Catherine Pethick Hancorn-Smith

Marriage : "South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTWM-S714?cc=1468076&w... : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Grahamstown, Bathurst, St John the Evangelist > Baptisms, marriages, burials 1829-1849 > image 34 of 108; William Cullen Library, Wits University, Johannesburg.

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Family story says that Jeffries Bay in South Africa is named after this branch of the family. Joseph Avent Jeffrey erects a wood and iron warehouse which is recorded as being the first place of business to open on the shore near what is today known as Jeffrey’s Bay. Jeffrey's Bay is named after the senior partner of the firm Jeffrey & Glendinnings that opened a store in 1849 on the location where the town is today. Jeffrey is believed to be the first person to have settled there.