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From: "Graham Dickason" <>
Subject: Re: Surname NORMAN in S.Africa
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:26:21 +0200


William Norman (53) & his wife Jane ( 46 ) together with their daughter
Maria ( 9 ) were settlers in the Cape Colony in 1820 - the ages given relate
to that date. William Norman was a Silkweaver from Devonshire and sailed as
a member of Capt. Seton's group on board the East Indian , but coming under
the overall leadership of William Parker who headed up the whole party of
settlers. Seton was a Captain in the Madras army. William & Jane Norman
helped found the village of Seven Fountains in the Albany District of the
Eastern Cape Colony. Descendants still live in the area. Capt. Seton chose
to remain at Clanwilliam & did not move to Albany when most of the remnants
of Parker's ill-fated party chose to do so. Seton obtained the grant of a
piece of land quite remote from the settler locations at Clanwilliam . This
was referred to as Diepkloof on the northern point of the Lammershoekberg.
What happened to Capt Seton afterwards , I don't know.
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Date: 30 January 1999 10:51
Subject: Surname NORMAN in S.Africa

>Further to my appeal for any knowledge of O'HALLORAN,
>another genealogical avenue via which I might increase my knowledge of
>Wife's ancestors could be family surname NORMAN, also from South Africe.
>
>It seems that there was a Major Edward NORMAN, Madras Native Infantry,
>(born about 1815/1820?)
>whose daughter Elizabeth NORMAN, (popularly known as 'Bessie')
>married Joseph Clanfergael O'HALLORAN,
>and between them 'begat' those several siblings mentioned in my very recent
>O'HALLORAN enquiry.
>
>>From what we know,
>Bessie's husband, Jos. C. O'HALLORAN, (born 7.March,1846 or thereabouts)
>was in the Mauritius Police in his earlier days,
>but seems to have been transferred out to Tobago
>(sister island of Trinidad) in the West Indies,
>where he was appointed Coroner and Justice of the Peace, around 1896.
>
>It was during this tenure in the West Indies that their son,
>Clanfergel Geo.Chantrell O'H.,
>met a young lady by the name of Margaret Emily HAY
>(Miss Hay was the dau. of the then Commissioner of Tobago)
>-this latter couple being my wife's maternal Grandparents.
>
>(Jos. Clanfergeal O'H. ended his days in Brighton (England?),
> (where he is buried) -in 1920.
>
>
>Anyone with any knowledge of the surname NORMAN could possibly contribute
>greatly to our VERY scant knowledge of 'Bessie' NORMAN and her (Mum and)
>Dad.
>
>
>Thanks again for listening !!
>
>
>
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