Monday, November 25, 2013
Townsend 1820 Settlers Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
The
Immigration Ship
Ship: RELIEF
Bound for: Table Bay
Departed UK: 25 Apr 1864
Date of arrival South Africa: 14 Jul 1864
No deaths on board
No births on board
Bound for: Table Bay
Departed UK: 25 Apr 1864
Date of arrival South Africa: 14 Jul 1864
No deaths on board
No births on board
Esme’
Bull – Ships Log
Great Great Grand parents
Thomas
Townsend of Lapith Birmingham England b ABT. 1822
Married Mary
Bushell
Wikipedia
Thomas Townsend, "England Marriages, 1538–1973
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Thomas Townsend
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10 Apr 1817
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Clifton Upon
Dunsmore,Warwick,England
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England-ODM
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Could
this be your great great grand parents? Possible if they had more than one
child. If this is the family then they had six to seven children. This is the
closest I could come to the dates. It also means that Mary was born ABT. 1797
and Thomas ABT, 1794. They would have moved from Warwickshire to Birmingham not
too far away. This is the same area where Dr Slater was recruiting immigrants
to South Africa for the British government.
Great Grandparents
Thomas
Townsend Born Lapith Birmingham England b 1837
Married? Anne
Maria Brooks
Thomas
boarded the barque “Relief” 12 July 1864
for Algoa Bay. He had with him two Bushell children bound John Bushell in Queenstown In the
Eastern Cape. These two children may have been the nephews and nieces of Mary
Townsend from a failed marriage, but this is speculation. However they were
related. The sole purpose of Thomas coming to South Africa may have been to
deliver the children to their father John Bushell, brother of Mary Bushell?
The
ship log does not say whether Thomas Townsend brought a wife with him, but he appears to have married a widow “Annie” Davy at a later date. She is said to have hailed from Plymouth
in England. She died on the 26 November 1896 in the Kimberly Hospital. Thomas
was a miner (see death certificate) so this fits in with the general picture of his life. Thomas died eight years later in 1904, in
Queenstown. Thomas probably retired there after moving around the country where
he died in John Bushell’s residence at the age of seventy years.
We
also know he stayed in Port Elizabeth but do not know for how long but was the
town where his son Thomas Townsend was born in 1884. Anne Brooks’ religious affiliation is suggested by other
genealogists to be Roman Catholic, born out too by the fact that her middle
name was Maria.
“I think we could
assumed Annie was Catholic as evidenced by it being carried on down the family
line. Not sure about Thomas TOWNSEND…”
However
Thomas Townsend was buried in the Wesleyan cemetery in Queenstown but his son
Frederick was affiliated to the Methodist Church in East London. Affiliations
are not something to get hung up about because many families changed churches
when the one they belonged to was not available in the area they lived, or for
other personal reasons.
Thomas
of Birmingham is listed as unmarried which in all likelihood means he never
married but if he was married and his wife died in 1896 as indicated it may
mean died unmarried as his wife had passed away. “Annie”, which we presume is
Anne Maria Brooks of Port Elizabeth was
born in 1858 in Plymouth and must have
come to South Africa with her parents. Personally I think she was born in South
Africa but her parents may have come from the UK. She was married in 1883 age
25, and Thomas Townsend was 46 years of age, a difference of 21 years.
Annie TOWNSEND
Birthplace of Deceased: Plymouth, England
Age: 38 years
Occupation: Housewife
Married or other: Married
Date of Decease: 26/11/1896
Place of Death: Kimberley Hospital
Children: Left blank
Other info: Left blank
Birthplace of Deceased: Plymouth, England
Age: 38 years
Occupation: Housewife
Married or other: Married
Date of Decease: 26/11/1896
Place of Death: Kimberley Hospital
Children: Left blank
Other info: Left blank
It must also be remembered that “married” can
have many different connotations. Personally I think that even though it looks as
if he was in a covenant the facts are speaking quite differently.
Genealogists,
in the case of Thomas Townsend, have assumed him to have died at the age of
forty. This is because they have assumed him to be plus minus two years older
than his wife, whose date of birth they know. This is common amongst
genealogists, to calculate a husbands age anything between 1-5 years older than the wife in the absence of
documents, but in this case the error was wide.
I
assume that Annie stayed in Kimberly as she would most probably had children
living there from her first marriage to Mr. Davy, which is why she dies there. Thomas
Townsend dies in Queenstown where his family, the Bushell’s lived.
>
This is installment #13 of the continuation of Port Elizabeth Methodist
> Records. Dates follow American convention of MMDDYY. Some of the
> handwriting was very difficult to decipher, so entries with a ? denote my
> best guess.
> > Microfilm# 1560873
> > Methodist Parish Records
> > Port Elizabeth Christenings: 1883-1906
> > Item 7
> Records. Dates follow American convention of MMDDYY. Some of the
> handwriting was very difficult to decipher, so entries with a ? denote my
> best guess.
> > Microfilm# 1560873
> > Methodist Parish Records
> > Port Elizabeth Christenings: 1883-1906
> > Item 7
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> Entry #36
> > Child: Frederick William TOWNSEND
> > Parents: Thomas and Anne Maria Brook
> > Born: 5/31/1884
> > Baptized: 6/3/1884
> > Child: Frederick William TOWNSEND
> > Parents: Thomas and Anne Maria Brook
> > Born: 5/31/1884
> > Baptized: 6/3/1884
From
the above we can clearly see Thomas was a Methodist but his wife was Catholic
as her second name suggests. The areas that he was familiar with in his life
appears to be Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, Queenstown, Kimberly.
LDS/JHB/2013
Christian Language Concepts Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
The Left censors Christian language and concepts that defined a great
culture
Special
to WorldTribune.com
"To paraphrase the twentieth-century novelist, George Orwell: words are a
conduit to thought; destroy the word and the idea dies with it.
If we no longer use Biblical language, we are ensuring that Christian
concepts will disappear.
For example, the key word “salvation” is now rarely used. The end goal
of human existence is to attain salvation rather than happiness. Hence, in
order to dismantle liberal arguments predicated on the happiness of the
individual, it is useful to recall that individuals may or may not be happy at
any given time; happiness is a fleeting emotion.
Instead, Christians have understood that life is often fraught with
suffering, which must be borne gracefully in order to attain salvation. When we
stop using the word “salvation,” we are enslaved to ideas that disregard the
afterlife.
The word “pervert” has also often been lampooned as judgmental. And, in
fact, it is because when we use it we are affirming that there is a natural
moral order and the human body is part of that order. Hence, acts that defile
the body are properly understood as a perversion of the natural order. When we
use this word we affirm both the harmonious nature of the universe, designed by
a loving Creator, and the absolute moral laws that He entrusted his creatures
to uphold. Indeed, some sexual acts are perverted; and that is, whether they
are done alone, by same-sex conjugation and even by men and women on one
another.
Liberals have also deliberately sought to bury the word “judgment.” This
is essential in order to promote the philosophy of moral relativism. Yet, the
Bible teaches us that in order to obtain salvation we need to abide by absolute
moral laws, which can be discerned by making judgments. This is necessary in
order to combat the notion that individuals are free to make a moral code at
their discretion. Christians need simply to recall that to judge is not the
same as to stone or inflict any other physical punishment, as was the custom in
ancient times. The oft-cited Biblical invocation “not to judge” refers to
leaving the ultimate assessment of each soul up to God. This is too often
misinterpreted as meaning that there should be moral relativism.
Other key words that must be used with confidence are “God,” and “His
son, Jesus.” From an affirmation of God comes the notion that each individual
is created in His image, rendering all life sacred. Furthermore, the divine
image means there is a powerful conscience in each person that is a guide to
the divine will. Finally, by loudly affirming the resurrection of our Savior,
we also state there is a singular path forward toward redemption.
It is important to return to the use of words like “good” and “evil.”
For decades, we have been told that this is simplistic; it is better to consider
how “complicated” so many issues are and how “grey” are the moral questions
individuals confront. But this is not Christianity: we are told in the Bible
that there is a stark difference between good and evil. Let us not be ashamed
to return to this more muscular use of our language.
Also, the Bible tells us to aim toward perfection — moral perfection
akin to the holiness of the Lord. This aspiration is beautiful and glorious —
and calls forth noble ideals, even though they cannot always be met. Nowadays, we
are told to wallow in imperfection as though moral perfection is impossible.
Yet, Christianity tells us the opposite: aspire to be pure and perfect.
We may fail along the way, but the aspiration is an affirmation of the
perfection of God Himself in whose image we are created.
And the opposite too, is now buried. Words such as “evil,” “sin” and
“damnation” are considered primitive, simplistic and old-fashioned. Yet, these
concepts are central to Christian thought.
The fear of evil and its consequences in the afterlife has been
abolished in order to make way for the permissive society. The only way to
combat the rampant hedonism and moral equivalency of our time is to confidently
use the words that have been used for centuries. When the love of virtue does not
work, the fear of evil and damnation can be effective to compel righteous
behavior.
Finally, the “Devil,” “Satan” or even “the demonic” is rarely invoked in
order to avoid appearing superstitious, archaic or a simpleton. Liberals have
succeeded in branding the language of faith as that of the uneducated. Instead,
Christianity is the highest form of thought and the greatest moral creed ever
created. It is primitive and simplistic to be ashamed of it.
Christians have been cowered long enough. We are often cajoled into
using the utilitarian, secular language that belies a materialistic view of the
world. The focus of our discussions is rarely on “the soul,” which conveys a
transcendent view of the world.
We cannot win the culture war if we concede first principles in our
language. It is therefore high time to use the powerful Biblical words we have
been given to smash the liberal creed that is destroying the central ethical
code of Western civilization.
In other words, liberalism is the handmaiden of the Devil. Resist and
smash this demonic ideology with the wellspring of truth, beauty and goodness
that emanates from Biblical language and godly concepts.
Grace Vuoto is the Editor of Politics and Culture
at World Tribune. The founder of the Edmund Burke Institute for American
Renewal, she is the host of American Heartland with Dr. Grace on WTSB Radio
Saturdays at 3:00. See show and archives at: the Grace Vuoto channel at WorldTribuneTV"
My Simple and Difficult Life Principles Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
My Simple yet Difficult to Live Life Principles
· I will love the lord my GOD with all
my Heart, Mind and Soul
· I will follow the 10 Commandments and
be quick to repent when I fall
· I will only Worship one true GOD YHWH,
which excludes all other religious belief systems
· I will show people of other beliefs
the love of JESUS Christ – I will feed them, clothe them, fight for them in
their weakness, and pray for them
· I recognise the power of GOD in my
life and that only he can Save me
· I am thankful and grateful for the
wife GOD has given me
· I am thankful and grateful for the
son GOD has given me
· I am thankful and grateful for the
friends GOD has given me along the way
· I am a Christian by the power of
JESUS
· I confess I have not lived up to
JESUS’ Holy name - I want to say “as Christ so me”
· I will TRUST in JESUS even in my
fallen state
· I ask Christ to deliver me from the
slander of my mouth and unclean lips
· I will not sit in the seat of
scoffers
· I will help the weak and the poor
according to my Faith
· I offer up my spirit to JESUS
· I have sorrow because I never
lived up to the name of JESUS, but I ask JESUS still to love me
· I will resist evil and do good
· I will never surrender to evil doers but
with my life
· I will never, never give up
· I will not give my enemies any space
· I am not alone
· I am victorious my enemies are
loosing
· I will be good to the weak and the needy
· I rend my heart over my sin
· I know how I should be according to
the fruits of the SPIRIT
· I am far from achieving the fruits of
the SPIRIT - I repent in JESUS name
· I grieve over the loss of my church
and my life in it - BUT GOD holds me in
his hand
· I grieve over the loss of my family -
BUT GOD is closer than a friend
· Be compassionate to all sinners,
especially those who repent as I am also just a sinner saved by grace
· GOD will Judge me
· I will not scarify my body with
anything
· I will not be a substance abuser
· I will use my hands for good
· Forgive your enemies because then GOD
can forgive you
· I am thankful for my family
· Do not fear death but the ONE who has
the power over life and death
· Love is the greatest gift
Friday, November 22, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
Pray for the Downfall of the ANC in South Africa
“New York New York”
New
York is the Central Business District for the entire globe and will remain so
for the foreseeable future. Billions of Dollars pass through this city every
year and is the pride of America’s people. It is also the epicentre of the
world’s cultural mix and expresses dynamic social views unlike anywhere on the
planet. If you want to meet America and the world this is the place to be.
My
great great grandfather met his sister here before heading on to London. One
could liken this city’s social interaction to an invisible spiders web
connecting many nations capitals, businesses, and social life. If you wish to
influence governments, writers, artists, filmmakers, just about anyone, make
New York the centre of your efforts.
Lately
local South Africans have centred their attention on influencing ANC cronies in
South Africa by staging ‘Red October’ marches across the country to stop the on-going
GENOCIDE targeting Christian Minorities
(see www.censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com ). The issue really is that no matter how well planned
and executed, the outcry has fallen on deaf ears.
Is
that surprising considering the ANC is completely Sovietized in line with their Russian Masters who have no quarrel applying
Syrian styled morality here in South Africa irrespective of the human cost. The
organisers of the ‘Red October’ event should keep this in mind whenever future
events are planned.
The
plan now is to take the cause beyond South Africa’s borders and stage events
within the business district of New York that the ANC would find difficult to
hijack or ignore. If the ANC don’t care, know this that we don’t either, but we’re
going to have our say one way or the other, and there will be others too!
The
idea is to find an art gallery or business who would be willing to hold a
photographic event for one week, preferably a sponsored event in a building close
to areas of influence. We could also have ‘Art in the Park’, or a human chain
with Tee-shirts which have pictures of lost loved ones, of the South African
Genocide.
Pray
for the Event
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