George Mills, 1785–1855 (aged 70 years)
- Name
- George /Mills/
- Given names
- George
- Surname
- Mills
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Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1841%2f0001865914 : accessed 31 May 2016 Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1851%2f0010424902 : accessed 6 June 2016 Text: Age: 66 |
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Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1841%2f0001865914 : accessed 31 May 2016 |
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Source citation: Note: The Dutch East India Company is in financial ruins. 29 January – Farmers expelled the officials of the Dutch East India Company and established an independent government at Graaff Reinet. 18 June - Swellendam follows Graaff Reinet and declares a republic under Hermanus Steyn. The Netherlands is invaded by the French under the leadership of Napoléon Bonaparte. A republic is declared by Dutch revolutionaires and the Prince of Orange flees to England. 16 September – British forces under General Sir James Henry Craig seizes the Cape Colony for the Stadtholder Prince William V of Orange. The republics of Graaff Reinet and Swellendam reject the British and the British army is sent in. The start of free trade was announced. |
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Source citation: Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region. |
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Source citation: Note: 17 March - The first British settlers arrived in Table Bay, Cape Town on the Nautilus and the Chapman. 1 May - The Albury reaches Cape Town bringing settlers to Albany, South Africa. They arrive in Algoa Bay on 15 May. 2 May - La Belle Alliance reached Cape Town. She brought British settlers to Algoa Bay. 4000 British settlers started arriving in Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), they settled in Grahamstown and along the frontier. |
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Economic Event
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Source citation: Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling. |
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Source citation: Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony. |
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Census
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Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1841%2f0001865914 : accessed 31 May 2016 1841 England - Census transcript - George Mills - Household
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Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1841%2f0001865914 : accessed 31 May 2016 |
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Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1841%2f0001865914 : accessed 31 May 2016 |
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Census
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Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1851%2f0010424902 : accessed 6 June 2016 1851 England - Census transcript - George Mills - Household
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Source citation: Note: The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often referred to as the Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal, was an independent and internationally recognised country in Southern Africa from 1852 to 1902. |
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Source citation: Note: The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje-Vrijstaat, Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province. |
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Death
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Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbpr%2fd%2fnbi02571333 : accessed 6 June 2016 |
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Burial
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Address: St John the Baptist
Religion: Anglican Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbpr%2fd%2fnbi02571333 : accessed 6 June 2016 |
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1785–1855
Birth: about 1785
— Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England Death: 1855 |
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1841–1901
Birth: April 1841
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36
— Gloucestershire, England Death: between 1891 and April 3, 1901 |
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3 years
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1843–
Birth: about 1843
58
38
— Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England Death: |
Descendants of George Mills
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Generation 1
George Mills, mason (in 1841), was born about 1785 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England and died in 1855.
He married Rachel …. She was born calculated 1805 in Rodmarton, Gloucestershire, England and died between April 4, 1881 and June 1881 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England.
Children of George Mills and Rachel …:
- Rachel Hart Mills (1841–1901)
- George Mills (1843–)
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Generation 2 back to top
Rachel Hart Mills, daughter of George Mills and Rachel …, was born in April 1841 in Gloucestershire, England and died between 1891 and April 3, 1901.
She married Frederick Matthews, son of Thomas Matthews and Mary …, between July 1862 and September 1862 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. He was born calculated August 1840 in Coates, Gloucestershire, England.
Children of Rachel Hart Mills and Frederick Matthews:
- Arthur George Matthews (1863–1937)
- Gertrude Mary Matthews (1865–)
- Sarah Thompson Matthews (1868–)
- Dorothy R Matthews (1871–)
- Laura E Matthews (1874–)
- Horace Fred Matthews (1877–)
- Ralph J S Matthews (1879–)
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Generation 3 back to top
Arthur George Matthews, gloucester Regiment (about 1906) and army pensioner, Hall keeper (on April 2, 1911), son of Frederick Matthews and Rachel Hart Mills, was born between April 1863 and June 1863 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England and died between October 1937 and December 1937 in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales.
He married 2 times. The first time he married Caroline Jane Lawn, daughter of William Henry Smithson Lawn and Elizabeth Ducy, on October 4, 1893 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. She was born calculated 1863 in Louth, Lincolnshire, England and died in 1895 in Malta.
The second time he married Jane
Jennie
Finlay, daughter of John Finlay and Catherine Hynes.Children of Arthur George Matthews and Jane
Jennie
Finlay:- Private
- Margaret Eileen Laura
Peggy
Matthews (1906–1993) - … Matthews (–1911)
- Private
- Edith Mary Matthews (1909–)
- George Victor Matthews (1911–1994)
- Private
Gertrude Mary Matthews, daughter of Frederick Matthews and Rachel Hart Mills, was born on May 31, 1865 in Gloucestershire, England.
She married George Williams, son of Private, on October 15, 1895 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England.
Horace Fred Matthews, son of Frederick Matthews and Rachel Hart Mills, was born on January 17, 1877 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England.
He married Agnes Mary Williams, daughter of John Williams and … Davis, on September 6, 1909 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. She was born on November 16, 1869 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Ancestors of George Mills
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Generation 1
George Mills, mason (in 1841), was born about 1785 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England and died in 1855.
