Paulet Street, Somerset East Story

This blog is about the street I was born in: Paulet Street, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. I am looking for your stories and pictures, both past and present, so that we can bring this street back to life again in the book I intend to publish.

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Location: Sedgefield, Southern Cape, South Africa

We are the authors of the Cape Commando Series - a series of books dealing with the South African War in the Cape Colony. Taffy, who obtained her doctorate from Stellenbosch University in 2005 with a thesis entitled "The Cape Rebel of the South African War", is the writer, while David does the editing and marketting. We also write other non-fiction books. David is the Chairman of the Simon van der Stel Foundation: Southern Cape Branch, and Taffy is the Secretary.

03 June 2006

What Happened to John Austin?

John Austin was granted a freehold title of Erf 57, which was the important building, the Officers' Mess, known today as the Walter Battis Art Gallery. Austin was 24 when he landed in the Cape as an 1820 Settler who had sailed from England on the Zoroaster. He was a member of Dyason's Party. Austin sold the property in 1832. Does anybody know how he used the place? Was it an inn, or was it a shop? Then what happened to him next?
A John Austen was killed in the Frontier Wars in 1850. Is there a spelling error here, or were they not connected?

posted by Taffy and David Shearing | 10:07 pm

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