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From: "Becky Horne" <>
Subject: [ZA] Putting the fun back into Genealogy - HOBSON
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:38:45 +0200


The grandson of Thomas HOBSON, Collins HOBSON (1731 - 1795) m. Ann
PICKERING and lived in Northamptonshire. They had the following sons:
1. George
2. John
3. James
4. Richard
5. William HOBSON, m. Ann CAREY, sister of the famous Dr. William
CAREY of Bengal and Professor of Sanskrit at Fort William College,
Calcutta. William and Ann HOBSON had four sons - Jessie, Levi, David
and William Carey. The last two were 1820 Settlers.

After their father, William's death in 1816, the family farmed at
Cottesbrooke as tenants of Sir James LANGHAM, Bart. William's widow,
Ann HOBSON, who was a very strong character, continued to hold church
services at her home despite her landlord's opposition. Sir James
wrote on evicting her and her family: "I shall never feel disposed to
surrender my farms and houses to those who oppose my wishes in matters
which I consider of the utmost importance. Besides, yours is a
conspicuous family and of much influence in the neighbourhood".

After the eviction it would appear that Ann HOBSON and her family
returned to her birthplace, Paulersbury, from where David and William
Carey despatched seed to their uncle in India, so that they must have
continued farming.

a. David HOBSON (1796 - 1875) immigrated to the Cape in 1820 with his
younger brother (a) William Carey (always known as "Carey") (1805 -
1870), who was only 15 years old. They sailed in the Northampton as
members of William SMITH's party and were allocated land at
Stoneyvale. David named his farm "Cottesbrooke" and Carey named his
"Salem".

David HOBSON m. Mary Ann (b. 1806) dau. of Thomas and Mary
Ann ROBINSON who came out on the Aurora. Their children were:

b1. Mary Ann m. Ebenezer BIGGS and their descendants still live at
"Wellfound".
b2. Phoebe Prudence m. her cousin William H.V. NASH
b3. David Edmund m. Harriet LEPPAN. He became a J.P.
b4. Hannah m. Mr. TEMLETT
b5. William Carey m. Elizabeth, dau. of the preacher, Daniel ROBERTS.
b6. Joshua m. Selina, dau. of Isaac HUBBARD, Governor of the jail in
Grahamstown. Lived later at "Wellfound" and taught all the children.
b7. Jesse m. Selina HUBBARD's sister
There are many BIGGS, NASH, and HOBSON descendants of these marriages.

a. William Carey HOBSON (David's brother) m. Susannah, dau. of Samuel
and Ann BONNIN, settlers, who came out in the Aurora. Their children
were:

b1. Sarah Carey, m. Richard PARKES and had nine children
b2. Ann m, William BERRINGTON (of Sidbury Park)
b3. Samuel Bonnin m1. Mary EDWARDS, m2. Anne CARTER. there were 11
children including the HOBSON's of Ebenezer.
b4. Jonathan m. Ruth, dau. of Settler Daniel ROBERTS. Jonathan was
born during the 1835 war. His mother, Susannah, heard that her husband
Carey, had been killed, but it was later found that the dead man was
Richard BLAND, her sister, Caroline's husband. Their two children were
William Carey BLAND and Sarah Ann BLAND who later married John Francis
SLATER.

The HOBSON brothers, David and Cary, Richard BLAND and John COMFIELD,
the artist were friends and came out together on the Northampton.
COMFIELD soon got tired of the rigorous life on the Stoneyvale location
and went to Algoa Bay. The other three persevered through the lean
periods, weathering the Xhosa raids and bad harvests. Carey then found
it necessary to earn a living firstly as a tutor to an Afrikaans
household and later as a "smous" trading in the interior and in
Basutoland, being one of the first white men to go there. He later
joined the Commissariat department of the Army, buying cattle and
grain for the Army from the Xhosa in the Neutral Territory. At the
onset of the Sixth Frontier War in 1834, Carey had a narrow escape from
Gualana Post when it was overrun by the Xhosa. In this war the three
friends served in the Albany Mounted Sharpshooters where they were
known as "The Three Musketeers".

Richard BLAND was killed in the Fish River bush. When the HOBSON
brothers returned to the farms "Cottesbrooke" and "Salem" they found
them both completely burnt out and they had to make a fresh start. The
first Settler to be killed on the frontier was Benjamin ANDERSON, a
boy of 15, who was murdered while herding cattle on David HOBSON's farm
in 1821.

Best wishes
Becky
Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Researching: HENWICK; HILL; HORN(E); MEREDITH; DEYZEL; LARSEN; WILSON;
LYNAR; HENNING; STERLEY; THECK; BEST; BRAUN, GREENER; GLANVILLE.

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