Alfred Platt J. P.
(cal 1853-1937)

Alfred Platt J. P.

Born: Cal 16 Aug 1853, , Natal, South Africa
Marriage (1): Augusta Martha Smart on 29 Aug 1878 in Durban, Natal, South Africa
Died: 30 Sep 1937, Durban, Natal, South Africa aged about 84
Buried: Isipingo, Natal, South Africa

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Augusta Martha Smart

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

May have been born in England at Saddleworth in Dec Q 1859
http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=29638177&d=bmd_1329852393

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http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/35289309/person/19629425881?ssrc=

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS72-L3LF-W?i=97

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS72-L3J5-Y?i=96

bullet Death Notes:

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT NAB
SOURCE MSCE
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 26238/1937
PART 1
DESCRIPTION PLATT, ALFRED.
STARTING 1937
ENDING 1972
REMARKS SEE MSCE NO 288/40

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS72-L3LF-W?i=97

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS72-L3J5-Y?i=96

bullet Burial Notes:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS72-L3LF-W?i=97

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://uzspace.uzulu.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10530/825/The%20origin,%20growth%20and%20future%20of%20the%20borough%20of%20isipingowith%20special%20reference%20to%20enviromental%20ma.pdf?sequence=1

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS7P-2QCJ-5?i=756

• General Comment. Roads [in Isipingo] were not far from foot bridge of Island Tea-room. The majority of the roads were surfaced (Slayter, 1961). Street patterns started to develop in 1918 and the names of the streets depicted the history of Isipingo e.g. Emest Clokie road near Tiger Rocks, Clark Road, Dick King Road, and Ridge Road (Russel, 1972; Clark, 1972).The first motor car (owned by Alfred Platt, NU13 in 1906) later replaced the lsipingo Horse Tram service during the first World War.

http://uzspace.uzulu.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10530/825/The%20origin,%20growth%20and%20future%20of%20the%20borough%20of%20isipingowith%20special%20reference%20to%20enviromental%20ma.pdf?sequence=1

• General Comment. SIDNEY & LAWRENCE PLATT

These Yorkshiremen arrived in Natal within a year of each other, possibly attracted by cotton prospects in the Colony. Sidney, however, bought land at Isipingo in 1849 and Lawrence secured 50 acres near his brother's property, naming the farm Prospecton. At first the Platts, like many other early farmers, grew beans as a cash crop, but in 1852 Lawrence joined Mack and Birkett, also of Isipingo, in sending an ox-cart to Morewood at Compensation to buy cane-tops. Lawrence Platt's first mill, like his brother Sidney's, was ox-powered but they each soon acquired a steam mill.

Lawrence Platt died in 1886, and his work was continued by his youngest son Alfred, born in 1853, to whom he had given Prospecton at the end of the Anglo-Zulu War 1879. Alfred Platt died in 1938 - in 1945 the Prospecton Estate was amalgamated with Tongaat Sugar Co Ltd, with Cecil Platt, grandson of Lawrence, as a director. Cecil died in 1950, aged 68.

http://www.genealogyworld.net/rose/nuggets/pioneers.htmll

• General Comment. Alfred Platt was left in charge of "Prospecton" sugar estate by his father Lawrence Platt.
http://uzspace.uzulu.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10530/825/The%20origin,%20growth%20and%20future%20of%20the%20borough%20of%20isipingowith%20special%20reference%20to%20enviromental%20ma.pdf?sequence=1

• General Comment. Justice of the Peace.
http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C24584

• Occupation. Sugar Planter.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12391-175197-74?cc=2063749&wc=M9WM-PR7:n264645441

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Sugar miller and planter.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS72-L3LF-W?i=97

• General Comment. Copy of his mother in law, Mary Ann S. Jackson's Death Notice Filed in 25th March 1902 in RAB's possession.

Alfred married Augusta Martha Smart, daughter of Master Benjamin Smart and Mary Ann Smith, on 29 Aug 1878 in Durban, Natal, South Africa. (Augusta Martha Smart was born on 4 Oct 1852 in Durban, Natal, South Africa, christened on 12 Dec 1852 in Durban, Natal, South Africa and died in 1911 in , Natal, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• General Comment. Copy of the original marriage cert in RAB's possession.
They were married in a private house by licence.
Witnesses were and Arthur B Smart and M A Smart

• Web Based Info. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KDCL-XY9

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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12391-175197-74?cc=2063749&wc=M9WM-PR7:n264645441

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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11603-11476-7
They were married in a private home not a church.
Witnesses:-
Arthur B. Smart
M.A.Smart

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