Andrew John Douglas Ferguson

POLICE SERVICE

Throughout the 1890's, Andrew was a Police Constable in the Cape Police, stationed at Fort Cunynghame, Stutterheim, with the Eastern Cape HQ being King Williams Town. The 'Cape Police' were mounted, although not known as the Cape Mounted Police until after Andrew left.

Fort Cunynghame was a telegraph office which, together with Komgha and a number of other establishments in the Transkeian Territories, was manned by the Frontier and Mounted Police(FAMP, later renamed Cape Mounted Rifles). It was named after Lieutenant Cunynghame who was in its command. Such offices were deemed to be necessary for "police purposes and for political purposes generally." The Cape's Controller and Auditor General, Mr C Abercrombie Smith, reported on 5 February 1880 that: "It appears that ... as soon as Offices at Fort Cunynghame were opened, Members of the FAM Police previously selected ... and trained were put in charge. These men continued to be paid out of the Police Vote. About the end of June 1878, the Government appears to have issued orders to reduce the FAM Police to one thousand men, and it is stated that about one hundred men were employed away from the force in various situations ... In July 1878 the Government ordered that all members of the force employed as telegraphists should return to the ranks or apply for their discharges." As a result Fort Cunynghame was closed in August 1879. - See more at: http://www.sahistory.org.za/places/fort-cunynghame#sthash.vbEW7ymU....

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W381IpcNmE0C&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110...

DEPOT KAB SR/SN 000/00 SOURCE AGR TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 42 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 125 PART 1 DESCRIPTION CIVIL SERVICE LIST. STARTING 1892 ENDING 1895

DEPOT KAB SR/SN 000/00 SOURCE AGR TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 171 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 896 PART 1 DESCRIPTION CAPE POLICE FORCE. STARTING 1893 ENDING 1893

DEPOT KAB SOURCE PWD TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 2/1/189 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE A10 PART 1 DESCRIPTION STUTTERHEIM. KEI ROAD CAPE POLICE CAMP. STARTING 1894 ENDING 1894 REMARKS REFERENCE: FOLIO 5744.

DEPOT KAB SOURCE PWD TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 2/1/189 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE A11 PART 1 DESCRIPTION STUTTERHEIM. ST. JOHNS CAPE POLICE CAMP. STARTING 1899 ENDING 1899 REMARKS REFERENCE: FOLIO 9234.

Prof Luvuyo Wotshela said Fort Cunynghame was occasionally referred to as 'Greytown' and said to try Cape Printed Papers, and annual Blue Books of Cape Colony as sources which include annual magistrates reports.

In 1892, when Andrew is first noted as Constable, he would have been one of 3 Constables in Stutterheim - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433062734938&view=1up&...

Worth checking 1897 when available, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008616368?type%5B%5D=author&l...

ANGLO BOER WAR

If he served, it would most likely have been in the 'Cape Police'.

He doesn't appear on Railway Corps medal roll like his brother and father. As he joined the Railways in January 1901, he may well have served in Police until December 1900. He may have also been called up to serve and left as a result.

On Angloboerwar.com database, there is no A Ferguson of Cape Police unit. There is in SA Constabulary but the unit was only established in September 1900, three to four months before Andrew was no longer working for the police.

RAILWAYS

Henry joined his father, brother and three brother-in-laws working on the Railways from 1901.

Joined as Sub-Ganger 21/01/1901 - 06/01/1905(Cookhouse)
Ganger 06/01/1905 - 13/12/1907(Cookhouse)
Ganger 13/12/1907 - 21/05/1908(Tulbagh Road)
Sub-Ganger 21/05/1908 - 01/09/1910(Tulbagh Road)
Acting Ganger 01/09/1910(Tulbagh Road)

After Cookhouse and Tulbagh Road he was stationed at the following Railway cottages across Cape Colony and Transvaal,

• Touws River(1912)
  
• Riverton Road, Kimberley(1919)
  
• Schweizer-Reneke(1920)
  
• Delaney(1923)
  
• Vermaas(?)
  

Granddaughter Fatima Hayman believe he was a conductor on the trains. Possibly towards end of his working life.

Death Registration https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-GS27-R?i=1880...

‘Buried apart on the same place. Can’t remember but fencing around.’ - Fatima Hayman on her grandparents