George Robert Weakley ⁵ ^,13

Born: 6 Oct 1840, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Christened: 8 Nov 1840, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Marriage (1): Mary Tucker on 28 Jan 1862 in Bedford, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died: 7 Aug 1887, Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa aged 46
Buried: 1887, Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Mary Tucker

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1808996

bullet Christening Notes:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ahoneybun&id=I7313

bullet Death Notes:

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/247
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 1252
PART 1
DESCRIPTION WEAKLEY, GEORGE ROBERT. DEATH NOTICE.
STARTING 00000000
ENDING 00000000

And

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1808996

bullet Burial Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1808999

And

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1808996

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

• Children. They had 8 children.

1. Harry Weakley, b. 20 Jun 1863, Queenstown
2. Emma Katie Weakley, b. 23 Dec 1865, Queenstown
3. Annie Elizabeth Weakley, b. 1 May 1868, Cradock
4. Joseph Kinton Weakley, b. 12 Sep 1869, Colesberg
5. George Frederick Weakley, b. 19 Apr 1872
6. Burton Weakley, b. 13 Jul 1874, Colesberg
7. Francis Alwin ("Frank") Weakley, b. 6 Sep 1876, Colesberg
8. Mary Elizabeth Weakley, b. 2 Sep 1879, Colesberg

• General Comment. The governess to his children was Olive Schreiner [564] who in her memoirs describes him as a tyrant of a man. She left his employment because of an incident which she never disclosed but was on her way home the morning after the incident.

• General Comment. General Information via Gedcom File from LS.

George was the owner and editor of the Colesberg Advertiser.

George was declared insolvent in 1865 and rehabilitated in 1868

George lived at "Paradise", 9 Ventershoek Street, Colesberg when Olive Schreiner was a governess to the Weakley children.

• General Comment. At http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ahoneybun&id=I7313 there is more information.

• Occupation. Scholar - 1851 UK Census - http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=view&r=an&dbid=8860&iid=ESSHO107_1769_1770-0646&fn=George+R&ln=Weakley&st=r&ssrc=&pid=4677935

• Web Based Info. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ahoneybun&id=I7335

• Census: UK, 1851. http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=view&r=an&dbid=8860&iid=ESSHO107_1769_1770-0646&fn=George+R&ln=Weakley&st=r&ssrc=&pid=4677935

• General Comment. Copy of his son, George Frederick Weakley's death notice in RAB's possession.

George married Mary Tucker on 28 Jan 1862 in Bedford, Eastern Cape, South Africa. (Mary Tucker was born on 21 Oct 1838 in St. Andrew, Canterbury, England, died on 13 Jul 1902 in Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa and was buried in 1902 in Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa.)

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

• Marriage Contract. Married: 28 Jan 1862 in "Elizabeth Farm", Bedford, Cape, South Africa

• Web Based Info. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ahoneybun&id=I7314

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There will inevitably be errors and omissions and the whole purpose of creating this online record, is to invite feedback and corrections.
The data is specifically for non-commercial use and my clear intention is to build family records. The data may, therefore, not be used in any way for the purposes of financial gain.

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

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