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The Peterloo Massacre 16 August 1819
Get PDFThe significance of this event in the decision of the British Government of the time to put into motion the emigration scheme that we know as the 1820 Settlement. This introduction to the screening of the film ‘Peterloo’ was compiled and presented by Avonne Pickering at our LAHS meeting in September 201
Obituary: Graham Dickason (1936-2020)
Get PDFGraham was born in Johannesburg in 1936, attended Jeppe Boys High, worked in Foreign Audit, Rhodesia Railways, Bulawayo (1954-1957) and then went to London (1957-1960) where he worked for a private merchant bank. On his return he became PA to the Mining Director and an Investment Analyst at JCI (1960-1967). He was General Manager of MPF Investment, the mining industry pension fund (1967-1998) and was Chairman and co-founder of City Lodge Hotels, 1985-1994
A member remembers
Get PDFRolfe Matthews, an Honorary Member of LAHS, joined the Society on his retirement in 1997 and now lives in Bathurst. He is probably a descendant of William Matthews, the 1820 Settler who settled at Salem and was its schoolmaster, but Rolfe feels this lineage has not been properly confirmed. However, behind the church in Salem is a graveyard where a lady called \u27Min\u27 is buried. “Aunt Min was my Dad’s aunt and I think I still remember her,” says Rolfe. It seems too coincidental that the famous teacher Matthews and his wife are buried there, too
New Local Publications
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Children of Hope / Sandra Rowoldt Shell
Nottinghamshire: Settlers and Locations in the Eastern Cape of Good Hope / Rob Smith
1820 Settlers and other early British Settlers to the Cape Colony / edited by John Wilmot
Cock tales on the Kowie / Sue Laburn Gordon in association with Ed Coc
Overview
Get PDFOverview of issue, containing:
Introduction
Border Historical Society Committee: 20/21
Editorial Committee
Monthly Meetings
Contact Detials
Subscription Rates
Chairman\u27s Report for 2020 - 202
From their Southwell to ours
Get PDFRob Smith of Southwell, Notts, England first happened upon the link between Nottinghamshire and our Ndlambe area while researching the history of the County House of Correction in the Notts Archives. Intrigued by the story of the Southwell 1820 settlement, he visited S Africa in 2016, meeting the Stirks of Southwell and some LAHS members
Trauma and slavery, Gilo and the soft, subtle shackles of Lovedale
Get PDFA recent study of sixty-four Oromo slave children from the Horn of Africa has provided valuable information of the children’s experiences from capture to the coast. In 1888 a British warship liberated a consignment of Oromo child slaves in the Red Sea and took them to Aden. A year later, a further group of liberated Oromo slave children joined them at a Free Church of Scotland mission at Sheikh Othman, just north of Aden. Two of the missionaries learnt Afaan Oromo (the children’s language), and, with the assistance of three fluent Afaan Oromo speakers, they conducted structured interviews with each child asking for details of their experiences of their first passage i.e. the journey from cradle to the Red Sea coast. When a number of the children died within a short space of time, the missionaries had to find another institution with a healthier climate to prevent further deaths. They decided to ship the Oromo children to the Lovedale Institution in the Eastern Cape, South Africa