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Viola Barkly Mary Molteno

Viola Barkly Mary Molteno

Female 1917 - 1992  (74 years)

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  1. 1.  Viola Barkly Mary MoltenoViola Barkly Mary Molteno was born on 20 Apr 1917 in Alton, Hampshire (daughter of Vice-Admiral Vincent Barkly Molteno, C.B.,R.N. and Ethel Manwaring Robertson); died in 1992.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Departure: Manila, Philippines
    • Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Residence: China
    • Departure: 26 Oct 1933, London; Destination. Cape Town. South Africa. Aboard the 'Dunbar Castle' of the Union Castle Line. Accompanied by parents Vincent and Ethel.
    • Arrival: 9 Aug 1934, London; Departure. Bueonos Aires. Argentina.
    • Arrival: 9 Dec 1935, Southampton, Hampshire; Departure. Mombasa. Kenya. Aboard the 'Bloemfontein' of the United Netherlands Navigation Co. Residence. Gold Hill. Farnham. Surrey. England. Accompanied by parents Vincent and Ethel.
    • Arrival: 2 May 1945, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA; Departure. Manila. Phillipines. 10 Apr 1945 (via Hong Kong) aboard the USS \'Admiral E.B.Eberle\'. Destination. Farnham. Surrey. England. Occupation. Housewife. Unaccompanied.

    Viola married George Lennox Barrow. in Sep 1954 in Surrey. George was born in Mar 1921 in Ardee, Louth, Ireland; died in 1986. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Viola married Peter Hugh Macmillan. on 9 Feb 1937 in Farnham, Surrey. Peter (son of John Victor Macmillan) was born on 27 Jul 1913 in Surrey; died on 15 Jan 1974 in Richmond, Yorkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Robert Barkly Molteno Macmillan

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Vice-Admiral Vincent Barkly Molteno, C.B.,R.N.Vice-Admiral Vincent Barkly Molteno, C.B.,R.N. was born on 30 Apr 1872 in South Africa (son of John Charles Molteno, Sir and Elizabeth Maria Jarvis); died on 12 Nov 1952 in Farnham, Surrey; was buried in Farnham, Surrey.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 16 Jun 1872, Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa
    • Residence: 1901, Devonport, Devon; Lieutenant.
    • Residence: 1911, Farnham, Surrey; Visitor at the home of his future wife Ethel, her son Malcolm Swanston and mother Florence Emily Robertson. Occupation. Officer. Royal Navy.
    • Military: 31 May 1916, Jutland, North Sea; Battle of Jutland: Great sea battle during which the 'Warrior' was sunk after sustaining heavy damage.
    • Military: 5 Jun 1917; Order of St.Anne. 2nd.Class with Swords. Awarded by the Government of Russia to Officers of the Grand Fleet for services during the Battle of Jutland.
    • Military: 1920; Promoted Aide-de Camp to King George V.
    • Residence: 1921, Sussex
    • Residence: 1922, Farnham, Surrey
    • Residence: 1923, Farnham, Surrey
    • Arrival: 22 Apr 1929, Southampton, Hampshire
    • Residence: 1933, Farnham, Surrey
    • Departure: 14 Jul 1934, London; Destination. Tenerife. Spain. Aboard the 'Almeda Star' of the Blue Star Line. Accompanied by his brother Percy and wife Ethel. Residence 10 Palace Court. London (Percy's Home). Occupation. Admiral R.N.
    • Arrival: 9 Aug 1934, London; Departure. Buenos Aires. via Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. Aboard the 'Andalucia Star' of the Blue Star Line. Residence Gold Hill. Farnham. Surrey. Occupation. Vice Admiral R.N. (retired). Accompanied by wife Ethel, daughter Viola, and brother Percy.ex-M.P.
    • Departure: 15 Sep 1935, Southampton, Hampshire
    • Arrival: 9 Dec 1935, Southampton, Hampshire; Departure. Mombasa. Kenya via Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. Aboard the 'Bloemfontein' of the United Netherlands Navigation Co. Residence. Gold Hill. Farnham. Surrey. Accompanied by wife Ethel and daughter Viola.
    • Arrival: 6 Jul 1936, Southampton, Hampshire; Departure. Durban. South Africa via Natal, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. Aboard the 'Arundel Castle' of the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd. Residence Gold Hill. Farnham. Surrey. Occupation Retired R.N. Unaccompanied.
    • Witness: 9 Feb 1937, Sussex; Vincent and wife Ethel were witnesses at the marriage of daughter Viola to Peter Macmillan.
    • Military: 1939; Home Guard Duties.
    • Probate: 12 Jan 1953, London; To Viola Barkly Mary McMillan (Daughter and Single Woman). To Archibald Mainwaring Robertson (Brother-in-Law). No occupation. and to Owen Bulmer Howell. Solicitor. Effects. £7002 12s10d.

    Notes:

    One of John Charles Molteno’s younger sons. He was sent off from the Cape to England in 1885 at the age of 13 to train as a Royal Navy officer. He had a distinguished career in the Navy, fought in 1916 in the Battle of Jutland (the only engagement during World War 1 between the German Imperial Navy and the Royal Navy), and retired as a Vice-Admiral in 1922. He and his wife, Ethel Robertson, had one daughter, Viola Molteno; Barkly also adopted Ethel’s son, Malcolm.


    For more about Vincent Barkly Molteno see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Barkly_Molteno


    Died:
    Usual residence Gold Hill. Lower Bourne. Farnham. Surrey. England.

    Vincent married Ethel Manwaring Robertson in 1915. Ethel (daughter of Herbert Manwaring Robertson and Florence Emily Kennedy) was born on 14 Nov 1874 in Kingston, Surrey; died on 23 Nov 1957 in Farnham, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Ethel Manwaring Robertson was born on 14 Nov 1874 in Kingston, Surrey (daughter of Herbert Manwaring Robertson and Florence Emily Kennedy); died on 23 Nov 1957 in Farnham, Surrey.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 9 Jan 1875, Surbiton, Surrey
    • Residence: 1881, Hampton, Middlesex
    • Residence: 1891, Hampton, Middlesex
    • Residence: 31 Mar 1901, Thames Ditton, Surrey
    • Residence: 26 Nov 1901, Thames Ditton, Surrey; Widow. Residence prior to marriage.
    • Residence: 1911, Farnham, Surrey
    • Residence: 1933, Farnham, Surrey
    • Departure: 26 Oct 1933, London; Destination. Cape Town. South Africa. Aboard the 'Dunbar Castle' of the Union Castle Line. Accompanied by husband Vincent and daughter Viola.
    • Departure: 14 Jul 1934, London; Destination. Tenerife. Spain. Aboard the 'Almeda Star' of the Blue Star Line. Accompanied by husband Vincent and brother-in-law Percy Molteno. Residence. 10 Palace Court. London (Percy\'s home).
    • Arrival: 9 Aug 1934, London; Departure. Buenos Aires. Brazil. Aboard the 'Andalucia Star' of the Blue Star Line. Residence Gold Hill. Farnham. Surrey. Accompanied by husband Vincent, daughter Viola and brother-in-law Percy Molteno.
    • Arrival: 9 Dec 1935, Southampton, Hampshire; Departure. Mombasa. Kenya. Aboard the 'Bloemfontein' of the United Netherlands Navigation Co. Residence. Gold Hill. Farnham. Surrey. Accompanied by husband Vincent and daughter Viola.
    • Witness: 9 Feb 1937, Farnham, Surrey; Ethel and husband Vincent were witnesses at the marriage of daughter Viola to Peter Macmillan.
    • Probate: 14 Apr 1958, London; To Viola Barkly Mary Barrow. Daughter and wife of George Lennox Barrow. Owen Bulmer Howell. Solicitor. Effects. £18.367.

    Notes:

    Died:
    Widow.

    Children:
    1. 1. Viola Barkly Mary Molteno was born on 20 Apr 1917 in Alton, Hampshire; died in 1992.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  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. 5.  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. 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. 2. 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.

  3. 6.  Herbert Manwaring Robertson

    Herbert married Florence Emily Kennedy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Florence Emily Kennedy
    Children:
    1. 3. Ethel Manwaring Robertson was born on 14 Nov 1874 in Kingston, Surrey; died on 23 Nov 1957 in Farnham, Surrey.
    2. Hilda Florence Robertson was born on 25 Nov 1875 in Surbiton, Surrey; died on 26 Oct 1952 in Kenilworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried on 28 Oct 1952 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  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. 9.  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. 4. 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. 10.  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. 11.  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. 5. 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.


 

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