Margaret Priscilla Pulford

Residence on marraige cert. given as Mt Pleasant. Consent of father: F N Hatley.

Marriage: Margaret Priscilla Hatley & James Bryan Pulford on 1/7/1896 at Mount Pleasant, Newcaslte. Witnesses F Rafter/Raptor & Thomas A Robson.

Civil DN: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91V-JWW2-6?cc=373...

Shot at by Stephanus Swart https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000176800561822
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanus_Swart#:~:text=The%20group%2....

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Stephanus Swart shot dead his wife Anna, once in the chest and once in the head, after he had
casually strolled into the home of Lukas Cornelius van Vuuren who lived nearby the railway station
in Charlestown. Then Swart set off to Volksrust.
Was he on his way to his mistress or to his lawyer, or was he fleeing the area? By then the whole
district was in pursuit of him. Margaret Priscilla Pulford neé Hatley, who was married to a local
General Dealer Store keeper, James Bryan Pulford of Carr Street in Charlestown, and one of her
younger brothers, Frank Nixon Hatley a local farmer who was married to Gertrude Olive Umpleby,
were wounded when Swart had attempted to hi-jack the motor vehicle that they were travelling in
on the road from Charlestown towards Volksrust, when Swart fired at its occupants. Pulford was
shot in the back, and Hatley was wounded in both his legs.