Follow Us
Like Us
Matching family tree profiles for Benjamin D’Urban Godlonton
view all 33
Immediate Family
-
-
-
-
-
daughter
-
daughter
-
-
son
-
son
-
son
-
-
daughter
About Benjamin D’Urban Godlonton
Some trees on "My Heritage" have that he had a second wife "Unknown Ayliff"? There doesn't seem to be any evidence of that.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
He was a partner in the law firm of Syfret, Godlonton and Low. His son, D'Urban Bruce Godlonton was also a partner in the firm. (Arthur George Syfret was Cecil Rhodes' lawyer)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Death Notice : "South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-9SCT-F?cc=2517051... : 28 September 2018), 007735713 > image 994 of 1597; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jul 21 2018, 7:14:19 UTC
Moved to Port Elizabeth. Was a partner in a firm that handled some business for Cecil Rhodes, one-time Governor-General of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Middle name for Benjamin, was most certainly derived from the Governor-General Benjamin D'Urban. D'Urban was known to provide critical support of Hon. Robert Godlonton, Benjamin's father. Benjamin and his wife Flora, it has been said, wanted their sone Robert Godlonton to become a surgeon. He became the Black Sheep of the family, it has been said, when he disappeared from his family without leaving a trace for many years. With Flora, had as many as nine children.
view all 18
Benjamin D’Urban Godlonton's Timeline
| 1846 |
May 27, 1846
|
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
|
|
| 1871 |
September 11, 1871
|
Grahams Town, Southeast Cape, South Africa
|
|
| 1873 |
May 4, 1873
|
Grahamstown, South Africa
|
|
| 1874 |
August 4, 1874
|
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
|
|
| 1876 |
1876
|
||
| 1877 |
August 7, 1877
|
||
| 1879 |
March 17, 1879
|
Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa
|
|
| 1880 |
November 12, 1880
|
Port Elizabeth, EC, South Africa
|