Edward Bartle Frere Molteno

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Aug 1877, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Arrival: 9 Jul 1928, Southampton, Hampshire; Occupation: Farmer at Elgin
• Departure: 24 Aug 1928, Southampton, Hampshire
• Residence: 1950, Glen Elgin, Elgin, Cape Province, South Africa

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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 Sibylla Marie "Minnie" Blenkins in 1875. Sibylla (daughter of William Bazett Goodwin Blenkins and Margaret Sampson) was born on 8 Jun 1847 in India; died on 18 Sep 1926. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 21 Jul 1847, Kurrachee, Bombay, India; Baptism Age: 0
• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1871, London; Age: 22; Relationship: Granddaughter
• 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: 24 Sep 1878, Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 14 Nov 1880, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: 4 Jul 1843, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Major, 6th Bombay Native Infantry in the Army in the East Indies
• Residence: 1864, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa
• Residence: 1868

Notes:

Birth:
Island in the Sth Atlantic, a protectorate of Britain

William married Margaret Sampson. Margaret was born in St Helena; died in 1850 in India. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1754, Como, Lombardia, Italy
• Arrival: Abt 1781, London
• Occupation: Between 1789 and 1793, London; Printseller & Publisher in Partnership with Peter Colnaghi. Trading on own from 1796
• Residence: 1805, London
• Residence: 1810, St James Piccadilly, Westminster, London
• Residence: 1811, London
• Civil: 31 Jan 1817, St James Piccadilly, Westminster, London

Notes:

He is our original ancestor whom we know about. There are no available records of who his parents were or where they lived. Anthony moved from Milan in Italy to England, probably directly, but possibly via Paris. He opened his first printselling shop in Pall Mall in 1783. For a short time Paul Colnaghi was in partnership with him; the famous firm of Colnaghis is still in existence in London today. Anthony married an Englishwoman, Mary Lewis. Unfortunately, no portrait of George Anthony exists. Instead here is one of the prints he sold.

Their children included James Anthony, John, Charles Dominic, Mary, Emma and Eloise. James Anthony, John and Mary were, it seems, the only children to marry and start families. Mary married Charles Busby Bristow, from where the Bristow-Molteno connection springs. John married Caroline Bower and is the ancestor of all Molteno descendants who have a South African connection. James Anthony married Mary Mylius. Anthony’s business prospered; the winding up of his estate after his death in 1816 took some years. His eldest son, James Anthony, was also a printseller, and an equally successful one for many years.


Buried:
St Martin in the Fields

George married Mary Lewis on 7 Apr 1782 in Westminster, London. Mary (daughter of Joshua Lewis and Susanna "Ann" Hardiman) was born on 8 Jul 1758 in St Paul Covent Garden, London; died on 12 Feb 1810 in London; was buried on 25 Feb 1810 in St Katherine Cree, Aldgate, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Aug 1757, Saint Botolph Without Aldersgate, London
• Religion: 1782, St Paul Covent Garden, London
• Civil: 28 Mar 1782, Surrey; Age: 21
• Residence: 1809, London

Notes:

Wife of George Anthony Molteno, the first Molteno to settle in London. Her tombstone lies cemented into the floor of the coffee house that now exists in the crypt of St Martin’s in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. Her children included James Anthony, John, Charles Dominic, Mary, Emma and Eloise Molteno.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Jan 1761, Westminster, London
• Occupation: 1787; Entered Bank of England
• Occupation: 1830; Principal Clerk of the Power of Attorney office, Bank of England
• Death: 1 Dec 1838, London; "1 Dec, Aged 78. Mr George Bower, principal of the Power of Attorney-office, Bank of England." The Gentleman's Magazine Vol XI by Silvanus Urban, London, 1839 January to June inclusive.
• Death: 1 Dec 1838, London; "1 Dec, Aged 78. Mr George Bower, principal of the Power of Attorney-office, Bank of England." The Gentleman's Magazine Vol XI by Silvanus Urban, London, 1839 January to June inclusive.

George married Jane Read on 2 Dec 1788 in St Mary Lambeth,Surrey,UK. Jane (daughter of John Read and Susanna Bonner) was born on 9 Feb 1755 in Steyning, Sussex; died on 24 Nov 1847 in Park Terrace,New Peckham,London,UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Feb 1755, Steyning, Sussex
• Birth: Abt 1760