Traceys of South Africa
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A list of men, retired to
pension (as opposed to dead or dishonourably discharged), who elected to remain
at the Cape, from 1818 to 1826, whose names are listed in WO 23/147 at The
National Archives, Kew.
Patrick Tracey, 25 Dragoons, 40 years, St. Mary,
Wexford, 17/3/1819
This is a selection of
information on the page. Also included may be: date of admission, physical
description, length and type of service, rate of pension, (rarely) date of
death and, sometimes, further notes. These are only men who stayed in SA,
others remained in, for instance, Sierra Leone, Canada, India and Corfu.
Nothing was very standard at this time: English County names generally end in
`s.` ie ..shire, except for Oxon
(Oxfordshire) and Salop (Shropshire). You may have to try some odd spellings:
look at where Lewis Oliver was born.
British Army Pensioners in South Africa 19th Century
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Name |
Pension Awarded |
Unit/Regiment |
Residence |
Source |
Volume |
Page |
Index No. |
Died |
Death Place |
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Patrick Tracey |
17 Mar 1819 |
25th Dragoons |
Cape |
WO120 |
35 |
37 |
151 |
26th Dragoons, 17th March 1819, see Report D.D.6308,
Patk Tracey, 40 years, 70
& 75 foot, 11 6/12 & 6 10/12, 15 4/12 East Indies, total 26 years, 1.0
rate of pay, fractured leg on duty, born St. Mary's Wexford, locksmith, Cape of
Good Hope.
21st
December, 1827 Cape Of Good Hope Government Gazette
Arrivals In Simon’s Bay...Dec 18, His Majesty’s Ship
Samarang...Passengers – Captain J. [Joshua?] Treacy, R.N...
British War
Office - Chelsea Hospital 1787-1854
PETER TRACEY Born BALLYBOY, Offaly Served in 75th Foot Regiment; 91st
Foot Regiment Discharged aged 39, 1827-1848
Peter Tracey, b. 1808, Frankford, Kings
(Offaly)
Peter Tracy, Ballyboy, Frankford, King's
[Offaly] Ireland [WO 23]
Regiments: 91st
Foot; 75th Foot
Rank: Serjeant
Age: 39
Foreign service: Cape 17 5/12
Character: Good
Trade: Laborer
Height - feet: 5
Height - inches: 9
Hair: black
Eyes: brown
Complexion: fresh
Regimental surgeons report: Varix of right leg and rheumatism
Place of residence: Cape of Good Hope
Permission to reside: 6 June 1848
British Army Pensioners in South Africa
19th Century
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Name |
Pension Awarded |
Unit/Regiment |
Residence |
Source |
Volume |
Page |
Index No. |
Died |
Death Place |
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Peter Tracy |
6 Jun 1848 |
91st Foot |
Auckland, Cape |
WO120 |
70 |
113 |
6220 |
1851 |
Kaffir Wars 1834 - 1853
John Tracey, Gunner
or Driver 3rd Company 7th Bn. R.A. Kaffir Wars 1834 - 1853 Served at Boemplaats
M Tracey, Assistant Storeke The Commissariat Kaffir Wars 1834
- 1853
George C. Tracy,
Private Cape Mounted Rifles Kaffir Wars 1834 - 1853
Peter Treacy, Private 2nd Foot (The
Queen's Royal) 3rd Kaffir War 1850 - 1853
'A visit to Cape Town in
1838' by Henry Tracey, edited by Anna M. Cunningham, was published in
Johannesburg, 1980. Henry Tracey
Assistant Surgeon on H.M.S. 'Melville'.
A119 TRACEY, Henry -1840 (Assistant
Surgeon on H.M.S. 'Melville').
Diary, 1838 Mar-Dec. 43p. Hg.
Describes a stay in Cape Town
when the 'Melville' went to St. Helena and Tracey remained behind to look after
the Admiral's family, the dockyard officers and men left behind from the 'Melville'.
He comments on the social customs of Cape Town and the Malay Khalifah ceremony.
Included are sketches of Farmer Peck's Inn, Muizenberg, called 'The Gentle
Shepherd', Newlands House, Wynberg Church, Cape Flats and a water-colour of
Simon's Town Martello Tower and Battery.
SURNAME LIST - ESME BULL:
AIDED IMMIGRATION FROM BRITAIN TO SOUTH AFRICA 1857-1867
SORT #,
SURNAME, PAGE #
2284, TREACY, 576
2615, TRACY, 651, Annexure 1 - List of Irish
Immigrants on the Barossa, 1823
Denis Tracy, 17, Shoemakers boy
2796, TRERY, 662, Children's Friend Society. List of
Names
Trery, William John (GH 23/15)
2280, TRACE,
576,
2281, TRACEY,
576
2282, TRACY, 576
3642, TRACEY,
704, British Settlers 1848-1851
4528, TRACEY, 758, Emigrants to New Zealand and
Australia
` Frances Tracey (29), Farm servant,
Sir George Grey
British Civil Service
Evidence Of Age
Ernest
Musson Tracey, born 1872 Clarendon, Cape Of Good Hope Cape Province South
Africa
1881 Photograph
Captain
T Tilney, Civil Commissioner and Resident
Magistrate, Swellendam and his staff. From left to right: L Tilney, Attorney, RE Ferris, Clerk and Mr.
Wilson, Law Agent. Middle row from left
to right: Dr. J Shand, District Surgeon,
Captain T Tilney, Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate, G Blackhall, Assistant Resident
Magistrate and Dr. Gray, Secretary,
Divisional Council. Back row from left
to right: Chief Constable H Herbst, Constable Thom, Constable Tracey [see Andrew Tracey below],
Constable Smith and Gaoler B Harris.
National
Archives of South Africa (NASA)
26th January 1882 Cape
Times
Richard
Elliott Tracey (of Wellington) to Laura Anne Clayton on 24th January 1882 at
Cape Town
2nd October 1883 Cape
Times
John
Gilpin (of Glasgow, Scotland) to Emma Elizabeth Tracey (2nd Daughter of Richard
Tracey, of Plymouth, Devonshire, England) On 27th September 1883 At Cape Town
April 5 1886 -
Arrival
Tartar
Southampton Travers. From England and Cape Ports
Passengers...Mrs Tracy and 2
children...
16 August 1893 Thames Star, New Zealand
The Rand Mines. Result of
Diamond Drill Boring-0011 Struck at depth of 2400 feet.
...Messrs Tracey and Beatty
started boring operations in October last. The diamond drill used was a
Bullock's "Dauntless," giving a one and seven-sixteenth inch core.
The machine itself is small, and was not guaranteed beyond a depth of 1600 ft...In
the course of an interview with Mr Beatty on June 13, we learn (says the
Standard and Diggers' News) that he, Mr Tracey, and Mr English hold 230 claims,
not 156 as originally stated, and that these 230 claims have been amalgamated
with other 177 belonging to the Salmon Prospecting Syndicate, and lying between
the Simmer and Jack and the claims . of Messrs' Beatty, Tracey, and English who
thus own a handsome block of 407 claims. This united block has been sent Home
for flotation, and the capital will be £100,000; the nominal capital, will be
in proportion...
1899-1902 Boer War
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Tracey |
5567 |
Private |
1 Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment |
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A |
Tracey |
4090 |
Private |
Coldstream Guards |
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A |
Tracey |
Stoker |
QSA (0). Ref: 285.195. |
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A |
Tracey |
4678 |
Private |
QSA (1). Deserted 17 Dec 02. Retired 18 Dec 12. |
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A |
Tracey |
2nd Battalion |
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A |
Treacey/Treacy |
1st Battalion |
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Algernon Henry Charles |
Hanbury-Tracy |
Major |
Entered 1892; Brevet Major, March 1900. Staff
service: Employed in Brit. E Africa Protectorate, 1897; Special Service,
South Africa, 1899; DAAG, South Africa, 1899. War service: Uganda, 1897-98
(Despatches; 3rd class brilliant star of Zanzibar; medal with clasp; Brevet
of Major); Boer War, 1899-1900. |
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Arthur Herbert |
Tracey |
385 |
Trooper |
Source: Nominal roll in WO127 |
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C J |
Treacy |
25493 |
Sapper |
1 Division Telegraph Battalion Royal
Engineers |
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Charles Joseph |
Tracey |
37 |
Private |
Source: OZ-Boer database |
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Cornelius Denis |
Tracey |
527 |
Corporal |
Source: OZ-Boer database. Sergeant 19.5.00. Sergeant
C. Tracey, Vic Imperial Bushmen, the troopship Orient arrived at Albany on
Saturday, 30th December 1900, having left Capetown on 13th December. |
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D |
Tracey |
2358 |
Private |
9 Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps |
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E |
Tracey |
Received the Mediterranean Medal |
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E |
Treacey |
1st Battalion |
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E |
Treacy |
1st Battalion |
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Eric Thomas |
Hanbury-Tracy |
Captain |
Born 4 Jul 71, only son of Hon Frederick
Hanbury-Tracy, son of 2nd Baron Sudeley. Mother Helena Caroline, daughter of Sir
Thomas Winnington 4th Baronet. Educated Eton 1885-88. Commissioned 2nd Lieut
25 May 92 in the Coldstream Guards. Retired 10 Jun 11 to reserve of Officers.
Recalled to colours 7 Aug 1914 as Captain, Coldstream Guards. Served as
Regimental Adjutant throughout the war. He did not serve abroad. OBE LG 3 Jun
19. OBE (1st, Mil), QSA (3) CC OFS Belf (Capt E T H Hanbury-Tracy Coldstm
Gds), KSA (2) (Cpt E T H Hanbury-Tracy Cld Gds). JM-Medals Feb 07 £650. |
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F |
Tracey |
1516 |
Private |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
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F |
Tracey |
Bearer |
Served 09 Dec 99 to 22 Dec 1899 . |
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F |
Tracey |
2nd Battalion |
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F |
Tracey |
5th Battalion |
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G |
Tracey |
Private |
D Squadron Cape Colonial Forces (General) |
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GC |
Tracy |
Lieutenant |
3 Battalion West India Regiment |
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George Courtenay |
Tracy |
The Duke Of Cornwall's Light Infantry |
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GW |
Tracy |
25202 |
Driver |
37 Company (Field) Royal Engineers |
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G [George] |
Tracey |
Source: WO100/146 |
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George |
Tracey |
280 |
Trooper |
Source: Nominal roll in WO127 |
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George Samuel |
De Tracy |
1584 |
Corporal |
Source: OZ-Boer database |
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H C |
Tracey |
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls |
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Harry Wingfield |
Tracey |
22465 |
Trooper |
Source: QSA Medal Rolls |
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Herbert W |
Tracey |
9712 |
Private/Trooper |
Source: QSA Medal Rolls |
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Hon Algernon H C |
Hanbury-Tracy |
Captain & Brevet Major |
QSA (3). Staff. Address on Roll as 'Brooks Club, St.
James' Street'. |
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J |
Tracey |
5614 |
Drummer |
2 Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment |
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J |
Tracey |
1155 |
Private |
Source: DCM recipients |
2 Battalion Northumberland
Fusiliers |
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J |
Tracey |
128 |
Private |
QSA (5). From 7th Hussars No. 3622. |
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J |
Tracey |
3403 |
Private |
QSA (3). With Remount Depot. |
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J |
Tracey |
178 |
Driver |
QSA (2) |
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J |
Tracey |
T/11757 |
Driver |
42 Company Army Service Corps |
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J |
Tracey |
426 |
Private |
6th Battalion |
6 Battalion Lancashire
Fusiliers |
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J |
Tracey |
3556 |
Private |
2 Battalion The North Staffordshire
Regiment (The Prince Of Wales's) |
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J |
Tracey |
Source: QSA and KSA rolls |
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J |
Tracey |
Received the Mediterranean Medal |
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J |
Tracey |
Received the Mediterranean Medal |
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J |
Tracey |
2nd Battalion |
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J |
Tracy |
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls |
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J |
Treacy |
1st Battalion |
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J G |
Tracey |
4333 |
Private |
QSA (3). Invalided 03 Aug 02. |
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M |
Tracey |
5635 |
Private |
2nd Btn. Wounded at Talana. 20 Oct 1899. |
2 Battalion Royal
Dublin Fusiliers |
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M |
Tracey |
4th Battalion |
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ME |
Treacy |
21154 |
Engineer Clerk Quartermaster Sergeant |
10 September 1901
The London Gazette ...Army ia South Africa...have
rendered special and meritorious service... Corps of Royal
Engineers. ...21154
Engineer-Clerk, Quartermaster-Sergeant M. E. Treacey... |
Staff Royal Engineers |
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Marcus Noel Percy |
Tracy |
10297 |
Private |
Source: QSA Medal Rolls |
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Michael |
Tracey |
5635 |
Private |
QSA (2) |
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Michael John |
Treacy |
31526 |
Trooper |
Source: QSA Medal Rolls |
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P |
Tracey |
27886 |
Sapper |
12 Company (Field) Royal Engineers |
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P |
Tracey |
4962 |
Private |
QSA (2) |
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P |
Tracey/Treacy |
3rd Battalion |
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P |
Treacey/Treacy |
1st Battalion |
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Philip John |
Tracy |
10296 |
Private |
Source: QSA Medal Rolls Q.S.A. 1914-15 Star Trio
and Special Constabulary Long Service Medal to Sgt. Phillip J. Tracey Queens South Africa Medal
1899-1902, 4 clasps Cape Colony Orange Free State Transvaal South Africa 1901 1914-15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal Special Constabulary Long
Service GVR 2nd Issue Five: Sergeant P.J. Tracey,
23rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (1st Sportsman's) late Imperial Yeomanry Queen's South Africa (10296
Pte. P.J. Tracey, 56th Coy. 15th Imp. Yeo.) 1914-15 Star (709 Sjt. P.J.
Tracey R.Fus.) British War and Victory Medals (SPTS-709 Sjt. P.J. Tracy R.
Fus.) Special Constabulary Long Service (Phillip Tracey) note minor variation in
surname, court mounted for wear, good very fine Phillip John Tracey was
born in Bracknell, Berkshire in 1877. A Master Butcher by occupation, he attested
for the Imperial Yeomanry at Buckingham on 10 February 1900, aged 22 years, 8
months. He served in the 56th (Buckinghamshire) Company 15th Battalion
Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, 13 March 1900 - 23 April 1901. He was
discharged at his own request on 23 May 1901. He re-enlisted on 14
October 1914. With 23rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (1st Sportsman's) he served
in France/Flanders, 16 November - 1 February 1917. Sergeant Tracey was
discharged due to sickness on 26 November 1917 and awarded the Silver War
Badge (not included). With copied Boer War service papers, roll extracts and
medal index card.
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R |
Tracey |
Special Contingent |
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R |
Tracy |
Corporal |
Source: QSA and KSA rolls |
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R L |
Tracy |
22504 |
Trooper |
Source: QSA Medal Rolls |
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Rhoderick |
Tracey |
42379 345 |
Trooper |
Source: Nominal roll in WO127 |
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Roderick |
Tracey |
1529 |
Attested: Aug 1902. Source: CMP 57 |
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Roland Tracy |
Matheson |
1048 |
Trooper |
1st Battalion |
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Samuel Mathew |
Tracey |
1659 |
Private |
3rd RPR Source: Attestation papers. See image on this site. |
3 Battalion Railway
Pioneer Regiment |
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Stephen Neame |
Tracy |
34188 |
Private |
Source: QSA Medal Rolls |
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T |
Tracy |
Private |
Klipdam Town Guard |
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T |
Tracey |
193 |
Private |
Special Contingent |
Special Cape
Police |
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Thomas |
Treacy |
59 |
Attested: Nov 1901. Source: CMP 57 |
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T |
Tracy |
326 |
Trooper |
Source: Nominal roll in WO127 |
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Thomas |
Tracy |
280 325 42406 |
Trooper |
QSA (3) Source: Nominal roll in WO127 |
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T |
Tracy |
1615 |
Private |
Received the Mediterranean Medal |
5th Battalion Royal
Munster Fusiliers |
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Thomas |
Tracey |
20673 |
Sergeant |
Source: QSA Medal Rolls |
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Thomas Paul |
Tracy |
51 |
Private |
Source: OZ-Boer database. Private, No.2 Troop
Melbourne. |
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Thomas Paul |
Treacy |
248 |
Private |
Source: OZ-Boer database |
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W |
Tracey |
3820 |
Private |
1st Btn. Died of disease at Pietermaritzburg. 12 Nov
1899. |
1 Battalion Gloucestershire
Regiment |
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W |
Tracey |
5280 |
Private |
2nd Btn. Missing - released at Spion Kop. 24 Jan
1900. |
2 Battalion Lancashire
Fusiliers |
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William |
Tracey |
4846 |
Lance Corporal |
QSA (2). Source: QSA medal
rolls South African Constabulary [see below] |
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W |
Tracey |
4027 |
Private |
QSA (4). |
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W |
Tracey |
6634 |
Private |
2nd Battalion |
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W |
Tracey |
5280 |
Private |
2nd Battalion |
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W |
Tracey |
2nd Battalion |
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W |
Treacey |
1st Battalion |
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W |
Treacy |
1st Battalion |
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W A |
Tracey |
Private |
CGHGSM (1) Basutoland |
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William |
Tracey |
RD 60 |
Trooper |
QSA (3) Source:
List of QSAs with the clasp Elandslaagte Previously served Pte 1st Royal Dragoons (4846) [see
above] |
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William |
Tracey |
Headquarter Depot |
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William Walter |
Tracy |
1906 |
Corporal |
Source: OZ-Boer database |
A.W.
Tracey. (2 Bn. R.C.R.) South Africa War 1900. Operations in the Orange Free State.
Actions at Vet River (3 and 6 May) and Zand River (10 May). Operations in the
Transval in May and June 1900, including actions near Johannesburg (29 May) and
Diamond Hill (11 and 12 June). Operations in the Transvaal, east of Petoria July to 29 November 1900, including action at
Reit Vlei (16 July). Queens medal with four clasps. [Veterinary Officer]
Defence
Forces List, Canada
G.C. Tracy (Lt. W. I. R.) S.
Africian War, 1901. - Served in St. Helena. Queen's Medal.
W.M. Tracy (Maj. ret. pay)
Burmese Expedition 1886-8 Medal with two clasps. S. Africian war 1899-1901.
Operations in Cape Coloney, 30 Nov 00 to Apr 01. Queen's medal with clasp.
Major J. B. Tracey, 2nd Battalion Scots Guards…December 30, 1895…Mafeking…to
Transvaal…
Kimberley
Horse
Roderick
Tracey, 42379, 345, Kimberley Horse, RC, 18 years, nationality Col, served in
DS Special for 12 months, 5'9", 140 lb, 34" chest, fair complexion,
blue eyes, fair hair, May 15th 1902 Kimberley, signed: R Tracey, address:
Elodes? buildings Kimberley. Next of kin: G.
Tracey, mother. Single.
Thomas
Tracey, 42406, 370, Kimberley Horse, RC, 18 years, nationality Col, served in
KTG for 6 months, 5'4", 110 lb, 31" chest, fair complexion, blue
eyes, dark hair, May 21st 1902 Kimberley, signed: R Tracey, address: Else?
buildings Kimberley. Next of kin: Mrs J.
Tracy, mother. Single. Address after discharge: Else's Building Kby.
signed.
Railway
Pioneer Regiment
Samuel
Matthew Tracey [Tracy], 1659, 3rd Railway Pioneer Regiment, Ch of E, 34
years, British, Electrician, 8th April 1901 Capetown. Next of kin: Robt Tracy,
brother, 3 Gardoque, Bilbao, Spain. Will deposited with B. Hudleton?, 5 Haddan
Terrace, Mowbraw? W. Capetown. Discharge 30th December 1901, Pte, character
very good, served 7 months, address: G Palford & Son, 474 Romford Road,
East Ham, Essex England.
John
Tracey, usually lives England, about 32 years, European Ireland, single,
Private 9th ?.R.R., died second February 1900 Station Hospital [Cape Town],
burial Fort Suocke?, died of labor pneumonia, lasted 11 days (LDS)
St. James' Church, Chipping
Campden, Gloucestershire: ...and William
Tracey 1st Gloucestershire who died of dysentery in S. Africa while serving
their country in the Boer war 1900.
http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/samem01.htm
Richard Tracey, Private 9593,
3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment: 6 October 1885-7 November 1914
Richard was born in Broad
Campden, the sixth son of William Henry and Ann Tracey and was baptised at St.
James’s Church on 8 November 1885. His
elder brother William died of dysentery during the Boer War and his brother
Harry was killed in action in 1915.
http://chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk/page/richard_tracey?path=0p25p50p51p
TRACEY, William
Private 4523, 1st Battalion,
Gloucestershire Regiment. Died of dysentery at P M Burg 12 November 1899.
Commemorated in St James' Church, Chipping Campden.
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Gloucestershire/BristolGlosRegtBoerWar.html
Boer War Grave, Vryburg NW
South Africa
Cape Special Police - Tpr Tracey 5/04/1901
nzwargraves.org.nz/sites/default/files/story_files/War%20Graves.pdf
Newstead Newstead and District
Historical Society: newsletter May 2004: [see Australia]
Con Treacy was a stockbroker based in Newstead and promoter of
the mine in 1900. The outbreak of the Boer War at that time saw Con enlist to
serve and newspaper articles reveal how patriotic the people were and how
popular a figure Con was. He returned the next year safely although his horse
had been killed. However he then returned to South Africa as he had arranged to
get a position with the diamond mines in the Kimberley.
16th
February 1900 South Wales Daily News
Serious Ill......Cape
Town...Private D. Tracey; 3rd Battalion Durham Light Infantry...
9th
July 1900 South Wales Daily News
News From Cape Town...Captain
Tracey having refused to comply with the demand, the Boers made an attempt to
capture the heights commanding the town...
19th October 1900 Evening Express
[Wales]
Newport...Soldiers
Run Amuck. George Tracey and John Fitzgerald, gunners in the Mountain Battery
(both natives of Limerick) ran amuck on Thursday night, and were now arraigned
for being drunk and disorderly in High-street, kicking a woman, malting a row
in a fried fish shop at 95 Shaftesbury-street...The sergeant who was sent to
speak as to their character said Tracey had only recently returned from the
front, having been invalided home. Daring the six weeks he had, been home with
the battery there had been one charge against him...
8th February 1902 Evening Express
[Wales]
New
Welsh Service Company. Forty Men Attested at Cardiff. [for South Africa]...3rd
Glamorgan V.R...W. Tracey, Swansea...
6th February 1904 The Cardiff Times
Honours
To Volunteers. 3rd Glamorgan Services...The Mayor expressed his high
appreciation of the 3rd Glamorgan its long record in a consolidated battalion
and the smartness and efficiency of its members, and then presented the medals.
The recipients belonging to the 3rd Service Company were...private...W. J.
Tracey...
18th
November 1905 Evening Express [Wales]
Volunteers' Medical Test
Sergeant Tracey's Dismissal Declared illegal The Army Council has issued its
decision in the case of Sergeant Tracey, and declared his dismissal illega1.
Acting on instructions contained in the Army Council's report, the officer
commanding the South-eastern District issued orders to the omce.r commanding
the lst8u6sexRoya.IGarri6.on Artillery Volunteers to cancel the dismiss!, which
has been done in the regimental orders, dated XoYcmber 18, published to-day
(Saturday). Tracey has been supplied by the Army Council with a, copy of the
full report, which recognised good service in the force at home and in South
Africa. The report &hows that the Army Council had itself no very clear
idea. of the correct inter pretation to be put en the War Office circular'
relating to the foreign service medical test, and admits that the document is capable
of having various construct..ioN<-i placed upoTi it, and might be construed
a.s an cTder for medioa,! inspection. The -report states that Mr.
Arnold-ForBter's declaration in the House of Commons on August 7, that no
statute authority existed for compelling Volunteers to submit to medica1
examination. wae merely explanatory of the constructdon to be placed on the War
Office circular. The report draws the attention of the commanding officer of
the 1st Sussex Artillery to the fact that regimenta1 orders have no power to
alter statute Law.
Thomas Tracey [Thomas
Treacey], b. abt 1869 St Peters Dublin, 18, 1887 3409 Royal Regiment of
Artillery (Rg A S R)
13th August 1914: 5'8.5",
160lb, 38.5"-41.5" chest, blue eyes, brown hair, RC,
Royal Dublin Fus, joined 3 Oct
1889 Naas,
2 October 1889: 18 years,
5'5.75", 116.5lbs, 33" chest. fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown
hair, RC, wasl on right shoulder,
Served East Indies 1891-7,
Home 1897-9, So Africa 1899-1900, Home 1900-1902
Father Pat Treacy, Mother Mary
Treacy, Older brother Pat Treacy, younger brother Christopher Treacy, sisters
Liza? Treacy, Kitty? Treacy
Chelsea No. 44476/C,
re-enlisted 13/8/14-30/7/16
Death Certificate, Finsbury
Circus Station, R.G.R. Feb? 10 1940, St
Kevins? Hospital, ??? ??? Dublin.
Sister Jns Tracey, 6 Clutrat Place, l Clanbrassil? St Dublin
Letter and envelope addressed to NCO on duty at Royal
Army Medical Corps Herbert Hospital, requesting information about the medical
condition of No 8542 Tracy, Royal Horse Artillery, 1900; he was reputedly
wounded at the Battle of Modder River, Boer War (1899-1902) 1899.
William Treacy, 2030 Connaught Rangers.
Enlisted April 1st 1886, Discharged 1/4/1898. [see Swineford Mayo]
20 years 10 months b. 1865,
labourer, single, 6', 167 lbs, Blue eyes, Brown hair, RC, scar right hip,
born Kilconduff, Swinford,
Mayo.
Met with a violent death at
Castlebar on the 25th March 1905, Coroners Report, Lce. Cpl. Wm. Tracey
William Treacy, 7239, joined
5/2/2001 Fermoy
Served South Africa 1902, James Treacy Roy I
Constabulary Kells Co. Meath brother next of kin
William Treacy, 1420 or 7239,
4th Battn Liverpool Regiment joined 4/2/1901 at Athlone, serving in Royal Irish
Reserve Regiment & served in Connaught Rangers (Time Exp??)
35 years 9 months b. 1865,
labourer, single, 6'1.5", 177 lbs, chest 37-9", blue eyes, brown
hair, RC
born Kilconduff, near
Swinford, Mayo. Will serve until 41 years.
This is a transcription of a Shipping List from South
Africa Magazine, September 26th, 1903.
DEPARTURES. Per the R.M.S. Dunottar Castle, leaving
Southampton today (Saturday):--
CAPE TOWN… Mr. T. F. Tracy
TRACEY, Charles, sought by Mrs. J. BARNES, Cape Town
South Africa in 1914. He was late chief steward of the S.S. South
Africa which trades between there and Melbourne. She is the widow of the late
Sub Inspector Barnes. Not found. 6 pages, List 14.
http://helendoxfordharris.com.au/archives/category/vicindexes
Australian
Archive
Patrick Tracey
Service Number - S11537
Place of Birth - Westmeath Ireland
Age - 34 years
Occupation – French Polisher
Apprentice – 5 years to P.J. Oates,
Westmeath
Place of Enlistment - Adelaide SA, 7th
April 1917 [Discharged 24 July 1917 – Not likely to become an efficient
soldier]
Military service – 5 years South Africa
Next of Kin - (Sister) Kathaleen Campion,
South Africa
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8393302
1913 South Africa
A Sebakwe pioneer in the
person of Mr. Con Treacey died recently from miner's phthis.
Birth, Marriage and Death Records
Adam Denis Tracy aged 40 of Vaaihoch Bloemfontein bapt. 24 Dec 1897 St Andrew and St
Margaret, Bloemfontein and Bloemfontein Cathedral, Bloemfontein, Orange Free
State, South Africa Sp. Alice Feaws & Sister Ella Csleatiat?
Sarah Magdalena Tracy of full age, wife of Adam Denis, of Vaaihoch Bloemfontein
bapt 24 Dec 1897 St Andrew and St Margaret, Bloemfontein and Bloemfontein
Cathedral, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa Sp. Alice Feaws &
Sister Ella C.S.cle & ct.it.
Adam Denis Tracy, aged 10, of Vaaihoch Bloemfontein bapt. 21 Aug 1898
St Andrew and St Michael, Bloemfontein Cathedral, Bloemfontein, Orange Free
State, South Africa Sp. Johanne Lehur & Rachel Leheur
Albert Robert Treacy, 32, bachelor, Outfitter?, of Oudtshoorn m. Morah Sybil Akers, 27,
spinster, of Bloemfontein?
Wit: T Widdowson & Alex Thom, on the 27th August 1917 St. Jude Anglican
George, Oudtshoorn. [see Belfast Ireland]
Harold
Robert Stuart Treacy
778068 Sergeant U/T Pilot Royal Air Force, died 3rd January
1942, age 20, Son of Albert Robert and Marah Sybil Stuart Treacy, of
Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died on active
service, Grave 28. Bulawayo (Athlone) Cemetery Zimbabwe
"Farewell, Harold
"Until the day break
"And the shadows flee away"
http://www.southafricawargraves.org/search/print.php?id=25446
Andrew Tracey
Date
of Birth: 1834
Place of Birth: Ireland
Name of Spouse: Catherine Smith
Date of Death: 23 Aug 1877 age 43
Place of Death: Swellendam, Cape
http://www.southafricansettlers.info/?page_id=12840
Andrew Tracey
(Constable) & Catherine Mary Ann
Edward Andrew Robert Tracey
b. 21st March 1876 of Swellendam bapt. 16 Apr 1876 Cape of Good Hope, South
Africa Sp. Robert Charles Ferris, Gert Reid, Flarence Finley
Cornelia Kathleen Ann Tracey
b. 23rd April 1877 of Swellendam bapt. 03 Jun 1877 Cape of Good Hope, South
Africa Sp. William Procter Beck, Hannah Margaret Taylor, Susan Henrietta Taylor
Antoinetta Jansen (formerly Tracey), 77, b. 1823, mixed race, widow, of 19 Wick St, d.
17 Jul 1900 Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Armina Regina Sophie Treese, 24, m. Carl Friedrich Heinrich Hohls, 31, 23 Oct
1913 New Hanover, Natal, South Africa Wit: Hermann Hohls & Sophia Treese
Arthur Hollingsworth Tracey, coachman, m. Norah Johnson 18 Jun 1895 Durban,
Natal, South Africa Wit: Marie Celestin & Meta Maggett
Carolina Tresie,
18?, Membership, 21 Jun 1866 Dutch Reformed Church Cape Town, Cape of Good
Hope, South Africa
Carolina Tresie,
28, b. 1849, of Kaapstad m. Philippus Bredekamp, 31, b. 1846, widowed, of
Kaapstad 02 Apr 1877 Dutch Reformed Church
Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [signed]
Denis Harvey Tracy (hospital Nurse) & Meta
Gabriel b. 2 Aug 1905
Engaryana bapt. 03 Dec 1905 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Sp The Parent, Wm
Ugidi
Desmond John Treacy, 22, b. 1930 Durban Natal South Africa, press operator m. Maureen
Bessie Bouch, 20, b. 1932 Mount Edgecombe Natal South Africa, clerk, fathers
concent 06 Sep 1952 St Catherines Church Mount Edgecombe, Inanda, Natal, South
Africa Wit: WG Bouch & KH Lang
Elizabeth Tracey about 30 lives Constantia bapt. 2 Oct 1859 Cape of Good Hope, South
Africa Sp. John Roda & Nancy Francis? [also Manuel Martines baptism]
Elizabeth Tracey & Manuel
Martines (labourer)
Peter Johannes Martines b.
1st Mar 1859 of Sonstantia bapt. 17 Oct 1859 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Sp. John Rodn, Manuel Martines, Sinah Vanderose
Francis Tracey (s. of John Tracey) m. Rebecca Wilson
(d. of John Wilson) 28 May 1860 Ballyclog, Tyr, Ire (see Donaghenry)
Francis Tracey (b. 1833 Cookston, County
Tyrone, Ireland d. 06 Jun 1916 Victoria Valley, Nthland NZ) m. Rebecca Wilson
(b. ABT 1838 Ballyclough, Ireland d. 21 Dec 1911 Victoria Valley Mangonui,
Nthland NZ)
Lucinda Tracey b.
1862 Ireland, United Kingdom
William `Bill`
Tracey b. ABT 1865 South Africa
Robert James `Bob`
Tracey b. ABT 1866 South Africa [Note:
born New Zealand]
Francis Tracey
b. ABT 1868 South Africa [Note: born New
Zealand]
George Tracey
b. ABT 1870 Dunedin Sth Island NZ
Anna Tracey b. abt
1872 Dunedin NZ
David Wilson `Dave`
Tracey b. ABT 1873 Dunedin, Otago, New
Zealand
Albert `Allie`
Edward Richard Tracey b. 1875 Dunedin
Sth Island NZ
Herbert Tracey
b. ABT 1877 Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Thomas Tracey
b. ABT 1878 Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Julia Elizabeth
Tracey b. 1878 Dunedin, Otago, New
Zealand
http://www.tribalpages.com/family-tree/vsherry/194/4769/Francis-Tracey-Family
1907 Government Gazette South Africa
Tracey,
John and frank. Supposed to have left County Tyrone Ireland, some years ago for
Cape Colony.
George
Arnold Tracey, 25, truck operator, of 60 Third Dr Highlands Nat m.
Doreen Agnes Knox, 24, shorthand typist, of 20 Daenottas? St Sydrealaen? 30
April 1938 St. Luke Church Orchards, Johanesburg, Transvaal. Wit: A Nettleton
& J.E. Anderson
George
Prescott Treacy, 39, b. 1881, clerk, of 73 The Mansions Durban m. Elsie
Maud Reid, 23, b. 1897, of Shamfordhill Road Durbane, on the 27 Mar 1920 Durban, Natal, South Africa Wit:
Mary Smith & Arthur J Smith [see Belfast Ireland]
Elsie Maude Treacey (born Reid),
40, b. 1897 Natal, widow, lives 440 Stamford Hill Road Durban, m. Harold
Herston Lang, 50, b. 1887 Cape Province, clerk, lives 20 Livington Rd
Durban, 01 May 1937 Durban, Natal, South
Africa. Wit: R Gilbert & D Brown
Hannah Tracey (nee Rierdon)
First Name: Hannah
Date of Birth: 1808
Place of Birth: Cork, Ireland
Parents – Father: Dennis Rierdon
Parents – Mother: Margaret
Name of Spouse: widow, not given
Date of Death: 7 Aug 1869 age 61
Place of Death: Cape Town, Cape
http://www.southafricansettlers.info/?page_id=10344
Herman Clarence Tracey & Alice
Gwendoline b. 11 March 1905
corner of Elff & Frederick St, bapt. 7 May 1905 St Mary, Johannesburg and
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Sp. Ellen Gardener
Hugh Travers Tracey, 32, b. 1903 [Willand Devonshire] England, Broadcasting manager, lives
Osbourne Hotel Musgrave Rd Durban m. Ursula Campbell, 24, b. 1911 Ceylon, lives
60 Queen Victoria St 14 Mar 1935 ST Pauls Anglican Church, Durban, Natal, South
Africa. with marriage contract. Wit: GG Campbell & Laing?
James Tracey,
29, b. 1915 Leeds England, Clerk, European, lives 72 Elmward La Leeds England
m. Phyllis Thora James, 28, b. 1916 S Africa Natal P.M. Amf?, Packing clerk,
European, lives 14 Olympic Court Durban, 04 Dec 1944 Catholic priest, Eairkan, Durban, Natal, South Africa. Special Licence.
Wit: F Mannis & J Goudot
Kathleen Evelyn Tracey, 21, b. 1909 England, E race, lives 65 Bohavic
Gardens Road Durban m. Lloyd Woodville Price, 39, b. 1891 England, garage
manager, E race, lives New Rand Hotel Durban, 05 Aug 1930 Durban, Natal, South
Africa. Wit: ??? & Jogn Rosen
Kathleen Evelyn Price (born Tracey), 38, b. 1909 Kent England, Divorcee, typist,
European, lives 131 Esplarode Durban, m. Johannes Cornelius Van Der Walt, 26,
b. 1921 Transvaal, Engineer, European, lives 106 Marine Chambers Durban. 08 Nov
1947 Gld Fort Chapel, Durban, Natal, South Africa. Special licence. Wit: ME
Wheeler & Frank Beauf
Mark
Tracey & Henrittta/Hannah
Reardon
Mark Tracy married Henrittta
Reardon 8 Sep 1828 Cape Town Cape Province South Africa
Extracts
from South African Commercial Advertiser transcribed from CO53/4 at the
National Archives, Kew, London
Wednesday
16 August 1837
Christenings
- In St.George’s Church Cape Town on Monday the 14th August 1837 by
the Rev George Hough MA. Senior Colonial Chaplain:
A son
of Mr. Mark Tracey, baptised Mark Silverius.
Mark
Sylverius Tracy, 48, b. 1837 Kaap De Goede Hoop, died 1885 Pretoria Transvall
South Africa
Extracts
from South African Commercial Advertiser transcribed from CO53/5 at the
National Archives, Kew, London
Saturday 31 October 1840
Christenings - In the Roman
Catholic Church:
Oct 28: A daughter of Mr. Mark
Tracy, baptised Mary Ellen.
Extracts
from South African Commercial Advertiser transcribed from CO53/6 at the
National Archives, Kew, London
Saturday 28 January 1843
Christenings - In the Roman
Catholic Church, 19th January:
A son of Mr. M. Tracy,
baptised Thomas Dennis.
Extracts
from South African Commercial Advertiser transcribed from CO53/7 at the
National Archives, Kew, London
Saturday 10 August 1844
Deaths - Aug 3: Michael
Launder, son of Mr. Mark Tracey, aged 1 month and 14 days.
Extracts
from South African Commercial Advertiser transcribed from CO53/7 at the
National Archives, Kew, London
Saturday 7 March 1846
Christenings - In the Roman Catholic Church:
Feb 16: A son of Mr. Mark
Tracey, baptised Edward.
1840 (323) Children's Friend
Society - Cape of Good Hope
Cape Town? Klip Valley,
Koeburg
Eliza Isaacs...am now bound
to Mr. Mark Tracey; I take care of the children...
Death Notice - Cape Province,
South Africa
Hannah Tracey, died 7 Aug
1869 Cathcart Street, 61, b. 1808? Cork Ireland (d. of Dennis & Margaret
Riordan), widow of Mark Tracey decd
No occupation living with her
daughter
died [at her own house King
William town - crossed out] King Wms Town at the residence of her son in law W.
W. Thinblehy?
Children:
Johanna Tracey Thoinblely?
Mark Silverias? Tracey
Thomas Dennis Tracy (majors
[in 1869])
Edward Michael Tracey (minor
[in 1869])
all of full age [1881]
No property [1869]
A reversionary interest in a
small property monetery value not in excess of £25? [1881]
5470 Filed 18 Aug 1869 - Wm W
Thinblely?
1336 Filed 29 Jan 1881 -
Johanna Thinblehy? daughter of deceased residing st Capetown Dec 30th 1880
[Thimbleby]
Margaret Edith Tracey, 20, b. 1917 England, E race,
lives 129 Marriott Road Durban, mothers consent Alice Frances Baker present
conseatury, father deceased m. John Hobb Gardner, 27, b. 1910 Scotland, E race,
clerk, lives 24 McKenzie. 13 Nov 1937 St Pauls Anglican Durban, Natal, South
Africa. Wit: Alvin F Baker & Kenneth Broudly
Margaret Edith Gardner (born Tracey), 24,
b. 1917 England, European, hairdresser, lives 76 Northway Durban, final order
filled. Cecil Herbert Wheeler, 29, b. 1912 Natal, European, Engineer, lives 76
Northway Durban. 30 Oct 1941 Durban, Natal, South Africa. Wit: KE Price & D
Gowng
Margaret Edith Wheeler formerly Gardner
(born Tracy), 33, b. 1919 Davnley Kent
England, Divorcee, Manageress, lives 23 Glearcain 56 Pine St Durbane, m. David
John Van Rooyen, 30, b. 1922 Pietemanty Bay Natal South Africa, Agent,
European, lives 41 Delrenae Mansions Durban. 29 Nov 1952 Methodist, Durban,
Natal, South Africa. Wit: Cefewood & SU Hall
Mary Tracy
(b. abt 1875 South Africa d. South Africa) m. Walter
Reuben Flooks abt 1895 South Africa
Mary Treasie, 20, Membership, 15 Dec 1875 Dutch Reformed
Church Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Oudshoone? 24 July 1889.
Mary Treasie & ???
Christina Maria Francina
Treasie [text crossed out] b. 20 Dec 1878 bapt. 19 Feb 1879 Dutch Reformed
Church Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope,
South Africa [mark]
Mary Treasie
Christina Maria Francina
Treasie b. 20 Dec 1878 bapt. 19 Feb 1879 Dutch Reformed Church Cape Town, Cape
of Good Hope, South Africa
Mary Treasie, 23, single, of Kaapstad m. Alfred Peterson,
26, b. 1853, single, of Kaapstad, 08 Sep 1879 Dutch Reformed Church Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
[mark]
Maureen Yvonne Tracey, 18, b. 27th Oct 1935 Natal S
Africa, Ledger Clerk, european, lives 40 Mason Rd PM Berg, Parent's Fathers
consent m. Andrew Smith, 26, b. 3rd Sept 1927 Natal S Africa, Briddager,
european, lives 547 Punice Alfred St PM Berg, 13 Feb 1954 Catholic Priest,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. Wit: CL Mawdsley & MJ McKean.
30 June 1863
(FJ) Married
May 12 at St. Augustine's Catholic Church, Port
Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, by the Most Rev. Thomas Murphy, D.D., Maurice Charles Tracy, Army Medical
Staff, youngest son of Declan Tracy,
Esq, Piltown, County Waterford, to Mary, eldest daughter of Charles Honsley[?],
Esq, surgeon, Port Elizabeth.
Michael J. Tracy (b. Highland, Victoria Falls, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe son of James Tracy
and Ann Carton) m. Hannah
Dee 27 Aug 1906 Manhattan, New York, New York
Patrick Edward
Tracey (b. 1846 d. 1917 Melbourne Australia) &
Charlotte Elizabeth Rosen (b. 1858 Cape Town South Africa to Henry Rosen, d.
11th July 1909 Fitzroy North Victoria Australia) [British Army see Fermoy Cork]
John (Jack) Henry
Tracey b. 1888 Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
World War I wasn’t the first time that Jack Tracey had sought adventure.
In 1901, the 13-year-old Jack stowed away to South Africa to offer his services
in the Boer War. His father, discovering that his son had stowed away, raced
across the country to cut off the ship at Fremantle. But the ship did not dock
in the west and the barely-teenaged Jack arrived in South Africa, only to be
turned away by the Australian military because of his youth. Jack kicked around
the gold-laden southern Africa as part of a circus troupe during the five years
before his return to Australia.
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Patrick Thomas Tracey I am researching my Mother’s family (Tracey’s) in South Africa.
Unfortunately family record keeping and knowledge of when and how they
arrived in South Africa in not at all good. I am aware that they came
from Ireland (possible Galway), but I think Ireland is all I am certain
about. What I know is my Grandfather (Thomas Tracey) was Born in
Kimberley in 1902 (with his brothers and sister). They were all born between
1885 and 1902. My Gr Grandfather, Patrick Thomas Tracey died in the
Anglo-Boer war in 1902 and was born in 1858. It’s possible that he was
born in Ireland and went with his parents and siblings to South Africa, but
equally possible that he was born after the family arrived. The story
goes that some of the family disembarked in South Africa and some continued
on to Australia. Just an FYI, 2 siblings of my Grandfather (that I know of) left South
Africa and moved to New Zealand in about 1917 timeframe: James Martin Tracey
(A professional boxer who called himself James St Martin Tracey) &
Michael Tracey. Their siblings were: May, Roderick, Patrick, and Thomas Kind regards Steven 05 December 2014 Ellis Island [see New Zealand] James St. Martin
Tracey, NY USA, 1922, 24 years, Hotel ??? [Propriet crossed out], English,
lived New York, in transit to Auckland New Zealand, b. Kimberley S. Africa May 10, 1922 (FJ) Boxing In America Jim Tracy, the Australian
heavyweight...Tracy's objective is to battle his way to a bout with Jack
Dempsey for the world’s title. |
May 03, 1922 The Daily Ardmoreite
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The beautiful home built by Percival Tracey high on
a hill above eastern Joburg. Percival White Tracey (1845 Dartmouth, Devonshire - 1909 South Africa) m.
Marcella Devenish Muriel Tracey
(1884-Unknown) Beryl Antoinette Tracey Katie Tracey Marcella Millicent Tracey Osborne Tracey Harold Adair Tracey
(1896-Unknown) Percival White Tracey, 38, Director,
m. Marcella Devenish, 21, on the 2 June 1883 St Cyprian Kimberley,
Wit: J English & L.S. Devenish (LDS) Perceval White Tracey of Kimberly, tiffer? & Marcella Susan Tracey Muriel Adair Tracey b. 26
March 1884 bapt. 18 May 1884 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa Sp. Amelia
Adair, Maria Tracey & Francis
C.F. Price (LDS) Muriel
Adair Tracey, 23, of 117 Wolinaraus? St m. Arnold Statham Milne, 30, of
Roodefont? 14 Sep 1907 St. Augustine
Doornfontein Jo'burg, Transvaal Wit: P
W Tracey & N.B. Milne Francis Osborn Tracey b. 13
April 1885 of Kimberly, father Director Central Diamond Company, bapt. 09 May
1885 Cape of Good Hope South Africa. Sp. Frederick Alexander English, William
George Devenish, Katherine English (LDS) Percival White Tracey of Johannesburg gentleman & Marcella Susan
Tracey Agnes Katherine Tracey b.
28 Dec 1889 bapt. 12 Feb 1890 Transvaal, South Africa Sp. Katharine English,
Katharine De Villiers & Frederick Alexander English (LDS) Marcella Mullicient Tracy
b. 18 Jan 1894 of Mainuby? bapt. 18 Feb 1894 St Augustine, Doornfontien,
Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa Sp. Mw Butte, Wm Shothu, E Baurate
(Percevie) (LDS) Harold Adair Tracy b. 5 May
1896 bapt. 23 Aug 1896 St Augustine, Doornfontien, Johannesburg, Transvaal,
South Africa Sp. Ja? English Wm English & W.G. Beatty (LDS) 1891 Census - Tunbridge Kent England Percival W Tracey Head M
45 Devonshire, England Marcella S Tracey Wife F
29 Cape Colony Muriel A Tracey Daughter F 7 Cape Colony Osborn J Tracey Son M
5 Cape Colony Beryl A Tracey Daughter F 4 England Agnes K Tracey Daughter F 1 Tramraal Johannesbury Phillipa Rimes Servant F 36 Devonshire, England Nellie Wormington Servant F
20 Natal Durban 1901 Census: Brighton St Peter With West
Blatchington St Peter, Sussex Marcella M Tracey, Age: 7,
Boarder, Birthplace: S Africa Johannesburg Transvaal |
Percival White Tracey [see Antrim Ireland] ...Percival White Tracey ,
'than whom', wrote The Critic 19 april 1895, 'no man has done more for our
public institutions. P.W. Tracey who came from Kimberley to Johannesburg... The Heart of a City: A History of the Johannesburg
Public Library. Reginald Frank Kennedy. In 1902 Percival Tracey and
Thomas Cullinan discovered a rich diamond pipe at Elandsfontein in the
Transval, and founded the Premier Diamond Company to exploit it. This was the
mine that in 1905 produced the largest diamond ever found, the Cullinan,
which weighed 3.024 carats (1 carrat equals 200 milligrams)... The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. ed Joel
Mokyr Percival Tracey always got
home in his 1904 car, but usually with him sitting behind the wheel, the car
inspanned behind a team of oxen. "The car often broke
down and Tracey, sitting behind the wheel, would complete the journey
inspanned to a team of oxen. His family called the enterprise ‘Tracey's
Folly,'" records Nigel Helme in Thomas Major Cullinan: A Biography. His home, a 40-room,
three-storey house in Mountain View, was completed in 1907, and Tracey moved
in with his family. It was the only house on the rocky ridge, its sparkling
white Cape Dutch gables, tall brick chimneys and long wraparound veranda
visible from miles around. The 103-year-old mansion
still stands proud on the eastern ridge, visible from Louis Botha Avenue. Tracey was a mining magnate
and his mansion compared admirably with other Randlords' splendid homes -
Northwards, Dolobran and Arcadia, among others in Parktown. He lived in the house for
only two years before he died, yet he must have enjoyed those short years. The large, double-volume
entrance hall is panelled with Burmese teak and contains two 300-year-old
carved oak columns, a minstrel gallery, an inglenook (a fireplace nook) and a
grand wooden staircase. Halfway up the staircase is a striking window. "The Tracey family arms
and motto Honores Ambire - Surround with Honour - are preserved on a
cathedral glass [textured glass] window," says Alkis Doucakis in In the
Footsteps of Gandhi. Almost every room boasts a
fireplace, most with decorative Victorian tiles and elaborate wooden
mantelpieces. Floors, doors and window frames are rich Oregon pine. Door
handles and light switches are in unique brass styles, now irreplaceable. The exterior brickwork is
superb, with craftsmanship that is no longer available in this country. Jointing
is evident - where plaster between bricks protrudes - and was done to prevent
moisture accumulating in the spaces between bricks. Exterior piping is made
of caste iron with brass bolts - it will never rust, and will be there
forever. The Tracey family occupied
the house until 1917, where after the Park Town School took over the building
for 40 years, using it as a boarding house and school. http://joburg.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4711:traceys-folly-restored&catid=122&Itemid=203 Tracey Almshouses, 35-43,
East Street, Bovey Tracey, Devon, England In the apex of the gable is
a granite plaque with the inscription: "1910. These alms houses were
built in loving memory of Mrs A M Tracey died Sept. 13th 1902 and of her son
P W Tracey. Give thanks unto the Lord!" http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle_print.aspx?uid=1165721&showMap=1&showText=1 The diocese had still to
rely on grants from the S.P.G. But prominent and wealthy laymen, men like P.
W. Tracey, Sir George Farrar, and R. R. Hollins, came forward to give the
diocese generous sums of money as well as their organising and ... Peter Bingham Hinchliff (1963) The Anglican Church
in South Africa. FIGURE 2 Tracing of part of
a Quagga made from a rubbing taken in 1882 by my father, P. W. Tracey, on a
farm about nine miles north of Kimberley... Africana Notes and News: Africana Aantekeninge en
Nuus, Volumes 9-10. 1951 15 Aug 1891 The Colonies
and India (London) ...For Madeira...Mrs P. W.
Tracey and infant Miss Tracey Master Tracey FOR ALGOA BAY.- FOR CAPE TOWN.
Miss B. Tracey Miss K. Tracey & maid Miss Cecil... April 20, 1895 The Colonies
and India (London) ...P.W. Tracey Mrs Tracey
Miss Tracey ; : Miss Tracey Mis9 Tracey... |
Richard Tracey,
87, b. 1829 England, died 6 Oct 1916 Woodstock Cape Province South Africa.
Lived 23 Addison Road Woodstock Cape
Emma
Tracey (born Mones), 84, b. 1833 England, d. 14 Jan 1917 Woodstock Cape
Province South Africa. Lived 23 Addison Road Woodstock
Richard Tracey
(Farm servant/Cow Keeper) & Emma
Herbert Francis Tracey b. 21
Aug 1870 of Paten, bapt. 22 Sep 1870 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa Sp. John
Ward, Richard Tracy, Emma Tracy
Ernest Masson Tracey b. 19
Aug 1872 of Protea, bapt. 29 Sep 1872 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa Sp.
Alfred Masson, Francis Masson, Charlotte Masson
Robert Henry Tracey landed in South Africa in the mid 1890s and started to dig for diamonds
in Bakersville near Lichtenburg in 1926.
George Arnold Tracey, his
son, had become an apprentice diamond polisher at the age of 16 and in 1943 an
allocation was granted to him by the central selling organisation, De Beers.
In 1966 George was joined by
his sons, Robert George and Evan James, who together with their father
continued with the allocation until 1981. Following this, each brother went his
separate way, with Evan deciding to continue with the cutting and polishing
process.
Evan has been joined by his
son Matthew Tracey who, like Evan, began his apprenticeship in the Tracey's
diamond polishing factory. In keeping with their long tradition and reputation,
the third and fourth generations of the Tracey family continue to strive for
excellence by utilizing only the finest quality stones.
Evan's wife, Vicki, works
closely with the jewellery manufacturers, designing and creating the beautiful
pieces available at Tracey's.
http://traceysdiamonds.co.za/about_us.php
Rosina Magdelena Tracey (born
Krieger), 70, b, 1864 Cape Province, mixed race, married, of 39 Kingsley
Road Salt River, d. 08 Aug 1934 Cape Town-Carnarvon, Cape Province, South
Africa
Ruby Beatrice Treacy m. Ernest Hubert Stephens Sydney New South Wales (s. of Charles
Stephens & Marion Stevens) (d. 08 Jun 1951 Maseru Orange Free State South
Africa, age 75, b. 1876 Australia) [see
William
Treacy of Bellmount]
19 Mar 1954 The Sydney
Morning Herald (NSW)
Stephens, Ruby Beatrice
(Treacy).—March 16, 1954, at Maseru, Basutoland, South Africa, widow of Ernest
H. Stephens, O.B.E.
Samuel Tracy
Extracts
from South African Commercial Advertiser transcribed from CO53/9 at the
National Archives, Kew, London
Saturday 23 February 1850
Christenings - In the
Cathedral Church, City of cape Town on Sunday 17th February by the
Rev W/A/ Newman:
A son of Mr. Samuel Tracy,
baptised Charles Campden.
Sara Tracey, 20, Membership, 18 Dec 1872 Dutch Reformed
Church Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Sarah Tresie & ???
Henrietta Carolina Tresie b.
28 Aug 1876 bapt. 12 Mar 1877 of Green Point, Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town,
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [signed] Sp. Carolina Tresie
Sarah
Tresie m. Willem De Lelie 22 Oct 1877 Dutch Reformed
Church Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Sarah Tromb (Tracy) of Bloemfontein
Margaret Olive bapt. 24 Dec
1895 St Andrew and St Margaret, Bloemfontein and Bloemfontein Cathedral,
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. Sp. David Davids, Sister Ella
CSM & AA, Bertha Olive Hobbs
Susana
Catherine Tracey, 23, of Keishama Hoch m. John Pretorius, 26, Farmer, of
Keishama Hoch, on the 27 June 1893 St. Matthew
King Williams Town, Cape Town and Grahamstown Wit: George Little and
Mima Pretorius
Marriages
at the English (Anglican) Church, Keiskama Hoek, 1881 – 1942. Cory Library
MS 19 154
No 110. 27 June 1893
John PRETORIUS, 26 years,
bachelor, farmer, of Keiskama Hoek - Susana Catherine TRACEY, spinster, of
Keiskama Hoek
Thomas Tracey,
27, b. 1901 South Africa, labourer m. Elizabeth Norah Pelgrim, 20, b. 1908
South Africa, fathers consent, 4 Jul 1928 Harding, Natal, South Africa Wit: Geo
Smith & Gertrude Cox
Thomas Frederick Tracy (Manager) & Rosa
Margaret Eileen Tracy b. 24
Nov 1904 of 18 Prince Sheep Gardens Cape Town bapt. 29 Jan 1905 Cape of Good
Hope, South Africa. Sp. Clara Susanah
Tracy, Ada Rowland, Frank Rowland
William Hubert (or Hubert
William) Tracy (1881-1961) of Naas, Co. Kildare
(see Cantrell Tracy of Naas Kildare Ireland)
Enlisted in 1900 (newspaper reference)
Herbert W Tracey, 9712, Imperial Yeomanry (Boer War)
20
Aug 1902 London Times: The
Norham Castle left for England Aug 11 with the following on passage
home...Captains...H W Tracy...
He
married Florence Isobel Davis, daughter of
William Davis and Ellen Auret.
Children of William Hubert Tracy
and Florence Isobel Davis are:
Richard Hubert William Tracy, b.
01 Jun 1908, Durban, d. 10 May 1969, Durban.
Hubert
William Tracy (Manager) & Florence Isabel
Richard
Hubert William b. 1st June 1908 of Alexandra Junction, bapt. 16 Jul 1908 Natal
South Africa. Sp. Kenneth Moscrop, Edward Henry Pitt, Anne Elizabeth Davis
Richard Hubert William Tracey, 25, b. 1908 Natal, E
race, Engineer (Pte Feiuc), lives Syela Wuginto District Natal m. Albertha
Cornelia Moll, 18, b. 1915 Transvaal, lives Allen Street Newcastle, fathers
consent. 11 Jul 1933 Durban, Natal, South Africa. Special Licence. Wit: M
Lounrens & K Tracey.
Beryl Dorothy Tracy, 21, b. 2.11.1933 Umzinto Natal, nursing sister,
european, lives Nurses Home Addington Durban, m. Eric Neville Appleford, 22, b.
2.5.1933 Capetown Cape Province, Property salesman, european, lives 4
Whittington court Marridt road Durban 27
Aug 1955 St Pauls Church, Durban, Natal, South Africa. Wit: RHW Tracy & WJ Appleford
Kathleen Mabel Tracy, b. 26 Mar
1910, Natal, d. 28 Jan 1994, Newport IW.
Hurbert Tracy (Overseer) & Florence
Kathleen Mabel b. 26 March 1910 of Alexandra Junction
bapt. 21 Jul 1910 Natal South Africa. Sp. Hubert Tracy, Florence Tracy &
Kathleen Davis
Kathleen Mabel Tracy, 29, b. 1910 Natal, typist, lives
25 Kings Mansions Durban m. Dudley Neville Rouse, 26, b. 1913 Natal, clerk,
lives 488 Umbils road Durban. 29 Jun 1939 Methodist Durban, Natal, South
Africa. Wit: AG Rouse & HW Tracy
Garret Tracy, b. 20 Dec 1913,
Durban, d. 26 Apr 1988, Hluhluwe.
Habert William Tracey (overseer) & Honnce Mabel
Garrett Rhodes b. 20 Dec 1912 of Ifafa Nil Dispander?
bapt. 26 Oct 1913 Natal South Africa. Sp. Joshua
Tracey, John Davis, Julia Davis [correction of spelling to Tracy]
Garret Rhodes Tracy, 31, b. 1913 Unginlo Natal,
European, sugar farmer, lives Hafa Beach S Coast Natal, m. Shirley Stella
Blackbeard, 22, b. 1922 Durban Natal, European, typist, lives Sea View Natal,
25 Mar 1944 Methodis Church of SA, Bellair, Durban, Natal, South Africa Wit: LV
Blackbeard & HW Tracy
+Margaret Florence Tracy, b. 25 Feb
1920, Durban SA, d. 27 Oct 1996, Newport IW.
Herbert William Tracy (field manager) & Florence
Isabel
Margaret Florence Tracy b. 25 Feb 1920 of Ifafa, bapt.
16 May 1920 Natal, South Africa Sp. Ellen Davis, Olive Gardner, Patrick
Devinish
Margaret
Florence Tracey, 32, b. 1920 Natal, Doctors Receptionist, European, lives 1
Portland Crescent Durban North, m. Norman Walter Ward, 46, b. 1906 United
Kingdom, widower, Architech, European, lives 84 St Andrews Drive Durban North,
30 Oct 1952 St Pauls Church, Durban, Natal, South Africa. Wit: HW Tracy & HS Bringer
William Tracey,
mason, Aliwal North
??? Tracey b. 25 Nov 1877
Aliwal North, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
William Tracey
Mercia Tracey, 10 months,
mixed race, b. Cape Provence, lived 85 De Wet Street Elses River District
Bellvielle, d. 10 Aug 1950 City Hospital Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Census
1891 Census: St
Michael, Aldershot, Surrey
Robert Charles Tracey, Age:
21, Birthplace: Capetown, Record Type: Institution
1891 Census: St Mary Cardiff, Glamorganshire
Edward Tracey, Age: 34, Head
of Household, Birthplace: Cape Town
1901 Census: Brighton St Peter With West Blatchington
St Peter, Sussex
Marcella M Tracey, Age: 7,
Boarder, Birthplace: S Africa Johannesburg Transvaal
1911 Census: Living
in Dublin
William,
Treacy, Thomas St., 41, M, Pembroke East Dublin (b. Wicklow)
Kate,
Treacy, Thomas St., 38, F, Pembroke East Dublin (b. Wicklow)
Kaitleen,
Treacy, Thomas St., 10, F, Pembroke East Dublin (b. Dover)
William,
Treacy, Thomas St., 9, M, Pembroke East Dublin (b. Wicklow)
Magrett,
Treacy, Thomas St., 5, F, Pembroke East Dublin
(b. Pretoria SA)
Patrick,
Treacy, Thomas St., 2, M, Pembroke East Dublin (b. Devenport)
Elizabeth,
Treacy, Thomas St., 2, F, Pembroke East Dublin (b. Devenport)
1911 Census: Acton, Brentford, Middlesex
Margaret Eileen
Tracy, Age: 6, Birthplace: Cape Town South Africa
Brendan Joseph Treacy, B.A.
(Mod.), L.L.B., Queen's Counsel; Att.-Gen. of Rhod; Came to Rhod. 1947; b. 11th
Mar. 1924, Dublin, Ireland. educ
Trinity Coll. Dublin: m. 1960 Patricia Salonika: 1 s. Rec.: Golf; Add.: P.B.
7714, Causway, Sby., Rhod [1971]
Director of Public Prosecutions Q.C., J.P.
ended his career as Attorney General, Republic of Rhodesia, 1975-1980, replaced
by the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Mr. Mugabe.
Who's who of Rhodesia, Mauritius, Central
and East Africa, 1971
Who's who of Southern Africa by
International Publications Service. Published by Argus Printing &
Publishing Co., 1976
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Hugh Tracey
(1903–1977) was an important twentieth century ethnomusicologist. He and his
wife collected and archived music from Southern and Central Africa. He began
making field recordings of music in the early 20's, through the 70's. Hugh
Tracey began studying African music in 1921, when he arrived from Devonshire,
England in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to farm tobacco with his older
brother Leonard who had been allotted land as a serviceman wounded in the
First World War. The Kalimba, which
literally translates to “little music”, was designed so that it could be
learned and appreciated internationally. Hugh created the Kalimba so that its
melodies and harmonies would be more suited for the western tradition of
music. Made from an African hardwood, with notes made out of European spring
steel, the Kalimba is known for its tranquil and enchanting sounds. Today, Kalimbas continue to
be handcrafted in a family run workshop in Grahmstown, South Africa. They
come in several different models: the treble and celeste treble (17 notes, 2+
octaves), the alto and TM alto (15 notes, 2 octaves), 11 note pentatonic
kalimba, the African-tuned karimba, and an 8-note beginner's kalimba. Tracey founded The
International Library of African Music (ILAM) in 1954, and become its
director. ILAM publishes the African Music Society Journal. Hugh's son Andrew
Tracey (see also IMDB) also became a well known ethnomusicologist
specializing in African music. Another son, Paul, also became a musician and
ethnomusicologist. Tracey, Hugh. (1961). The
evolution of African music and its function in the present day.
Johannesburg: Institute for the Study of Man in Africa. Tracey, Hugh. (1969). The
Mbira class of African Instruments in Rhodesia. (1932). African Music
Society Journal, 4:3, 78-95. Tracey, Hugh. (1948,1970). Chopi
Musicians. London: Oxford University Press. SBN 19 724182 4. Describes
the Timbila of Mozambique. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Tracey http://www.ru.ac.za/ilam/history/hughtraceysportrait/ Hugh Tracey Documentary -1960 –
BBC Part 1 Part 2
The Field Recordings of
Hugh Tracey http://www.afropop.org/radio/radio_program/ID/789/ Hugh
Tracey's African Legacy http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/tracey.html Hugh Tracey – African
Dances Of The Witwatersrand Gold Mines, Part 2. (1952)
Music From The Hugh Tracey Archives http://www.muzikifan.com/tracey.html
Youtube
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Andrew Tracey,
born 5 May 1936, Durban, South Africa, is a South African ethnomusicologist,
promoter of African music, composer, folk singer, band leader, and actor. His
father, Hugh Tracey (1903–1977), pioneered the study of traditional African
music in the 1920s - 1970s, created the International Library of African
Music (ILAM) in 1954, and started the company African Musical Instruments
(AMI) which manufactured the first commercial kalimbas in the 1950s. Andrew
Tracey continued and complemented the work of his father Hugh Tracey in a
variety of ways. With brother Paul Tracey, he co-wrote and performed in the
world musical revue Wait a Minim which traveled around the world for seven
years. With his father and brother Paul, Andrew wrote the first instructional
materials for the Hugh Tracey kalimbas which were being sent around the world
in the 1960s. Upon his father's death in 1977, Andrew took over his father's
role as director of ILAM, which he filled until his retirement in 2005, and
his wife Heather Tracey took over the role of director of AMI until 1999. The 1973 Mgodo wa Mbanguzi
and Mgodo wa Mkandeni, two complete performances of traditional music for
'timbila' xylophone orchestra and dance in two Chopi villages in southern
Mozambique. Produced by Gei Zantzinger and Andrew Tracey. Tracey, Andrew. (1970). How
to play the mbira (dza vadzimu). Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa:
International Library of African Music. http://www.grocotts.co.za/content/fifty-year-anniversary-jokers-guitars-22-01-2012 http://kalimbamagic.com/newsletters/newsletter3.08/interview_andrew_tracey.shtml THEIR FAMILY Tracey, Basil Martin (19
October 1899 Willand, Devon - 9 November 1991) OBE 1969; MRCS 1923; FRCS
1925; MB London 1920, BS 1926; LRCP 1923. Basil Tracey was born on 19
October 1899 at Willand, Devon, where his father, Henry Eugene Tracey, was a
general practitioner, four of whose eleven children were qualified medical
practitioners. His mother was Emily Alice, née Martin. He was educated at
Monkton Combe School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Owing to poor eyesight he
was unable to serve in the first world war and after graduation entered
general practice in 1931. In 1947 he decided that the National Health Service
would not allow him to give individual attention to patients and so entered a
purely private practice, but was also a medical officer to various industrial
concerns and to Norwich prison, for which service he was awarded an OBE in
1969. He had many interests:
singing in the Norwich Philharmonic Choir and acting as a guide to Norwich
Cathedral. He sailed regularly on the Norfolk broads, especially in Norfolk
Punts, and in one of these he established a record for the fastest
single-hulled boat in the country in 1964. He was a great character with an
infectious enthusiasm for life and people. He married Katherine
Reavell Scott (Kitty) on 15 September 1931 and they had four children - two
sons, William, who died in infancy, and Peter, and two daughters, Jillian and
Marion. After Kitty's death he married Rachel, who survived him along with
his children and eight grandchildren when he died on 9 November 1991, aged
92. http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E008389b.htm Lieutenant Geoffrey Eugene
Tracey of the 9th Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment. Son of Dr. Henry Eugene
Tracey MD and his wife Emily Alice Tracey (née Martin). Born in Willand 25
October 1895 at Beaufoy House, Willand. Educated at Blundells School. Killed
in Action between 25 and 27 September 1915 aged 20. 13 Oct 1915 Birmingham
Daily Post TRACEY, Lieut. G. E., 9th
Battalion Devonshire Regiment. [Lieutenant Tracey was the eldest son of the
late Henry Eugene Tracey, M.8., and Mrs. Tracey, of The Gables, Willand,
Devon, and only 19 years age Dr Tracey and The Gables As the Sword of Damocles
hangs over one of Willand’s best known and most historic landmarks – The
Gables – it might be useful to consider the early history of that house and
the family who lived there. Dr Henry
Eugene Tracey came to Willand with his wife, Alice, in January 1894 and he
soon became one of the best known, most popular and colourful characters in
mid-Devon. First, he established his doctor’s practice at Beaufoy House and
“enjoyed the reputation of administering both medicine and rumbustious good
fun to all his patients; squire and parson, farmer and clerk, farm labourer
and village shopkeeper alike”. He was a familiar sight going on his daily
rounds by horse and trap, (driven by his coachman, James Gunner, always
dressed in a green uniform). That was, at least, until the coming of the
motorcar. Dr Tracey is perhaps most famously remembered as being the first
man in the area to own a motorcar, after he purchased a 10-12 horse power
Peugeot in 1907 (financed by his wife); he kept a diary of his motoring
adventures which was later published as Father’s First Car, by his son, Hugh
Tracey, in 1966; a short film version was made by Westcountry Television and
filmed on location in Willand. By the time he had bought
the car, Dr Tracey had moved into The Gables which he had built in 1895/96 at
a cost of over £2235 (again financed from his wife’s estate). Many villagers
marvelled at the size of the construction and one is reputed to have asked Dr
Tracey why he required such an extensive property, to which he replied, “To
fill with little Traceys”. The
Traceys’ moved into The Gables on 26 August 1896; by then he already had four
children and over the next few years added several more to make a total of eleven
‘little Traceys’. Dr Tracey’s cherished his new home and worked on developing
the grounds. Surrounding fields were purchased to create a model estate
‘within a “ring fence” protected by belts of fir trees, and embracing a
park-like view and a lawn facing south, summer and winter tennis courts,
trout ponds, vine and peach houses, a large walled garden, orchards of the
choicest fruit trees, with fruit storehouse, stables and motor garage.’ Dr Tracey was a religious
man who believed in the simple message of the Gospel and as a firm advocate of
temperance, he was a teetotaller for the last 25 years of his life. There
were times when he provoked controversy, particularly when he involved
himself in local politics, where he could upset his opponents with his
outspoken, if honest, opinions; he was even physically attacked once in the
streets of Tiverton during the volatile General Election of 1910. Dr Tracey
also had many hobbies and talents, which he pursued with great energy. He was
a gifted wood carver and a keen sportsman, who was regularly invited to play
for the village teams. He played tennis and hockey, was vice-captain of
Bradfield Cricket Club and a formidable goalkeeper who captained Willand
Association Football Club. He was a keen course angler, who fished for trout
on the Culm, and also a good shot; The Gables was adorned with many of the
birds that had fallen victim to his guns.
Dr Tracey was not only a loving father but was also involved with
local youth organisations, including serving as president of Tiverton
YMCA. Tragically, Dr Tracey died
at the age of 44 in 1911, having suffered from a kidney problem for several
years. His funeral, at Willand Parish
Church, was unlike any seen in the village before or since. Almost 500 people
attended from across the district, representing every facet of society
throughout the district, regardless of age, class, politics or religious
belief. Clearly, Dr Tracey gave the
people of Willand a great deal. Not only his skills as a doctor or genial
personality on the sports field, but his practical deeds as a member of the
Parish Council, manager of Willand School and churchwarden of St Mary’s
Church. His legacy is still evident in Willand, from wooden carvings on view
in the church to the woods that he planted (now managed by the Woodland
Trust). However, the most recognisable monument to Dr Tracey’s achievements
remains The Gables. By preserving The Gables we would be paying tribute not
only to Dr Tracey but to his contemporaries and our predecessors in this
parish in an era when public service was paramount. The early 1900s was the
formative period for Willand as it transformed from a rural backwater to the
modern village we know today. We need buildings like The Gables as a visual
reminder of the society from which our own community has evolved, to help us
understand who we are now by remembering our not so distant past. James
Morrison, 01884 250057 (jamorrison@supanet.com) Willand No. 93 March &
April 2011 Dr Henry Eugene Tracey
arrived in Willand in January 1894 to set up a doctor's practice serving the
parish and surrounding area. He soon became one of the most popular and
energetic characters ever to have lived in Willand. Having first lived with
his wife, Emily Alice and young family at Beaufoy House in the old village,
Dr Tracey built The Gables in 1895/96. It served as both a doctor's surgery
and family home and cost over £2,235, which was financed by his wife, whose
family was much wealthier than his own. When one local asked the doctor why
he was building such a large house he replied, "To fill with little
Tracey's." He certainly fulfilled that promise as he and Emily
eventually had 11 children. The surrounding fields were bought up one by one
and Dr Tracey developed The Gables grounds up as a model estate that was
"within a 'ring fence' protected by belts of fir trees, and embracing a
park-like view and a lawn facing south, summer and winter tennis courts,
trout ponds, vine and peach houses, a large walled garden, orchards of the
choicest fruit trees, with fruit storehouse, stables and motor garage."
The estate covered all the land on which Tamars Drive and the Meadow Park
estate was built, and the woods now run by the Woodland Trust marked the edge
of his grounds. Dr Tracey was committed to
serving the local community and among the many roles he carried out were
member of Willand Parish Council, manager of Willand School, churchwarden of
St Mary's Church, president of Tiverton YMCA, vice-captain of Bradfield
Cricket Club and captain of Willand Association Football Club. He was a very
religious man, who believed in the simple message of the
Gospel and he felt equally at home in Church or Chapel. A firm advocate of
temperance, he was a teetotaller for the last 25 years of his life. As well
as his more official duties, he threw himself wholeheartedly into his family
as a devoted father and also his many hobbies which included fruit growing
(he won many prizes at local shows), woodcarving (examples can be seen in St
Mary's Vestry), angling, shooting, tennis, hockey, cricket and football (as
goalkeeper). One of his sons later wrote that he was a "gay, volatile,
quicksilver physician and family doctor," who "enjoyed the
reputation of administering both medicine and rumbustious good fun to all his
patients, squire and parson, farmer and clerk, farm labourer and village
shopkeeper alike." Indeed, as a keen sportsman he was regularly invited
to play for the village teams, "not so much for his skill as for his
unending flow of quips and comment."Dr Tracey is probably most famously
remembered as being the first man in the district to own a motorcar. In 1907
(again financed by his wife) he purchased a 10-12 horse power Peugeot. He
kept a diary of his adventures with his motorcar, which was abridged and
published by his son Hugh Tracey in 1966 as Father's First Car, and made into
a short TV program of the same name in 1969. Dr Tracey died at the age
of 44 in 1911, having suffered from a kidney problem for several years. There
were unprecedented scenes in Willand when almost 500 people from across the
district attended his funeral at St Mary's. The coffin was wheeled on a hand
bier from The Gables to the Church and passed crowds of mourners, who joined
in the long procession behind. His wife and
daughter Marjorie Tracey lived on at The Gables until 1950, when Marjorie
moved to Pitfield in the Old Village. Subsequently, The Gables was sold to
Devon County Council for £5,000 and from 1951/52 it became a children's home.
The home was successively under the supervision of Mr and Mrs Trotman, Mr and
Mrs Willatt, Mr and Mrs Southwood and from 1976
Paul and Pauline Hurring. During that time, The Gables was often opened for
community events such as the Church Strawberry Tea or Christmas Coffee
Mornings, and many locals who grew up in Willand from the 1970s-90s will
remember the adventure playground in The Gables grounds. However, due to
increasingly high running costs, in 2002 Devon County Council made the
decision to transfer management of The Gables to Social Services. After
unsuccessful attempts to vary the function of the home it ceased to care for
children by 2003, and having remained more or less empty since then, The
Gables is now subject to sale and the house's uncertain future may yet
include demolition and redevelopment. Willand No. 77 July &
August 2008 Dr. Henry Eugene Tracey
(1866-1911) married Emily Alice Martin (1864-1954) 29 Apr 1890 Holy Trinity
Church Richmond, Surrey, England Children: Marjorie Alice TRACEY
(1891-1963) Evelyn Florence TRACEY
(1892-1940) Lillan Eleanor TRACEY
(1894-1978) Geoffrey Eugene TRACEY
(1895-1915) Leonard Tolcher TRACEY
(1897-1971) Christopher Birdwood TRACEY
(1898-1984) Basil Martin TRACEY
(1899-1991) Vera Louise TRACEY
(1901-1981) Hugh Travers TRACEY
(1903-1977) Decima Mary TRACEY
(1904-1991) John Brodrick TRACEY
(1906-1995) http://www.axtell-surname.org.uk/fam9044.html TRACEY, HENRY EUGENE FLOS.
Adm. pens. at Sr JOHN'S, July 1, 1853. S. of Henry Dionysius, schoolmaster
(and Elizabeth). B. Feb. 2, 1832, at Ipswich. Matric. Michs. 1853; B.A. 1857;
M.A. 1860. Ord deacon (Exeter) June 7, 1857; priest 1858; C. of Plympton
Devon 1857. British Chaplin at Vienna. Married Nov 1861 Florance Mary Tocher.
Died Aug 8 1866 at St Leonards-onp-sea. (G. Mag. 1866 925) Alumni Cantabrigienses Henry Eugene Bflos Tracy
married Florence Mary Smythe 1861 Devon Henry Eugene Flos Tracey
& Florence Mary Tolcher 1834-1907 Children: Florence Elizabeth Tracey
1862-1940 Ethel Tracey 1864-1884 Henry Eugene Tracey
1866-1911 Henry Dionysius Vincent
Tracey* married Elizabeth (Betty) Hill 13 Mar 1831 Ipswich, St Margaret,
Suffolk, England Henry Eugene Flos [Rev]
Tracey, b. 2 Feb 1832, Ipswich, Sfk, England. d. 8 May 1866, St Leonards,
Sussex, England. Henry Disnyrub Tracey &
Elizabeth Henry Eugene Alec Tracey b.
02 Feb 1832 bapt. 01 Apr 1832 St Mary Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Henry Tracey (traveller,
Hawker & Pedlar) & Ann Henry Dionysius Tracey
bapt. 10 October 1813 St Stephen, Norwich, Norfolk, England Charlotte Ann Tracey bapt.
14/5/1815 St Stephen, Norwich, Norfolk, England Mary Ann Tracey bapt.
9/6/1816 St Stephen, Norwich, Norfolk, England * Denis Vincent would be
usual for an Irish name but it would be expected that families from Norfolk
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'CG' (Christopher G.) Tracey C. G. Tracey (known to all
nowadays as CG) who was born in Gutu on the 31st December of 1923 and died on
20th July, 2009. He was educated at Ruzawi an Anglican private school in
Marondera and then at Blundells, a well-known English public school founded
in about 1570. All his life CG has been a
farmer initially at Handley Cross near Chakari and subsequently at Mount
Lothian opposite Ewanrigg National Park in the Arcturus District. As a practical farmer, CG
was very successful, and his farming activities became very diverse embracing
animal husbandry involving pigs, cattle (Jersey, Charalois, Limousins), and
sheep where he was involved in developing Wiltipers, a new breed. He also
grew crops of various kinds including maize, especially hybrid seed maize,
cotton (300 acres) and soya beans. He also produced flower seed (zinnias,
calendulas, petunias and marigolds) for export to international seed houses in
America as well as vegetable seed including tomato and lettuce. CG was very enterprising in
his farming work and there are a number of examples of this. Soya beans were
widely grown in the USA and Brazil in maize areas but in this country the low
yields made the crop unpopular with farmers. CG approached research complexes
in the USA and imported varieties from there as well as from Colombia, Brazil
and West Africa which he grew on Handley Cross and this provided the impetus
for our government plant breeders to develop new varieties and, today, soya
beans are the most important oil-seed crop in this country. With the advent of
sanctions following UDI in 1965 and the resulting currency restrictions
canned tomato products could no longer be imported. CG carried out research
in England and South Africa, had tomato cutters, pulpers and screening units
made in Rhodesia, and after some experimentation began to produce very
popular canned tomato juice with a twelve-month shelf-life from his own
tomato crop. It was not surprising that
a successful farmer like CG was drawn into service in organised agriculture
in this country. He was Chairman of the Pig Breeders Association and
represented that Association on the Council of the RNFU and served that
Council as one of its two Vice Presidents. He served as President of the
Commercial Cotton Growers Association and as a board member of the Pig
Industry Board and the Agricultural Marketing Authority. Way back in 1975, CG
became Chairman of Tobacco Sales Limited, a public company listed on the
Stock Exchange, which operated the tobacco sales auction floor, and became a
conglomerate involved in many activities. CG was extremely keen on
horses and participated successfully in jumping and horse-riding arena events
at the Salisbury and Bulawayo Shows. His love of horses led to playing polo
and he and his brother Martin were members of the Chakari Polo team. CG
started a commercial Stud and he describes an amusing tale of how during
sanctions he purchased at Tattersalls’ brood-mare sales at Newmarket a filly
bred at the Royal Stud at Sandringham and sold to him by Queen Elizabeth. He was a keen competitor at
agricultural shows and won prizes for cattle, pigs and sheep regularly at the
Salisbury and Bulawayo shows and even competed with success at the Rand
Easter Show. In 1996 he and his wife were presented with a silver rose bowl
for exhibiting their livestock at the Salisbury/Harare Show for 50
consecutive years. CG was a director of many
companies not only agricultural but also commercial and industrial and he was
chairman of the Zimbabwe Banking Corporation for a number of years and of the
Zimbabwe promotion Council which made such a major contribution towards
putting Rhodesia and then Zimbabwe on the map. His story ends with a
chapter on compulsory land acquisition and land invasions throughout Zimbabwe
and, finally a very sad chapter on the loss of his own farm and his
continuing fight for it through the courts. CG lived an interesting and
exciting life and he has told his story well. The book of 327 pages was
beautifully printed in Mauritius and is a credit to CG, to his publishers
Weaver Press of Harare, and to the many people who helped and advised him. I have no hesitation in
recommending that all our members purchase the book. It is available at
bookshops or if necessary direct from Weaver Press. There are still others in
Zimbabwe who have made major contributions to what used to be a wonderful
country and who have a tale to tell about their lives. Hopefully, the
publication of this book will encourage them to put pen to paper as CG has
done. CG captures the importance of this in his prologue with the words ‘the
recollections of many of my generation will be lost forever unless they are
recorded now’. Former leading racehorse
owner and breeder 'CG' Tracey died last Wednesday. He was 86. Born in 1923,
CG spent much of his adult life in Zimbabwe. He was the chairperson of
Tobacco Sales Limited. He became a farmer at the age of 16, and gradually
became one of Zimbabwe’s most affluent and influential people. He took a
great interest in the training and uplift of farm workers and ran a very
successful commercial farm until his farm, Mount Lothian, was seized by Judge
Paddington Garwe for his own personal use in 2003. Despite the loss of his
much loved estate, CG spent the rest of his life in Zimbabwe. Married to Wendy in August
1946, CG had three daughters, Elizabeth, Diana and Caroline. CG had shares in the wonderful
broodmares Doff The Derby and Burghclere. Doff The Derby is one of just a
handful of mares who produced two English classic winners (Imagine and
Generous), whilst Burghclere became dam of Gp1 winner and Epsom Oaks runner
up Wind In Her Hair (Alzao). The latter went on to produce the mighty
Japanese champion Deep Impact (Sunday Silence). In South Africa, CG was
best known as the joint owner of Ecurie (Liloy). A superb race filly,
Ecurie’s was the champion 2 y.o. filly in South Africa in 1984. As a three-year-old
she maintained her high-class form; she scored in the Garden Province Stakes,
and was placed in both the Mainstay (behind Model Man) and Cape Guineas
(behind Sea Warrior). Over the years, CG enjoyed
plenty of success in the racing and breeding industry, and he stood a number
of high-class stallions. Amongst them were the high-class Princilon, the
superbly bred Fair Wind as well as Prairie Prince. He maintained his deep
interest in horse racing right up to his death and saw his last horse (Sea
Chest) win at Turffontein two years ago. Shortly before his death,
CG published his autobiography, "All For Nothing?". It gave him
great pleasure to be able to publish a book that tells the story of a long
and challenging life in a country in transition. Sarah Whitelaw C G Tracey died the other
day and his book "All For Nothing?" was on sale at the CFU
Congress. It is an excellent read for anyone who is interested in this
country and wants to see what has gone on over the past century – no man
played a bigger role in building the country and served its best interests
more than 'CG', as he was known. The title was suggested by his wife before
she died and all he did was to add the question mark to emphasise that it is
not yet all over. http://www.blundells.org/obclub/obclub/obituaries/tracey_cg.htm |
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Last update: 08 November 2023