Born: Thorpe-le-Street, Yorks
Died: Tickton Hall, Nr Beverley, Yorks.
Born: Bicknor House, English Bicknor, Glos.
Bap: 12.06.1910 at St Mary-the-Virgin, Eng. Bicknor.
DOD to be verified.
Born: Bicknor House
Born: Bicknor House
Born: Bicknor House
Born:
Married: 21.10.1861 at Maxey
Died: Childe Okeford, N. Devon
Born: Peterborough
Married: 21.10.1861 at Maxey
Died: Ross-on-Wye
Born: Mowbray
Died: Rosebank
Buried: Mowbray"Uncle John", "Grandpa seaside"
Born: Stellenbosch
Died:Born: Stellenbosch
Died:
Born: Carnan Downs, Cornwall
Died: MowbrayWas he the knacker? Did he set up the butcher shops, which developed into the tannery?
"Condition in life" listed on death certificate: "Retired Butcher".
Known as "The Major" "Grandpa Farm"
Led Cullinan's Horse in the Boer war, 1901/1902 and WW1. Awarded DSO for capture of the Boer General De Wet at Goodhouse in 1914.
TMC and AWC were both master builders, but TMC moved into geology. AWC built three DRC's: Lichtenberg, Ventersdorp and Hopetown (?) When he was building one of them, TMC asked him for a loan of 5000 Pounds to buy the farm from Prinsloo. He paid it back, but with no interest, and no grace! After that they hardly ever spoke to each other again! Just once, for 1/2 an hour in Vryburg, when they were both on the trail of General De Wet at the time of the 1914 rebellion. De Wet was trying to go to SWA to join the Germans, but AWC caught him at Goodhouse - which is how he won his DSO.
AWC was attacked by natives on Glen Red farm on one occasion. He was digging a well - or the blacks were. When they hit rock he would go down and plant dynamite and light the fuse, and they would winch him up in the bucket. One time they left him stranded in mid-air and buggered off, after he had lit the fuse! Luckily he was able to get out, put out the fuse, and shouted for help. His wife came and winched him out and they caught the blacks and shot them.
"Pum" was evidently the playboy and gambler, and drank also! Had farms in Zambia and on Kafue flats, where he tried to grow tobacco. Always looking for diamonds.
Born : Gravesend, UK
Died: Cathcart, CapeDEATH: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/5946/photo042.htm
DEATH: Biographical Information
DEATH: "Thomas Bates Cullinan and Eliza were fated to die young. He died at the age of 41 on April 4, 1879, in a tent on the railway works near Cathcart, a small town on the Queenstown-East London railway line... Several weeks before his death he had gone to King Williams Town to collect wages for his railway labourers. On his way back to Cathcart he was assaulted and robbed while he lay asleep under an ox-wagon... Tragically, he never recovered from this assault... Eliza died a year later in Grahamstown, on May 7, 1880, at the age of 40, apparently of a broken heart."
Source
Sir Thomas Major Cullinan: a Biography by Nigel Helme (McGraw-Hill, Johannesburg, 1974).
Born: London
Died: GrahamstownMarried: 1861 Strockenstroom, Cape
DOB between 1807 and 1820
Born: County Clare
Died: Seymour, CapeSgt, British 45th Regiment of Foot
Did he come to SA via India? Tommy Cullinan says that "our" Cullinans arrived in SA via India, courtesy of the British Army.
There is also a legend that one of the female ancestors was a survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta - but that was in 1756 or so.
According to Neil Mark Cullinan, James Cullinan was born between 1807-1820 in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland and died May 9, 1847, Seymore District, Cape Province, South Africa). He was a Sergeant in British 45th Regiment of Foot, from July 1837 to 1849. James married Catherine Halpin (or Alpin) (1817-1868). After his death, his widow, Catherine married William Henry Bates of Seymour, E. Cape, and they had two children, Mary Ann Bates and Catherine Jane Bates.
Born at Naas, County Kildare
Died: Seymour, Cape
Born 1840 - 1847.