SouthAfrica01 - Descendants of Richard Hulley who was born Ecclesfield,Yorkshire in 1785

Notes

293. William Luther Hulley

Information received from Susan Hulley-Miller of New Hampshire USA Dec 2003.

A bit more information for you about William Luther Hulley. He was my grandfather. He married Ethel Wigget. My father's name was Horace Hector Herbert Hulley. He had several sisters - Florence, Thora, Millicent, May (not Mary) and Lulu (not sure what her real name was!). I believe he had a brother who died as an infant called James. William and Ethel were divorced at some point (she told my father his father had died, and he did not meet him until he was an adult), and married someone called Henry Miller. My father became known by the last name of Miller, although it was never legally changed. So his marriage certificate says "Hulley known as Miller". To avoid further confusion he registered all his children with the last name of Hulley-Miller. He married Philippa Gwyneth Jones from Cape Town.

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Ethel Wiggett

Information received from Susan Hulley-Miller of New Hampshire USA Dec 2003.

A bit more information for you about William Luther Hulley. He was my grandfather. He married Ethel Wigget. My father's name was Horace Hector Herbert Hulley. He had several sisters - Florence, Thora, Millicent, May (not Mary) and Lulu (not sure what her real name was!). I believe he had a brother who died as an infant called James. William and Ethel were divorced at some point (she told my father his father had died, and he did not meet him until he was an adult), and married someone called Henry Miller. My father became known by the last name of Miller, although it was never legally changed. So his marriage certificate says "Hulley known as Miller". To avoid further confusion he registered all his children with the last name of Hulley-Miller. He married Philippa Gwyneth Jones from Cape Town.

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294. Ernest Lupton Hulley

The name on his gravestone is UPTON ERIC HULLEY (DIMMIE) - information supplied by Ron Hulley.

527. Clarence Cromhout

1914 - born - information from Ursula Haupt.
1966 - died - information from Ursula Haupt.

299. Pearl Hulley Hulley

1935 25 Feb - married John Jarman at Pietermaritzburg

Died in infancy - dau Jacqueline Pearl - information from Valda Ryalls.

1937 03 Sep - son Eric Lovell born

1938 03 Dec - dau Valda Gail born

1940 14 May - dau Wendy Meryll born

1945 04 Mar - dau Gillian Sandra born

1947 28 Apr - dau Nadine Sharon born

1968 17 Aug - dau Valda Gail married Michael Derrick Ryalls

Unknown date - dau Wendy Medryll married Bryan Nuggins

Unknown date - son Eric Lovell married Pamela Hunkin

Unknown date - dau Gillian Sandra married Graham Hurd

Unknown date - dau Nadine Sharon married Claud Graham

1975 14 Jul - husband died at Pietermaritzburg

2002 19 Oct - died

2013 22 Jan - Information from Valda Ryalls
My mother Pearl was an afterthought and most of her brothers and sisters had children who were older
than my mother, and set up their own homes in different parts of South Africa. We lived in
Pietermaritzburg and for a short time at Umtentweni (during the war ).
My Jarman grandfather had come out to South Africa as a soldier (2nd Dorsets) during the Boer War and
had stayed on and made his home in Pietermaritzburg.
My mother was born on Esek and as such she came from the “bundu” (sticks - totally remote) Shopping
was once a year, and a bolt of cloth was chosen. This made up teacloths, nightdresses, bonnets,
dresses, table napkins etc until it was finished. Mom said with joy and loathing for all the items made,
but everything could be dated by the pattern on the cloth.
I have photographs - not many. One is of Grandpa Hulley, Ernest Upton and Edgar (his sons). Another
is of Grandpa sitting on a bench with a friend (unidentified) and a dog. Anotheris of my mother’s
grandfather - father of Mary Cavanagh ( who married Ernest Upton Hulley 16 Jan 1886. Grandpa
Cavanagh was a magistrate in Alice (Cape Province) and as such led a small force to help the British
Army during the Boer War. I also have a print of a photograph labelled Mom’s Paternal Grandfather. If
you are interested I will ask my husband to help me send them as computers always go wrong when I
am let loose on them.

John Jarman

1975 14 Jul - born at Pietermaritzburg

Died in infancy - dau Jacqueline Pearl - information from Valda Ryalls.

1937 03 Sep - son Eric Lovell born

1938 03 Dec - dau Valda Gail born

1940 14 May - dau Wendy Meryll born

1945 04 Mar - dau Gillian Sandra born

1947 28 Apr - dau Nadine Sharon born

1968 17 Aug - dau Valda Gail married Michael Derrick Ryalls

Unknown date - dau Wendy Medryll married Bryan Nuggins

Unknown date - son Eric Lovell married Pamela Hunkin

Unknown date - dau Gillian Sandra married Graham Hurd

Unknown date - dau Nadine Sharon married Claud Graham

1975 14 Jul - died at Pietermaritzburg

2013 22 Jan - Information from Valda Ryalls
My Jarman grandfather had come out to South Africa as a soldier (2nd Dorsets) during the Boer War
and had stayed on and made his home in Pietermaritzburg.

538. Jacqueline Pearl Jarman

Died in infancy - information from Valda Ryalls.

541. Wendy Meryll Jarman

1940 14 May - born
Unknown date - married Pamela Hunkin
2012 10 Sep - died

301. Louis Benjamin Hulley

1895 11 Sep - born at Rosival Farm, Mount Currie?

2012 02 Jan - Note by John Powell:
Microfilm #1926385 Mount Currie Birth Certificates: 1895 Item 4 Dates follow American convention of
MMDDYY.
Entry #125 Father: Francis HULLEY, European, 23, born Cape Colony, Grain Farmer Mother: Maria Magdalene (Magdalena) MASEMA, Batlapin, 22, born Cape Colony,
Housewife Child: Louis Benjamin HULLEY Born: 9/11/1895 Date of Marriage: 4/7/1893 Other Children: 1 son (living) Residence: Farm Rosival, Ward No. 7 Witness: Sarah MASEMA, Nurse

The Batlapin tribe, part of the wider Bechuana peoples and language group, were
settled in the north-west Cape Colony, western Transvaal and Orange Free State, as
well as southern Botswana. Taungs, Kuruman and Mafikeng (formerly Mafeking) are
urban centres.

Other information from John Powell:

KAB Source: Doc Type Leer Volume_NO 4/1/1479 System 01; Reference 4323 Part 1 Description: Mortgage Bond. Francis Richard Hulley. Starting: 1910 0000 Ending: 1910 0000

NABSource MSCE Type LEER Volume_NO 0 System 01; Reference 24794/1936 Part 1 Description: Hulley Francis Richard. (S/S Margaret; Born Mpijabi). Starting: 1936 Ending: 1942

According to his birth records, there was a brother older than him.

549. Anthony Wallace Hulley

1938 - born in Durban, Natal.
His family lived at 8 Raleigh Street, Greyville which in those days was a very "mixed" area. He wa an
upholstery-frameworker and died at the age of 21 in Addington Hospital.
1959 29 Aug - died in Addington Hospital, Durban, Natal.

303. Dorothy Rose Grace ("Gracie) Hulley

1913 29 Jun - born at Harding, Kwa-Zulu Natal.

1970 28 Oct - died at Harding, Kwa-Zulu Natal.

2013 15 Mar - information from a restricted source:

If her surname was Dixon in 1936 when her father died (she signed the death notice as Dixon), then the van
Niekerk children born before that date must have been illegitimite, or perhaps a mix-up of names occurred,
or perhaps Dixon children were adopted by her second husband, John van Niekerk. (VW) Why use the
name Dixon in 1936 when she had a van Niekerk child in 1930?

John Colin Campbell ("Sonny) van Niekerk

Information from a restricted source:

He and Gracie had three sons & two dauighters. Collin Campbell "Sonny" van Niekerk (a White Afrikaner)
was a bus driver in the rural village of Harding, Southern Natal. He was a man of fixed principles, very
caring and a good husband, father and grandfather.

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