Harriet Forbes Heathcote ¹ ^,2

Born: 28 Oct 1815, Hursley, Hampshire, England
Marriage (1): Right Hon. Capt. Honoratus Johannes Robert Maynier Van Ryneveld on 12 Aug 1840 in Oatlands, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ¹
Marriage (2): Ignatius Marthinus Van Rooyen on 6 Jun 1863 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Died: 28 Jan 1895, Diep Rivier, Cape Province, South Africa aged 79

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Right Hon. Capt. Honoratus Johannes Robert Maynier Van Ryneveld

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

http://www.1820settlers.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Genealogy&file=getperson&personID=I73345&tree=1

And

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=100368652467&lds=1®ion=0®ionfriendly=Africa&frompage=99

And

http://www.safamilytree.com/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I3368&tree=Primary

bullet Death Notes:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=100368652467&lds=1®ion=0®ionfriendly=Africa&frompage=99

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

• General Comment. 5th daughter of Vice Admiral Sir Henry HEATCOTE RN.

• Web Based Info. http://www.genealogyworld.net/settlers/correspondence/CO53-11%20South%20African%20Commercial%20Advertiser%20-%201855.html

And

http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+%210%3a135279+2-2-0-1-0

And

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Genealogies%20of%20old%20South%20African%20Families/page_02857.pdf

And

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Genealogies%20of%20old%20South%20African%20Families/page_02851.pdf

And

http://www.1820settlers.co.uk/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I73346&tree=master

• General Comment. ² The Heathcotes
Honoratius Johannes Robert of Graaff Reinet married Harriet Forbes Heathcote (1815 - 1895) in 1840, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir Henry Heathcote, K.C.B. of Hursley, England (Admiral of the Blue). They named their farm "Rynheath". Harriet was regarded as beautiful woman and talented, she was a good musician and spoke seven languages. She had come out from France to South Africa to visit her sister, who was married to the then Colonel but later General Henry Somerset. She met Natie at Oatlands, the Somersets' home in Grahamstown. Whenever she came to visit they landed at Port Elizabeth (Algoa Bay), and as was custom, she was carried ashore by one of the black servants. She was terrified as she never seen a black person before. Port Frances at the mouth of the Cowie is named after Harriet's sister, Lady Somerset.
Frances Sarah Heathcote (Lady Somerset) was considerably older than her sister Harriet. She married Henry Somerset in Boulogne in 1817, when Harriet and her twin sister, later Ann Forbes Sanford, were only 2 years old. Her first son, Charles Henry Somerset, was born at Oatlands in May 1819. The girls' father, Admiral Sir. Henry Heathcote, lived in Troyeville, France and wrote Harriet from there in 1848. From his letters he appears to be a mature Christian.
Ann, Harriet's sister, was married to Charles George Sanford, Assistant Commissary General to the Forces of the Eastern District. He died in 1843. Susan, another of Harriet's sisters, was married to Col. Thomas Donovan who was at the time in the Cape Mounted Riflemen. Mrs. Rademeyer was in possession of his Commissions first as Lieutenant (signed by William IV in 1833) and later as Adjutant (signed by Victoria in 1839) in the C.M.R.

• General Comment. Copy of her daughter - Susan Ellen Zondagh nee Van Ryneveld's Death Notice #23357 filed 6 Aug 1929 in RAB's possession.

Harriet married Right Hon. Capt. Honoratus Johannes Robert Maynier Van Ryneveld, son of Capt. Willem Cornelis Van Ryneveld and Maria Anna Maynier, on 12 Aug 1840 in Oatlands, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.¹ (Right Hon. Capt. Honoratus Johannes Robert Maynier Van Ryneveld was born on 1 May 1815 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ¹ ^,2 ^,3, christened on 4 Jun 1815 in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa, died on 24 Dec 1854 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa ¹ ^,2 ^,3 and was buried about Jan 1855.)

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

• Web Based Info. August 1840.
Married by Special Licence on Wednesday 12th inst at Oatlands, the residence of Colonel SOMERSET, R.H. Honoratus VAN RYNEVELD Esq of the Cape Mounted Rifles, second son to William C. VAN RYNEVELD Esq, Civil Commissioner of Graaff-Reinet, to Harriet FORBES, 5th daughter of Vice Admiral Sir Henry HEATCOTE RN
Graham's Town 12th August 1840.

http://www.1820settlers.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Genealogy&file=getperson&personID=I73345&tree=1

And

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Genealogies%20of%20old%20South%20African%20Families/page_02857.pdf

And

http://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/grahamstown-journal/62-gj-1840

Harriet next married Ignatius Marthinus Van Rooyen on 6 Jun 1863 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. (Ignatius Marthinus Van Rooyen was born on 28 Mar 1809, christened on 16 Jun 1809 in Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa and died about 1888.)

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

• Web Based Info. http://thepeerage.com/p42241.html

And

http://www.safamilytree.com/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I3368&tree=Primary

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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

Harriet Forbes Heathcote 1,2

Harriet Forbes Heathcote ¹ ^,2