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From: "dpratt" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] 1832/3 Names in Cape Town
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:44:19 +0200
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Pat wrote:
> I don't suppose you would know, Derek, if Military chaplain's widows got
> pensions from the War Office or.......? His stipend/salary was actually
> paid by the Commissariat according to the liquidation and distribution
A/c.
> Regards and thanks
> Pat

Pat,
Perhaps a constitutional historian can help here. I must admit I became
very confused between military chapliams and civil chaplians when I was
researching my thesis. I gradually came to realise that the both were paid
by the government (which department I don't know - I suspect the Governor's
office - Commissariat). The one serving military bases and the immediate
area and families while the other in areas of large English speaking (and
therefore with typical Anglican arrogance) Anglican populations such as
Bathhurst, Wynberg, Simonstown, Cape Town.

I also came to realise that even after Bishop Robert Gray's arrival and the
setting up of "parishes" under a the bishop, that clergy slipped into and
out of "acting" chapliancies as often as they changed their clothes. I
suspect that the Government paid more and more regularly making chapliancy
(military , to the insane [Robben Island] or prison [Breakwater]) more
attractive than the pittance in collection from areas such as Woodstock and
the occassional payments from the SPG missionary society. [Aside: the
Anglican Church today is moaning how it has no money but this is not new in
Cape Town!] Actually this whole area of clergy in the Cape Town Area during
the 19th Century looks very ineresting - Ah perhaps my PhD subject!!!! more
in it than my other choice so far - Bishop Sidney Lavis [he who had a
township namd after him].

If anyone has any info on Sidney Warren LAVIS especially copies of his
sermons or anything written by him, I'd be very interested in them!

regards
Derek

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