Donald Jervis Molteno

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• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Residence: 1901, London; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Shere, Surrey; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 13 Jun 1926, London
• Residence: 1933, Chertsey, Surrey
• Departure: 16 Jan 1958, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 8 Apr 1960, Southampton, Hampshire

Donald married Islay Kathleen Bisset on 15 Dec 1916. Islay (daughter of William Molteno Bisset and Henrietta 'Nellie' Catharine Tait) was born on 16 Feb 1896 in Claremont, Cape, South Africa; died on 4 Dec 1996 in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Donald "Ian" C Molteno was born in Jun 1918 in Hampstead, London; died on 16 Feb 1945 in Germany; was buried in Feb 1945 in Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
2. Elizabeth Pamela Molteno was born in Sep 1919 in Chertsey, Surrey; died in 2007.
3. Islay Dierdre Molteno was born on 7 Feb 1921 in Chertsey, Surrey; died on 18 Mar 1990 in Fortingall, Perthshire, Scotland.
4. Loveday Alison Molteno was born in Jun 1924 in Chertsey, Surrey; died in 2013 in Scotland.
5. Anne Penelope Molteno was born in Mar 1928 in Chertsey, Surrey; died in May 2013 in Sweden.
6. Fiona Margaret Molteno

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• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Shere, Surrey; Age: 49; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Departure: May 1920, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Arrival: 21 Jun 1920, Southampton, Hampshire
• Residence: 1921, Guildford, Surrey
• Residence: 1922, Paddington, Lancashire
• Departure: Sep 1926, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 13 Oct 1926, New York, USA
• Departure: Nov 1926, New York, USA
• Arrival: 10 Dec 1926, Southampton, Hampshire
• Destination: Jul 1934, Spain
• Departure: 14 Jul 1934, London

Percy married Elizabeth "Betsie" Martin Currie on 18 Sep 1889. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Donald Currie, G.C.M.G (Grand Cross of St Michael & St George) and Margaret Miller) was born in Jan 1856 in Liverpool, Lancashire; died on 4 Jun 1933 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: Abt 1858, Liverpool, Lancashire
• Residence: 1861, Liverpool, Lancashire
• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, London; Age: 43; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Death: 10 Nov 1924, London
• Departure: 10 Jan 1925, Liverpool, Lancashire; Age: 68
• Destination: Feb 1925, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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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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• Title: For sevices in connection with the Zulu War
• Occupation: 1842, Liverpool, Lancashire; Working for Cunard Lines
• Occupation: 1862; Established the Castle Line
• Residence: 1871, London
• Member of Parliament: 1880; Liberal MP for Perthshire
• Member of Parliament: Between 1885 and 1890; Unionist Member for West Perthshire
• Shipping Disaster: 1896, Off the Breton Coast, 245 on board only 3 saved; Sinking of the Drummond Castle (Board of Trade Inquiry in South Africa)
• Residence: 1901, London
• Death: 13 Apr 1909, London

Notes:

A remarkable Scottish entrepreneur who was an outstanding example of Victorians who built up great businesses from nothing, who then entered politics (Sir Donald became a Liberal M.P. for a Scottish seat in the late 19th century), and who also spread their activities, commercial as well as diplomatic, internationally. Sir Donald founded what became the Union Castle shipping line which ran the mail boat service between England and South Africa.

A friend of the Cape Prime Minister, John Charles Molteno, he became his brother-in-law when Percy Molteno married Sir Donald’s daughter, Bessie, although in point of fact Sir John had died the year before this marriage. Sir Donald was a friend of the great Liberal leader, Gladstone, but broke with him politically over the question of Home Rule for Ireland. He bought three estates in the Scottish Highlands, including Glen Lyon which he left to his daughter, Bessie Molteno. He also used his great wealth to build up a major collection of Turner paintings, from which his descendants have continued to benefit for four generations.


For more about Donald Currie see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Currie

Donald married Margaret Miller. Margaret was born in 1831 in Lancashire; died in 1905. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1901, London

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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]