Edward Edmund Henry Heather

He seems to have been known as Harry Heather.

National Archives in Pretoria CJC 1068 is a box of files from which you extract no 1835 which will give an account of his son's role in the Boer War The Archives also have hsi insolvency records dated 1863-1869.

Ada McSeverney writes that he came to the Cape with the Gloucestershire regiment. "He was a Master tailor in his regiment and after he was discharged he decided to marry ?Jane? Dunn (she was actually named Sarah) and bought a farm in the Queenstown district called Bongolo Poort but what my grandfather knew about farming was dangerous so in the end he also decided to sell out and went to Pretoria too. They suffered great deprivations, both of food and water, on the trek but in the end they reached Pretoria safely. The Heather family consisted of four boys and three girls. Now this is where fate took a hand. the two families decided to leave the Cape and moved to Pretoria more or less at the same time, and Jane Heather, the eldest Heather daughter, met Charles William Clark, and fell in love with him and they were married."