Caroline Molteno

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• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Arrival: 6 Jun 1932, Plymouth, Devon
• Residence: 23 Aug 1952, 18 Park Mansions, Camp Ground Rd, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
• Arrival: 18 Mar 1955, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

Carol Williamson (nee Molteno) wrote recollections of her life when she was already in her mid eighties. A copy of these is available on the Molteno family website at:

https://www.moltenofamily.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Carol-Williamson-Reminiscences-pdf.pdf

Caroline married Arthur Faure Williamson on 17 Dec 1926 in St Saviours Church, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, and was divorced in 1935. Arthur (son of Alfred Edward Andrew Williamson and Wilhelmina Frances Faure) was born on 9 Jul 1899 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; died on 18 Apr 1968 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Reception at Sandown, Rondebosch. Carol was given away be her Uncle Admiral Barclay Molteno

1. Deneys Molteno Williamson was born on 9 Oct 1927 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 17 Sep 1995 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
2. Jean Cambier Molteno Williamson was born on 12 Dec 1929 in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 10 Jun 2007 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
3. Carol Margaret Williamson

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• Birth: 4 Mar 1860, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 21 May 1899, Kenilworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 17 Jun 1908, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Notes:

Eldest son of John Charles Molteno. At a very young age, Charlie became his father, Sir John Charles Molteno’s, secretary. In this role, he not only assisted him in his political duties as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, but also increasingly looked after his diverse business interests. Following his father’s death in 1886, Charlie managed the main family farm at Nelspoort for many years in association with his cousin, H. A. Jackson. He decided to enter politics on his own account in 1894 and was elected to the Tembuland constituency in the Transkei. He continued as an M.P., with one short break, up to the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

He married in 1897 an American, Lucy Mitchell, whose family had close South African connections, and he and Lucy settled into their new home of Sandown in Rondebosch, about four miles from the centre of Cape Town, in 1899. They lived there for the rest of their lives together. Charlie died of pneumonia following a routine operation in 1924. His political contributions included opposition to the Boer War, and a growing recognition of the overriding importance of African South Africans playing a full role in Cape politics. On his death, Ons Land described him as ‘a man of firm principles and of earnest convictions. He was a man of character and a strong personality.’


For more about John Charles Molteno see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Molteno

John married Lucy Lindley Mitchell on 23 Dec 1897 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. Lucy (daughter of Clarence Green Mitchell and Sarah Adams Lindley) was born on 4 Jun 1874 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; died on 16 Oct 1969 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: South Africa
• Residence: 1880, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA
• Departure: 25 Aug 1928, Liverpool, Lancashire; Age: 54
• Arrival: 3 Sep 1928, New York, USA

Notes:

Lucy Lindley Mitchell Molteno note her memoirs, with the help of her grand daughter, at the age 83. These go back to the American Civil War and on to South Africa.

A copy of these is available on the Molteno Family website at https://www.moltenofamily.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Lucy-Molteno-What-a-Strange-Thing-is-Memory-pdf.pdf

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• Occupation: First Cape Prime Minister
• Education: 1830, Ewell, Surrey; Educated at Ewell
• Destination: 1831, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Sailed to South Africa. Duties at Public Library in Cape Town
• Occupation: 1837, South Africa; Started own commercial business
• Residence: 1852, Beaufort West, Western Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 10 Jun 1876, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 11 Aug 1877, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 24 Sep 1878, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 14 Nov 1880, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Retired: Aug 1882, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Notes:

Eldest son of John Molteno and Caroline Bower of London. Emigrated at the age of 16 to the Cape Colony. Became a merchant; later pioneered merino sheep farming at Nelspoort in the Karoo. Elected to the first legislature of the Cape Colony in 1854. Pressed for responsible government (whereby the executive of ministers is accountable to Parliament, and not to the colony’s British Governor), and became the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister in 1872. Married three times. His first wife, Maria Hewitson, died tragically in childbirth in 1845. By his second wife, Elizabeth Maria Jarvis, John Molteno had ten children who survived infancy and from whom the majority of Moltenos today trace their descent – Betty, Caroline, Maria, Charlie, Percy, Frank, James, Victor, Wallace and Barkly. Following the death of Elizabeth Maria, John Charles married ‘Minnie’ Blenkins; they had four children – Minnie, Ted, Clifford and Harry. None of these ever married or had children. John was knighted sometime after he had been ousted, contrary to established parliamentary convention, as Prime Minister by the then Governor.


For more information about John Charles Molteno see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Molteno


Birth:
Birth registered Bavarian Ambassador's Chapel

John married Elizabeth Maria Jarvis on 20 Oct 1851. Elizabeth (daughter of Hercules Crosse Jarvis and Elizabeth Maria Vos) was born on 20 Jan 1831 in Western Cape, South Africa; died on 8 Apr 1874 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Apr 1874 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 20 Feb 1831, Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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• Residence: 1850, Sonoma, California, USA
• Residence: 1850, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA

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Clarence Green Mitchell was born to John W. Mitchell and Caroline Mitchell in Charleston, South Carolina, in July 1826. He spent a short period of time in San Francisco, California, in the mid-1850s and received an appointment as Commissioner of Deeds for the State of California in New York in 1852. He married Sarah A. Lindley in New York in 1872. Clarence G. Mitchell worked as an attorney in his father's practice, Mitchells & Hinsdale (in partnership with Elizur B. Hinsdale). Clarence Mitchell played a significant role in the management of distributions from the Mary Green estate to his cousins Timothy Green Mitchell, Martha Louise Mitchell, and Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Green Mitchell. Clarence G. Mitchell died in South Carolina in 1893.

Clarence married Sarah Adams Lindley on 20 Nov 1872 in New York, USA. Sarah (daughter of Daniel Lindley and Lucy Virginia Allen) was born on 2 Nov 1839 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 2 Feb 1912 in New York, USA; was buried on 5 Feb 1912 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Arrival: 1860
• Residence: 1910, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Will: 7 Feb 1912, New York, USA; Mrs Mitchell left an estate more than $200,000, which was divided among her 3 daughters. Caroline rec'd 85K, Lucy & Anna 60K each and stepson Clarence Blair Mitchell about 10K

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• Occupation: Somerset House, London, England; Deputy Controller of Legacy duty at Somerset House, an Attorney of King's Bench
• Residence: 1805, Westminster, London
• Occupation: 3 Apr 1805, Westminster, London; Articles of Clerkship. Indentured for 5 years.

Notes:

Son of George Anthony Molteno and Mary Lewis. John married Caroline Bower. He did not go into his father’s printselling business but instead, worked at Somerset House in London, where he became Assistant Keeper of Legacy Duty. John and Caroline’s children included John Charles, Frank, Nancy, Frederick James, and Alicia. When John got seriously ill at the young age of 39, he was distraught at being able to leave virtually nothing to this widow in his will, and the family became hard up on his death. John Charles was pulled out of school and got one or two nondescript jobs in the City. Facing such dead ends, four of the children (John, Frank, Fred and Alicia) emigrated as soon as they could – to the Cape Colony, Hawaii, and Victoria and New South Wales in Australia. Their mother, Caroline, was left with only one daughter, Nancy, still living with her. When Nancy married Mr Bingle, she moved from Peckham across London to the southwest of London where her husband ran a small college in Richmond.

John married Caroline Bower on 3 May 1813 in London. Caroline (daughter of George Bower and Jane Read) was born on 26 Dec 1790 in Southwark, Surrey; died on 28 Mar 1866 in London; was buried on 4 Apr 1866 in Camberwell, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 27 Feb 1791, Newington, Surrey
• Residence: 1841, Camberwell, London
• Probate Date: 13 Aug 1866, Principal, Azuay, Ecuador

Notes:

Wife of John Molteno. Daughter of George Bower who rose to a senior position in the Bank of England. After the death of her husband at young age in 1827, she moved with her children out of Central London to Peckham, at that time a small village on the city’s outskirts, where her father had a house. Caroline lived in Peckham for the rest of her life, for some of the time supporting herself by running a school.

A great sadness to her, four of her children emigrated to distant parts of the world. Only her son, Fred Molteno and his children, returned to live in Peckham. Her eldest son, John Charles Molteno, kept in touch with her by letter, although the post in those days was slow and irregular. But she had the joy of seeing him twice as a grown man, including during his lengthy visit to Europe with his wife, Maria, and daughters, Caroline and Betty, in 1860-61.

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• Baptism: 29 Aug 1802, St George the Martyr, Queen Square, Holborn, London
• Residence: 1830, Green Point, Western Cape, South Africa; Somerset House - a rambling Cape Dutch House
• Occupation: Between 1848 and 1860, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Prosperous Merchant Wine Trader & Mayor of Cape Town
• Possessions: 1864, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; His business failed, he sold Somerset House, loch stock & barrel including custom made Cape Silver, pictures and treasures from the East, at a very low price
• Residence: 1871, London; He was in England for 3 years
• Residence: 1872, Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa; Lived there for 6 years
• Residence: 1872, Kloof, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Went to superintend his new manganese mine
• Residence: 1875, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Went to "Beaufort Villa" in Claremont to nurse Sophia Alport

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Birth:
Named after his father's friend Major Godsalve Crosse of the Essex Dragoons

Hercules married Elizabeth Maria Vos on 18 Dec 1825. Elizabeth (daughter of Hendrik Daniel Vos and Anna Elisabeth Jurgens) was born on 23 Jul 1809 in Robertson, Western Cape, South Africa; died about 1864 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1824, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

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Elected Charleston City Attoney in October 1817. That same year, he beganhis law practice in Charleston and became active in Episcopal affairs.Moved to New York City around 1833 and continued his law practice there.Served as Commissioner of Deeds of South Carolina in New York City.Founder of churches and active in Episcopal affairs in the city. Duringthe Civil War, was a Peace Democrat in New York City.



John Wroughten Mitchell was born in 1796 in Charleston, South Carolina. He married Timothy Green's daughter, Caroline, in 1825. The couple had three children; Clarence Green Mitchell, Anna Elizabeth Mitchell, and Mary Elizabeth Mitchell. John W. Mitchell practiced law in Charleston, South Carolina, beginning in 1817, and in New York when his family relocated in 1835. There, he formed a legal partnership with his brother-in-law, Timothy Ruggles Green. He was appointed the Commissioner of Deeds for Massachusetts in New York City in 1843 and for South Carolina in 1852. John W. Mitchell was active in the Episcopal Church in South Carolina and New York. He served as Treasurer of the Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union Society and became a member of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York. John W. Mitchell died in South Carolina in 1878. His wife Caroline died in 1860.

John married Caroline Green on 18 Aug 1825 in St Pauls, New York, USA. Caroline (daughter of Timothy Green and Mary Martin) was born on 13 Mar 1802 in New York City, New York, USA; died on 19 May 1860 in New York City, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Mozambique
• Departure: 3 Dec 1834, Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
• Emigration: 1835; Arrival in Sth Africa
• Arrival: 15 Sep 1859, Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
• Arrival: 1860, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 2 Jun 1880, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Daniel Lindley (August 24, 1801 – September 3, 1880) was an American missionary in South Africa. He and his wife Lucy founded the Inanda Seminary School in 1869. Lindley was pastor to the first Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State. He was a pastor to the Voortrekkers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lindley

Daniel married Lucy Virginia Allen on 20 Nov 1834 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Lucy (daughter of Orlando Allen and Mary Smith) was born on 16 Apr 1810 in Chatham, Columbia, New York, USA; died on 22 Nov 1877 in New York, USA; was buried on 24 Nov 1877 in North Tarrytown, Westchester, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: New York, USA
• Birth: 16 Apr 1810, Chatham, Columbia, New York, USA
• Residence: 1824, Otisco, Onondaga, New York, USA
• Departure: 3 Dec 1834, Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
• Burial: Nov 1877, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
• Death: 22 Nov 1877, New York, USA