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From: "Becky Horne" <>
Subject: [ZA] Putting the fun back into Genealogy - HOCKLY
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:03:05 +0200


a. Daniel HOCKLY, (1787 - 1835), m. Elizabeth MOORE (1791 - 1862), in
1811 in London and with their three children Daniel Thomas aged 6,
Elizabeth, 4 and Harriet, 3, joined Lt. Bailie's party of Settlers on
the Chapman sailing from Deptford and arriving at Algoa Bay on
9.4.1820. During the voyage the son, Daniel, died but a daughter,
Francis Chapman, was born off St. Sago, one of the Cape Verde Islands.

Several hundred descendants down to the sixth generation, scattered
throughout South Africa, derive from the original HOCKLY couple, seven
of whose children survived infancy - two born in London, one at sea,
and four on the Cape Frontier. These seven were:

b1. Elizabeth (1815 - 1875), b. London, m. Settler Daniel MAHONEY
(1807 - 1852) in Grahamstown in 1832. Later they moved to Cradock and
had three children. She was buried at "Lynedoch".
b2. Harriet (1817 - 1874) b. London, m1. E.J. TOWNSEND and had three
children, m2. William Dods PRINGLE of Lynedoch near Bedford, and had
six children.
b3. Francis Chapman (1820 - 1866) born at sea. Married a missionary,
the Rev. William ROSS, stationed among certain Behuana tribes at
Lekatlong (near the present Barkly West) until his death in 1863;
there were four children. She was buried at "Cullendale", near
Bedford.
b4. Alfred Moore (1822 - 1883) born in Uitenhage. Municipal
Commissioner at Cradock. Became a pioneer farmer near Philippolis in
the southern Free State. He m1. Jemima HUGHES and had 13 children, and
then m2. Jeanie AINSLIE - no children.
b5. Daniel Thomas (1826 - 1897) at school in Grahamstown. Was Mayor of
King William's Town, 1885 - 1887. Became a pioneer of early
Johannesburg. Married Jane BARKER and had ten children, but only five
survived childhood.
b6. Maria Isabella (1830 - 1908), born in Grahamstown, m1. James
BROWNLEE (who was killed in the Eighth Frontier War of 1850 -8153) and
had one child, m2. Edward HUGHES of "Ellesmere" near Burghersdorp and
had ten children.
b7. William Henry (1833 - 1918) born and at school at Grahamstown, and
the Salem. Became laird of "Cullendale" near Bedford. During the Eighth
Frontier War of 1850 - 1853 he saved the life of William Dods PRINGLE
by shooting two of the enemy in the act of attacking his already
wounded kinsman. Introduced Persian sheep and jackal-proof fencing to
the Eastern Province. Member of the Bedford Divisional Council and
later a Member of Parliament for Somerset East and Fort Beaufort,
1869, 1874 - 1893, and 1898 - 1903, and Chairman of Committees for
many years. He twice refused the Speakership. He m. Mary Isabella
AINSLIE and had eleven children, one of whom, Robert, became Member of
Parliament, President of the S.A. Agricultural Union, and Member of the
National Parks Board.

It is not certain that the family accompanied Bailie's party from
Algoa Bay to its location (called Cylerville) near the mouth of the
Fish River, at that time the Colonial Boundary, but by July 1820
Daniel and Elizabeth, with the three little daughters, had settled in
Uitenhage, where they remained for about five years. Daniel conducted
a commercial business, but being a qualified goldsmith, also indulged
in that craft, working in silver as gold was unprocurable at that time
on the frontier. His wife ran a school "for young ladies" - one of the
earliest to be established in that remote outpost of civilisation.

In the course of business operations the family moved to Grahamstown,
thereafter to Bathurst for a brief period, then back to Grahamstown,
and finally to Graaff-Reinet, where Daniel died on 3 May 1835, being
buried on the old Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery. Little is now known
about his commercial activities, but his skill as a silversmith has
been recorded in David HELLER's "Further Researchers in Cape Silver"
(Maskew Miller, Cape Town, 1953) where, at pages 50-63 and 122 are
listed the presently known and extent specimens of his work.
Connoisseurs, collectors and museums are at the present day constantly
on the look-out for further authentic items. During his fifteen years'
residence in South Africa, Daniel HOCKLY and a number of fellow
Settlers spent much time and energy, eventually with success, in
establishing the Independent (now Congregational) denomination on the
eastern Frontier, several churches being completed soon after his
death.

After her husband's death, the widow, Elizabeth HOCKLY, returned to
teaching, opening a school at Grahamstown in 1836, and founding the
first school at Cradock in the early 1840's. She dies 2.12.1862 on the
farm Lynedoch near Bedford, the home of her son-in-law, William Dods
PRINGLE and her daughter Harriet. Her tombstone may still be seen in
the family burial ground on the estate. Photographic reproductions of
original painted portraits of the old Settler and his wife are
fortunately possessed by several descendants and also appear in some
published works on the Settlers.

It is also worth noting that a great-grandson of the original Settler
and a descendant of Daniel Thomas of parent numbered b5. above,
Advocate Harold Edward HOCKLY is now recognised as the historian of
the 1820 Settlers as a group, having recently published what is now
accepted as the standard authoritative work on Settlerdom, "The Story
of the British Settlers of 1820 in South Africa", as well as several
informative articles on the same subject in various journals, and
having also delivered numerous lectures and addresses on the same
theme. He has also been Deputy National Chairman of the 1820 Memorial
Settlers Association of Southern Africa. He compiled "The Hockly
Family in South Africa, 1820 - 1964".

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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