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About Ruth Pitt

Marriage to Edward Ford Dicks:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK8-P9JN-7?view=i...

http://www.genealogy.amay.co.uk/main.php?p=FF2-pitt


NOTE

Ruth Pitt’s descendant John Brodrick has her husband, and his ggrandfather as JAMES Dicks, not EDWARD Dicks. He also has Ruth as the child of Robert Pitt & Lucy. He says “I am not sure about any of them; I worked from a memoir written by my dad’s cousin. It is quite possible that the names are mixed up. I’m sure she wrote from memory.” [April 2014]

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THE PITT FAMILY IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Pitt family came out to South Africa from Gloucestershire in two groups, both headed by sons of William Pitt & Jane Long who lived at Tetbury.

These brothers may have been twins, since it is known that the one, Robert Pitt - a husbandman and turnkey, was born in 1777 and was an 1820 Settler who came to SA in Sephton’s Party with his wife, Lucy Rapley and 8 year old son, Robert Pitt.

Whereas, although the date of birth is not confirmed, it appears that the other brother, William – a shoemaker - may also have been born in 1777, and he and his wife, Mary Rogers, having agreed on 7.5.1826 to pay half their fare, were enabled to join his brother in the Cape Colony. They came out in Shepherd's party in 1826, bringing with them five children, 22 yr old Sarah [although it is uncertain whether this person is actually a conflation with John’s wife Sarah, below], 13 yr old William, 10 yr old James, 7 yr old Thomas and 23 yr old John Pitt. The latter was married to Sarah Roberts, and they appear to have had two children with them on the boat: 1 or 2 yr old John, and baby Mary. Both had just been christened in Middlesex.

  • 1.Robert Snr (1777 - ) m Lucy Rapley
  • 2.William (1777 - ) m Mary Rogers
    • 2.1 John Pitt (1803 Buckinghamshire – 1870), m Sarah Roberts
      • 2.1.1 John (1824 - ) (His wife was a nurse in Grahamstown).
      • 2.1.2 Mary. (1826 - ) (married Joseph Green);
      • 2.1.3 Sarah (1827 – 1893) (married 1847 Samuel Wood)
      • 2.1.4 Ruth (married Edward Dicks);
      • 2.1.5 Ann (married George Flannigan)
      • 2.1.6 Jane (1830 – 1893) (married 1851 Henry Webster).
      • 2.1.7 Phillis (1830 – 1898) (married 1850 William Freemantle). It has been suggested that she was born in London, but as the family were in the Cape Colony by 1826, this may not be so, although her Uncle William did return to England after coming out with the family.
      • 2.1.8 William (1836 – 1850)
      • 2.1.9 Elizabeth (1841 – 1888) (married 1861 John Ashenhurst)
    • 2.2 Sarah (1804 -) (if she isn’t a conflation with John’s wife, Sarah Roberts)
    • 2.3 William (1813 -), (who returned to England)
    • 2.4 James (1816 - 1842), (married 1837 to Penelope Short Grit)
    • 2.5 Thomas (1819 -), (married Dinah ? and died in Grahamstown; they had three children) [Primary Source: http://www.genealogy.amay.co.uk/main.php?p=FF2-pittRoberts. Edits based on new data welcomed - Sharon April 2014].
  • Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Edward Ford Dicks by SmartCopy: Oct 10 2015, 9:14:53 UTC
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Ruth Pitt's Timeline

1833
1833
Cape Colony
1852
October 22, 1852
1854
October 9, 1854
Port Alfred, South Africa
1857
September 19, 1857
1859
January 9, 1859
1861
September 25, 1861
1862
1862
1867
1867
Stutterheim, Cape Colony
1868
July 9, 1868
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape