Ernest William Wilkins^{[1, 2, 3]}

1881 - 1950  (68 years)

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• Name	Ernest William Wilkins
  Birth	28 Aug 1881	Chatham,Kent,England.,   [1, 4, 5]
  Christening	30 Oct 1881	Union St Chapel,,Chatham,Kent,England
  Gender	Male
  Burial	1950	Kei Road,King William's Town District,Cape of Good Hope,South Africa.,   [1]
  Death	15 Jan 1950	Shamrock Nursing Home,Stutterheim,Cape,South Africa.,   [1]
  Person ID	I231	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	28 Apr 2026 | Edit

  
  

  Father	William Wilkins,   b. 29 Jun 1860, Chatham,Kent,England., d. 25 Apr 1932, Lewisham,London,England., (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Adelaide "Addie" Charlotte Ladbury,   b. 29 Jan 1862, Rochester,District of Medway,Kent,England., d. 15 Jan 1936, Lewisham,Kent,England., (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1881	Medway,Kent,England.,   [6]
  	_HTITL: Husband _WTITL: Wife
  Family ID	F87	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Alma Hansine Katharine Hansen,   b. 8 Jul 1884, Flensburg,Schleswig-Holstein,Germany., d. 30 Oct 1933, Umtata,Cape,South Africa., (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	28 Jun 1907	Elliotdale,Cape,South Africa.,
  	_HTITL: Husband _WTITL: Wife
  Children	1. Eustace Neville Donald (Neville) Wilkins,   b. 11 Jul 1908, Nqamakwe,Transkei,South Africa., d. 24 Jun 1954, Lusikisiki,Transkei,South Africa (Age 45 years)   2. Albert Ladbury "Bertie" Wilkins,   b. 27 Jan 1910, Nqamakwe,Cape of Good Hope,South Africa., d. 27 Mar 1970, Umtata,Transkei,South Africa., (Age 60 years)   3. Ursula Adelaide Johanne Wilkins,   b. 7 Mar 1912, Nqamakwe,Transkei,South Africa., d. 23 Sep 1983, Northcliff Ext 3,Johannesburg,South Africa., (Age 71 years)   4. Diana Marah "Billy" Wilkins,   b. 24 Jul 1920, Elliotdale,(Bomvanaland) Transkei,South Africa., d. 16 Jul 1981, Durban,Kwazulu-Natal,South Africa., (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F15	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2022 | Edit

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Connellan,   b. 13 Feb 1908, ,,South Africa., d. Aft 1981, Lady Grey,Cape of Good Hope,South Africa., (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	28 Sep 1935	Umtata,Cape,South Africa.,
  	Information supplied by E-mail from Pat 30 July 2006 _HTITL: Husband _WTITL: Wife
  Children	1. Patricia Wilkins,   b. 21 Feb 1937, Johannesburg,Transvaal,South Africa (Age 89 years)   2. Anthony Wilkins,   b. 22 Oct 1938, Sterkspruit,,South Africa (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F80	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2023 | Edit

  
  

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• Notes

  PRIVATE «b»1901«/b» Census: Age: 19, Clerk (Post Office) Emigrated to South Africa approx 1903 1905: Justice of the Peace in Willowmore, Cape. (Pretoria Archives) 1907: Elliotdale [Red Book 1907] 1908: Nqamakwe, Transkei [baptism of Eustace Neville Donald Wilkins] 1910: Nqamakwe, Tranaskei [baptism of Albert Ladbury Wilkins] 1912: living in Nqamakwe, Transkei. Occupation given as "land clerk" and Justice of the Peace. «b»1915-1919«/b»: served in South West Africa His Rank - Captain; His Unit - Supernumary List (Active Citizen Force). His dates of service - 13 Dec 1915 to 28 Jan 1919, Medal awarded - British War Medal 1914-20 issued on 12-8-1922. 1922: Bizana . Assistant RM and Chief Clerk, Bizana 1924: Bizana 1926: Assistant RM Kokstad 1927: Matatiele: Assistant Magistrate 1928: ditto 1929: Elliotdale: Magistrate 1930: ditto 1931: ditto 1933:Elliotdale: Magistrate 1937 Tsolo: RM 1938: Retired to Kei Road, Ciskei, South Africa. "He and my father played the organ at the dockyard chapel whenever required not just on Sundays (they played three times every Sunday) but also at naval ceremonies. One Sunday, after all the congregation had left, the two of them got back on the organ (Earnest playing with Percy frantically pumping) and played at full pitch the latest Souza marches. They were caught at it and given a full dressing down by the dockyard Superintendent." I met Earnest only when he came to England after your grandmother had died. I think it was 1934 but am not certain. I would be only about 11 years old at the time. When he and Ursula came to Britain, they travelled extensively around the country and whenever possible, my mother and father accompanied them (this was one of the occasions when I stayed with Adelaide in Lewisham). From a young boy's perspective, I remember him as a tall man - well, taller than my father - and well built and full of energy" Source Alan Wilkins "Earnest, as a Post Office clerk, would have been bored to death, but jobs were hard to come by in those times - hence his departure for S.A." Source: Alan Wilkins. e-mail of 16 Oct 2006 Obituary [Source unknown: in possession of Pat Stephenson nee Wilkins, 2012.] «i»Ernest William Wilkins: The death occurred at Kei Road on Sunday of Mr Ernest William Wilkins at the age of 68 years after a long illness patiently borne. The late Mr Wilkins came to this country during the Anglo-Boer War. He entered the Native Affairs Department and served in the Transkeian Territories for many years as clerk, assistant magistrate, and later as magistrate. He was transferred to Johannesburg as Magistrate and Native Commissioner ,and retired on pension while serving at Herschel. During the war years Mr Wilkins acted in a temporary capacity for men on service. Latterly he became Secretary of the Village Management Board at Kei Road, which position he held at the time of his demise. He was very well known and popular throughout the Transkei and was held in high esteem, particularly by brother officials who knew him as an efficient and hard working official. Deepest sympathy is extended to his family. «/i»According to Cloris David: «i»"...adorded by the Xhosas who showered gifts on him. Animal skins, Karosses, rugs etc. Alma was a real tartar which probably drove him to become the old drunk he did. Also liked chasing his young nieces arouns...D.O.M«/i»." From "David Family History"12 Nov 1985 [a letter to her son David Adey, whose daughter gave it to Roslyn Rose who sent it to Veronica. Much of her information is incorrect.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S295] Cemetry Recording Project, (Genealogical Society of South Africa ISBN 0-620-32121-0). [S294] 1901 England Census, Folio 68, p 35 (Reliability: 3). [S1063] 1901 England Census, (ancestry.ca), Folio 68, p 35 (Reliability: 3). [S296] England and Wales. Registrar General., Wilkins, Ernest William, birth certificate (Reliability: 3). [S296] England and Wales. Registrar General., Wilkins, Ernest William, birth certificate for Ernest William Wilkins, born 28 August 1881; citing /BXCF 7573391881, Medway, [Kent, England.] registration district (Reliability: 3). [S22] England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1983 (Reliability: 3).