51. Philip William BOARDMAN (1)(1) (2) (3) (photo) was born on 25 Nov 1834 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Grahamstown. He was christened on 18 Sep 1873 in South Africa, Cape Colony, New England, "Sandham". He died on 3 Aug 1921 in South Africa, Cape Province, Dist. Albert, Spionkop. (5)
He was married to Mary Augusta BOARDMAN (daughter of
William John BOARDMAN and Mary Anne Jane CALDECOTT) on
30 Jun 1857 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Middelburg. Mary
Augusta BOARDMAN(1) was born on 16
Apr 1837 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Grahamstown. She died on 24 Apr 1858
in South Africa, Cape Colony, Middelburg. She was christened. She has reference
number 9.2. Baptised by the Rev. W.J. Shrewsbury in the Wesleyan Chapel, Grahamstown.
Philip William BOARDMAN and Mary Augusta BOARDMAN had the following children:
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James BOARDMAN(1) was born on 27 Mar
1858 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Middelburg. He died on 8 Dec 1879 in South
Africa, Cape Colony, Dordrecht. Killed in a wagon accident near Dordrecht.
He was married to Caroline Frances THOMAS (daughter of Humphrey
THOMAS and Jane Sophia HOLDER) on 22 Aug 1861 in South Africa,
Cape Colony, District Albert, "Spionkop". Caroline
Frances THOMAS(3)
(6) was born on 26 Nov 1841 in South Africa, Cape Province, Grahamstown.
She died on 19 Jul 1919 in South Africa, OFS, Bloemfontein.
(7) Second daughter of Humphrey Thomas of Speogeon Kop, Albert. Second
daughter of Humphrey Thomas of Speogeon Kop, Albert.
Died at 4 Ella St., Bloemfontein. Death Notice signed at Bloemforntein on 27
October 1919. Philip William BOARDMAN and Caroline Frances THOMAS had the following
children:
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Jane Sophia Holder BOARDMAN.
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Ebenezer Cecil BOARDMAN.
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Philip Dixie BOARDMAN(8)
(photo) was born on 15 Jul 1866 in South Africa, Cape Colony, District Albert,
Speogeon Kop. He died in 1950 in Rhodesia, Bulawayo. Born at 2.00 p.m Sunday
15 Jul 1864. Death date uncertain. Survived a bullet through the head in the
Boer War.
Trooper 22756 C-in-C bodyguard. Boer War medal has bars for Transvaal, OFS, Relief
of Mafeking, Rhodesia
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Edith Letitia BOARDMAN(8) was born
on 13 Aug 1868 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Barkly East, "Holbrook".
She died on 5 Nov 1885 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Barkly East. "Born
at Holbrooke, New England, on the Thursday of the 13th August 1868 at 1O to 5
o'clock in the evening. The first of my children born in my own home."(Family
Bible)
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Clement Hamilton Crause BOARDMAN Mr.
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William Thomas BOARDMAN Lieutenant.
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Lilian Maude BOARDMAN Miss(1)
(photo) was born on 7 Aug 1873 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Lady Grey.
(8) She was christened on 18 Sep 1873 in South
Africa, Cape Colony, New England, "Sandham". She died in 1962 in South
Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria. She was buried in South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria.
"Lilian Maude. Born at Lady Grey, on the evening of the 7th August 1873,
and baptized on the same day as her Father, 18th September 1873 at Sandham, New
England."(Family Bible)
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Emma Caroline Louisa BOARDMAN.
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Holbrooke Ashton BOARDMAN(1)
(photo) was born on 8 Aug 1877 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Barkly East,
"Holbrook".(8) He died on 1
Aug 1929 in South Africa.(9) Holbrooke
Ashton. Born 8th August 1877 at a 1/4 to 5 p.m. Born at Holbrooke, baptized at
Aliwal North by the REV. W. ROSSITOR." (Family Bible)
Boer War medal : Corporal H.A. Boardman New England M.P. Bars: Transvaal, OFS,
Cape Colony
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James BOARDMAN Mr.
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Neville Garfield Hope BOARDMAN Mr(1)
(photo) was born on 8 Dec 1881 in South Africa,
Cape Province, Barkly East.(8) He died
on 1 Mar 1902 in South Africa, Cape Colony, Cradock.
(8) "Neville Garfield Hope. Born in Barkly on the 8th December
1881. By a stroke of strange coincidence `or rather the guidance of an overruling
and Gracious Providence' the exact hour and date. Viz, 4 o'clock in the morning
of the 8th December, just two years after my lost son JAMES who was killed on
that day and hour, on the 8th December 1879."
"Departed this life on March the 1st 1902. Aged 20 years 2 months 12 days.
After a severe and fatal attack of Enteric Fever, caught when in service with
distinction all through the Anglo Boer War 1889 to 1902. Cape Colony, Orange
Free State and Transvaal." (Extract from the Bible of Philip William Boardman).
Died of enteric fever contracted while on active service as Corporal in the New
England Mounted Rifles.
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Caroline Elizabeth BOARDMAN.