Thomas Munroe Carbutt (1835 - 1900)

Born 19 Jun 1835 in South Kilvington, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 22 Jun 1900 at age 65 in Ladysmith, Natal

Biography

Lived at Klip River, Natal with Mrs Bowes whose husband had gone back to England in Mar 1858.

Thomas never married.

He farmed on Zaayfontein dist. Ladysmith Natal

There must have been some dispute about property and/or the terms of Thomas Carbutt's Will, because another Death Notice was filed in 1911. Annotations to this document give dates of death as follows: Hugh 19.8.1907; Thomas Munroe 22.6.1900 and Charles 14.5.1913. Catherine has married Stephen Pike, who was the original Executor. ^[1]

From a source of questionable reliability: Thomas Carbutt was a gentleman Squire in the Leeds district of Yorkshire when he decided to acquire land in South Africa. Thomas was consumptive and it was hoped that the sunny climate here would help him. His sons were brought up as Victorian gentlemen and sent on the grand tour to Germany to study art and music. The most rollicking personality was a gay bachelor Thomas Munro who had his own private army in the Zulu war of 1879, “Carbutts Mounted Troopers, a unit that patrolled the Berg and cleaned up after Isandlwana. Source: Ladysmithhistory

Sources

1. ↑ "South Africa, Pietermaritzburg Estate Files 1846-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLRL-4BGM : 17 March 2018), Thomas Carbutt, 1868; citing Probate, Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa. Added on 30 Mar 2021 by Ian McArthur

• SOUTH AFRICAN GENEALOGIES Pretoria Human Science Research Council 1986 [Reprinted by Genealogical Institute of South Africa Stellenbosch 2007
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91W-R3MK-L?cc=2721608&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQG6G-RVQ8 Death information added on 27/12/2019 by Stephanus Scheepers