
USA |
Monica Molteno, dies, aged 95, in California. She
was a daughter of James Molteno and Clare Holland Pryor. She had married John
Mays and emigrated to the USA. |
1989 |
|
Stanford |
ElliotStanford |
East Griqualand |
Elliot Stanford, dies, aged 105. He had farmed in
East Griqualand and, much later, at Rheenendal in the Outeniqua Mountains. He
had been married to Effie Anderson, Maria Molteno's daughter, who had died
in 1952. |
1990 |
19901200 |
Molteno |
HarryMolteno |
Elgin |
The Molteno Brothers Trust which Harry Molteno had
set up 18 years before has by this date given R5.3 million to educational and
charitable causes in South Africa. |
1990 |
|
Brand |
AngelineBrand |
South Africa |
Angeline Brand, who had been married to, and later
divorced from, John Molteno, dies. |
1990 |
|
Molteno |
DierdreMolteno |
Scotland |
Dierdre Molteno, a daughter of Islay Bisset &
Jervis Molteno, dies. Her husband, Dr Michael Riddell, continued to live on
the Chesthill Estate in Glen Lyon. |
1990 |
|
Molteno |
EdwardMolteno |
Cape Town |
Edward Molteno, the youngest son of Wallace Molteno
and Lil Sandeman, dies. He had lived his entire adult life pyschologically
disabled, but accompanied by his lifelong companion, Mag Fourie. |
1990 |
|
Molteno |
RonMolteno |
Australia |
Ron Molteno, Bertie Molteno's son and a second
generation Australian Molteno, visits Britain for the first time. He meets
his English Molteno cousins, the Lees for the first time (apart from Denis
Lee who had travelled to Australia in 1981 to meet his first cousins there). |
1991 |
|
Molteno |
AudreyMolteno |
England |
Audrey Molteno, the youngest daughter of James
Molteno & Clare Holland Pryor, dies. She never married. |
1991 |
|
Molteno |
MonicaMolteno |
USA |
Following her death, her sons, John and Russell
Mays, sell her antique rococco desk. It realizes $925.000! |
1992 |
|
Lee |
KennethLee |
Hereford |
Kenneth Lee, a son of Elsie Rose Molteno and Arthur
Lee, dies. The Lees are the main branch of the extended Molteno family who
remained largely based in England, except for Elsie Rose's brother, Herbert
George Molteno, who emigrated to Australia in the very early 20th century. |
1992 |
|
Molteno |
ViolaMolteno |
Dublin |
Viola Molteno, the only daughter of Admiral Barkly
Molteno and Ethel Robertson, dies. She lived almost all her life in England
and Ireland, apart from a short spell in Hong Kong with her first husband,
Peter Macmillan. |
1996 |
|
Bisset |
IslayBisset |
England |
Islay Bisset, dies, aged 100. She was the widow of
Jervis Molteno of Glen Lyon. |
1997 |
|
Molteno |
PercyMolteno |
Palace Court |
The houses built by Sir Donald Currie in London for
his daughters, including Bessie and her husband Percy Molteno, are being done
up by a developer as luxurious, very expensive West End residences. |
1998 |
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History |
Italy |
The village church in Molteno celebrates the 300th
anniversary of its big expansion. |
1999 |
|
Molteno |
JocelynMolteno |
Cape Town |
Jocelyn Molteno, the widow of Frank Morris and
youngest daughter of Wallace Molteno and Lil Sandeman, dies. |
2000 |
|
Molteno |
PeterMolteno |
Cape Town |
Peter Molteno, a son of Charlie Molteno & Lucy
Mitchell, dies. |