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From: "Becky Horne" <>
Subject: [ZA] Putting the fun back into Genealogy - LANHAM
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:04:23 +0200


a. Thomas LANHAM, aged 30, of James' party from Wiltshire on Weymouth,
with his wife Elizabeth, aged 27 and child Mary Ann of 10 months.

Their only son (b1.) William (14.10.1826 - 27.1.1902) served as a
lieutenant in the Albany Levies in the Frontier war of 1846. He bought
the farm Stoneham. Mill Hills, Highlands, in 1857 and his descendants
are still living there. The graveyard here is the resting place of many
of the family. William m. Tryphoena (1831-1903) dau of John and
Elizabeth LEONARD, who came out on the Chapman. They had five sons:

c1. Thomas E. LANHAM, Capt. J.P. Served first with the Albany Rangers
in the Basuto War of 1880-81. In 1897 he served through the Langberg
Campaign against the rebel Bechuana chiefs, as Captain commanding
Lanham's Horse. During the Anglo-Boer War he was on Intelligence with
BADEN-POWELL. In 1906 he commanded Lanham's Horse against Ferreira's
Raid from S.W.A. In the German South West Campaign (1914) he was
senior Captain, A Squadron, Kalahari Horse, and was severely wounded
and crippled for life. Farmed for many years with a brother at
Kuruman, Bechuanaland. Died at Grahamstown 1928 and was buried at
Stoneham, Highlands. He m. Florence HOBSON and had three sons:

d1. Temple, a press reporter who died while covering the Olympic Games
in Germany, 1936.
2. Leonard, of Nababeep, S.W.A. Served in WWII. Married Lorna BAIN f.
2 sons, 1 dau.
3. Howard, of Durban. Served in WWII. Married Connie BORN and had
three sons.
4. Florence Mary m. .W. BENSON

2. George Charles LANHAM, unm. Wounded and crippled in the Langberg
campaign. Died 1914.
John Bertram LANHAM (1867-1901) m. Maria Elizabeth, dau. of William
NICOL of Cupar, Fifeshire, who had married Andrietta the dau. of
Andrew Geddes BAIN, the famous S.A. Engineer and father of South
African geology, who came out on his own in 1816. They had two sons:
d1. William Bain LANHAM (Wilby J.P. (1896) m. Constance Louise, dau. of
George LEPPAN of Teafontein, Riebeck East and had on son Noel William
(b. 1927). Willy served in Hartigan's Horse, German East Africa in
WWI.
2. John W.T. LANHAM, m. Winifred KEMP - no family.
4. Leonard LANHAM Lt. son of William, m. Lulu ERSKINE.
He was killed in the Anglo-Boer war at Vryheid, 20 May 1900. They had
2 sons:
d1. Clyde Erskine LANHAM, Lt. Served in WWI with the Royal Field
Artillery and was awarded the M.C. for carrying messages through
intense enemy barrage. Later he was awarded a bar to the M.C. Died at
Aldershot, England, 1920 of yellow fever contracted while O.C.of a
Garrison Post on the Gold Coast.
2. Leonard Erskine LANHAM Lt-Col. also served through WWI with the
R.F.A. and was mentioned in Sir Douglas HAIG's dispatches and was
awarded the M.C. and bar. In WWII he was O.C. and Artillery Instructor
at Maritzburg. Transferred to Middlelandse Reg. where he was second in
command (Lt.-Col.) when they were captured at Tobruk. After his
release he was O.C. Demobilisation, Durban. Married in 1926 Ethel
Metcalf RAYNER - 2 children, Clyde and Ruth. Leonard LANHAM died in
1960.

5. Walter Roderick LANHAM, Lt. son of William, was a land surveyor.
Served through the Angloa-Boer War. Was married twice. One son, Capt.
Jeffery LANHAM was shot down over the Mediterranean in WWII and the
second son Roger, who also served in this war, is in business in
Southern Rhodesia. (Zimbabwe)

In addition to these five sons there were two daughters Elizabeth
(Libby) who never married but was trained as a Nursing Sister and had
two nursing homes in Port Elizabeth - "Stoneham" and "Glamis Nursing
Home". She ran the latter establishment until her death about 1928.

Jane, the youngest of the family married William BOWKER of
Alstonfield, Sheldon near Bedford.

Family tradition says that the name was originally spelt LANGHAM but
the ';g' was dropped by a son who quarrelled with his father over the
girl he was to marry. The father 'cut him off without a shilling' but
relented before his death. But the son would not accept anything from
his father and the Estate went into Chancery.

Little is known of the LANHAM family in England before 1820 except
that the ancestral seat was "Westbury" in Wiltshire.

Best wishes
Becky
Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Researching: HENWICK; HILL; HORN(E); MEREDITH; DEYZEL; LARSEN; WILSON;
LYNAR; HENNING; STERLEY; THECK; BEST; BRAUN, GREENER; GLANVILLE.

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