Hi Yvonne,
The two notes below should answer your questions.
Rgds,
Ian.
Notes on the Rail Journey:
1892 to July 1893 trek with BRADFIELD, WEBB etc.
On meeting Mr Rhodes at Kimberley January 1893, at his suggestion I
organised the "Somerset East" Trek Party consisting of 37 people, under
special conditions, "free Grants of Farm Land." The advance party I brought
with me from Vereeniging via the RAIL TERMINUS. We journeyed up through the
Transvaal. About May, my party consisted of
My brother Bob Carruthers, (18 years old was known as the "baby of the
column), (Dick) Edwin Bradfield (later to become my brother in law),
F.H.Paddock, Tom Lynch, E. Parkin, Forrestor Rorke, Alfred Webb, Jan Botha
with Charlie and Reuben Hiscock and their friend Theodore Caspareuthers, who
shared their wagon.
We were delayed in Pretoria owing to the issue of Permits and Passports here
Major Eyre and Richard Davies joined us. At Pietersburg we had to replenish
our supplies and buy fresh cattle, as our donkeys gave in. From this point
we took the old Hunter's road to the middle drift .......................
Notes on Phillips:
Render returned in 1869 & settled without his family where Morgenster
mission stands today, he lived there with the chief's daughter. Render was
there when Carl Mauch arrived in September 1871 & apparently showed Mauch
the ruins under the cover of darkness due to the unfriendliness of the
natives at the time.
George ''Elephant PHILLIPS'' an Englishman was in Matabeleland in the
1860'
s (trader & Hunter) in 1867 went S/East from matopo to find Zimbabwe . The
Rev. A Merensky in 1862 nearly made it to the ruins from the Transvaal but
had to turn back due to illness with his natives. Mauch more than likely
received the Information from Merensky on the whereabouts of the ruins
(Render perhaps saw it first !!!_)
----- Original Message -----
From: " Yvonne
my grandfather travelled in those days. By any chance would he in
1890/1893, travelled
part of the way from Eastern Cape by train and then on horseback or
wagon
to
Bulawayo. By any chance do you have the first names of the trader
PHILLIPS.