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| Birthplace: | Greater London, UK |
| Death: | Died in Grahamstown, EC, South Africa |
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About Robert Godlonton, SV/PROG
Bailie's party : Gravesend, London on the Chapman
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The Story of the British Settlers of 1820 in South Africa by Harold Edward HOCKLY, Second Edition, SEP 1966, Juta & Co. Limited.
GODLONTON, Robert, 25.
Party: BAILIE
Ship: CHAPMAN
Wife: Mary Ann, 27.
Family: Mary Ann, 4; Hex. Wm., 17.
Editor and proprietor of the Grahamstown Journal. Champion of the settlers and the Eastern Province. Member of Legislative Council 1850-3 and 1854-78; author of several works on the Kaffir Wars and other historical subjects. Founded the Bloemfontein Friend newspaper in 1850.
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Robert Godlonton, SV/PROG's Timeline
| 1794 |
September 24, 1794
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Greater London, UK
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| 1813 |
October 17, 1813
Age 19
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City of London, Greater London, UK
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| 1815 |
May 16, 1815
Age 20
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Greater London, UK
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| 1821 |
1821
Age 26
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Cape Colony, South Africa
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| 1823 |
October 6, 1823
Age 29
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Bathurst, EC, South Africa
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| 1825 |
1825
Age 30
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| 1828 |
November 16, 1828
Age 34
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| 1844 |
March 2, 1844
- March 2, 1844
Age 49
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Fort Beaufort, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Robert's work involved some of the committee travelling round the smaller towns, and it might have been this work which took Robert and Mary Ann Godlonton to Fort Beaufort, for here she died on 2nd March 1844, of acute inflamatory fever, and sadly Robert took her body back to Graham's Town for burial in the grave of their three young children. This was now covered with "a stone boxlike structure with a slate tombstone on top." This gentle woman, who wrote verse, was only 55 - two years older than Robert. She was, one gathers, a shy, reserved woman for, while extolling her virtues of the Journal stated "of retired unobtrusive habits her loss will be felt by comparatively few, but to them it is irreparable." |
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| 1845 |
March 15, 1845
Age 50
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Bathurst, EC, South Africa
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| 1846 |
May 27, 1846
Age 51
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Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa
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