Dr. Charles Augustus Wentworth, SV/PROG

Dr Charles Wentworth went to South Africa as a young man with the 1820 Settlers on The Duke of Marlborough, sailing from Portsmouth as an 'individual settler' (not part of a recognised party) to be the House Surgeon to Lord Charles Somerset after the departure of Dr James Barry.

He later practiced at Uitenhage where he met his wife, a daughter of one of the 1820 Settlers.

Children

• Kate Wentworth, b. Abt 1822, Cape, South Africa
• Francis Augusta Wentworth, b. 21 Jun 1825, Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa, d. 21 Aug 1903, Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa (Age 78 years)
• Catherine Charlotte Dalgairns Wentworth, b. Abt 1831, Cape Colony, South Africa, d. 26 Nov 1903, Talbot Rd, Tottinham, England (Age ~ 72 years)
• Jessie Eliza Wentworth, b. 30 Mar 1833, Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa, d. 4 Apr 1916, Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa (Age 83 years)
  

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA/2003-04/...

Dr Charles Augustus Wentworth on the 'Duke of Marlborough'.

• not an official 1820 'transport', arrived in 1820 and those on board, I think, were given land under similar circumstances to the other Settlers.
• ... supposed to be a descendant of the Earl of Strafford (thanks, William!)
• ... married Mary Ann Lewis Wernich (possibly nee Wernich?) in Cape Town in 1821 and divorced her in 1830.
• ... In 1831, he married Eliza nee Dalgairns, an 1820 family
  
• Two of his daughters by her later married into the Rex family of Melkhout Kraal, Knysna.
• ... committed suicide in 1834, leaving Eliza to bring up a very young family. She moved to Knysna and established a school there with the help of her two unmarried sisters, Magdalen and Agnes Dalgairns - these three ladies had a profound influence on education at Knysna in those days.
  

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Page 11 Marriages at the Cape of Good Hope

"Wentworth, Charles Augustus, of Halifax, Novia Scotia, 25 ; Mary Ann Lewis Wernich, of Queen's County, Ireland, 17. (6), 5-11-1821. Mary Ann Lewis Wernich, of Queen's County, Ireland, 17. (6),

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• DEPOT KAB
• SOURCE CO
• TYPE LEER
• VOLUME_NO 3921
• SYSTEM 00
• REFERENCE 350
• PART 1
• DESCRIPTION MEMORIALS RECEIVED. CHARLES AUGUSTUS WENTWORTH. REQUEST TO REMAIN HERE AS A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.
• STARTING 1821
• ENDING 1821