Edward John Hulley, Snr

EDWARD JOHN HULLEY (1821 – 1876)

Edward John was probably born on ‘Caxton’, Trappes Valley, Albany District, CP. He was the first of Richard Willliam’s children to be born in South Africa. During the Kaffir Wars, he was Commandant of the Grahamstown Burghers. He had his own flag, which was found a few years ago amongst the possessions of his second son, the late William Gradwell Hulley, Senekal, O.F.S., and has been sent to the Grahamstown museum. The background of the flag was bright red, on which were sewn plain white letters stitched at the edges with black thread. The inscription was ‘V.R.’ with a crown between the letters, and the words ‘Rule Britannia’. He was a farmer, and moved from district to district. In 1860 he was at ‘Gwager’s Hoek’, Somerset East, and later back in Albany, where he owned the farm ‘Governor’s Kop’; this Kop is visible from Grahamstown and to the East of it; the Grahamstown-Breakfast Vlei-Kingwilliamstown road passes under this kop and through the farm. Edward John was attracted to the Kimberley diamond fields, where he had claims and recovered diamonds. £22 000 worth was deposited in the bank, and legend has it that the label came off the package. On Edward’s death, none of his family could identify the package, so it was lost to them. Edward John later moved to Smithfield, O.F.S. He died there of pleurisy, having been pre-deceased by his wife from the same cause. From here his family appear to have returned to the Eastern Province. from F.E. Hulley 'The Hulleys of the 1820 Settlers' 1964

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Death Notice : "South Africa, Cape Province, Kimberley, Probate Records of the Supreme Court, 1871-1937," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-7XBT?cc=2521616&w... : 7 November 2016), 007731401 > image 900 of 1127; National Archives of South Africa, Cape Town Archives Repository, Cape Town.

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