Found the great-grand mother Henrietta Susanna.

I have been doing a serious amount of Data mining. Due to this I found a very tasty morsel.

DEPOT     VAB                                                                  

SOURCE    MHG                                                                   

TYPE      LEER                                                                 

VOLUME_NO 0                                                                    

SYSTEM    02                                                                    

REFERENCE 21471                                                                

PART      1                                                                    

DESCRIPTION          WELSH, JAMES. EGGENOTE HENRIETTA SUSSANAH (GEBORE BOOYENS).          

STARTING  19290000                                                             

ENDING    19290000

What this tells us is that James Welch, the father to Jessie. This is the second son of Emma, born in 1848. He died in 1929, which would have been 81 years old. 

He leaves behind all of his children with the exception of Robert who died in 1919

Now here is the exciting bit, there in an official document we have his spouse (eggenote) and her name is correct according to Jessie birth certificate. And here is the exciting bit. Her birth (gebore) surname was Booyens.

Thursday 16. Dear M, I am leaving here Sunday night. Be home on Monday. Jess. TO: Mrs J  Welch Rhodes Street, PG Harrismith OFS.

This has thrown open a whole kettle of worms. yes. I really did mean to mix my metaphors there.

This one description of a document description has answered all of the questions about the actual existence of this lady. She did not die un-mourned after Glorie made her way into the world.  She actually out lived him. This then makes sense of the letter that Jessie wrote about her travel arrangements and the fact that they were living in Harrismith.

I know have a bout a million new questions. How did an Englishman marry a Boer girl? Why are there no extra connection. I must now scour the box and see what I can find.

Did her parent dis-inherit her and that is why I wouldn't find out anything on her .... so far.

Does this explain the story of James harnessing 8 horses to the wagon and charging to Ladysmith to get away from a commando of Boer, what had he actually done.

Where did the two of them meet? Was she happy being there or is she the one that turned Jessie into a bit of a Bible pounding hellion?

Hopefully a better picture of this relative will eventually emerge. Her family will still fit within the parameters that I have set for this investigation. I may need to go back a bit further, but, it will still be when our relatives landed on this harsh continent.