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London and Middlesex / Re: Dr James Pawle 1820 Settler to Cape
« on: Tuesday 20 February 18 11:33 GMT (UK)  »
Wow yes!  I think most people would like to think that they aren't part of just general population.  There was a lot of speculation in the Eastern Cape about 'royal' children.  Still, you have a whole lot more information that I have.  My siblings don't seem to be interested in where we come from, so I am just searching for my own enjoyment.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Dr James Pawle 1820 Settler to Cape
« on: Monday 19 February 18 16:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Thank you for the info.  Very much the same that I remember from my father.  Although if I remember correctly she was a niece or more likely a great niece of Sir Francis Bacon.  It is very strange that there is so little on James Pawle.  Usually with family trees the females are less likely to be researched and the birth of males more accurately recorded.  You are correct about her drowning, but the story that I know is that she committed suicide by walking into a river.  How true that is nobody will ever know.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Dr James Pawle 1820 Settler to Cape
« on: Saturday 17 February 18 17:59 GMT (UK)  »
I found this conversation by accident after searching Dr James Pawle.  I am a descendant on the Van der Hoven side.  My late father started researching James and Jemima Pawle when he retired.  As far as family lore goes Jemima was older than her husband and she committed suicide.  How true that is I do not know.  Tom van der Hoven who also contributed to this discussion must be a cousin of or one of my fathers' cousins sons.  My father was Mathijs Wijand Pretorius 1928 - 1994.  His grandmother was Maria van Wyk (nee Van der Hoven), my grandmother was Anna Maria Francina (I could have the sequence of names wrong) van Wyk 1908-1999, she had two brothers Tom and Cornelius (Koekies), for some reason I think there was a third brother, and sisters Gwendoline, Olivia and Florence -  Diana

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