Historical records matching John Penny Mandy, Snr. SV/PROG
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About John Penny Mandy, Snr. SV/PROG
1820 British Settler
John Penny Mandy 32, Carpenter, and Leader of his Party, together with his wife Mary Ann Day 29, and 3 children, were members of Mandy's Party of 44 Settlers on the Nautilus.
Party originated from Surrey
Departed London on 3 December 1819. Arrived Table Bay, Cape Town - 17 March 1820. Final Port - Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth 14 April 1820.
Area Allocated to the Party : Kap River
Children :
- John Wilkinson Mandy 6
- Stephen Day Mandy 5
- William Day Mandy (born at sea)
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Newspaper cuttings from the Eastern Cape.
Herald, June 1970
1820 Descendant with a difference.
Settler Grandpa born at sea. Part I
At 63, Mr. Gray MANDY of Port Elizabeth must be one of the youngest grandchildren of an 1820 Settler in the Eastern Cape. For his grandfather was one of the babies born at sea on the way from Britain to South Africa. Mr. MANDY, a well-known Port Elizabeth business manager, could not attend today's 150th anniversary celebrations. He is holidaying in Durban. but the elder brother, Mr. Baden MANDY, will be here for the festivities. During a visit to Port Elizabeth he is standing in for Mr. Gray MANDY as a manager of an accommodation centre during his absence. Before he left, Mr. Gray MANDY and his brother told me about their "baby Settler" grandfather.
LETTER
Their great-grandfather, Mr. John Penny MANDY, was the leader of a party which sailed from the Thames in the Nautilus in December, 1819, reaching Algoa Bay in April the following year. John MANDY and his wife, Mary Anne, left England with two sons, John Wilkinson, aged six and Stephen Day, aged five.
Two weeks before the ship reached Cape Town their third son was born. He was named William Nautilus - his second name, of course, being after the vessel.
The letter which John MANDY wrote to his mother in Kent and posted from Cape Town telling of the baby's birth, was presented to the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, but was destroyed in a fire in the 1920's However, Mr. Baden MANDY has a copy of it. This is how his grandfather's birth was announced:
"I have the pleasure to inform you that on the 1st March, Mary Ann was put to bed with a fine boy in latitude 18 degrees, longitude six degrees."
MANY MANDYS
John, who was a carpenter, and Mary Anne settled at Bathurst, where he built the Drostdy. After their home was burnt down during one of the Frontier Wars, they went to the farm Lushington Valley, between Grahamstown and Bathurst. They had five sons after settling in South Africa. Several of their eight children had large families, so there are many MANDY of Settler descent in the Eastern Cape, Mr. Baden MANDY pointed out.
John's unmarried brother Joseph also accompanied him on the voyage out. Joseph, a wheelwright, is believed to have gone to Harrismith in the Free State, later with the Voortrekkers - possibly with Louis TRICHARDT or Piet RETIEF.
SPORTSMAN
Mr. Baden MANDY and Mr. Gray MANDY are members of a large and closely knit family. The father, the late Mr. Stephen Day MANDY, of Bathurst, married twice. He had six sons of his first marriage and seven children of his second. On the first half of the family, three brothers are still living. They are Mr. Lawrie MANDY, 84 of Margate, a survivor of Delville Wood and Mr. Douglas MANDY, 77 and Mr. George MANDY, 75, both of Bathurst.
Mr. Baden MANDY, 69 is the eldest of the second half. Since retiring as postmaster of Krugersdorp, he and his wife Corrie, who is of French Huguenot descent, have spent most of their time caravanning. They have been in Knysna for the past year. Mr. Gray MANDY, a former Border sportsman, was manager of a big Port Elizabeth hotel, then managed a club before taking up his present position. His wife, Jo, incidentally, is the granddaughter of the Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik POTGIETER.
The other three brothers, Mr. Stephen Day MANDY, 68, Mr. Aubrey MANDY, 66 and Mr. Claude MANDY, 61 who were all prominent Eastern Province and Border sportsmen, now live in Durban. The youngest member of the family, 58-year-old Mrs. Mary WARRENDER, lives in Salisbury. The other sister died some years ago.
Of the 11 brothers in the two halves of the family, five brothers served in World War I. (The other died before the war) and four survived during World War II - the remaining one, a police detective, being kept back for internal security work.
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From Sue MacKay
John MANDY - includes new information taken from original images concerning the family of his wife, Mary Ann Wilkinson DAY, and her parents Stephen DAY and Lydia WILKINSON
http://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/additional-information...
Herewith his marriage details to Mary Dougherty -
http://www.eggsa.org/cgi-bin/dosearchMarriages.pl -
25 September 1826
1826, this 25th day of September 1826 John Penny Mandy marital status: Widower residence: of the District of Albany and Mary Dougherty marital status: Spinster residence: of the same District were married here by Banns this 25th day of September 1826 by Thomas Ireland, Chaplain This marriage was solemnized between us groom signature: Robert Penny Mandy bride signature: Mary Dougherty witnessed by: [Nab] Dougherty, John [ ] Penny, Mary [Ryan], Wm. Howard Source: Grahamstown - St George (Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. marriage register, 1826-1836, page 11, entry no 142. Repository: Cory Library, MS 14 879-1. Transcribed by Lynn MacLeod as part of the eGGSA Project, from photographs by William Jervois, and proofread by Sue Mackay
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John Penny Mandy, Snr. SV/PROG's Timeline
| 1787 |
1787
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Sidcup, Greater London, UK
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| 1813 |
June 4, 1813
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England (United Kingdom)
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February 24, 1815
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England (United Kingdom)
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| 1818 |
January 23, 1818
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Kent, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1820 |
March 1, 1820
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At sea on board the Nautilius
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1823
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South Africa
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November 1, 1829
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| 1831 |
July 21, 1831
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Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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