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James Pennington
(Abt 1823-1880)
Margaret Jackson
(1821-)
Unknown
Unknown
Rev. George Edgar Pennington
(1854-1937)
Annie Susan Misson
(Abt 1867-After 1937)
Kenneth Misson Pennington
(1897-1974)

 

Kenneth Misson Pennington

  • Born: Sep 1897
  • Marriage (1): Ruth Francina Emma Frampton on 3 Jan 1923 43
  • Died: Jan 1974 aged 76
  • Buried: Balgowan, Natal, South Africa
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Spouses/Children:

1. Ruth Francina Emma Frampton

(+ Shows person has known children.)



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bullet  Birth Notes:

http://www.greytown.co.za/pennington.html

And

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT Genealogical Society of SA
DESCRIPTION Pennington, KM - Gravestone.
STARTING 1897
ENDING 1973
REMARKS Michaelhouse Cemetery, Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal.
SUMMARY + Kenneth Misson Pennington. Born 1897. Died 1973.

bullet  Death Notes:

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT NAB
SOURCE MSCE
TYPE LEER
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 603/1974
PART 1
DESCRIPTION PENNINGTON, KENNETH MISSON. BORN IN GREYTOWN. SURVIVING SPOUSE
PENNINGTON, RUTH FRANCINA EMMA. (BORN FRAMPTON). DECEASED ESTATE.
STARTING 19230000
ENDING 19750000

And

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT Genealogical Society of SA
DESCRIPTION Pennington, KM - Gravestone.
STARTING 1897
ENDING 1973
REMARKS Michaelhouse Cemetery, Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal.
SUMMARY + Kenneth Misson Pennington. Born 1897. Died 1973.

bullet  Burial Notes:

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT Genealogical Society of SA
DESCRIPTION Pennington, KM - Gravestone.
STARTING 1897
ENDING 1973
REMARKS Michaelhouse Cemetery, Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal.
SUMMARY + Kenneth Misson Pennington. Born 1897. Died 1973.

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

• Web Based Info. National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT NAB
SOURCE MSCE
TYPE LEER
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 603/1974
PART 1
DESCRIPTION PENNINGTON, KENNETH MISSON. BORN IN GREYTOWN. SURVIVING SPOUSE
PENNINGTON, RUTH FRANCINA EMMA. (BORN FRAMPTON). DECEASED ESTATE.
STARTING 19230000
ENDING 19750000

• General Comment. KENNETH MISSION PENNINGTON



Kenneth Misson Pennington: - 'KMP' '96 died unexpectedly in January 1974. The manuscript of his life-long work on the butterflies of Southern Africa was unfinished. Yet, during his life he had come to be held in such respect and regard, both as a schoolmaster and as a butterfly-collector, that within a few months of his death, plans were underway to pay tribute to him by publishing (this) book under his name.



Born in September 1897 in Greytown, Natal, he went first to St. David's School there and then on to Michaelhouse where he had a highly successful career both in the classroom and on the sports fields. World War 1 interrupted his career. He joined the Royal Flying Corps. was awarded the A.F.C. and mentioned in despatches during his service in Mesopotamia. After the War he went up to Oxford as the Natal Rhodes Scholar, gained his MA and B.C.I., and returned to Natal in 1923. He married Ruth Frampton in that year. They had grown up together in Greytown as children and their marriage was to last over fifty deeply happy and rewarding years. In 1925 he dramatically abandoned his promising career as a barrister at the Natal Bar to become a schoolmaster at his old school. The decision was not only to be of inestimable benefit to Michaelhouse, which he served for the next 34 years, but also gave him full scope during the school holidays to range far and wide over Southern Africa in pursuit of its butterflies. In his years of retirement at 'Yellowwoods', originally a Great Trek homestead near Curry's Post, he began to compile the manuscript of his book; but so great was his interest as a collector in breaking new ground, and so vigorous his health, that much of his time was still spent away from home 'on safari' and the manuscript tended to be neglected.



However, he had so inspired others by his boundless enthusiasm and willingness to share his unequalled experience in the field, that an extraordinary drive was soon underway to complete his life's work on butterflies, a drive, which has culminated in the publishing of this definitive work on our Lepidoptera.



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Extract from the Foreword of "Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa" the first definitive work devoted solely to Southern African butterflies: Illustrated with 198 plates in full colour this comprehensive record of no less than 780 species is unique in the world of Lepidoptera. (Foreword by his son Rex Pennington, April 1977)

http://www.greytown.co.za/pennington.html

• General Comment. There is an interesting article and a photograph of the family at:-

http://www.pmbhistory.co.za/portal/witnesshistory/custom_modules/TheWayWeWere/Legacy%20of%20the%20Penningtons.pdf


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Kenneth married Ruth Francina Emma Frampton, daughter of Henry William Lawrence Frampton and Ethel Mary Vanderplank, on 3 Jan 1923.43 (Ruth Francina Emma Frampton was born on 1 Feb 1898 43 and died on 11 Dec 1994 43.)

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

• Web Based Info. http://www.greytown.co.za/pennington.html



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Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years