Eliza Jane Paterson (1870 - 1950)

Born 18 Jun 1870 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of William W Way — married 9 Mar 1897 in St. Mary's, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Descendants

Died 28 Oct 1950 at age 80 in Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa

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Biography

Born Edinburgh, Scotland, 1870. (The entry for her birth states that it is St Georges, Mid-Lothian, a district of Edinburgh.) The 1871 census taken on the night of 2 Apr gives her family's home address as 76 Fountain Bridge West, St Cuthbert's Parish (St George District), Edinburgh.

She died while living at her son in law Walter Hall's farm, Sandholme (now part of Barville Park farm) at Kasouga near Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Various records relating to her son Eric and sister Sophia state that she lived in Grahamstown at the times of their deaths. At the time of her sister's death she was resident at Oatlands or Oatlands Road, Grahamstown, now Makanda.

The civil marriage register and her death notice state that she was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

How she came to be known as 'Effie', the name used for her in several official documents in South Africa, including her death notice, is unclear, but probably has to do with 'Euphemia' being the name of one of her aunts and her grandmother, Effie being an abbreviation thereof.

Notes

(Searching on Family Search for her birth details takes one to [1] which does not list her parents in the entry, but does so in the search results. Listing them as George Paterson and Magaret Ann Cuthbert, the same first names as are listed in the death notice for her Sister Sophia and with the same difference between the search data and actual entry in the case of Sophia's birth data.)

Sources

• Family Search: "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch : 10 February 2018, Eliza Jane Paterson, 28 Jun 1870; citing EDINBURGH,MIDLOTHIAN,SCOTLAND, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 6,035,516.
• Family Search: "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQCZ-HMW : 10 February 2018), Margaret Ann Cuthbert in entry for Eliza Jane Paterson, 28 Jun 1870; citing EDINBURGH,MIDLOTHIAN,SCOTLAND, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 6,035,516.
• "South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:481B-G8T2 : 10 March 2021), Effie Paterson Way, 28 Oct 1950, Cape Province, South Africa; citing National Archives, Pretoria; FHL microfilm
• Family Search: "Scotland Census, 1871," database, FamilySearch [2] : 8 December 2017, Eliza Jane Paterson, St George, Midlothian, Scotland; from "1871 England, Scotland & Wales census," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing p. 9, PRO T 1, The National Archives UK, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 104,047.
• Family Search: "South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Marriages, 1870-1930," database, FamilySearch [3] : 3 October 2018, William Way and Eliza Jane Paterson, Johannesburg, N W R Goudueldeer; citing Marriage, , NARS "Civil registration (marriages - coloureds), Transvaal and Swaziland, 1898-1927." The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Pretoria.
• Marriage Register William Way to Eliza Paterson 1897, St Mary's Parish, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 March 1897.
• Recollections of Andrew Hall
• Family Search: "South Africa, Pietermaritzburg Estate Files 1846-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLR2-1SF3 : 17 March 2018), Effie Way in entry for MM9.1.1/QLR2-1SX1:, 1915; citing Probate, Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa.
• Family Search: "South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1958", database with images, FamilySearch[(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHP-CN4B] : 7 March 2019, Sophia M Paterson, 1915.
• "South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHQ-K76Z : 27 April 2020), Charles Sydney Way, 1950.
• Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/150990458/person/382004140533/facts (This record has a copy of the 1871 census attached to it which gives her age as 8 months and lists her parents and siblings.)
• Recollections and genealogical research papers of Mike Hall in possession of Andrew Hall