This is what I found today James and Emma have children, he dies and she marries again.
Emma was born on the 5th of April 1821 to parents who were part of the 1820 Settlers.
They were living in Bathurst in the Eastern Cape
Her father dies in 1834 when she is thirteen years old. He dies at a mission so where all of the settlers fled to when the various attacks happened. This may explain why she was in such a hurry to be married.
Emma was 16 when she married James Welch in 1837. She then has at least 2 children, Henry born in 1846 and then James in 1848. I think the James in '48 is our ancestor. this makes her 25 when she has her youngest. Obviously her husband is still alive.
The new question that I have is: Is the James Welch she marries the farm laborer that arrived in Port Elizabeth (Algoa bay) in 1821. He would then have been 45 years old. Had he found a women quickly and made more James Welchs quickly, so this progeny would have been of the correct age to marry a 16 year old.
We jump to 1862 and now she is a widow and getting married again. She has reached 41. Her oldest is 16 and her youngest is only 14. She now marries Donald Joyner. She has a girl with him and seriously original, calls the poor kid Emma, just like her dead sister. She also acquires various step children. She lives until she is 86. She seems to have been loved as she has a head stone that is erected in her memory. I see that she too was liberal with the truth. She made herself two years younger than she was for her wedding, which may imply that she was actually 88 when she died.
Emma Rogers was the one name that my mother had mythologized. According to my mother Emma Rogers was a women of extreme courage that followed her husband overseas to be with him. I actually think she left the bosom of her family and followed the crazy old coot up to the Free state Natal border to participate in the Anglo-Boer war. Having found out more, she was involved in the 100 year border war and probably watched her father being slaughtered during one of the skirmishes.
Why was she called Emma after her sister who died on the way from England to Africa in 1820?
The ancestors in England need to be followed up. I see that the relatives from the other Rogers are still in this country.
WELSH James ROGERS Emma 2 May 1837 Grahamstown Cathedral, St. George Anglican Marriages 1836-1849 7
http://1820settlers.com/genealogy/settlerbrowsemarrs.php?name=ROGER
Emma was born on the 5th of April 1821 to parents who were part of the 1820 Settlers.
They were living in Bathurst in the Eastern Cape
Her father dies in 1834 when she is thirteen years old. He dies at a mission so where all of the settlers fled to when the various attacks happened. This may explain why she was in such a hurry to be married.
Emma was 16 when she married James Welch in 1837. She then has at least 2 children, Henry born in 1846 and then James in 1848. I think the James in '48 is our ancestor. this makes her 25 when she has her youngest. Obviously her husband is still alive.
The new question that I have is: Is the James Welch she marries the farm laborer that arrived in Port Elizabeth (Algoa bay) in 1821. He would then have been 45 years old. Had he found a women quickly and made more James Welchs quickly, so this progeny would have been of the correct age to marry a 16 year old.
We jump to 1862 and now she is a widow and getting married again. She has reached 41. Her oldest is 16 and her youngest is only 14. She now marries Donald Joyner. She has a girl with him and seriously original, calls the poor kid Emma, just like her dead sister. She also acquires various step children. She lives until she is 86. She seems to have been loved as she has a head stone that is erected in her memory. I see that she too was liberal with the truth. She made herself two years younger than she was for her wedding, which may imply that she was actually 88 when she died.
Emma Rogers was the one name that my mother had mythologized. According to my mother Emma Rogers was a women of extreme courage that followed her husband overseas to be with him. I actually think she left the bosom of her family and followed the crazy old coot up to the Free state Natal border to participate in the Anglo-Boer war. Having found out more, she was involved in the 100 year border war and probably watched her father being slaughtered during one of the skirmishes.
Why was she called Emma after her sister who died on the way from England to Africa in 1820?
The ancestors in England need to be followed up. I see that the relatives from the other Rogers are still in this country.
WELSH James ROGERS Emma 2 May 1837 Grahamstown Cathedral, St. George Anglican Marriages 1836-1849 7
http://1820settlers.com/genealogy/settlerbrowsemarrs.php?name=ROGER
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