New Diaries, Stories and other items on this website — by date of posting

This website is a work in progress. Whenever new stories or updated information are put on this website, you will be able to see here what’s new, with the date the item was posted. 

This website was set up in late 2012. You can now see the Molteno Family Tree; a Timeline of Events in the history of the Molteno and related families; and the Picture Galleries which is divided into a number of thematic galleries with over 2,000 images.

24 August 2022

• Contact details updated

24 August 2022

• The Family History (in book form): 
  • 5. Poverty and Migration – John  and Caroline Molteno’s descendants scattered
  • 6. Hawaii – Frank Molteno goes whaling in the Pacific
  • 7. Australia — Fred Molteno and ‘the young Paganini’
  • 8. Cape of Good Hope – John Charles Molteno makes good, 1830s and ‘40s
  • 9. Hercules Crosse Jarvis – The Rock on which the South African Family stands
  • 10. Self Government – Taking the lead (1854 – 1871)

15 August 2022

• The Family History (in book form) – draft copies of Robert’s book:
  • 2. Anthony Molteno – Printseller of Pall Mall, 1780s
  • 3. Becoming English – Anthony and Mary Molteno’s children put down roots in London
  • 4. Prosperity to Bankruptcy – The eldest son, James Anthony Molteno and his family

15 July 2022

• Robert Molteno’s Obituary

25 July 2015

• The Family History (in book form): 
  • Foreword

4 July 2015

• The Family History (in book form): 
  1. Family Origins – Medieval Italy, Milan and the Village of Molteno

19 December 2013

• Stories about the Family:  Many of these were first published in the Chronicle of the Family. Since the Chronicle is now on the website, you can read the stories. Many other stories, of course, will only become available as they are written.

18 December 2013

• A Man of Principle — the Life of Percy Alport Molteno, M.P. — complete galleys (pdf) — book-length biography by Francis Hirst

15 December 2013

• A Man of Principle — The life of Percy Alport Molteno, M.P. — six selected chapters with illustrations & explanatory notes.(pdf) by Francis Hirst
• Apples of the Sun — Biography of Ted and Harry Molteno (pdf) by Philidda Brooke Simons
• Cynthia Payne, Growing up at Inungi in East Griqualand — Recollections of Childhood (pdf)
• Cynthia Payne’s Recollections of Ted & Harry Molteno (pdf)
• Ted & Harry Molteno join the picnic (pdf) — Marion Cran’s account of an Elgin picnic

14 December 2013

• Caroline Murray — Reminiscences of the Old Cape (pdf)
• Lucy Molteno (nee Mitchell) – How I became a Woman Prospector (pdf)
• Peter Gibbs – Prospecting with Mrs Lucy Molteno (pdf)
• Lucy Molteno (nee Mitchell) — What a Strange Thing is Memory (pdf)
• Carol Williamson (nee Molteno) — Reminiscences of My Life (pdf)
• Kathleen Murray, Elgin Fruit Farmer (pdf) — Marion Cran’s account from the early 1920s
• Fitzbilly cakes at Cambridge — Old Cape Dutch origin (pdf) — Marion Cran’s account of how Caroline Murray brought this recipe to the students of Cambridge
• Kenah Murray’s War Diaries (1914-18)
• Uncle Clifford’s First Car (pdf) — a children’s story

13 December 2013

• Short illustrated account of Donald Molteno’s life (pdf)
• Hercules Crosse Jarvis (1803-89) — a biography (pdf)
  
• John Syme – Story of a South African Boy (pdf)
  
• Sir Donald Currie’s Tour of South, 1887-88 — Diary of his daughter, Maria Wisely (pdf)
  

11 December 2013

• Chronicle of the Family, 1913-20: The entire Chronicle, all 20 issues (some 600 pages in all) is now available on the Website.

17 November 2013

• Photos of family members and places important to the family — hundreds more now loaded. Some 1,500 photos in all. Go to Galleries to see them.

15 November 2013

• David Scher, Donald Molteno — ‘Dilizintaba — He who removes mountains’ — a biography (pdf)

21 June 2013

• The Molteno Family: Italian Origins and English Roots (pdf)

23 May 2013

• Why Build this Website?
• Sir John C. Molteno (1814-86) — a biographical sketch (pdf)

7 April 2013

• The History of Claremont House History — by Frank Molteno (pdf)
  
• 1863: The Family moves in — Caroline Molteno’s first Impressions (pdf)
  
• Life at Claremont House, 1880-1885 — Recollections of Admiral V. B. Molteno (pdf)
  

6 April 2013

• The Old Family Home’s Ghost Stories — John Syme’s recollections of Claremont House in the 1920s (pdf)

3 April 2013

• Dr Charles Murray, A Letter from Ireland (pdf)
• Dr Charles Murray, Wreck of HMS Captain, the first Royal Navy steam-powered battleship, 1870 (pdf)
• Ernest Anderson attends a banquet given by King George V at Windsor Castle, 1913 (pdf)
• Islay Bisset, A Day on Schiehallion in the Scottish Highlands (pdf)

31 March 2013

• Lil Molteno (nee Sandeman), Farewell to Janet — Life at Kamferskraal (pdf)
• Mary Molteno, Picnic at Fish Hoek — Donald Molteno’s 5th birthday, 1913 (pdf)
• How the Molteno and other families are related — a Quick Guide 
• Who’s Who in the Family — thumbnail sketches

11 March 2013

• The Migrant’s Story — a mini-history of the Molteno Family (pdf)

December 2012

• John Charles Molteno’s Family — His children and grandchildren  in South Africa, Kenya, England and Scotland (pdf)
• People in the Family
• Places important to the Family
• Claremont House
• Painswick Lodge
• Barkly Molteno
• Chronicle of the Family, 1913-1920
• Diaries and Reminiscences of the Molteno, Murray and other related families — a List
• Lil Sandeman, A Diary of my Journey to Africa, 1905-06 (pdf)
  
• Lil Sandeman, A new Great Trek – Wallace and Lil Molteno move home from Kamferskraal to Nelspoort
• Books & Pamphlets by Molteno and related family descendants