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From: "Lynn MacLeod" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] COLENSO and BLACKMORE
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:40:37 +1300
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Hi Linda
I cannot help with BLACKMORE but from
Encyclopaedia of SA - Rosenthal
Frances Ellen COLENSO, protagonist of the Zulu people. Daughter of Bishop
JW, was born in England in 1849 and came to Natal in 1855. There she and
her sister Harriette helped their father and wrote widely, pleading the case
of the African people. She died in 1887

Harriette Emily COLENSO, protagonist of the Zulu people, daughter of Bishop
JW, born in England and came to Natal in 1855. As helper to her father and
sister, Frances , she was active in the political field. After the Zulu
Rebellion of 1906, she took a leading part in organising the defence of
Dinizulu, the Zulu Chief.

Then there is Bishop John William, born in Cornwall in 1814, ... and died in
1883..
Kind regards
Lynn MacLeod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Hardy"
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:54 PM
Subject: [ZA] COLENSO and BLACKMORE


> Dear Listers,
>
> I'd just thought I'd post my other interest in South Africa:
>
> My 3 x great grandfather was John Pym BLACKMORE born in 1799 in Devonport,
Devon, England, he had a cousin named:
>
> Mary Ann BLACKMORE born 1789 also in Devonport daughter of Thomas Richard
BLACKMORE and Ann POMEROY.
>
> Mary Ann married in 1811 in Stoke Damerel, Devon to John Williams COLENSO,
John was born in 1779 in Penzance, Cornwall, England
>
> Mary Ann and John had 5 children the eldest of whom was John William
COLENSO born 1814 in St Austell, Cornwall, John became the 1st Bishop of
Natal moving to South Africa in 1854.
>
> I've found a lot of information on Bishop COLENSO online including a copy
of a portrait painted of him, he also wrote the first ever Zulu Dictionary
and learn't to speak the language, Commando Drift was renamed COLENSO in his
honour.
>
> Bishop COLENSO married in 1846 in London to Sarah Frances BUNYON, Sarah
born 1816 London, they had 5 known children 4 born in England: Harriette
Emily born 1847 in Norfolk, Frances Ellen born 1849 in Norfolk, Robert John
born 1851 in Norfolk and Francis Ernest born 1852 in Norfolk, followed by
Agnes Mary born 1855 at Pietermaritzburg, Natal.
>
> I'd loved to find anyone who has connections to this family or has further
information about his mothers side of the family the BLACKMORE's.



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