Anthony Christopher Bernard Molteno

Anthony married Theresa Elizabeth Sylvia Schuurmans-Stekhoven [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Nina May Molteno
2. Timothy Christopher Anthony Molteno
3. Camilla Margaret Sylvia Molteno

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• Departure: Oct 1940, Liverpool, Lancashire
• Arrival: 19 Nov 1940, New York, USA

Christopher married Margaret Dorothy May Judd in 1937. Margaret was born in 1912; died in 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 4 Mar 1860, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 21 May 1899, Kenilworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 17 Jun 1908, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Notes:

Eldest son of John Charles Molteno. At a very young age, Charlie became his father, Sir John Charles Molteno’s, secretary. In this role, he not only assisted him in his political duties as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, but also increasingly looked after his diverse business interests. Following his father’s death in 1886, Charlie managed the main family farm at Nelspoort for many years in association with his cousin, H. A. Jackson. He decided to enter politics on his own account in 1894 and was elected to the Tembuland constituency in the Transkei. He continued as an M.P., with one short break, up to the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

He married in 1897 an American, Lucy Mitchell, whose family had close South African connections, and he and Lucy settled into their new home of Sandown in Rondebosch, about four miles from the centre of Cape Town, in 1899. They lived there for the rest of their lives together. Charlie died of pneumonia following a routine operation in 1924. His political contributions included opposition to the Boer War, and a growing recognition of the overriding importance of African South Africans playing a full role in Cape politics. On his death, Ons Land described him as ‘a man of firm principles and of earnest convictions. He was a man of character and a strong personality.’


For more about John Charles Molteno see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Molteno

John married Lucy Lindley Mitchell on 23 Dec 1897 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. Lucy (daughter of Clarence Green Mitchell and Sarah Adams Lindley) was born on 4 Jun 1874 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; died on 16 Oct 1969 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: South Africa
• Residence: 1880, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA
• Departure: 25 Aug 1928, Liverpool, Lancashire; Age: 54
• Arrival: 3 Sep 1928, New York, USA

Notes:

Lucy Lindley Mitchell Molteno note her memoirs, with the help of her grand daughter, at the age 83. These go back to the American Civil War and on to South Africa.

A copy of these is available on the Molteno Family website at https://www.moltenofamily.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Lucy-Molteno-What-a-Strange-Thing-is-Memory-pdf.pdf

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]

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

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• Residence: 1850, Sonoma, California, USA
• Residence: 1850, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA

Notes:

Clarence Green Mitchell was born to John W. Mitchell and Caroline Mitchell in Charleston, South Carolina, in July 1826. He spent a short period of time in San Francisco, California, in the mid-1850s and received an appointment as Commissioner of Deeds for the State of California in New York in 1852. He married Sarah A. Lindley in New York in 1872. Clarence G. Mitchell worked as an attorney in his father's practice, Mitchells & Hinsdale (in partnership with Elizur B. Hinsdale). Clarence Mitchell played a significant role in the management of distributions from the Mary Green estate to his cousins Timothy Green Mitchell, Martha Louise Mitchell, and Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Green Mitchell. Clarence G. Mitchell died in South Carolina in 1893.

Clarence married Sarah Adams Lindley on 20 Nov 1872 in New York, USA. Sarah (daughter of Daniel Lindley and Lucy Virginia Allen) was born on 2 Nov 1839 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 2 Feb 1912 in New York, USA; was buried on 5 Feb 1912 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1860
• Residence: 1910, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Will: 7 Feb 1912, New York, USA; Mrs Mitchell left an estate more than $200,000, which was divided among her 3 daughters. Caroline rec'd 85K, Lucy & Anna 60K each and stepson Clarence Blair Mitchell about 10K