Charlotte

  Noted events in her life were:

• 1820 Settlers. Barbara Durlacher, in the second of four articles about early British settlers in South Africa, tells "My grandmother, a formidable lady, if old family photographs are anything to judge by, was - again according to family legend - a daughter of the Anglican Bishop of Ceylon - but despite extensive internet research, I can find no trace of such a bishopric, although it is possible that it fell under the Diocese of Calcutta. I have no record of her maiden name, so it is very difficult to establish the truth of this legend, but it certainly gives a taste of the exotic to the family history.
Another family story tells that Granny Charlotte was a passenger on the HMS Birkenhead and luckily for her, disembarked in Cape Town - [the internet tells me the ship only called in at Simonstown; but what's 25 miles between friends] and thence eventually found her way to East London and then King Williams Town."

Charlotte married William SYMONS. (William SYMONS was born in 1815 in Cornwall, UK, christened on 8 Jan 1915, died in 1918 in Kingwilliamstown, Cape and was buried in Kingwilliamstown, Cape.)