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About Stephen Hart, SV/PROG
Occupation added as listed on son Henry John's baptism record
Baptism record noted here on RootsChat: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=100316.0
From the Sussex Parish Records (at www.familyhistoryonline.net):
Baptism 17/11/1822 Stephen HART son, born –/–/–
Father's Name: Thomas HART
Occupation: Bricklayer
Mother's Name Sarah HART
Abode: Newick
Parish: Newick St. Mary
Notes: T B Powell rector
Information about Newick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newick
1841 Census shows Stephen working as an agricultural labourere (although age is incorrect and surname mistranscribed here):
Name Stephan Haret
Age 15
Estimated Birth Year abt 1826
Gender Male
Where born Sussex, England
Civil parish Newick
Hundred Barcomb
County/Island Sussex
Country England
Registration district Chailey
Sub-registration district Chailey
Piece 1110
Book 3
Folio 23
Page number 8
Household Members Name Age
George Suggers 15
John Bannister 20
Stephan Haret 15
Richard Chasman 14
The actual record (see attached) shows that the family living at the farm are John and Jane Elliott, with their daughters Jane and Sarah. The others must all be workers.
Family legend says that Stephen and Edwin went out to the Cape on the ship the Vernon with Sir Harry Smith, landing on Dec 1st 1847, but so far no proof of this has been found. Certainly the dates seem to line up.
Marriage : "South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTWR-7SY?cc=1468076&wc... : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Cape Town, Rondebosch, St Paul > Baptisms, marriages 1836-1848, burials 1838-1849 > image 93 of 111; William Cullen Library, Wits University, Johannesburg.
Lived at one stage at 4 Wrensch Rd., Observatory, Cape Town.
Note: a very short pregnancy - married in January, first child born August!
Stephen is buried in Newlands Forest Cemetery - apparently a very beautiful spot, but now wild and overgrown.
Edit: 23 July 2023 > Burial Register, St Andrews, Newlands.
"South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NHK-K5Q3 : 3 June 2023), Stephen Harh, 1891.
Edit: In regards to the legend about Stephen and Edwin having come to South Africa with Sir Harry Smith has merit, however research overseas by Brian Wells and other family members locally in South Africa have yet to find proof of this. The actual shipping records at the National Archives in Roeland Street for this period only list the Captain and VIP Passengers, also the date of the 1st of December 1847 does not fit in with the marriage of Edwin Hart to Johanna Philipina Hendrina Kroissa (Kruse) in June of 1847, some 6 months before Sir Harry Smith arrived in the Cape Colony, although it can fit in with Stephen Hart who married the widow Johanna Magdalena Brown (Barchfeld) on the 31st of January 1848, both marriages at St Pauls in Rondebosch being the first record of the two brothers from Newick in East Sussex actually being in the Cape Colony.
Gary Hart, 27 November 2015.
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Stephen Hart, SV/PROG's Timeline
| 1822 |
November 17, 1822
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Newick, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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November 17, 1822
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St Mary’s, Newick, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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| 1848 |
August 7, 1848
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Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1850 |
June 25, 1850
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Newlands, Cape Town, Cape, South Africa
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| 1852 |
June 29, 1852
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Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1854 |
September 1854
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Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1856 |
April 14, 1856
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Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1858 |
November 3, 1858
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Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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