Clack at Komga, Eastern Cape

[patannk]

I am looking for a c. record...I saw it in the days of IGI batch numbers, but now cannot find it!

My grandmother, Amy Maud Maria CLACK was born at Komga, Eastern Cape in abt 1879.
I didn't think to search for any other family records at the time, not realizing their neighbours from Berkshire also went to South Africa!
Many years later, I now learn that another family, surname King, also sailed for South Africa about the same time. This was the surname of the family living on a neighbouring farm in Komga!
I would dearly love to learn if there are anymore Clack, King or Whitehorn recoords at Komga?

Living in hope...
Patricia.

[Neale1961]

Have you searched here for the names mention. There are numerous Clacks in Sth Africa
https://www.familysearch.org/en/

[garstonite]

Whitehorn
click on the green tree
good luck
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William Whitehorn
Born about 1820 - Stafford-In-The Vale, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Baptized 28 May 1820 - England
Deceased 3 February 1894 - Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, aged about 74 years old
 
Spouses and children
Married 16 August 1841, Stanford In The Vale, Berkshire, England, to Caroline ? ca 1824-1891 with
F Sophia Whitehorn 1841-
M John Whitehorn 1843-
M William Henry Whitehorn 1844-
M Daniel Whitehorn 1847-
M Frederick Whitehorn 1849-
M Albert Whitehorn 1850-1925
F Susan Whitehorn 1853-1920
F Harriet Whitehorn 1859-
M Nathaniel Whitehorn 1865..1867-
F Elizabeth Ann Whitehorn
M Noah Whitehorn
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familysearch has Williams marriage
Name   William Whitehorn
Marriage Date   1841
Marriage Place   Faringdon (Berkshire), Berkshire, England
Event Type   Marriage
Registration District   Faringdon (Berkshire)
Page   263
Volume   6
Affiliate Line Number   122
Registration Quarter   Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year   1841

Possible Spouse   Caroline King

[patannk]

I have oodles of Clack records (and relatives) collected and entered on my Ancestry tree.
After having a DNA test done, one discovers a number of close matches, but can't see how you are connected to them?
You then start spreading the net, adding branches to your tree, hoping to find how you are related?
Two people who share DNA on my mother's paternal side have mentioned a link to a Clack who married a lady with the surname King?
This is why I wish to access Komga parish records...I know my granny was christened there and there was a King family on a nearby farm?
Sadly, I was too young to ask questions about her husband and his family in England.
My mother was also young when her father died, so she only remembers he was raised by an aunt in Croydon, who knitted him prickly woolen socks, which she sent to him each Christmas.

[trish1120]

As suggested Familysearch.Org has records for the Clacks in Sth Africa.

AMY MAUD MARIA Clack bapt 13 Aug 1879, Grahamstown, Komga, St Paul;
birth 30th June 1879, Parents EDWARD/CAROLINE
Father a Carpenter.


Amy Maud Clack Sansom
Sex   Female
Age   87 (c 1879)
Death Date   9 Aug 1966
Death Place   South Africa
Death Place   Sea Point

As you likely know Amy was married twice to Charles WOOD and John Edward SANSOM

Trish

[trish1120]

Marriage;
Tuesday, Dec 31st 1878
EDWIN Clack, 21, Bachelor, Carpenter, Residence Komga
Caroline HOWES, 19, Spinster
Note with Step Fathers consent
Witnesses, Samuel Langley Cooper, Caroline Howes

There are several Clack/King Marriages on Familysearch.Org.

What time frame are you looking at?

[trish1120]

Edwin/Edwards Parents were GEORGE/MARIA

Marriage; 12 Oct 1837, Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire
George CLACK, Father GEORGE
Maria WHITEHORNE, Father DANIEL

1841 Census
Stanford, Berks
George Clack Junr. 23 Labourer
Maria Clack 25
Henry Clack 2

Nearby are lots of Clacks including George Snr and Family;

[patannk]

You are a star!

So, do I understand correctly...the christening took place at Grahamstown, but listed as resident at Komga? If so, I can look for King=Clack marriages.
I have a King=Whitehorn marriage that took place in Berkshire before the left, so l can look back  there too.
I would think a 2-3 DNA cousin to be the generation that left England and married at Cape or were married before they left? I might be quite wrong!/! 

Why this is so important to me, is this big gap in my life where my grandfather ought to be, but I know so little about him. I am already retired, so time is running out, so to speak, and my siblings are all older than I am.

[patannk]

I see online that St Pauls Anglican is a National Heritage site at Komga.
I knew very little about its history but see that it was founded as a farming centre in 1877, just 2 years before my granny was born!
Many thanks for helping me to learn more about her early life.