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From: Terry Waters-Marsh <>
Subject: RE: [[ZA] RE: St. Mark's Mission station?]
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:07:23 +1000


Hi Keith,

Do you know when white settlers first settled in this area? I had been told
previously that settlement at St Marks on R61 did not commence until the
middle of the 1860s. That would be too late for the relative I am
researching who was born c1855/6.

Warmest regards,

Terry Waters-Marsh
Rockhampton Queensland 4701 Australia
Wiltshire FHS 6192; Gloucestershire FHS A5849; FIBIS 316; Cape Town FHS;
Hawkesbury & Hillesley FHS
FreeCEN Coordinator - Wiltshire County
RESEARCHING:
Dublin - KEENAN
Dumfries - AFFLECK, BROWN, HENDERSON, KIRKPATRICK, MITCHELL, REID
Essex - MARSH
Gloucester - HALL, JORDON, MARSH, RICKARDS/RICHARDS, WEBB
India - FREED, KEENAN, MARSH
Kent - FREED, O'NEIL
Monmouthshire - FREED
Ruthwell - AFFLECK, REID
Somerset - JORDON, MARSH
South Africa - FREED, PAGE, REYNOLDS, WINTER
Suffolk - KEENAN
Sussex - FREED, O'NEIL
Wiltshire - FLOWER, HALL, MARSH, PAGE
Zambia - FREED, REYNOLDS, WATERS-MARSH

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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Meintjes [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:20 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [[ZA] RE: St. Mark's Mission station?]


St. Marks is on the R61, on the White Kei river, in the Transkei northeast
of
Cathcart. The coordinates are 32.0167 S 27.4000 E.

http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=-32.0167&long=27.4000&name=Saint%20Mark%27
s&cty=South%20Africa&alt=2618

Best wishes
Keith
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Terry Waters-Marsh <> wrote:
Thanks Heather, William, Edric and Becky.

So far we have had three suggestions:

>From Becky Horne - "St. Marks Missions is in Grahamstown and run by nuns.
Oh yes, it's Anglican."

>From William Jervois - "There used to be a seminary called St mark's, in or
near Alice,
which is about an hour's drive to the northeast of Grahamstown."

>From Edric Russell - "St Marks Mission is about 60 klm from Queenstown on
the road to Umtata in the old Transkei. Transkei (across the Kei River) is a
place where the Xhosa (Black) people live and is VERY rural. It was a happy
hunting ground for the early missionaries. It is possible that there is
more than one St Marks Mission in South Africa, but I suppose this one is
'near' to Grahamstown if 250 Klm or so could be considered near :-) It
certainly must have been a major journey in the 1860's."

What I am trying to do is track down confirmation of the birth of my
gggrandfather, Robert James REYNOLDS (son of George and Mary REYNOLDS). His
death notice simply states his place of birth as St Marks, Cape Province
(British). Derek Pratt (and others) looked for him in the St Mark's
registers in Capetown and the cathedral in George as well as the St George
(?) cathedral in Cape Town with no luck at all.

Recently I received the Family Tree for the REYNOLDS-CURRIN family
(second-hand) from Les Williams which suggested that George REYNOLDS was a
"...mason at St. Mark's Mission station and a quarry man" but alas it does
not say where St. Mark's Mission station was or what time period.

I need to establish whether this George REYNOLDS (*20.11.1832 x 13.07.1853
Mary Charlotte JEFFREY) is, in fact, Robert James' father. Without
confirmation, I can not be certain which George REYNOLDS was Robert's father
and therefore how the rest of the REYNOLDS clan is related (or
inter-related!!).

Any suggestions? Could the note about George REYNOLDS being a mason and
quarry man help confirm/eliminate one or more of the above possible sites?
Much appreciated all the suggestions and help in this very puzzling search!

Warmest regards,

Terry Waters-Marsh
Rockhampton Queensland 4701 Australia
Wiltshire FHS 6192; Gloucestershire FHS A5849; FIBIS 316; Cape Town FHS;
Hawkesbury & Hillesley FHS
FreeCEN Coordinator - Wiltshire County
RESEARCHING:
Dublin - KEENAN
Dumfries - AFFLECK, BROWN, HENDERSON, KIRKPATRICK, MITCHELL, REID
Essex - MARSH
Gloucester - HALL, JORDON, MARSH, RICKARDS/RICHARDS, WEBB
India - FREED, KEENAN, MARSH
Kent - FREED, O'NEIL
Monmouthshire - FREED
Ruthwell - AFFLECK, REID
Somerset - JORDON, MARSH
South Africa - FREED, PAGE, REYNOLDS, WINTER
Suffolk - KEENAN
Sussex - FREED, O'NEIL
Wiltshire - FLOWER, HALL, MARSH, PAGE
Zambia - FREED, REYNOLDS, WATERS-MARSH

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-----Original Message-----
From: Heather MacAlister [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:16 AM
To:
Subject: Re: St. Mark's Mission station?


Hi Terry

I have on my web site under "Missions" many mission stations but non
mentioned as St. Marks - would it have been an Anglican or Catholic Mission
?
regards
Heather
[help Derek -where are you ?]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Waters-Marsh" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:21 PM
Subject: St. Mark's Mission station?


Hi all,

Does anyone know where the St. Mark's Mission station may have been in Cape
Province? Suspect it would have existed in the 1860s and not too far from
Grahamstown. Any ideas or even good guesses would be appreciated! TIA.

(We have checked and discarded St Marks the village and St Marks Cathedral
in Cape Town as possibles.)

Warmest regards,

Terry Waters-Marsh
Rockhampton Queensland 4701 Australia
Wiltshire FHS 6192; Gloucestershire FHS A5849; FIBIS 316; Cape Town FHS;
Hawkesbury & Hillesley FHS
FreeCEN Coordinator - Wiltshire County
RESEARCHING:
Dublin - KEENAN
Dumfries - AFFLECK, BROWN, HENDERSON, KIRKPATRICK, MITCHELL, REID
Essex - MARSH
Gloucester - HALL, JORDON, MARSH, RICKARDS/RICHARDS, WEBB
India - FREED, KEENAN, MARSH
Kent - FREED, O'NEIL
Monmouthshire - FREED
Ruthwell - AFFLECK, REID
Somerset - JORDON, MARSH
South Africa - FREED, PAGE, REYNOLDS, WINTER
Suffolk - KEENAN
Sussex - FREED, O'NEIL
Wiltshire - FLOWER, HALL, MARSH, PAGE
Zambia - FREED, REYNOLDS, WATERS-MARSH

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