Cliff Jones
08-10-2004, 02:40 AM
Hi All,
In researching my mothers HARDING family, a family which I reached a brick wall, at a point some time prior to 1869 -1870 in the British Cape Colony, I collected data for at least 4 other SA HARDING families described very briefly below.
Family (A) - This starts with a James HARDING, an agricultural labourer, who sometime about 1790's in Wiltshire, England. James married a lady with the surname Rackliff. The general area where family grew up Hankerton -Crudwell near Malmesbury. James, a son of the above James, in 1851 joined a British Government "assisted passage" scheme and he, wife, and 4 children disembarked ship in East London, Eastern Cape, I followed their settlements which over years split into two groups, one in Natal, South Africa, the other remaining in the Eastern Cape.
Family (B) - This family, to make life interesting for the genealogist, also started (as far as my research concerned) with a James Harding, at Durham, County Durham, and grew up in Newcastle on Tyne. A group consisting of parents and 5 or 6 children emigrated slightly later in the 1850's. This very numerous group spread out to the 4 major "provinces" of South Africa. the connected to many other British immigrant families, one even connecting to the interesting Cullinan family that gave rise to the naming of the famous Cullinan diamond.
The other HARDING families are smaller families one from South Wales, near Swansea, Bridgend.
More on HARDING's, various British Government "assisted passage" schemes, when time permits.
Kind regards
Cliff Jones
New Zealand
In researching my mothers HARDING family, a family which I reached a brick wall, at a point some time prior to 1869 -1870 in the British Cape Colony, I collected data for at least 4 other SA HARDING families described very briefly below.
Family (A) - This starts with a James HARDING, an agricultural labourer, who sometime about 1790's in Wiltshire, England. James married a lady with the surname Rackliff. The general area where family grew up Hankerton -Crudwell near Malmesbury. James, a son of the above James, in 1851 joined a British Government "assisted passage" scheme and he, wife, and 4 children disembarked ship in East London, Eastern Cape, I followed their settlements which over years split into two groups, one in Natal, South Africa, the other remaining in the Eastern Cape.
Family (B) - This family, to make life interesting for the genealogist, also started (as far as my research concerned) with a James Harding, at Durham, County Durham, and grew up in Newcastle on Tyne. A group consisting of parents and 5 or 6 children emigrated slightly later in the 1850's. This very numerous group spread out to the 4 major "provinces" of South Africa. the connected to many other British immigrant families, one even connecting to the interesting Cullinan family that gave rise to the naming of the famous Cullinan diamond.
The other HARDING families are smaller families one from South Wales, near Swansea, Bridgend.
More on HARDING's, various British Government "assisted passage" schemes, when time permits.
Kind regards
Cliff Jones
New Zealand