John Edward (Jan Daniel) LEONARD, a1^{[1, 2, 3]}

Abt 1791 - 1860  (69 years)

• Name	John Edward (Jan Daniel) LEONARD  [4, 5, 6, 7]
  Suffix	a1
  Born	Abt 1791	Limerick, arrive 1820, Londonberry, England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	18 Jun 1817	Fort Frederick, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape
  	During 1813, the Royal Garrison Company, formed specifically for Fort Frederick from soldiers already in the Cape, was established. As the Return of 25th June 1817 makes no mention of the Royal Garrison Company, it must be assumed that it had been disbanded in the interim. All four of the officers - Evatt, Slater, Fleischer and Gardner - were numbered among the sixty six men of the Royal Garrison Company who remained in the Cape after the dissolution thereof. Discharged soldiers and sailors granted permission to remain at the Cape: 1815 - 1824 Peter H. Philip
  Died	29 Aug 1860	Portkleys Kraal
  Association	Petrus Johannes (Pieter) TERBLANCHE (Relationship: John Edward Leonard managed the dairy on his farm)
  Notes	A soldier in the military. LEONARD John, discharged from Royal Garrison Company 11 Jun 1817 with "Permission to Remain #1482" Sources: 1) Cape Archive Ref. file CO 6055/2 2) British Residents 1795-1819 Cape - by Peter Philips 80 years, 4 months??? 69 years according to deathnotice? From: George > Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] John LEONARD . British Resident 1795-1819 Cape byPeterPhilips Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:24:42 +0200 References: In-Reply-To: H Lynn Your correct re #1, that is our ancestor, I'm curious though, where did you get this reference, I only got this detail about John Edward LEONARD/Limerick etc yesterday from his Death Notice that I found. FYI, John Edward had a son Edwad John, Edward had a son Nicolaas Jacobus, my great grandfather, his son was Georg Frederik and his son my dad was Nicolaas Jacobus. I'm now trying to get more information about John Edward, when he came over, which ship, what he did. I got distant family members that indicated that he stayed in Herbertsdale area, and is actually buried there, although his Death Notice lists Riversdale as where he died, I got John Edward Marrying Wilhelmina in George on 05 Nov 1820. The British residents just shows the John LEONARD being discharged, was at the Family History Center yesterday and made a copy of the page where he is referenced. I see below you've written Major and minor, what does this imply? Thanks G On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Lynn MacLeod >wrote: > Hi George > The reference in British Residents at the Cape is as follows: > LEONARD John, discharged from Royal Garrison Company > 11 Jun 1817 Permission to Remain #1482 (Cape Archive Ref. file CO 6055/2) > > There seems to be 3 early John LEONARDs in SA > 1. John b Abt. 1791 Limerick, Ireland x Wilhelmina Hendrica KEMP d 29 Aug > 1860 Riversdale > Children: > Deblij Maria, major, m. to Hendrick NIVEN > Edward Johannes,major > Jacobus Johannes, manor > John Daniel, major > Maurice William, major > Esther Catharina, major, m. to Nicolaas Jacobus DU PLESSIS > Martha Johanna, major, m. to Jacobus Hendrick JANSE VAN RENSBURGH> Gerardus Petrus, minor > Saly Susanna, minor > Petrus Philippus, minor > > 2. John b Abt. 1801 Ireland d 27 Apr 1843 Double Drift x Mary Ann > KILLARRAY > Child: Timothy > > 3. John b Abt. 1790 London x Elizabeth TYLOR (1820 Settler with Bailies > Party). This couple had about 8 children all based around Grahamstown and > surrounds. > > Looking at the above it would seem that your connection could well be with > No. 1 above.. > Take care > Lynn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "George" > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:40 AM > Subject: [ZA-EC] John LEONARD . British Resident 1795-1819 Cape by > PeterPhilips > > > > Hi allFound reference to the following on ancestry24.com > > How do I get in touch with Peter Philips, or get access to this Source? > > > > John Leonard > > Source: British Residents at the Cape 1795 - 1819 by Peter Philips > > Surname: Leonard > > First Name: John > > Entry Number: 2503 > > Page Number: 232 > > Source: British Residents at the Cape 1795 - 1819 by Peter Philips Londonderry is a county of Northern Ireland that lies between Lough Neagh and the Atlantic northern coast of Ireland. Londonderry is also the name given to the county's chief town which is both a city and a port on the River Foyle. 'n Verwysing op die internet oor die plaas "Potkleiskraal": 425/92 - Oosthuizen, Jacobus, 1712185017000, Potkleiskraal, distrik Albertinia, Landdrosdistrik Riversdal (Riversdal). Extract: "Leonard" (Bound Pages/writings) Source: Pieter Holden library - Voortrekker monument, Pretoria - Author unknown "Werk op die plaas Outeniquas drift, Riversdal vir Pieter Terblanche (getroud met Johanna Isabella Claassen) waar hy die melkery bestuur. Lord Charles SOmerset ken die plaas Potkleiskraal, distrik Riversdal aan hom toe , waar hy boer tot sy dood en waar hy begrawe is. Vier van sy seuns (jan daniel, william morris, petrus(Jack) en Edward John) het noordwaarts na die vrystaat en Volksrust getrek. *Johanna moontlik d.v Nicolaas en Martha Dorothea PIENAAR." 49) Volgens mnr. L.L. Tomlinson van Swellendam (onderhoud 10.10.1960) het die ou pad, wat nog sigbaar is, op die plaas Hessekwaskloof oor die roete van die huidige nasionale pad noordooswaarts gestrek en op die plaas Vaandrigts Drift oor die Riviersonderend gegaan. Daarvandaan het die pad oor Potjeskraal na die oudste pont kort bokant die samevloeiing van Riviersonderend en Breederivier gevoer, wat van 1757 in gebruik was, na die oorkantste plaas Het Voorhuys by de Leeuwenrivier, die geskiedkundige plaas van Hermanus Steyn, die ouere, en ongeveer ses myl van die Swellendamse drosdy. SOURCE: Reize in de binnen-landen van Zuid-Africa W.B.E. Paravicini di Capelli In die Kango is een van die mooi natuurverskynsels van die land in 1780 ontdek: die wonderlike kalkklipgrotte in die Swartberge digby die huidige Oudtshoorn. Die grotte, vandag as die Kangogrotte bekend, was op 'n plaas wat bekend was as de Combuys aan de Cango, die eiendom van Hermanus Steyn. Die ontdekker was moontlik ene Van Zyl. Hy het dit per ongeluk gevind terwyl hy 'n bokkie agtervolg het wat in 'n grot gaan skuiling soek het. Volgens 'n ander bron was dit 'n veewagter van Van Zyl wat beeste gesoek het. Van Zyl is toe met 'n tou laat sak in die gat wat die beeswagter gesien het. Source: http://www.praag.co.za/feuilleton-magazine-386/geskiedenis-magazine-480/3021-nuwe-name-vir-nuwe-sake.html I'm no good at that, just put in the name MILGENIRE in google and you will see it there, it is a yahoo message board. Military Genealogy Ireland. Annette I will see if I can send you an email with the address on it but will need your email to do that. Send me a regular email. codeannette@yahoo.ca George Leonard (View posts <http://boards.Ancestry.com.au/authorposts.aspx?uname=georgeleonardza&uid=01b9cc3c-0001-0000-0000-000000000000&uem=&rurl=http%3a%2f%2fboards.ancestry.com.au%2flocalities.britisles.ireland.lim.general%2f6855%2fmb.ashx>) Posted: 1 Mar 2011 4:59PM Classification: Query Surnames: LEONARD Hi there Looking for anyone that has information regarding the LEONARD family that stayed in Limerick late 1790's. They had a son John Edward LEONARD, born abt 1797, that stayed/grew up on Londonderry and from there relocated to South Africa, potentialy as part of a British Military unit, the Cape Garrison company which arrive 1813. G During 1813, the Royal Garrison Company, formed specifically for Fort Frederick from soldiers already in the Cape, was established. As the Return of 25th June 1817 makes no mention of the Royal Garrison Company, it must be assumed that it had been disbanded in the interim. All four of the officers ? Evatt, Slater, Fleischer and Gardner ? were numbered among the sixty six men of the Royal Garrison Company who remained in the Cape after the dissolution thereof. [8] Discharged soldiers and sailors granted permission to remain at the Cape: 1815 - 1824 Peter H. Philip
  Person ID	I205	LC Joubert
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Eduard LEONARD
  Mother	Daby LALA
  Family ID	F605	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Wilhelmina Hendrina KEMP,   c. 12 Aug 1802,   d. 1 Feb 1862, Portkleys Kraal  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Married	5 Nov 1820	George   [7, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Deborah Maria LEONARD,   b. 10 Jun 1823 + 2. Edward (Eduard) Johannes LEONARD,   b. 18 Jun 1825,   d. 4 Aug 1906, Witlaagte, Marquard, Orange Free State, South Africa  (Age 81 years)   3. John Daniel LEONARD, a1b5,   b. 19 Oct 1829, Riversdale, Cape Colony ,   d. 19 Feb 1910, Farm Dassieklip, Wakkerstroom  (Age 80 years) + 4. Maurice William LEONARD,   b. 1833,   d. 31 May 1915, Outeniquasdrift, Mossel Bay  (Age 82 years) + 5. Hester Catharina LEONARD,   b. 26 Aug 1836,   d. 17 Nov 1929, Slangfontein, Brandfort  (Age 93 years)   6. Martha Johanna LEONARD,   b. 20 Jan 1837,   d. 29 Nov 1909, Frankfort, Orange Free State, South Africa  (Age 72 years)   7. Gerhardus Petrus LEONARD,   d. 23 Aug 1922, Frankfort, Orange Free State, South Africa   8. Salomina Susanna LEONARD,   b. 23 Jun 1841   9. Petrus Phillipus LEONARD,   b. 7 Aug 1845,   d. 21 Jan 1928, Weltevreden, Volksrust, Wakkerstroom  (Age 82 years)
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2023
  Family ID	F396	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Occupation - During 1813, the Royal Garrison Company, formed specifically for Fort Frederick from soldiers already in the Cape, was established. As the Return of 25th June 1817 makes no mention of the Royal Garrison Company, it must be assumed that it had been disbanded in the interim. All four of the officers - Evatt, Slater, Fleischer and Gardner - were numbered among the sixty six men of the Royal Garrison Company who remained in the Cape after the dissolution thereof. Discharged soldiers and sailors granted permission to remain at the Cape: 1815 - 1824 Peter H. Philip - 18 Jun 1817 - Fort Frederick, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape Died - 29 Aug 1860 - Portkleys Kraal  = Link to Google Earth
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• Histories		Fort Frederick & The Royal Garrison Company During 1813, the Royal Garrison Company, formed specifically for Fort Frederick from soldiers already in the Cape, was established. As the Return of 25th June 1817 makes no mention of the Royal Garrison Company, it must be assumed that it had been disbanded in the interim. All four of the officers - Evatt, Slater, Fleischer and Gardner - were numbered among the sixty six men of the Royal Garrison Company who remained in the Cape after the dissolution thereof. Discharged soldiers and sailors granted permission to remain at the Cape: 1815 - 1824 Peter H. Philip
  		The Royal Garrison Company by Margeret Harradine

  
  

  Albums		John LEONARD born 1791 (1)
  		Fort Frederick (2) During 1813, the Royal Garrison Company, formed specifically for Fort Frederick from soldiers already in the Cape, was established. As the Return of 25th June 1817 makes no mention of the Royal Garrison Company, it must be assumed that it had been disbanded in the interim. All four of the officers - Evatt, Slater, Fleischer and Gardner - were numbered among the sixty six men of the Royal Garrison Company who remained in the Cape after the dissolution thereof. Discharged soldiers and sailors granted permission to remain at the Cape: 1815 - 1824 Peter H. Philip

  
  

• Sources

  [S637] WEBSITE, Royal Garrison Company - http://thecasualobserver.co.za/port-elizabeth-yore-fort-frederick/. During 1813, the Royal Garrison Company, formed specifically for Fort Frederick from soldiers already in the Cape, was established. There new officers were commissioned: Captain Francis Evatt, Lieutenants William Slater and Martin Fleischer and Ensign William Gardner. Returns of troops serving at the Cape were compiled regularly. An entry dated 25th August 1813 lists the 113 men of the Royal Garrison Company as being stationed at Wynberg. They must have been transferred to the Eastern Cape shortly thereafter as the entry of 25th April 1814 states that there were 140 men stationed at Algoa Bay. Four months later, the Company of 141 men included 10 sergeants, four trumpeters and drummers. The Cape Almanac of 1814 lists the officers of the Royal Garrison Company, along with those of other regiments. The Chelsea estate was granted for the use of the officers stationed at the fort on the 8th February 1815. A piece of land next to the vlei on the hill ? present day Trinder Square ? was also granted to them for use as a garden. This land was later ceded to the Rev Francis McCleland who, in turn, sold it to Alfred Jarvis. Up to 141 men formed the company until the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. The existence of the Royal Garrison Company at Port Elizabeth was short-lived. By 1815, with the Napoleonic Wars over, the British Government was anxious to reduce the cost of maintaining a large military contingent which was by then stationed at the Cape. There was no longer a need for a strong military presence at Algoa Bay as men could be seconded from those doing their tour of duty at the Cape. The Return of Troops in the Cape Almanac for the subsequent year shows that as at the 25th December 1816 only 135 members of the Company are based at Algoa Bay. By April 1817, the contingent is listed for the first time amongst the frontier posts, which would seem to suggest that the attention of the colonial government was now no longer focused upon foreign invasion but rather on the possibility of further incursions by the Xhosas along the unsettled frontier. As the Return of 25th June 1817 makes no mention of the Royal Garrison Company, it must be assumed that it had been disbanded in the interim. [S792] Register of Permissions to Remain, CO 6055/2 #1482 (Cape Archives). LEONARD John, discharged from Royal Garrison Company 11 Jun 1817 with permission and Permit to Remain #1482. Discharged soldiers who received such permits had almost invariably served at the Cape with their regiments for many years before they received their discharges from the army, and were granted permission to settle here. [S637] WEBSITE, Restorica - 20 - 1986 | https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/47120/Restorica_20_1986.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y. This unit had been formed in February 1813 at the Cape, with the warm approval of H R H the Duke of York, who suggested that it should consist of "a Garrison company of the invalid soldiers belonging to the Regiments stationed there (i.e. at the Cape), ... and that it should be established to the amount of 150 rank and file, commanded by a Captain, 2 Lieutenants, and an Ensign." His Royal Highness suggested further to Governor Caledon that this unit would not only be useful in augmeting the garrison, but might also provide settlers for the Colony. In practice, not all the soldiers in the RGC were 'invalids'. Most of them were veterans, who were approaching the end of their service in the army, and were 'marking time', so to speak, before their final discharge. Most of them, also, had the intention of remaining on in the Colony after their discharge. [S110] DEATH NOTICE - John LEONARD 1860, (KAB/MOOC/Vol:6/9/92;Ref:8133). [S54] DEATH NOTICE - Jan Daniel Leonard b.1829, TAB/MHG/REF:15325. [S589] WILL - CLAASEN, JOHANNA ISABELLA. WIFE OF PIETER TERBLANCHE 1841 1855 , (KAB/MOOC/VOL:7/1/225/REF:20). [S8] BOOK - Suid Afrikaanse Geslagsregisters, J.A Heese en R.J.J Lombard. [S637] WEBSITE, Royal Garrison Company - http://thecasualobserver.co.za/port-elizabeth-yore-fort-frederick/. [S18] FAMILYSEARCH, MARRIAGE https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSX8-1SW5-4?cc=1478678.