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The occupation:stone mason is probably how he met up with the Cuttings as his father-in-law owned s construction company(dressed stone buildings)

Hi! Westerwombat. yr post #94-I have seen the marriage of Elizabeth and Edward. It was in 1900. He was noted as 24 and she as 20, and her parents gave permission for her marriage. I think a James Landell was a witness and also a Cutting lady. Apparently Catharina (anicalouw) has noted a death (D/N?) for Edward-she states he died in Kalk Bay and is buried at the Methodist Church. I haven't looked for it yet.

Hi Catharina!
Edward Landells DOB is definitely 24 March 1876. This is confirmed as his birthday is noted as March 24 in our birthday book and his age as 24 on the marriage register(Kalk Bay 20 March 1990) . Edward probably came from Australia...not something we knew until last week! But Elizabeth was definitely born in South Africa, as her parents and siblings are all born here. She is named on her mother's D/N by her sister who completed it. I do need to do some more research on her. She is not in my direct line and I wasn't really sure of her existence until last week. My mother's memory is a bit hazy but she does remember Landells in the family as well as Vera having a sister whom they called Lizzie, but she does seem to be a bit of a mystery. Despite Edward and Douglas and Adelaide appearing in our birthday book, SHE doesn't! (?)She is noted as being 20 at her wedding in 1900. Could she actually have been 22 and be the Elizabeth I found being baptised in Wynberg in 1878? Or did that one pass away and when she was born (maybe on the way to the diamond fields) she was given the name(again)? I am not sure, but she is definitely part of our family, whatever. Our birthday book has Douglas' birthday as 2 December (as indicated at his baptism) and Adelaide as 19 December (I believe that is correct per the baptism, I just haven't recorded it yet). Anyway, great to hear from you! Let me know if you would like to hear more or you think of anything else. As I said before you can check out my tree on Myheritage and there is also a lot of Cutting info on family search. I am also on facebook. I tell you we all have stories to tell! I never met my father's father, although he was around. He was a piece of work, which makes doing THAT side of my tree a mission! Cheers!       

Westernwombat. Just wanted to add.....there is the perid when Elizabeth's parents went off to the diamond fields of Kimberley( where my gr gran was born) which could have had an effect on her mother's fertility. It was not unusual in those days to have siblings of such differing ages, but yes this needs further research.

Hi Westernwombat
I apparently will need to reply to your message on the public notice board because I am a new member-I actually came upon these posts by chance and I must say it makes interesting reading! I am only related to Edward (as we know him) through his marriage to Elizabeth, but I am therefore related to his 4 children and all of the Cuttings. Elizabeth was my great grandmother Vera's sister, although for some reason I did not have her as a definite sibling until a week ago and some sleuthing. I had to rely on my mother's not-so-good memory (she is 81 and in the beginning stages of dementia), but I do have Edward and his 2 oldest children's birthdays annotated in a birthday book which belonged to another sister, Lily and was passed to my grandmother. And they also appear in my grandmother's birthday book so she must have known them. Elizabeth's parents were Thomas Henry Cutting(b1860) and Elizabeth nee Ingham(b c 1860). Thomas owned a construction company in Muizenberg and built many of the dressed stone buildings thereabout, but prior to that he and his father (William Thomas) owned the omnibus company that ferried people from Cape Town to the Southern Peninsular prior to the railways being established. William Thomas grandfather, William was one of the first British Settlers to the Cape, arriving with the first party in Cape Town, prior to the (famous)1820 Settler parties to the Eastern Cape. William(PROG)'s wife was the daughter of a retired soldier, Robert Cooper. While I am in contact with a couple of Cutting descendants, as yet I have not been able to make contact with any with either the surname Cutting or Landells.