Family History, Dacombe Chart 0611 Charles Dacombe and Mary Ann Cook

1841 Wood Street, Walthamstow, Essex. Chart I was sent say "of Durban" 1850 On emigration Charles is shown on Passenger List but under siblings William and Joseph are show, did they travel with him? Can find no information for Charles but Chart sent to me shows 11 children but with very little information about them., the "of Durban" and comments on the chart make me believe they went to South Africa I have found a Family Tree on Ancestry.com. I have used their information (for which I thank them) and the information sent to me on a chart to compile this chart. Not all of the children listed on the Chart I was sent are listed on the Family Tree so still some doubts about order of children.) Picture of Gravestone for Charles and Mary available online. http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1724800. Excerpt from "British Settlers in Natal 1824-1857" by Sheilagh O'Byrne Spencer. For a short time in 1857-58 the Government offered grants of quitrent farms, and some Midlands people availed themselves of the opportunity of acquiring coastal land. Among their number were some Richmond and Byrne residents – James Arbuckle, James Ely, John Baseley, Joseph Landers, H.W. Cooke and Charles Dacomb who all settled as planters in the Umzinto/Ifafa region (so strong was their element, that in the 1860s there was an Umzinto contingent of the Richmond Mounted Rifles). The Duke's People an excerpt: Other early settlers were Samuel Strapp, who opened an inn, and the Dacomb brothers, who opened the first shop. C. Dacomb was later appointed the first Postmaster. Antony Pigg, the wheelwright, became a lay preacher and taught in the Sunday School, while John Bazley built a mill and dug a watercourse. Emigrated as Mary Ann COOK with her parents so not married in England but in South Africa, Henry William was Father Mary A Mother and children Mary A, Francis J, William and Maria. Picture of Gravesstone available online. http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1724800. Have found a Gravestone that give information for this child and therefore a rough idea of birth date, the chart I was sent had him as the eldest child. The family tree on Ancestry, does not show this child. The grave inscription reads as follows: In Loving Memory of Charles Wiliaml died 1st Jan 1906 Aged 48 years also his beloved wife Elizabeth died 19th January 1921 Aged 50 years, Sheddon Miller died 19th July 1904 aged 11 months Erle Raymond died 14th November 1958 Aged 59 years (at the foot of the Gravestone is the surname DACOMB, On the chart I was sent there are five children from the family one of them is down as Earlle Raymond which ties in with the gravestone, Sheddon Miller does not appear but possibly he was not known about as he died at 11 months, The Gravestone can be seen at http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1741571. A child without a birth date, I have placed him here as he died in 1879 as charts I was sent said he died in Zulu was of Fever this would mean he must have been born before 1863 the first date I have for a birth. Information for this child comes from the chart I was sent, the Family Tree on Ancestry says he was born 25th March 1899 but if he married in 1902 this cannot be correct. 1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. Elizabeth Lydia is down as wife but not husband with her. She is aged 38 born Natla. with her is a Panthenia M POCOCK and Aunt aged 65 Living on own means born Deptford, Kent. Then there are the following children all born Cape Colony who I believe are children of Elizabeth Lydia and her husband William POCOCK, Elizabeth D aged 15, May A aged 14, William A aged 12, Lewis G aged 10, John aged 9, Grace N aged 7 and Florence E aged 3. There were three servants with the family. Information for William POCOCK P. was the spokesman for the thirty pharmacists in the city. He was the moving force behind the establishment of the Cape Town Pharmaceutical Society in1887, helping to draft its constitution. This society was the second such voluntary professional pharmaceutical organisation in South Africa. He was elected the first secretary-treasurer, a position he occupied for several years until he was elected president. In addition he played a critical role in the establishment of a statutory body to examine, register, and discipline pharmacists, a function performed by the doctors of the Colonial Medical Committee. He twice gave evidence before parliamentary select committees dealing with the matter and used the local pressto lobby public support. A Pharmacy Board was established in 1892, modelled on the Australian system, and P., who was a government nominee to the first board, was elected president. He remained a member until his retirement in 1902. The system of pharmacy boards was also adopted by other provinces, and in 1928one National Board was created, performing much the same work as P. hadenvisaged in 1891.As mayor of Rondebosch from 1888, he was closely associated with the building of the town hall and library. He was the originator of the scheme which separated the village of Mowbray from Rondebosch in 1890. Later (1897-98 and 1910.13)he also served as mayor of both Kalk Bay and Muizenberg. He became justice ofthe peace in 1892.Active in masonry, P. was master of the Lodge de Goede Hoop. He was a multitalented musician and keenly interested in chess and photography. In 1898 he set up home in England so that his children could attend school there. However, he returned to the Cape in 1909. A shrewd, industrious, and capable man, his motto was reputed to have been: 'progress in harmony with the times'. In 1885 he married Elizabeth Lydia Dacomb of Durban and had three sons and four daughters. There is a photograph of P. in the Pocock Papers at the South African Library in Cape Town. M. RYAN There is a picture of the Gravestone of Caroline on http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1791091, this says In Loving Memory of their 2nd daughter Caroline Maria (Carrie) born 5th Dec, 1864 died 15th June 1925 "At Rest" (The second daughter fits in with information I have. On the charts sent their are three sons before Elizabeth and Caroline. Again there is a picture of the Gravestone on http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1724809. It says In Loving Memory of Alice Frances (Fannie) 3rd Daughter of Charles ?.I.A. Dacombe born December 6, 1866 Died April 12, 1910. There is a picture of the Gravestone on http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1724836. It says: In Loving Memory of Mary Ann Emma DACOMBE (May) Born 31st May 1869 died 20th May 1945 Sung unto the Lord a new song PSALM XCVI 1919 3rd June London Gazette South African Forces To be Officer of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order: Dacombe, Capt.. Leonard Sydney, Brit.S.A. Police This is the only child I have found no information at all for. The chart sent to me shown the information I have included above Now found something on the Web for this child, but the birth date of 1873 and the marriage date of 1883 does not really ring true as Emily would have only been 10 years old. They show the daughter that the chart sent to me shows Atholie Florence Miller MURRAY born 1906 Nottingham Road. I would think from this that the marriage either took place in 1893 or 1903 There is a web site showing the Gravestone of Alfred Edmund Dacombe and Alexanderina Ellen Munro at http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1724821. It says In Loving Memory of Alexanderina Ellen (née MUNRO) wife of Alfred E DACOMB, born 12th August 1880 died 16th March 1914 and of Alfred Edmund Dacombe born 16th September 1874 died 2nd June 1949 No birth dates are given on the chart sent to me for this family. So I intend to take the children off of the Family Tree on Ancestry as these have date, and then add the children not shown on this Family Tree, after these children on the Chart above. If then I find correct birth for remaining children I will move them to the correct positions. I will add information from chart and also Family Tree to the chart above. I must stress that nothing on this chart is from my own research.

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