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About Lt. James Fichat, SV/PROG
Burial : http://www.eggsa.org/cgi-bin/dosearchBurials.pl
FICHAT James Age at death: 47 Buried: 7 July 1825 Additional notes: half pay Royal Marines, of The Grove, nr. Wynberg Source: Cape Town, English Church (from 1847 St George's Cathedral) (Anglican), Cape Town, Western Cape, burial register, 1811-1839, page . Repository: Western Cape Archives, 72 Roeland Street, Cape Town. Transcribed by Charles Fison. Scans of parts of this register are available on the Wits University Web site
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Lieutenant James Fichat (b. 1778 d. 1825) of the Royal Marines who came to the Cape at the time of the Second British occupation. He originally came from Manchester and got permission of the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty to settle at the Cape in 1818 on half‐pay. He at first resided temporarily at 24 Loop Street, before purchasing, with money he brought out from England, the estate Veldhausen in 1819 which he renamed “The Grove”. The estate was one of the original free burger farms’ Velthuijsen, granted as such by van Riebeeck on 20th September 1660. His career had been one of service in the Royal Marines, with it being recorded that at one stage he was private secretary to Sir Thomas Stanford‐ Raffles at Batavia in 1811, who is credited with being the founder of Singapore. From the Fichat bible it was shown that James Fichat married Maria Cornelia Welhelmelia Styne at the Cape of Good Hope on 5th September 1808 and that he died on 6th July 1825 at The Grove, Wynberg aged 47.
James and Maria Fichat in 1825 filed a Will and nominated as their sole beneficiaries their children. When James Fichat died in 1825 The Grove was sold for 80 600 guilders. The estate was said to be 99 Morgan in extent and the increase in its value, it was stated, was due to a great improvement in the quality of the grounds and buildings.
The Grove/Feldhausen was later to become the home of the famous astronomer Sir John Herschel from 1834 to 1838 during his stay at the Cape to map the Southern Celestial sky. Over the years the estate was much reduced and in 1958 the manor house, built in the classic Cape Dutch style, was demolished and a school erected on the site. The Grove Primary School covers some of the original estate in the suburb of Claremont.
So the Boyes family can look to Captain Robert Nairne Boyes as the progenitor of the family in the Cape and South Africa, after he landed in Cape Town with his regiment in 1824. But, it was through his father‐in‐law, Lt James Fichat, Royal Marine, who had come to the Cape with the second British occupation, that he met and married Maria Styne in 1808, who would have been of Dutch origin. This line through his wife, Maria Catherine Fitchat, therefore pre‐dates the arrival of R.N.Boyes at the Cape of Good Hope.
- FICHAT; James 4/12/1807 arrived Table Bay in 'Fortitude' ex Falmouth.
- 1807-1810 - Clerk of Checque, Ordnance Dept
- FICHAT: James 18/7/1814 Mrs M Fichet & maid, Permission to Leave in 'Scaleby Castle' for Batavia
- 14/9/1815 Mr F & family arrive Table Bay ' for the Cape' in 'Woodbridge' ex Batavia.
- 15/9/1815 Mr & Mrs F & family Permission to Remain No. 777, written permission.
- 16/12/1815 bapt. (Rev. Hewett) of Olivia Elizabeth, d.o. J F, Lt. Royal Marines, and Maria Cornelia Wilhelmina his wife, born 28/10/1815.
- 26/2/1816 Mr F with family & servant, Permission to Leave in 'Lady Flora' for England
- '10/10/1818 Lt. J F, half-pay officer, 'having the permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to reside at the Cape of Good Hope, and being about to embark with my wife & family for that Colony in the 'Lord Cochrane' on Monday next', applies for a grant of land.
- 2/1/1819 Mr & Mrs F & family arrive Table Bay in 'Lord Cochrane' ex Downs
- 9/1/1919 J F offering to sell £1000 worth of bills of exchange on England.
- 16/1/1819 death of his infant son
- Bought the farm 'The Grove' (99 morgen) from J F Kirsten (Transfer Ownership of property registered 23/4/1819)
- 7/8/1819 J F at 24 Loop St (office?)
- 18/12/1819 JF, The Grove, Wyberg, will prosecute trespassers on his property
- 25/5/1820 bapt. (Rev. Dennis) of James Arnaud Samuel Littlewood, s.o. Lt. JF
- 5/7/1820 J F & wife at The Grove, Beldhuyzen, with son, 3 daughters, l knegt (Robert Lowe), 1 prize negress, 7 slaves, 3 horses, 3 oxen, 5 donkeys, 6 piggs, 2 wagons, 1 cart
- 19/5/1825 will signed by JF & his wife, born Styne (Steyn?) of The Grove, Wynberg. Children: Maria Catharina, Olivia Elizabeth, Mary Anne, James Arnaud Samuel Littlewood. Filed 26/7/1825 (MOOC 7/1/96-52
- 6/7/1852 death of JF from Manchester, aged 47. - From: British Residents at the Cape 1795-1819 - Peter Philip - http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRAN...
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Arrived in South Africa on 4 December 1807 on the "Fortitude".
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- DEPOT KAB
- SOURCE MOOC
- TYPE LEER
- VOLUME_NO 7/1/96
- SYSTEM 01
- REFERENCE 52
- PART 1
- DESCRIPTION FICHAT, JAMES. WILL.
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- ENDING 18250000
- REMARKS FILED 1825.
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- DEPOT KAB
- SOURCE MOOC
- TYPE LEER
- VOLUME_NO 7/1/96
- SYSTEM 01
- REFERENCE 52
- PART 1
- DESCRIPTION FICHAT, MARIA CORNELIA WILHELMINA. WIFE OF JAMES FICHAT. WILL.
- STARTING 18250000
- ENDING 18250000
- REMARKS FILED 1825.
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Lt. James Fichat, SV/PROG's Timeline
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1778
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Manchester, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
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1809
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Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa
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October 28, 1815
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1817
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Vauxhall, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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1818
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Vauxhall, London, England (United Kingdom)
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1819
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January 17, 1820
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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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July 6, 1825
Age 47
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The Grove, Wynberg, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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July 7, 1825
Age 47
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St George's Cathedral, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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