Arthur Faure Williamson

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• Residence: 23 Aug 1952, 18 Park Mansions, Camp Ground Rd, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
• Occupation: 1962, Bloemfontein, South Africa; Judge of Appeal

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Arthur was Head Boy at St John's College, Johannesburg. Arthur served in World War 1 in France for 2 years. He started his career as an Advocate in Cape Town and moved to the Johannesburg Bar in 1941. He was appointed a Supreme Court Judge, Transvaal Division in 1953, Judge President of Natal in 1961 and Judge of Appeal in 1962, a post that he held until his death in 1968. He was highly regarded in legal circles. He was always an excellent provider for all his children.
On 17.12.1926, at age 27, Arthur married Caroline Mitchel Molteno, in Claremont, Cape Town. They were divorced in 1935. He married again: In 1935, at age 35, Arthur married Erna JHF Templin (* 21.10.1902). Caroline was pressed by her powerful uncles to divorce Arthur after his infidelity (with Erna) during her extended trip to Europe alone in the early 1930s. She never remarried.

Arthur married Caroline Molteno on 17 Dec 1926 in St Saviours Church, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, and was divorced in 1935. Caroline (daughter of John Charles Molteno and Lucy Lindley Mitchell) was born on 6 Oct 1901 in Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa; died on 19 Nov 1989 in Mowbray, 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

Arthur married Erna Johanna Helene Frieda Templin in 1935. Erna (daughter of Templin) was born on 21 Oct 1902 in Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia; died on 18 Mar 1989. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Arthur Ewald Williamson was born on 25 Feb 1935; died in Jun 1990.
2. Elizabeth Williamson was born about 1937.
3. Joan Marie-Louise Williamson was born on 13 Jul 1939; died in Nov 2019 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa.
4. Andrew Phillip Faure Williamson was born on 14 Jul 1942 in South Africa; died on 29 Dec 2020 in Forest Row, East Sussex.
5. Douglas Templin Williamson was born in Jul 1944 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; died on 5 Jan 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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• Residence: 1881, Kensington, London; Age: 12; Relationship to Head: Son
• Residence: 31 Aug 1901, Alpine Villa, Constantia Road, Plumstead, Cape, South Africa

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He grew up in Melbourne, Australia and came to South Africa in 1897. He registered with the Eastern Transvaal Society of Accountants in 1905 and became President of the Society in 1909. He was the first auditor of Transvaal Cricket Union and the first auditor of United Building Society in 1906. In 1917 in partnership with Stewart and later Steyn he became Auditor of the Johannesburg Municipality.
He retired in 1925 to Cape Town where he became Manager of the Colonial Orphan Chamber.

Alfred married Wilhelmina Frances Faure on 21 Apr 1898 in St John's Church, Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa. Wilhelmina (daughter of Jan Gysbertus Reynier Cambier Faure and Johanna Catharina Paulina Deneys) was born on 30 Sep 1875 in Caledon, Free State, South Africa; died on 14 Jan 1919 in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; was buried in Jan 1919 in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Wilhelmina Frances Faure
• Residence: 31 Aug 1901, Alpine Villa, Constantia Road, Plumstead, Cape, South Africa

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• Departure: Plymouth, Devon
• Residence: 1841, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
• Residence: 1851, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
• Arrival: 20 Aug 1851, Phillip Bay, New South Wales, Australia
• Residence: 1861, New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
• Residence: 1871, Islington, London
• Residence: 1881, London; Age: 50; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Head
• Residence: 1900, Victoria, Australia

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Educated at Kirkendbright Academy and entered Bank of Scotland c1850.

Arrived Victoria 1851.

Joined Union Bank 1852. Became manager of Ballarat Branch & later inspector. Retired to England 1878. Lived in London - Address Norris Hotel 48 to 53 Russell Rd, Kensington (1881 England Census) Returned to Australia 1882. Had mining and pastoral interests. Owned Tilda Station near Mossgiel in NSW. Heavy losses in drought 1895-1902. Director of City of Melbourne Bank. M.C.L. Nelson Prov 1882 - Aug 1888 (Argus 21.9-20.10 1914)

James married Emma Mary Parker. Emma (daughter of Edward Stone Parker and Mary Cooke Woolmer) was born on 25 Nov 1841 in Mount Macedon, Victoria, Australia; died on 18 Oct 1914 in Brighton, Victoria, Australia; was buried in St Kilda, Port Phillip City, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Arrival: 21 Aug 1867, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1881, Kensington, London
• Residence: 1903, Elsternwick, Balaclava, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, South Elsternwick, Henty, Victoria, Australia

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• Name: Jan Gysbert Reynier Cambier Faure

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Clerk to Res Magistrate Beaufort West. Served in Magistrates Office,Hopetown (1866). Calvinia. R.M. ladysmith 1876. Interpretor for H.E. Sir Garnet Wolsley in Transvaal in 1874. R.M.Aberdeen, Victoria West, Calvinia, Graaff-Reinet and Cape Town 1894. Kept a mistress.

Jan married Johanna Catharina Paulina Deneys on 15 Sep 1869 in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa. Johanna (daughter of Dirk Gysbert Deneys and Anna Catharina Eksteen) was born on 10 May 1851 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 26 Mar 1947 in Wynberg, Cape Province, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Age: 95

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• Residence: 1851, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

James married Margaret Beckenridge in 1824. Margaret (daughter of James Beckenridge and Janet McMurray) was born on 13 Jan 1799 in Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland; died on 22 May 1885 in Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1851, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

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• Occupation: Methodist Preacher
• Residence: Aug 1831, South Street, Greenwich, Kent
• Departure: 28 Apr 1838, London
• Arrival: 24 Sep 1838, Port Jackson, New South Wales
• Residence: 1856, Franklinford, Victoria, Australia

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Edward Stone Parker (1802–1865) was a Methodist preacher and assistant Protector of Aborigines in the Aboriginal Protectorate established in the Port Phillip District of colonial New South Wales under George Augustus Robinson in 1838. He established and administered the Franklinford Aboriginal Protectorate Station in the territory of the Dja Dja Wurrung people from January 1841 to the end of 1848.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stone_Parker

Edward married Mary Cooke Woolmer on 17 Dec 1828 in St. Andrew Plymouth, Devon. Mary (daughter of Samuel Woolmer and Jane Gray) was born on 14 Aug 1807 in Fortuneswell, Dorset; died on 11 Oct 1842 in Franklinford, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 1 Sep 1809, Portsea, Hampshire
• Arrival: 24 Sep 1838, Port Jackson, New South Wales

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Dr. Philip Eduard Faure (February 1, 1811, Stellenbosch - December 7, 1882) was the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church Wynberg, where he worked for 48 years, four times moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church's Cape Synod and six times actuator or assessor of the same body. Wynberg was his only congregation.

Faure left in 1828 after Utrecht for theological study. On December 7, 1834, he was confirmed as Wynberg's first teacher and served the congregation until his death on December 7, 1882. It was his eldest brother, Dr. Abraham Faure, who founded the congregation five years earlier on September 20, 1829, when he led the first religious practice on the farm De Onder Schuur, later the state president's home Westbrooke (currently Genadendal).

The Church gives him and dr. William Robertson commissioned in 1848 to visit the Voortrekkers in the Transgariep and to strengthen them spiritually. The two church leaders lie about 3,000 miles (4,800 km). On November 25, 1848, they founded the congregation of Smithfield as the third congregation in the later Free State, and the congregation in Bloemfontein continued to emerge the same year. The successful journey has done much to improve the tense relationship between the Voortrekkers and the Mother Church in the Cape Colony. The Free State town of Fauresmith, where the NG congregation Fauresmith was also founded in 1848, was named after Faure and Governor Sir Harry Smith when it was founded in 1850.

From 1850 on, Faure appeared as editor of the annual Church Almanac. He also founded the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch in 1859.

At Wynberg he strives for the spiritual processing and education of the colored population. This leads to the establishment of a separate missionary congregation, which merged with the Wynberg congregation in 2008.

Faure has held numerous leadership positions in the church thanks to his ingenuity, versatility and business acumen. His sermons, speeches and writings have also been published. He was the first moderator of the Cape Synod in 1847, when he was only 36 years old. In 1857, 1863 and 1873 he held this post again.



Personal life and origin
Faure was the eleventh and last child of Jacobus Christiaan Faure and Aletta Hendrina (born Blanckenberg). Four of their children died young. Their second child and first son were dr. Abraham Faure, who was a teacher of the Dutch Reformed Church Cape Town for 45 years. The latter linked his youngest brother on January 12, 1835 at Wynberg to Anna Wilhelmina Cambier (whose mother was also a Blanckenberg). Eight children were born from marriage: Wilhelmina Hendrina (born 1835), Jacobus Christiaan (1837), Aletta Hendrina (1839), Jan Gijsbertus Reijnier Cambier (1841), Philibert Carel Gerard (1844), Maria Cornelia (1845), Abraham Iodocus Heringa (1847) and Philip Carel Dirk (1849).

Abraham and Philip Eduard's grandfather, Abraham, was the son of the ancestor of the family in South Africa. He was born on 17 August 1717 and died on 22 July 1792 in Stellenbosch. From his marriage to Anna Maria Wium (September 30, 1731 to 1811, Philip Eduard's birth year), seven children were born, of which Abraham and Philip Eduard's father, Jacobus Christiaan, was sixth.

Faures' ancestor, Antoine Alexandre, was born in Orange on 2 February 1685 and died in 1736 in Stellenbosch. He fled to Prussia in 1703 because of his persecution because his grandfather Phillipe accepted the Reformed faith. From Prussia he settled in the Cape. His wife and the father-in-law of the Faures were Rachel de Villiers (1694 to 1773). They had seven children, of which Abraham sr. was the oldest.

Philip married Anna Wilhelmina Maria Cambier on 12 Jan 1835 in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa. Anna (daughter of Jean (Jan) Cambier and Wilhelmina Hendrina Blankenberg) was born on 17 Apr 1815 in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 30 Aug 1875 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 17 Apr 1815, Netherlands

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• Baptism: 1 Aug 1813, Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 1849, South Africa

Dirk married Anna Catharina Eksteen. Anna (daughter of Dirk Gysbertus Eksteen and Anna Catharina Cloete) was born on 5 Nov 1818 in Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 4 Feb 1891 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 13 Dec 1818, Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Birth: 27 Sep 1820, Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa