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Microfilm #1886513
Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Marriage Licenses: 1821 - 1884
Albany/Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa
Item 7
Dates follow American convention of MMDDYY
Entry #1A
Husband: George SCOTT, Staffordshire, 34, Bachelor, Christelyke
Wife: Elisabeth HART, 19, Kent, England, Spinster, Christelyke
Date: 9/10/1821
Entry #1B
Husband: Philip Richard MARILLIER, 28, Widower, Middlesex, England, Christelyke
Wife: Frances Jane Clarissa FORD, Spinster, 16, Essex, England
Date: 9/10/1821
- He was the second son of a Swiss businessman, Jean Frederick Marillier, who emigrated to England in 1783, married an English wife and settled at Homerton, Hackney, near London. Philip Marillier was employed in a family business in London, and decided to emigrate to the Cape after the death of his wife and child. He joined Bailie's party in company with the family of J.E.Ford, with whom he lodged, and a young surgeon of their acquaintance, probably Edward Roberts. Marillier married Ford's eldest daughter Frances Jane in 1822, and in the same year applied unsuccessfully for a separate grant of land in Albany. He was granted a share of the party's location in 1825. In 1827 he was appointed clerk to the Landdrost of Albany, and became clerk at Somerset a year later when the two districts were combined. He remained at Somerset in badly-paid junior civil service posts until his eventual promotion to Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate in 1842. He resigned in 1844 after accepting a private offer of employment that failed in the event to materialise. A subsequent business venture in partnership with his son-in-law resulted in bankruptcy. Mrs Frances Marilller died at Somerset East in 1865, leaving eight children: Frances Louise, Harriet Elizabeth (Hart), Frederick James, Ellen Sarah, William Henry, Emily Jeannette (Wienand), Richard Edward and Caroline Jane (Miller). Philip Marillier died in 1881 at the home of his daughter, Mrs Robert Hart jr, in Paulet Street, Somerset East. Letter of P.R.Marillier, 15.11.1819; CO 8452 no.128, n.d. (December 1822); CO 8541, Hayward's notes; LG 524 no.83, 8.2.1837; LG 541 no.1369, 4.6.1844; MOIB 2/1049 no.ll; MOOC 6/9/113 d.n. 2283/1865.
Microfilm #1886513
Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Marriage Licenses: 1821 - 1884
Albany/Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa
Item 7
Dates follow American convention of MMDDYY
Entry #1A
Husband: George SCOTT, Staffordshire, 34, Bachelor, Christelyke
Wife: Elisabeth HART, 19, Kent, England, Spinster, Christelyke
Date: 9/10/1821
Entry #1B
Husband: Philip Richard MARILLIER, 28, Widower, Middlesex, England, Christelyke
Wife: Frances Jane Clarissa FORD, Spinster, 16, Essex, England
Date: 9/10/1821
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