Hello Peter, I tried to send you a long email, but it obviously has not gone through to you. I have attached the information herewith below .. please stay in touch .
My sister in law is Georgina Tuckwell, I think you have spoken with her in the past. And I am the wife of Elgon Pennell Buxton.
I have been spending a lot of time in the Cape Town Archives
And have been trying to build our family tree, and find all the missing pieces of the puzzle
You are most welcome to look at MyHeritage Website, I have a site under McChesney – as that was my maiden name, and I am also desperately
Trying to find missing great grandparents in the United Kingdom and have hit another brick wall there.
Amyatt Cecil Frederick was born on December 25th 1906 in Willamore, Cape Province to Lillian Millicent Gradwell and Amyatt George Clay Buxton.
Mr Amyatt George Clay Buxton then went walkabout. She filed for divorce which was granted , giving her full custody of the minor child aged 8 (Amyatt Cecil Frederick Buxton).
I am not sure where she went to then, I know she stayed with her Parents in Bulawayo Rhodesia before the divorce, but either they died or could not afford to keep them. The court proceedings took from 1909 and was finalised in 1915.
He was also found guilty and convicted of theft for which he served 12 months in jail.
Next time Amyatt George Clay shows up in the records he has married a Bertie Janisch, who died in 1918 during the flu epidemic. They had two children George Frederick (My husbands father) and Arthur Pennell Buxton (My Husbands Uncle).
He then disappears again, and the two children are brought up with Amyatt George Clays brother Arthur Francis Chamberlain Buxton and his wife Disa Nerina Buxton (also born Janisch).
So it all rather interesting , and at times very hard to put together, we have been through the family bible and have tried to place everyone.
Today we have found, the grandfather who died being George Francis Hastings Clay who died in Fraserburg in 1891. I know his daughter Jane Ann Clay married Amyatt George Frederick Buxton
They had one child together, Amyatt Cecil Frederick Buxton . Jane Ann then married Dr C Edmonds , had 4 children with him, and then married a Mr H Ridley.
So we are moving on from there and trying to tie up where everyone else went to, or came from, as I would like the historical facts and sources.
I hope this is of some assistance, if you have any suggestions or assistance for me with the missing family, it would be greatly appreciated,
Kind regards Judy
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