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  1. 1.  Hercules Jarvis Molteno was born on 13 Jan 1858 in Western Cape, South Africa (son of John Charles Molteno, Sir and Elizabeth Maria Jarvis); died in Jan 1861 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Jan 1861 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 8 Dec 1858, Beaufort West, Western Cape, South Africa


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John Charles Molteno, SirJohn Charles Molteno, Sir was born on 5 Jun 1814 in London (son of John Molteno and Caroline Bower); died on 1 Sep 1886 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Sep 1886 in Cape Town, Western Cape, 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 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]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth Maria JarvisElizabeth Maria Jarvis was born on 20 Jan 1831 in Western Cape, South Africa (daughter of Hercules Crosse Jarvis and Elizabeth Maria Vos); died on 8 Apr 1874 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Apr 1874 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Children:
    1. Caroline Molteno was born on 24 Sep 1852 in South Africa; died on 6 Dec 1937 in London; was buried in Dec 1937 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    2. Elizabeth Maria Molteno was born on 24 Sep 1852 in South Africa; died on 25 Aug 1927 in South Africa.
    3. John Molteno was born on 24 Apr 1855 in South Africa; died on 3 Sep 1856 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried on 3 Sep 1856 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    4. Maria Molteno was born on 24 Dec 1856 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 17 Feb 1903 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Feb 1903 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    5. 1. Hercules Jarvis Molteno was born on 13 Jan 1858 in Western Cape, South Africa; died in Jan 1861 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Jan 1861 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    6. John Charles Molteno was born on 5 Mar 1860 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 23 Jan 1924 in Sandown House, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
    7. Percy Albert Molteno was born on 12 Sep 1861 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 19 Sep 1937 in Zürich, Switzerland.
    8. Frank Molteno was born on 16 Sep 1863 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 9 Jun 1926 in Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    9. James Tennant Molteno, Sir was born on 5 Jan 1865 in Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 16 Sep 1936 in London; was buried in Borough, Surrey.
    10. Victor Grey Molteno was born on 13 Apr 1866 in Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 10 Jul 1926 in South Africa.
    11. Alfred Bower Molteno was born on 10 Jan 1868 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 7 Jan 1873 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Jan 1873 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    12. William Wallace Dickenson Molteno was born on 3 Dec 1869 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 22 Nov 1931.
    13. Vice-Admiral Vincent Barkly Molteno, C.B.,R.N. was born on 30 Apr 1872 in South Africa; died on 12 Nov 1952 in Farnham, Surrey; was buried in Farnham, Surrey.
    14. Sophia Maria Molteno was born on 22 Mar 1874; died on 8 Feb 1875.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  John MoltenoJohn Molteno was born on 1 Mar 1788 in Islington, London (son of George Anthony Molteno and Mary Lewis); died on 10 Apr 1827 in Soho Square, London.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • 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]


  2. 5.  Caroline BowerCaroline Bower was born on 26 Dec 1790 in Southwark, Surrey (daughter of George Bower and Jane Read); died on 28 Mar 1866 in London; was buried on 4 Apr 1866 in Camberwell, London.

    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.

    Children:
    1. 2. John Charles Molteno, Sir was born on 5 Jun 1814 in London; died on 1 Sep 1886 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Sep 1886 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    2. Charles Frank Molteno was born on 16 Nov 1816 in Weybridge, Surrey; died on 28 Feb 1869 in Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; was buried in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
    3. Frederick John Molteno was born about 1817; died about 1869.
    4. Rose Molteno was born in 1819 in Camberwell St Giles, England; died in Apr 1825 in Camberwell, London; was buried on 5 Apr 1825 in Camberwell, London.
    5. Nancy Alicia Molteno was born about 1821 in Camberwell, London; died on 11 Jul 1892 in Richmond, Surrey.
    6. Frederick James Molteno was born about 1824 in Peckham, Surrey; died in Jul 1895 in Camberwell, London.
    7. Alicia Molteno was born about 1825 in Surrey; died in 1857 in Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
    8. Johnny William Molteno was born in 1827 in Camberwell, London; died in 1831 in London; was buried on 26 Aug 1831 in St Margaret Parish, Barking, Essex.

  3. 6.  Hercules Crosse JarvisHercules Crosse Jarvis was born on 18 Jun 1802 in London (son of Captain John Jarvis and Ives Dunmore Pike); died on 8 Feb 1889 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Feb 1889 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • 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

    Notes:

    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]


  4. 7.  Elizabeth Maria Vos was born on 23 Jul 1809 in Robertson, Western Cape, South Africa (daughter of Hendrik Daniel Vos and Anna Elisabeth Jurgens); died about 1864 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    Children:
    1. Anna Elizabeth Sophia Jarvis was born on 24 May 1826; died on 9 Feb 1914 in Beaufort Villa, Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
    2. Sophia St Ives Mary Jarvis was born in 1829; died on 15 Jan 1893 in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa.
    3. 3. Elizabeth Maria Jarvis 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.
    4. Elizabeth Magdalena Christina Jarvis was born on 12 Apr 1841; died on 19 Mar 1927 in Diep River, Cape Province, South Africa.
    5. Emerentia Gerharda Jarvis Jarvis was born on 4 Mar 1847; died on 18 Jul 1936 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  George Anthony MoltenoGeorge Anthony Molteno was born in 1751 in Milano, Lombardia, Italy (son of Molteno); died in Oct 1816 in London; was buried on 19 Oct 1816 in London.

    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]


  2. 9.  Mary LewisMary Lewis was born on 8 Jul 1758 in St Paul Covent Garden, London (daughter of Joshua Lewis and Susanna "Ann" Hardiman); died on 12 Feb 1810 in London; was buried on 25 Feb 1810 in St Katherine Cree, Aldgate, London.

    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.

    Children:
    1. James Anthony Molteno was born on 7 Jun 1784 in Islington, London; died in 1845 in London.
    2. Mary Sophia Molteno was born on 10 May 1786 in Westminster, London; died about 1786 in London.
    3. 4. John Molteno was born on 1 Mar 1788 in Islington, London; died on 10 Apr 1827 in Soho Square, London.
    4. Charles Dominic Molteno was born about 1789 in Islington, London; died in 1874 in Scotland.
    5. Mary Molteno was born on 17 Jul 1791 in London; died in Jun 1845 in London.
    6. Francis Molteno was born about 1794 in London; died about 1868 in Genève, Switzerland.
    7. William Henry Molteno was born on 2 Mar 1796 in Canterbury, Kent.
    8. Rose Emma Molteno was born on 30 Jun 1798 in Westminster, London; died in Aug 1873 in Greensburg, Decatur, Indiana, USA; was buried in Aug 1873 in Greensburg, Decatur, Indiana, USA.
    9. Emma Molteno was born in 1800 in London; died in 1860 in London.
    10. Eloise Molteno was born on 26 Jul 1802 in London; died in 1839 in England.

  3. 10.  George BowerGeorge Bower was born on 17 Dec 1760 in Westminster, London (son of Daniel Bower and Elizabeth Butcher); died on 1 Dec 1838 in Surrey.

    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]


  4. 11.  Jane Read was born on 9 Feb 1755 in Steyning, Sussex (daughter of John Read and Susanna Bonner); died on 24 Nov 1847 in Park Terrace,New Peckham,London,UK.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Children:
    1. 5. Caroline Bower 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.

  5. 12.  Captain John JarvisCaptain John Jarvis was born in 1768 in Goudhurst, Kent (son of John Henry Jarvis and Anne Allay); died on 16 Jun 1808 in Shoreham, Sussex; was buried on 19 Jun 1808 in Shoreham, Sussex.

    John married Ives Dunmore Pike on 21 May 1798 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Ives (daughter of Robert Pike and Ives Dunmore) was born in 1776; died on 30 May 1843 in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  Ives Dunmore Pike was born in 1776 (daughter of Robert Pike and Ives Dunmore); died on 30 May 1843 in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales.
    Children:
    1. 6. Hercules Crosse Jarvis was born on 18 Jun 1802 in London; died on 8 Feb 1889 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Feb 1889 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

  7. 14.  Hendrik Daniel Vos was born on 16 Feb 1783 in Drakenstein, Cape Province, South Africa (son of Johan Hendrik Vos and Elisabeth Rossouw); died on 5 May 1847 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 16 Feb 1783, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
    • Residence: 1813, 31 Strand Street, Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa

    Hendrik married Anna Elisabeth Jurgens on 11 Mar 1804 in Robertson, Cape Province,, South Africa. Anna (daughter of Johannes Casper Jurgens and Johanna Catharina De Jong) was born on 9 Nov 1788 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 13 Jan 1853 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 15.  Anna Elisabeth Jurgens was born on 9 Nov 1788 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (daughter of Johannes Casper Jurgens and Johanna Catharina De Jong); died on 13 Jan 1853 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
    Children:
    1. 7. Elizabeth Maria Vos was born on 23 Jul 1809 in Robertson, Western Cape, South Africa; died about 1864 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.


 

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