Herbert Blaker

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 about Herbert Blaker Name: Herbert Blaker Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1843 Registration district: Lewes Inferred County: Sussex Volume: 7 Page: 381

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1851 England Census about Herbert Blaker Name: Herbert Blaker
Age: 7 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844 Relation: Son Father's Name: Edgar Blaker Mother's Name: Amelia Blaker Gender: M (Male) Where born: Lewes, Sussex, England
Civil parish: Lewes All Saints County/Island: Sussex Country: England
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Registration district: Lewes Sub-registration district: Ditchling ED, institution, or vessel: 7b Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 25 Piece: 1643 Folio: 528 Page Number: 8 Household Members: Name Age Edgar Blaker 42 Amelia Blaker 39 Montague S Blaker 10 Herbert Blaker 7 Clement Blaker 4 Amelia R Blaker 2 Reginald Blaker 6 Mo Thomas H Ricker 17 Ann Peckett 31 Caroline C Ward 34 Ann Stephens 24 Emely Jenner 14

Herbert and Ellen were married in Weenen, in the colony of Natal, in 1879. They settled in the area and built a farm named 'The South Downs'. This was a bold move. Weenen means weeping in Dutch - referring to a massacre of Boers by Zulus, 40 years earlier. And the Zulu-Boer war occurred in 1879, resulting in a massive defeat of their British force at Isaldwana. Herbert was a very active (and possibly litigous?) farmer, and there are numerous entries in National Archieves of South Africa 1897-1919 on matters such as 'H Blaker wishes to know when crown lands will become available....,' and 'H Blaker complains of the present system....'. He was chairman of the first butter factory founded in South Africa (1899), later become Clover, the country's chief dairy company.