Thank you Nikki, much appreicated Dorri > From: alnic@polka.co.za > To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:49:43 +0200 > Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] CRON, WRIGHT, CRONWRIGHT, WEAKLY from Her South African Ancestors 1930 Samuel Cron Cronwright. > > Hi Dorri > > Will try to extract what i can without typing up the book! The book is > written by Samuel Cron Cronwright > Hope it makes some sense! > Kind regards > Nikki > Sedgefield > > Great Grandfather > Robert CRON b. Aug 1767 Dumfries-shire Scotland > d.Sept 1841 > m > Great Grandmother > Agnes TAYLOR > b. 4 April 1772 Billing, Lancashire England > d. August 1841 > CRONS lived on small estate , Northfield, outside Bolton, Lancashire > > Children > > 1.Son > m > Miss Alice MORRIS > they had a son John( died as a young man) and two daughters Margaret & Mary > who never married > > 2.Margery CRON b 17.9.1797 Billing Lancashire England (Grandmother ,second > daughter of Robert and Agnes) > baptised St Helens Billing. > d. 18.5.1886 at 82 Bathurst Street Grahamstown > buried English Church Cemetery Grahamstown > > m. 24 July 1822 Parish Church Hindley nr Wigan, Lancashire > > Rev. Peter WRIGHT ( Grandfather) d. Philippolis 1843 > > 19.8.1822 sailed for Algoa Bay arriving October November of same year. > > Children > John Cron b Theopolis 2.7.1823 d. Hopetown 24.11.1901 m. Mary HUGHES 7 > daughters , 4 sons > > Agnes Cron b. Theopolis 17.11.1824 d. England 18.10.1872 m Rev. William > THOMSON daughters > > Peter Cron b. Griquatown 20.8.1826 d. Papkuil nr Kimberley in district of > Hay 16.6.1897 m Jennie MILLS. 2 daughters > > George Greatbatch b. Griquatown 13.7.1828 d. Krantz Drift nr Grahamstown > 1906 m Ann BAILEY. 2 daughters & 5 sons > > James Steil b. Griquatown 10.6.1830 d. about December 1895, Herbert > Griqualand West > > Ebenezer Cron b. Griquatown 14.9.1832 d. Grahamstown 22.12.1891 m. Emma > Klinton WEAKLY. 7 daughters & 5 sons > > Samuel Cron b. Capetown 21.11.1834 d. Grahamstown 15.7.1888 (Father)****** > > Margery Cron ( McCron) b. Griquatown 13.11.1836 d. ‘Sekretaris’ nr Kimberley > 25.12.1899 > Elizabeth Cron b. Griquatown 27.11.1838 d. Kingwilliamstown 9.12.1900 m > Frank TUDHOPE 6 daughters inc twins > > ****** Samuel Cron ( Father) > > Schooled at Walthamstow England. > Elected Mayor of Grahamstown 1873 retired 1877 > > m 15.5.1860 Cathedral Grahamstown. > > . Zipporah ( Paula) FEATHERSTONE d. 8.6.1912 > > 1867 lived at 4. Cromwell St Grahamstown > 1871-1876 lived at Hope’s Garden ( now 6 Darling St) > > Children > > Louisa Zipporah b. 20.9 1861 Grahamstown d. Bowden Hall, Middelburg (Cape) > 15.8.1929 m. John William WRIGHT (her cousin) 2 sons John & Owen. 2 > daughters Paula & Hope ( further details) > > Samuel ( Author) b. 26.1.1863 Gideon’s Hoek, Bedford m. (1) Olive SCHREINER. > 1 daughter b 30.4.1895 died shortly after birth (2) June 1924 Leonora GANN 1 > daughter Cronlyn Mary Featherstone b 25.7.1925 > > Peter 25.1.1865 Thorn Valley Farm, Bedford ( later Norwood Farm) m. Martha > Elizabeth Hendrika DIRKER (Madge) 5 children. Kathleen, Olive, Louis, Ivor, > Mary ( Molly).( Further descendants listed) > > Robert Featherstone b. 21.6.1866 Cromwell St Grahamstown d. 7.6.1870 as the > result of a fall. > > Hugh Bickerdike b. 3.3.1869 Cromwell St Grahamstown d. 14.2.1888 > Johannesburg ( under 20 years of age) > > Joseph Morthland Cotterill b. 18.9.1872 Hope’s Garden Grahamstown m. Annie > ( Nancy) BRADBURY ( no children) > > Alfred b. 24.12.1874 Grahamstown m. Gwladys Gwethllyn FOTHERGILL ( English). > @ sons Cedric & Guy > > Ella Beatrice Featherstone b. ‘The Hawthorns’ 29.11 1877 m. Harry Grahame > BELL.Farmed in Nairobi. 1 son Rob, 1 daughter Margery. > > Where I have noted further descendants I will gladly furnish the info in > private messages in case the people in question are still living. > > The details on WEAKLY are > > Ebenezer ( Son of Peter WRIGHT and Margery CRON ) , a Lower Albany farmer, > married Emma WEAKLY, and was for some years Member of Parliament for Albany. > He had seven daughters and five sons, of whom one son and one daughter died > in infancy. He farmed at Rietfontein, near Port Alfred; at Krantz Drift on > the Fish River, near grahamstown; and lastly near Alice. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dorri Roughley > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:08 PM > To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com ; south-africa@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Her South African Ancestors FEATHERSTONE, FINAUGHTY, > CRON, WRIGHT, CRONWRIGHT > > > Hi Wonderful Nikki, Thank you so much for your offer, sounds like you picked > up a bargin. I am interested in Cron, Wright,Cronwright and any mention of > Weakley please. 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