GENEALOGY OF PATRIC WILLIAM TARIQ MELLET

My mother, bottom-left alongside my father in this CHART 1 of my grandparents and great grandparents. [My paternal grandparents and great grandparents appear in the next chart after the text following the first chart.]

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CHART 1 – Maternal

MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS KHOE-ENSLAVED

& SCOTTISH-ENGLISH ROOTS

William Haddon (aka Hadden) 1808 – 1908 my maternal great-grandfather was of Scottish descent from Warwickshire who came to the Cape Colony as a soldier. After his demobilization he chose to remain at the Cape and first made his living as a hunter and then as a farmer.

He married a woman of the mixed Khoe and African-Asia enslaved community, Francina Susan Dampies 1835 – 1915, in the Kat River Settlement.

They were married in 1855 in Phillipton which was just recovering from an uprising against the British of the mixed Khoe-Xhosa and African-Asian Enslaved descendant community in which much had been destroyed. Phillipton was a mission town near Fort Beaufort (KwaMaqoma).

My great grandmother’s death notice in 1915 has her age wrong. She could not have been 94 years old as this is out of sync with her children’s ages. Also, on her marriage record it states that she is aged 20 in 1855, putting her birth year at 1835, making her 80 at the time of her death. On her marriage record she is named as Susan Duimpey but on her death notice she is Francina Dampies. Her parents were likely of the Damasqua- Gonaqua Khoe community – Adam Dampies and Sela Dampies. (See uncle Klaas Death Notice reference to “Hottentot”)

The Haddon’s had a farm in Cala, at the time not yet in the Colony but still part of the Thembu Kingdom. There is no record of what happened to the farm.

William Haddon and Francina Susan Dampies had six surviving children at the time of William’s death. Mary Anne Haddon-Huntley, Isabella ‘Bella’ Haddon Findlay, Francis ‘Fanny’ Haddon Genau, George Haddon, James Haddon, Robert Haddon. (The surname is sometimes written as Haddon and sometimes Hadden. They wee recorded as members of the ‘Coloured’ congregation of the Catholic Church in Cala. Francina Dampies Death Notice records her as ‘Coloured’. George signed his mother’s death certificate. I have copies of both William and Francina’s Death Notices and of their marriage certificate.

Their daughter, my grandmother (maternal) was Mary Anne Haddon (aka Hadden) 1879 – 1958 married my grandfather Willie Huntley 1878 – 1930s, an English soldier in the Boer War (Cape Mounted Rifles). They were married in the Catholic Church in Mthatha in 1903. I have their marriage record.

After the death of my grandmother in Queenstown my grandparents relocated to Kent Road in lower Wynberg in the Cape. They had six children. Some time in the 1920s, Willie Huntley returned to England and abandoned his family in Cape Town. Their children were – Mary ‘Doll’ Huntley (Clarke-van Rooy) married to Christian Clarke-van Rooy, William ‘Bill’ Huntley, Charles Huntley, Robert ‘Bob’ Huntley, Annie Francis Gladys Huntley (my mother), and Mabel Huntley.

DNA:

My maternal DNA haplogroup is mtdna L3e2b

My paternal DNA haplogroup is Haplogroup G-P303 (G2a2b2a)

PATRIC WILLIAM TARIQ MELLET

MATERNAL GRANDPARENT GENEALOGY

NOTE ON WILLIAM HADDON

http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/ViewRecord/683860?reference=arrowLinks

Great Grandma Francina Susan Dampies

Grandma Mary Ann Haddon-Huntley

Grandma Mary Ann Haddon-Huntley with cousins Louisa and Maureen

Grandfather Willie Huntley

Mthatha Catholic Church Marriage Record Mary Anne and William

Excerpt from an 1893 Journal – MISSIONS; Vol 31:No 124 – December 19893 reports on the division among Catholics into WHITE FAMILIES and “COLOURED” FAMILIES. The Haddens are listed among the “COLOURED” FAMILIES according to the mother’s classification rather than that of the father.

My mother’s sister Mary “Doll” Haddon-Huntley & husband Christian Clarke van Rooy

Doll’s sons and I – Herbie “Busy” van Rooy and Edgar snr van Rooy – the sailors

Myself with Herbie and Edgars children – Tania van Rooy, Edgar jnr van Rooy, Russell van Rooy, Carl van Rooy and Clint van Rooy

CHART 2 – Paternal

BOTH PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS

KHOE, AFRICAN-ASIAN ENSLAVED ANCESTRAL ROOTS

My paternal grandmother Elsie Petronella le Cordier (L0d mtDNA) is a mix of European, locally born Cape enslaved, Indian enslaved, Bengali enslaved, and Timorese exiles, as well as Khoe Cape indigenous people. The parents of Elsie Petronella le Cordier (paternal grandmother of 12 Sterling Street, District Six and after marrying my grandfather lived in 6 Sterling Street, District Six) was Elsje Petronella Nowland (Nolan) originally from Oudtshoorn, and Josef Michiel Anthonie (le Cordier) Cordier.

Elsje Nowland le Cordier 1863 – 1925 was the daughter of Christian J F Nowland (Nolan) and Maria Helena Meiring 1843 – 1931 whose ancestry goes back to Elsje Maria Smit van der Kaap, a locally born enslaved woman, and to Catrijn van Malabar an Indian enslaved woman, with Dutch and German male ancestors. CJF Nowland was a descendant of Thomas Nowland/Nolan, likely Irish, but no further information known.

Josef Michiel Anthonie le Cordier, the father of Elsie Petronella was a postal worker and a tailor in District Six (who remarried after the death of Elsje Nowland). His parents were Jurie Johannes Jacobus Cornelis le Cordier and Johanna Maria Tichy. Her ancestry was a mix of Timorese (Free Black exiles) Iba Anthonique and her parents Paai Ansoeboe Timor and Maai Inabe Timor and Bengali enslaved (Maria van Bengale) and Indian enslaved (Catrijn van Malabar and her daughter Maria Willemse van der Kaap and grand-daughter Jannetjie Vermeulen) and Dutch.

Josef’s father Jurie was the son of Anthonie Louis le Cordier and Anna Petronella Hartman ( whose ancestors were Dutch and German). Anthonie Louis was the son of Juriaan (Jurgen) Pieter le Cordier aka Cortje (French parents) and Susanna Voortman the daughter of a Khoe woman Catharina “Caatje Hottentotin” Mauritz Voortman and Heinrich Voortman (German).

In the 16^th century, the Mellet line interfaced with the sister of Susanna Voortman le Cordier, Anna Maria Voortman, and the brother of Susanna’s husband Juriaan le Cordier, namely Johannes le Cordier. Thus among the great grandparents in the Mellet lineage are lineages of the le Cordier-Voortman family too.

My paternal grandfather Pieter Francois Mellet II, was a postal telegraph linesman, raised in Lemoenshoek near Barrydale and was born in Ladismith, WC. He relocated to District Six in Cape Town at the age of 18 where he married Elsie Petronella le Cordier. His parents were Petrus Francois Mellet and Susanna Catharina Francina Steyn (Mellet). Besides her Khoe ancestry and associated L0d mtDNA, she also has a mix of African-Asian enslaved and European ancestry (French, Dutch, German, Danish, Irish). The Steyn lineage goes back to Marij van Angola and Maria Lozee van der Kaap, and to Maria van Bengale, Rebekka van der Kaap, Moses van Makassar, Sara van Makassar, Johanna Bester van der Kaap, and Anna Groothenning van Bengale (Myanmar/Siam/China – Golden Triangle area),

Pieter Francois Mellet II also has a number of other enslaved in his grandparent lineage – Catharina “Katrijn” van Malabar and Maria Willemse van der Kaap, Arendt van Makassar, Contantia van Bengale, Johanna de Rijk, Johannes Claasz, Helena van Timor as well as more enslaved from Madagascar, Ethiopia, and locally born in his broader family tree of Aunts, Uncles and Cousins (eg: Lijsbet van Malagasij, Lijsbet Fion van der Kaap, Lijsbet Arabus, Lijsbet Saunders van der Kaap, Gerbrecht Herbst van der Kaap); as well as two more Khoe – Krotoa van Meerhof and Petronella her daughter, in his broader family tree.

It is interesting to note that in a few instances going back in time Elsie Petronella le Cordier and Pieter Francois Mellet share the same enslaved and Khoe ancestors. Elsie Petronella le Cordier and Pieter Francois Mellet II have 26 enslaved in their grandparent ancestry, plus 3 Free Black Timorese, plus 4 Khoe. They also have many more enslaved in their Aunt, Uncle and Cousin ancestry. Besides the locally born or creole ancestry, there is Angola, Madagascar, Ethiopia, India, Bengal, Myanmar-Siam-China, Sulawesi in Indonesia and Timor in Indonesia localities from which the enslaved were brought to the Cape.

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