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About Thomas Gravett

Marriage : South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1840-1973, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-S93T-Q?cc=2821281 : 18 March 2022), > image 1 of 1; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa.

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https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/grahamstown-journal/1434...

Saturday 14 May 1881
WARRANT OF APPREHENSION
To the Field-cornets, Constables, Police Officers and other Officers of the Law proper to the execution of Criminal Warrants.
Whereas from information taken upon oath before me, there are reasonable grounds of suspicion against Thomas GRAVETT, a Wagon Conductor, of Kockstadt, that he did, some time in the month of November last, 1880, commit the crime of Theft.
These are therefore, in Her Majesty’s name, to command you that immediately upon sight hereof you apprehend and bring the said Thomas GRAVETT, or cause him to be apprehended and brought before me, to be examined and to answer to the said information, and to be further dealt with according to Law.
Given under my hand at Grahamstown this 13th day of May 1881
C.H.HUNTLEY
Res.Mag. for Albany
DESCRIPTION OF THOMAS GRAVETT
European – speaks English, Dutch and Kafir; age – about 40 years; height 5ft 10in; hair, moustache and beard - sandy; eyes light; stoops a little in the shoulders; was born in Lower Albany, or Albany; has served as a private in the C.M. Rifles, also in Ferreira’s Horse.

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Thomas Gravett's Timeline

1835
June 14, 1835
1863
October 28, 1863
Alexandria, Cape, South Africa
1865
August 22, 1865
Somerset East, Cape, South Africa
1867
August 18, 1867
1867
1869
January 30, 1869
Somerset East, Cape, South Africa
1873
April 4, 1873
Somerset East, Cape, South Africa
1876
1876
Age 40
Somerset East, Western District, EC, South Africa