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From: Sue Mackay <>
Subject: Extracts from Graaff Reinet Herald Sep-Dec 1855
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 19:21:35 +0100 (BST)


Taken from CO53/43 National Archives, Kew, London. I
have no further knowledge of people mentioned here,
having merely transcribed the information from the
newspapers, but these entries were photographed at Kew
using a digital camera, some in better focus than
others, and transcribed at home, so if you are related
to someone mentioned I may be able to send you a .jpg
file of the entry on the understanding that it would
be for personal use and not for publication on a
website, which would violate my digital camera licence
with the National Archives. I have no objections to
these transcriptions being added to a personal website
provided no charge is made to read them

Sue Mackay
Cardiff UK

NB From September 1855 publication moved from
Wednesdays to Saturdays

Saturday 15 September 1855

Birth at Richmond on the 8th September, Mrs. Geo.
GOWER of a daughter

Saturday 29 September 1855

Birth, Mrs. FROST of a son, on the 11th inst, at
Thibet Park, District of Queenstown

Saturday 6 October 1855

Birth on the 29th ultimo, Mrs. Thos. Kalm DOREY of a
son

Birth at Graaff Reinet on Sunday 30 September, the
wife of A.P. RUBIDGE Esq JP of Portlock of a daughter

TO W. COCK ESQ.
We the undersigned, registered voters for the Division
of Graaff Reinet, have learned with great pleasure,
through the medium of the Graham’s Town Journal of the
25th ultimo, that a Requisition, numerously signed by
the electors of the District of Albany, has been
presented to you, urging you to allow yourself to be
put in nomination for the vacant seat in the
Legislative Council caused by the retirement of Gideon
JOUBERT Esq, and that you have acceded to its request
and promised to exert yourself again for the welfare
of your country.
We therefore take this opportunity of expressing our
great satisfaction with your past public conduct, and
to assure you that no effort on our part shall be
wanting to secure your election.
C.J. SPILLER
John HEUGH JP
M.H. BENJAMIN
Skelton E. WIMBLE
Wm. SOUTHEY
A. MURRAY JP
Alfred ESSEX
Joseph CURRIE
G. HURFORD
Henry C. BLUNDELL
Edw. PROBART
Thos. DIXON
Wm. BRAMWELL
Thos. O. COLE
George BROWN
C.T. PERRY
Christopher COOKE
R.H. RUBIDGE Capt. RN
W. LUCK
C. VAN COLLER
A.P. RUBIDGE JP
C.W.J. POWELL
R.A. BAIN
William MEADWAY
Edwd. HIND
Adam JIGGENS
Henry MARRIOTT
Chas. PAVIOUR
Fredk. WATSON
John McNAUGHTON
H. VAN RYNEVELD
A. THORNTON
E.S. FORD
Samuel BURRELL
Geo. E. MURRAY
John RYNEVELD JP
Geo. SOUTHEY JP
J. FINCHAM Sen
J. FINCHAM Jun
Graaff Reinet 5th September 1855

Saturday 13 October 1855

Birth at Richmond on the 7th instant, Mrs. Henry DU
TOIT of a son

Saturday 20 October 1855

Died at Graham’s Town on the 11th October 1855,
Isabella, widow of the late Philip LUCAS Esq, aged 81
years and 4 months.
Deceased was well known to most of the inhabitants of
this District and highly esteemed by them
Graaff Reinet 19th October 1855

Saturday 3 November 1855
Birth at Graaff Reinet on Tuesday evening 30th
October, Mrs George INNES of a daughter

Saturday 17 November 1855

NOTICE
Died on Sunday night the 11th November 1855, my eldest
brother Mr. Christiaan Michael ZINN, aged 48 years and
4 months, leaving a widow and eight children to
deplore his loss, of which notice is hereby given to
relatives and friends.
The widow desires to express her most sincere thanks
(in conjunction with the undersigned) to the Medical
Gentlemen and friends for their kind aid and support
on behalf of the deceased during his illness; and to
acknowledge with unfeigned gratitude the liberality
shown to herself and children by so many of the
inhabitants of this place.
W.G. ZINN
Graaff Reinet 15 Nov 1855

Birth at Richmond on Friday 9th November 1855, Mrs.
Richard RUTHERFOORD of a son

Saturday 1 December 1855

Birth at Richmond on the 19th ult, Mrs. J.S.O. BRINK
of a daughter

Saturday 8 December 1855

Birth at Bloemfontain on the 17th November, the wife
of Mr. I. BAUMANN of a daughter

Birth at Graaff Reinet on the 6th inst, Mrs. Joseph
BAUMANN of a son

Saturday 22 December 1855

Mangling done at moderate prices at Mrs. CAMPBELL’s,
Church Street
Painting and Paper Hanging done at a reasonable rate
by J.C. CAMPBELL
Church Street, Graaff Reinet

Birth at Graaff Reinet on the 21st inst, Mrs. S.E.
WIMBLE of a daughter

LOST, on Friday the 7th inst, a handsome silk shawl
supposed to have been dropped by, or stolen from, a
little Hottentot girl, in the neighbourhood of the
Dutch and English Churches. A liberal reward will be
given to anyone returning the same to
Thos. K. DOREY

Saturday 29 December 1855

Birth at Klip Kop, near Colesberg, on the 15th
instant, Mrs. Geo. STUBBS of a son






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