Hi Heather, Thank you very much. Another bit of history learnt which was no taught at school. Regrads, Rod g From:[email protected] Sent:2013/11/02 08:28:49 AM To:[email protected], [email protected],[email protected],[email protected] Cc: Subject:RE: Re: [ZA-EC] [SOUTH-AFRICA] Sarah Randall Hi Rodger At that time the area was occupied by the Tambookies under Chief Mapassa, an offshoot of the Tembu people living further to the east. I also found this in the book Lovedale, Past and Present Bennie Tele from Annshaw, came to Lovedale in July 1870 when thirteen years of age, and remained till about the middle of 1873 when he was temporarily dismissed for taking part in a tribal contention. During his stay he made rapid progress. After leaving, he was for about three years employed as teacher under the Rev. J. Harper, King William’s Town, and while so engaged obtained the sixteenth Certificate of Competency at the Elementary Teachers’ Examination in 1876. For nearly another period of three years he was engaged as teacher in the school at Tshatshu’s Kraal, Breidbach Railway Station, King William’s Town. We next find him, in 1878, acting as Interpreter in the office of the Resident Magistrate at Middle Drift; then in a similar capacity under Mr. C. J. Levey, at Cofimvaba, Tambookieland. From 1879 to 1882 he was teaching at Wodehouse Forest, Queenstown. It is believed that at present, 1886 he is acting as Interpreter in the office of the Chief Magistrate of Tembuland, Umtata. Address:- Umtata. Tambookie, the San name for abaThembu, was adopted by the British for the area north of the eastern Cape colonial boundary in the 1820s. By the 1830s, all those who lived in this liminal zone had become snared in the trap of conquest – none perhaps as inexorably as Maphasa, chief of the amaTshatshu, a Thembu clan. Unstable colonial policy and successive failed attempts to control the Tambookie frontier between 1830 and 1850 buffeted Maphasa. After the eighth frontier war, the British singled out his people serving on them a proclamation that sought to destroy their political power and group identity. In an effort to understand the position of Maphasa and the destruction of his people, this article explores the making of the Tambookie frontier and discusses the chief's vulnerability in his relations with the Moravian missionaries, the Thembu paramount and the British. The story of Maphasa amplifies the history of the north eastern frontier and raises questions for the crisis in African authority in the mid-nineteenth century. Regards Heather From: "[email protected]" > Reply-To: > Date: Saturday 02 November 2013 at 7:09 AM To: "[email protected]" >, "[email protected]" > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Sarah Randall Good Morning All, Can any of the RANDALL researchers kindly assist with the young lady Sarah RANDALL born ?? died in Zeerust in 1928 who married on 07 July, 1876 in the Methodist Chapel, King Williams Town. I am trying to link her back into the main RANDALL family. An extract from the Garhamstown Journal, copied from the Kingwilliamstown Watchman, and recorded in The LEVEY Family Tree by Val TREVORROW reads as follows: "Matrimonial: On Friday last, C.J.LEVEY Esq., British Resident with the Emmigrant Tambookies, was united in Holy Wedlock with Miss RANDALL, eldest daughter of our respected townsman, W. RANDALL Esq., late of Her Majesties Purveyors department." The bridesmaids were the Misses LEVEY. Miss Annie RANDALL and the Misses SAVAGE. Can anyone assist with her dob and her parents? Also would anuone know where the term "Tambookie" came from? Regards, Rod g Sent from MWEB Message Centre - CONNECT AND YOU CAN ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Sent from MWEB Message Centre - CONNECT AND YOU CAN