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.
Year Precise Date Surname Full Names of a Person Place What Happened
1162   Molteno Molteno Italy Molteno Family take part in negotiations with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa for surrender of Milan
1162   Molteno Molteno Italy Sometime after 1162, Menaduxius de Molteno aids and gives passage to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in attack on Counts of Angleria
1200   Molteno Molteno Italy The oldest part of the village church in Molteno dates back to 1200s, incorporating part of original castle chapel
1403   Molteno Molteno Italy Georgius di Molteno heads College of Advocates & Notaries in Milan at various times til 1435
1447   Molteno Molteno Italy Petrolus de Molteno elected as councillor to General Council of Republic of Milan, amongst other Moltenos
1448   Molteno Molteno Italy Phillipus di Molteno is one of 36 men added to Republic of Milan's 12 'leaders of liberty'
1503   Molteno GiovanniMolteno Italy Listed as one of the architects who helped build Milan Cathedral
1544   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     MoltenoVillage Italy On orders of the Church hierarchy in Milan, registers of births, marriages & deaths are kept from this date.
1730   Molteno Molteno London Possible, but no clear evidence, that 1st generation of Moltenos came to London in 1730s
1745     History England Suppression of the Young Pretender's Rebellion. Explosion of anti-Catholic feeling. Many chapels burned etc.
1751   Molteno GeorgeAnthonyMolteno ?? Born -- probably the original ancestor in England most Moltenos today are descended from.
1753     History England Hardwicke's Marriage Act voids all marriages not solemnized in a Church of England church. Roman Catholics disadvantaged.
1758   Lewis MaryLewis London Born. She becomes wife of George Anthony Molteno. Original ancestor most Moltenos today are descended from.
1761   Bower GeorgeBower Batley Born in Batley, Yorkshire, son of a cloth manufacturer. He becomes father of Caroline Bower who marries John Molteno
1770   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     History Karoo Early 1770s, start of serious armed conflict between the San (Bushmen) & Boers. Lasted 20 years. Virtual genocide
1770     History England Beginning of revolution in textile (cotton processing) technologies in 1770s & 80s heralds industrial revolution
1774     History Karoo Major flare-up between Boers & San (Bushmen): Boer commando killed 503 and took prisoner 239 people.
1775     History World American War of Independence starts
1777   Molteno GeorgeAnthonyMolteno London He begins to collect drawings; his first printselling premises only recorded six years later.
1778     History England Catholic Relief Act: lifted some penal laws. Now for 1st time lawful to be a Roman Catholic priest in England.
1780     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     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   Mylius MaryMylius England Born. She marries James Anthony Molteno who carries on his father, George Anthony Molteno's Pall Mall printseller business.
1782     History World American War of Independence ends in victory -- a generation before John Charles Molteno, our common ancestor, born in London.
1783   Molteno JMolteno London A printseller in Fleet Street (not in Pall Mall)
1783   Molteno Molteno London Place of Business: 1 Vigo Lane, Saville Row
1784   Molteno JamesAnthonyMolteno London Born, eldest son of George Anthony Molteno, and like his father also called Anthony.
1785   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   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   Bower GeorgeBower London Marries Jane Read at St Mary's, Lambeth. Her father was Admiralty Timber Surveyor, Deptford Dockyard.
1787   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   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   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     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   Molteno GeorgeAnthonyMolteno London Molteno, Colnaghi & Co sell an engraving of King George III.
1791   Molteno MaryMolteno London Born 1791 or 1792. Later marries Charles Busby Bristow in 1811.
1791   Molteno Molteno London A Molteno woman marries G Testolini
1791     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   Molteno GeorgeAnthonyMolteno London Partnership with Colnaghi ends. George Anthony Molteno goes into business as a Pall Mall printseller on his own.
1793     History Europe Napoleonic Wars start. Continental blockade. Presumably England/Italy contact difficult for next 20 years.
1794   Molteno FrancisMolteno ?? Born. Eventually marries Jane Auvergne.
1796   Molteno HenryMolteno London Born
1797   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   Molteno RoseMolteno London Born on 13 September 1798. Sister of Charles Dominic Molteno and John Molteno.
1800   Molteno EmmaMolteno London Born. Dies 1860. Father is George Anthony Molteno, but death certificate said her father was Charles Molteno.
1800   Molteno JamesAnthonyMolteno London Starts work in his father's printselling business. Continued all his life. Nearly 50 years.
1802   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   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   Molteno JamesAnthonyMolteno London Aged 23, he marries Mary Mylius.
1808   Molteno ThomasMyliusMolteno London Son of James Anthony Molteno & Mary Mylius born. Becomes a Roman Catholic priest.
1809   Molteno ElizabethMaryMolteno ?? Born. Eventually marries Charles Parker.
1809   Vos ElizabethMagadalenadeVos Cape Town Born. She marries Hercules Jarvis at age of 16 in 1825
1810   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   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   Molteno RoseMaryMolteno London Daughter of James Anthony Molteno born. Dies only in 1889. Did she ever marry?
1812   Bristow MaryBristow ?? Daughter of Charles Busby Bristow & Mary Molteno born.
1812     History London Sardinian Ambassador's Chapel: Perhaps 7,000 Catholics belong to it (reflects paucity of other Catholic chapels at this time)
1813   Bower AliciaBower London Marries Robert Jackson in same year as her sister, Caroline Bower, marries John Molteno.
1813   Molteno CharlesDominicMolteno Scotland He marries Margaret Glass (widow of Scott) sometime after 1813. He is uncle of John Charles Molteno, our common ancestor.
1813   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   Bristow RosaMariaBristow   Daughter of Charles Busby Bristow & Mary Molteno born.
1814     History Cape Cape of Good Hope ceded by to Britain by the Netherlands. John Charles Molteno emigrates there 16 years later.
1814     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   Hewitson MariaHewitson Cape Town Born. Later becomes 1st wife of John Charles Molteno.
1815   Molteno FrankMolteno London Son of John Molteno & Caroline Bower, and younger brother of John Charles Molteno, born. Emigrates later to Hawaii (Sandwich Islands).
1815     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   Bristow CharlesFrancisBristow England Born. Probably became apothecary and inventor of Bristow's Coal Tar Soap. Became very well off.
1816   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   Molteno FrancesMolteno London Born of John Molteno & Caroline Bower. Must have died early since no further records of her.
1816   Molteno Molteno London Molteno printselling business operating from 20 Pall Mall
1816   Molteno WilliamFrederickMolteno England Born. Son of James Anthony Molteno & Mary Mylius
1816     History England At end of Napoleonic wars, several years of recession and sporadic riots
1817   Jarvis HerculesJarvis Cape Town Returns to UK to complete his education
1817   Molteno FredMolteno London Born. Brother of Sir John Charles Molteno. Later marries Laura Sheridan.Confusion re him and FredJamesMolteno
1817   Molteno GeorgeAnthonyMolteno London Dies. I now have 3 different dates -- 1815, 1816, 1817!!
1817   Molteno JohnMolteno London He and his wife, Caroline, living at 11 Soho Square, just south of Oxford Street.
1817     History England Until this date, no Catholic could serve in the British armed forces.
1818   Bristow WhistonBristow ?? Born. Eventually emigrated to the USA, but stayed in touch with his Uncle Charles Dominic Molteno
1818   Molteno CatherineClaraMolteno England Born. Never marries.
1818     History Beaufort West District of Beaufort declared. British authorities look for site for new district capital. Hence founding of Beaufort (West).
1819   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   Bristow RobertAnthonyBristow ?? Born. Grandson of George Anthony Molteno. Marries Margaret Swan. Via his descendants, contact with Molteno Family continues into early 20th century
1820   Jarvis HerculesJarvis Cape Town Comes out from England to the Cape again, now aged 16.
1820   Molteno AgnesEmmaMolteno London Born. Daughter of James Anthony Molteno & Mary Mylius
1820   Molteno NancyAliciaMolteno London Sister of John Charles Molteno born. Marries Mr Bingle in adulthood.
1820   Stanford Stanford Eastern Cape John & Maria Stanford come with 1820 settlers; greatgrandparents of Walter Elliot Stanford who marries Effie Anderson
1821   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   Molteno Anthony Molteno London Colnaghi & Molteno sell 'the only genuine likeness of Napoleon on St Helena' by Mr Rusbridge (The Times)
1821   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   Molteno JamesJosephMolteno England Born. Son of James Anthony Molteno. Dies the following year.
1823   Molteno FrederickJamesMolteno London Born. Brother of Sir JC Molteno.
1823   Molteno JamesJosephMolteno England Dies. Only 6 mths old. Buried in vault of Catholic church, St Mary Moorfields. Son of James Anthony Molteno
1824   Molteno FrancisMolteno London Born. Robert Molteno think may be the artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy 1848-55.
1824   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   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   Currie DonaldCurrie Ireland James Currie & his wife move with their baby son from Greenock to Belfast, Ireland.
1826   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   Molteno CharlesMolteno England Born
1827   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   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   Molteno JohnMolteno London John & Caroline Molteno's last child. Born after his father's death. Dies 3 years later
1829   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   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   Vos Vos Cape Jacobus Johannes Vos, greatgrandfather of Elizabeth Maria Jarvis (nee Vos), died
1829     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   Bower AliciaBower Europe Mother of Arthur Jackson and his brothers died in childbirth. 2 aunts in Lincolnshire then cared for the young children
1830   Jackson HenryJackson England Born. First cousin of Sir JC Molteno.
1830   Molteno Kahipa Hawaii Born in 1830s on island near Honolulu. Says her father is Charles Frank Molteno. (Dates look wrong)
1830     History Beaufort West Village tiny. Population still only 200 whites living in some 30 houses, plus larger 'Coloured' or mixed race population.
1831 18310726 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   Jarvis HerculesJarvis Cape Town First municipality of sorts set up; Hercules Jarvis one of 1st commissioners aged 28
1831   Molteno JohnMolteno London Little boy,aged 3, dies. John Molteno & Caroline Bower's last child.
1831   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   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   Molteno JohnCharlesMolteno 1 Cape Town On arrival, stays with A J Jardine, the Librarian, while he 'looked around' for a more lucrative opening.
1832   Molteno ElizabethMaryMolteno London Marries Charles Parker. They have several children. (This branch of Molteno descendants not researched on this website)
1832   Molteno JohnCharlesMolteno 1 Cape Town After only a year at library, he starts working for J Bardwell Ebden, a wine export merchant.
1832     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   Jarvis AnnieJarvis Cape Born. A sister of Hercules Jarvis, she eventually marries Major Blenkins who subsequently dies in India.
1833   Molteno ThomasMyliusMolteno London Ordained a Roman Catholic priest (Hopefully date is right)
1834     History Cape Slavery abolished, just three years after John Charles Molteno arrives in Cape Colony.
1834     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   Molteno Molteno London Molteno and Graves, printsellers of Pall Mall, dissolved. Two generations of Molteno business in London now at an end.
1835   Molteno WilliamHenryMolteno England Marries Elizabeth Daman. (How this branch of Moltenos related to George Anthony Molteno, printseller in Pall Mall, not established)
1835     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   History Beaufort West Villagers of Beaufort West ask for local self-government.
1836   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   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   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   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   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   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.