Albert David
1894 - 1979 (84 years)-
Name Albert David Birth 22 Oct 1894 Somerset East,Cape,South Africa., 
[1] Gender Male Death 11 Feb 1979 Ugie,Cape,South Africa., Burial Queenstown,Cape,South Africa., Person ID I17353 My Genealogy Last Modified 28 Apr 2026
Father Dr. Albert David, b. 16 Jun 1865, Flensburg,Schleswig-Holstein,Germany., d. 24 Nov 1944, East London,Cape,South Africa., (Age 79 years) Mother Karen Johanne Mathilde Petersen, b. 5 Dec 1857, Svensborg,,,Denmark d. 13 Apr 1932, Queenstown,Cape,South Africa., (Age 74 years) Marriage Aug 1904 St Pancras,London,England., [2] Family ID F302713636 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Charlotte "Lottie" Georgina Knight d. Bef 1961 Marriage George,Cape of Good Hope,South Africa., - Source of place of marriage: David Family History by Chloris Edey nee David
- _HTITL: Husband
- _WTITL: Wife
Children 1. Living 2. Chloris Althea "Clo" David, b. Abt 1922, Maclear,Cape,South Africa., d. Scottburgh,Natal,South Africa., 3. Leopold John "Leo" David, b. 8 Sep 1923, Maclear,Cape,South Africa., d. Abt 1978, Dullstroom,Transvaaal,South Africa., (Age 54 years)4. Albert Ambrose "Bert" David, b. 19 Aug 1928, Ugie,Cape,South Africa., d. 9 Aug 1985, Ugie,Cape,South Africa., (Age 56 years)Family ID F302714355 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 Sep 2025
Family 2 Mary Jackson Hulley, b. 7 Nov 1903, Maclear,Cape,South Africa., d. Abt 1991, Maclear,Cape,South Africa., (Age 87 years) Marriage 12 Jan 1961 St Matthew's Church,Maclear,Cape,South Africa., Family ID F302714359 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Apr 2020
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Notes - PRIVATE
- A farmer in the Ugie (near Maclear) District on a farm called "Meadows".
A race horse breeder?
Used to hunt jackal with a pack of dogs.
According to Chloris David, later Chloris Edey:
... [ Dr Albert David] ...settled in Riebeek East and there Grandpa [ Albert David Jnr] was born. No hopital or anything like that . His only assistant in Reibeek east was a woman who helped with the birth of babies...Gramps [Albert David Jnr] birth was never registered which was why we never really knew how old he was when he died:84 or 85, somewhere araound there. Years afterwards whe he grew up, Albert M.D.[ Dr Albert David] sent Gramps [Albert David Jnr] to look for this Midwife in Reibeek East to establish his birthdate but she had left those parts or died or something. ... in Elliotdale.. Gramps [Albert David Jnr] attended school across the river and up a hill, until Std 5, after which he was sent to Umtata High School. He excelled at shooting and Woodwork. He was due to enter Std 7 whren he had a row with the woodwork Master and threw a hammer at him. He then ran back to Elliodale and slept with the Natives and ate with them for 2 days before he had to face the wrath of his father Albert M.D.[D
He never went back to school and I think I have told you how he became a driver to a Transportryer and travelled all over the countryside by ox-wagon. Afterwards he owned his own wagon and span[of oxen] and athei moved around the countryside in groups of two or three wagons.
The 1914 war broke out and he did not really lie about his age as his birthdate was not known. He went to South West Africa and THAT you will know about. After the war he returned to Elliotdale and Albert M.D.[Dr Albert David]agreed to help him become a farmer and he was sent to Marshall in Queenstown to learn farming. Many young men worked for farmers then, and their lives differed only slightly from those of the Blacks or the Colourdes; slept in the Out buildings, harness rooms and things like that. Food on a tin plate. Gramps once told me that when he first went there he was treated differently to the other young men as his father was a Doctor, but he wasn't having any of that nonsense, He left there when Albert M.d. hired the farm «i»Kincardie« for him. He had his gun and his horse khupela!
Then he met and married «b»Charlotte Georgina Knigh«/b»t and they lived on the farm «i»Vesum«/i». «i»Versum«/i» is in the mountains and not arable and he wanted to grow crops. Albert M.D. then bought the farm «i»Meadows«/i» from a Mrs Green of Barkley East for the princely sum of $2040/14/2. The interest on this bond that he took out was $61/4/-.
The bond for this amount was many years afterwards made over to my Mother [Charlotte Georgina Knight] and the four children she had, and Gramps had the usufruct of «i»Meadows. «/i» This it was that Aunt Mary fiddled around with Mr Mr Wade then Gramps was so ill with Prostate and day to to East London to hospital. How Wade thought he could get away with it I don't know; but we were paid out some R1200 and then a further R200. Now [I] think about it Albert's Testament was not forfitted[fulfilled??] from 1944 [When Dr Albert David died]. «b»Charlotte Georgina David«/b»'s will was 'not fulfilled" from 1959 and neither could have been completed until Gramps died. Anyway, they paid up out in spite of my remonstration - much frowned upon by Aunt Mary and when Gramaps did go to sleep some 4-5 yers later, it cost us eacn R500 in interst and Estate Duty. We did not have to repay. It merely came out of out inheritance BUT IT WAS A WASTE. except perhaps for Uncle Leo, who did fix up his home in Dullstr
Source: David Family History
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