WTC 2023 Work Space 10 Interesting Finds

Date: 8 Jun 2023 to 15 Jun 2023

Contents 1 Interesting Finds 1.1 Johannes August Heese 1.2 Roelof Theunis Johannes Lombard 1.3 Edward John Morse Jones 1.4 Colin Graham Botha 1.5 Margaret Constance (Twentyman-Jones) Cairns 1.6 Floris Albertus van Jaarsveld 1.7 Marjorie Diane "Dee" (Murray) Nash 2 Not Yet Sorted 3 Connections to each other 4 More Notable Connections 5 Military

Interesting Finds

This is for Challenge 10 (Challenge 10 Space Page) ✅ ❌

Johannes August Heese

1. ✅ (in the intro slides) Johannes August Heese was a founding member of GSSA (Genealogical Society of South Africa) on 17 June 1964 in Cape Town eGSSA Verwysing deur.
2. ✅ The father of Johannes' wife Magdalena Elizabeth (du Toit) Heese (Born 19 Dec 1908), Lourens Erasmus Du Toit was a prisoner of war during the Boer War. His wife Cornelia Margaretha (le Roux) Du Toit was imprisoned as a refugee. Three of Cornelia's children died in the refugee camp: one of dysentery and two of measles. Lourens was a Member of the Winburg Commando in 1901- He was captured on 7 August 1901 at Sand River.

Roelof Theunis Johannes Lombard

1. ✅ A grandson of Alexander Lowrie McDonald wrote a memoir of his grandfather, based mostly on Alexander's own diaries and other writings. It is posted online at Electric Scotland and makes for fascinating reading. (ElectricScotland.com) Alexander is 7 degrees from Roelof Lombard.

Edward John Morse Jones

1. ✅ Cecil Edwin Fitch KBE (1870-1940) was knighted on 1 January 1920 For services in connection with [wartime] recruiting. He is 1st cousin once removed from Eileen Muriel Given-Wilson (1900-1976) (2nd Wife of Edward John Morse Jones)
2. ✅ Herbert Trevor Fitch (1876-1935) - was a catcher of spies! He worked for Scotland Yard and one of his tasks during WWI was catching German spies in Britain. He is 1st cousin once removed from Eileen Muriel Given-Wilson. (2nd Wife of Edward John Morse Jones)
3. Patrick Francis Given-Wilson was a POW during WWII for three and a half years. Patrick is 4 degrees from Edward John Morse Jones, and 27 generations from MD, being her 12th cousin once removed.
4. 2nd wife of Edward John Morse Jones Eileen Muriel Given-Wilson and Admiral Aubrey Wray Fitch both share a common ancestor in George Fitch - one line comes down son Frederick and the other son Alfred.
5. ✅ Emma Sarah Fitch was in her mid Sixties when she married for the first name her husband was James Bryant Douglas he was also in his Sixties and marrying for the first time. Emma is 4 degrees from Edward Jones.
6. Ellen Fitch and Charlotte Fitch ran a boarding School in Chelmsford in Essex. She is 5 degrees from Edward John Morse Jones.
7. Harold Melvyn Given-Wilson married rather well, he married Stella Agnes Drummond Two of her Uncles were Baronets Sir William Augustus Annesley "10th Baronet Stewart of Ramelton" Stewart and Sir Harry Jocelyn Urquhart "11th Baronet Stewart of Ramelton" Stewart. Harold is 3 degrees from Edward Jones and (20 degrees from Johannes August Heese.)

Colin Graham Botha

1. Colin Botha's Sister-in-law Alta V Blood her Father George Blood was shot and killed by her Mother.

Margaret Constance (Twentyman-Jones) Cairns

1. ✅ Downton Abbey is real! The family of Alfred Charles Twentyman (1832-1908) and his brother Lawrence Burrell Twentyman (1826-1902) had 5-6 domestic servants in their households in every census year, including: a butler, a cook, a lady's maid, house maids, kitchen maids, and a nurse (in old age). Apparently the export trade with South Africa was very lucrative!
2. I connected Margaret Constance (Twentyman-Jones) Cairns to her paternal great-grand uncle Ralph Henry Arderne (1802-1885) whose profile had already been created. He was the founder of the Arderne Gardens in Claremont, Capetown, a South African Provincial Heritage Site. Someone had added the Wikipedia article describing the interesting history of the gardens and how the park intertwines with Margaret's family history.
3. ✅ Margaret Josephine (Shaw) Twentyman-Jones (1881-1936), mother of a starting profile, was born in the City of Cork in Ireland. At age 16, she travelled (alone) from London, England, on the ship Johannesburg to Cape Town, South Africa. Earlier in the century, at least four of her father’s siblings had emigrated to Cape Colony, so she may have been travelling to join her relatives. However, only her aunt Frances Katherine (Shaw) Burrowes was still alive in 1897 and she would pass away nine months after Margaret arrived. Margaret's mother died in 1900, her father passed away in 1903 and four of her siblings emigrated to Montreal, Canada, after their parents' deaths. Margaret stayed in South Africa. I think Margaret was courageous!

Floris Albertus van Jaarsveld

1. ✅ Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg (6 degrees from Floris van Jaarsveld), was elected 2nd president of the South African Republic in 1862. But the supporters of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, the first president (and 8 degrees from Floris van Jaarsveld), did not support the results of the election and what amounted to the Transvaal Civil War broke out. When the fighting came to a halt in January 1864, another presidential election was held and Pretorius was re-elected; he was sworn in on 9 May 1864. Janse van Rensburg subsequently returned to his farm near Rustenburg, where he died and was buried shortly afterwards. The South African capital Pretoria was named after Pretorius.

Marjorie Diane "Dee" (Murray) Nash

1. ✅ MD Nash is a gg-granddaughter of Andrew Murray Murray-2231, who is a very notable figure in South African cultural history. He was a Scot who became the minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Graaff-Reinet in the 1820s.
2. Constance Clairmonte 7 degrees of Marjorie Diane "Dee" (Murray) Nash, married the Harold william Addington, third son of Viscount Sidmouth in India
3. ✅ Adolphus Julian Clairmount father of Constance Clairmonte, also 7 degrees from Marjorie Diane "Dee" (Murray) Nash, He was born in Barbados, married in South Africa, had children in South Africa and England. He later moved to Halifax in Nova Scotia where he died.
4. Alfred Reginald Sothern Holland (1876-1948) was Trade Commissioner to South Africa from 1908 to 1914 and Director-General of Inspection of Munitions in 1916. He was given a title when the Holland Baronetcy of Westwell Manor was created on February 17 1917 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The title was also given to his two sons and then it expired with the death of the 2nd son Guy in 1997. Alfred is 6 generations from MD, being her first cousin twice removed. He is also (15 generations from Johannes August Heese, being his 6th cousin once removed.)

Not Yet Sorted

1. A few unusual Professions in this challenge William Gillingwater was a perfumer , Alfred Withers was a Pawnbroker and Jeweller, Anthony Young was a Club Billiard Marker at one point and one of his sons and son-in-law had the occupation of Lapidary.

Connections to each other

1. Johannes August Heese - See below, Lombard. And he is 6th cousins twice removed from Elon Musk. He is 13 generations from Colin Botha, being his fifth cousin once removed.
2. Roelof Theunis Johannes Lombard is 13 generations from MD Nash, being her fifth cousin once removed, 14 generations from Colin Botha, being his fourth cousin four times removed, and 15 generations from Johannes Heese, being his 6th cousins once removed.
3. Edward John Morse Jones is 21 degrees from Roelof Lombard, 21 degrees from Colin Botha, and 22 degrees from Johannes Heese.
4. Colin Graham Botha is 12 generations from Floris van Jaarsveld, being his, 13 generations from Johannes Heese, being his fifth cousin once removed, 9 degrees from Margaret Cairns, and 13 generations from Johannes Heese, being his 5th cousin once removed.
5. Margaret Constance (Twentyman-Jones) Cairns is 9 degrees from Colin Botha, 10 degrees from Johannes Heese, 12 degrees from Roelof Lombard, and 13 degrees from both MD Nash and Floris van Jaarsveld.
6. Floris Albertus van Jaarsveld is 12 generations from Colin Botha, being his fourth cousins twice removed, 12 generations from MD Nash, being her fifth cousin, and 15 generations from Roelof Lombard, being his 6th cousin once removed. Also 15 generations from Johannes Heese, being his 6th cousin once removed.
7. Marjorie Diane (Murray) Nash is 12 generations from Colin Botha, being his fourth cousin twice removed, 12 generations from Floris van Jaarsveld, being his fifth cousin, 13 generations from Roelof Lombard, being his fifth cousin once removed, and 15 generations fromJohannes Heese, being his 6th cousin once removed.

More Notable Connections

Military

• Francis Herbert Laurence Wicksteed (abt.1871-1902) - Lieutenant, Gorringe's Flying Column
• Alexander Henry Eustace (1863-1939) - Major General and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• Cecil Alexander Gordon Fitch (1899-1918) 2nd Lieutenant, son of Sir Cecil and Lady Fitch died of wounds 19 Sep 1918 in France
• Cecil Edwin Fitch (1870-1940) father of the soldier above
• Cecil James Byron Wood (1913-1941) Able Seaman NZ Anzacs died at sea 1941
• Gerald Lionel Sothern Holland (1869-1947) South Africa - Second Boer War with Struben's Scouts
• Lionel Herbert L'Estrange Holland (bef.1899-1987) World War One with the Rhodesia Native Regiment
• Maurice Bonaventure Shaw (1879-1926), Anglo Boer War (1899-1902), He had enlisted in 1899 and was discharged at his own request in October 1902. Since he had not completed his full 12 years of service (seven years in Army Service and five years in Army Reserve), Maurice had to pay £18 to break his service. £18 from 1902 would be the equivalent of £1995 today (2023)!!