John Molteno Mays

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• Civil: California, USA
• Departure: Southampton, Hampshire
• Departure: New York, USA
• Arrival: 4 Oct 1925, Quebec, Canada; Age: 2
• Arrival: 10 Dec 1932, Wilmington, Los Angeles, California, USA; Age: 9
• Residence: 1935, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; Age: 17; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son

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Died:
Age at Death: 88

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• Departure: Southampton, Virginia, USA
• Departure: Southampton, Hampshire
• Residence: Westchester, New York, USA
• Residence: New York, USA
• Residence: 1900, Fulton, Georgia, USA; Age: 12; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1910, Davidson, Tennessee, USA; Age: 22; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Military Service: 15 Aug 1917, Plattsburgh, Clinton, New York, USA; Age: 30
• Civil: 7 Jun 1921; Age: 33
• Arrival: 4 Sep 1921, New York, USA; Age: 34 Years 2 Months
• Arrival: 4 Oct 1925, Quebec, Canada; Age: 38

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Buried:
Los Angeles National Cemetery

Died:
Age: 72

John married Monica Celia Molteno in Sep 1921 in London. Monica (daughter of James Tennant Molteno, Sir and Clarissa Celia Holland-Pryor) was born on 4 Nov 1895 in Southsea, Hampshire; died on 16 May 1989 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA; was buried on 1 Jun 1989 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Civil: 19 Aug 1921; Age: 25
• Residence: 1935, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; Age: 44; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

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Buried:
Los Angeles National Cemetery

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• Baptism: 19 Feb 1865, Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 5 Jan 1893, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Occupation: 1895; Barrister U.C.T Cambridge
• Occupation: Between 1898 and 1910, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Member of Parliament for Somerset East
• Occupation: Oct 1900; Parliament suspended. During Boer War worked for South African Conciliation Committee
• Occupation: 17 May 1902; Defended colonist on High Treason
• Occupation: Between 1910 and 1915, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Speaker of the Houses of Parliament - not a success as did not have an adequate knowledge of Dutch
• Departure: Jul 1929, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Arrival: 17 Aug 1936, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

One of John Charles Molteno’s sons. Brilliant intellectually and a good sportsman, he was one of John Charles’ sons who was sent to Cambridge, where he studied Law. It was while he was there that he met his wife, Clare Holland Pryor. They got married shortly after his return to the Cape, but it did not turn out to be a happy relationship for either of them. Instead James threw his energies into politics. He was elected to the Cape Parliament in the 1890s and remained an MP for nearly quarter of a century. He made his name politically when he broke with the aggressively imperialist politics of Cecil John Rhodes. This led him to become prominent in the Afrikaner Bond, and at one point its parliamentary leader temporarily. James opposed the Boer War, and spent a couple of years during it travelling around the remoter reaches of the Cape Colony defending in the courts and before courts martial Boer ‘Rebels’ – ie Dutch farmers in the Cape who allegedly gave assistance to their relatives and fellow Dutch-speakers living across the Orange River in the Boer Republics. After the War ended in 1902, James was elected Speaker of the Cape legislature. When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, he was elected the first Speaker of the Union Parliament. He wrote in retirement two volumes of reminiscences, one of which is available on-line.


For more information about James Tennant Molteno see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tennant_Molteno

James married Clarissa Celia Holland-Pryor in 1889. Clarissa was born on 5 Jan 1865 in Sutton, Surrey; died in 1944. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Clare
• Name: Clare
• Birth: 1867
• Residence: 1871, Streatham, Surrey
• Residence: 1871, Streatham, Surrey
• Departure: Jul 1923, New York, USA
• Departure: Jul 1923, New York, USA
• Arrival: 17 Jul 1923, London
• Departure: Jun 1928, Southampton, Hampshire
• Departure: Jun 1928, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 9 Jun 1928, Quebec, Canada
• Arrival: 9 Jun 1928, Quebec, Canada

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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

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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