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I'm hoping to find background on 2 EARLY brothers. My info is fragmentary
and mostly unconfirmed.
Edward EARLY, b. ca 1837, and John EARLY, b. ca 1839, both born in Witney,
Oxfordshire, England. It's known that these two men migrated to South Africa
sometime before 1860. They settled in the Eastern Cape Province, John
becoming a farmer and Edward a Store Keeper. They married local girls. John
married Emily TROLLIP in Dec 1861, and Edward married Mary Maria Clift
TITTERTON, 21 Dec 1864. I have copies of church records for both marriages.
John and Edward were witnesses at each others weddings.(That's how I know
they were in South Africa) Then, things become blurred.
John EARLY disappears from my radar. His wife, Emily, died in South Africa
in 1920 (Newspaper obit) but there's no trace of John.
Edward and Mary EARLY and family returned to England. They appear in the
1871 Oxfordshire census. I've been told that Emily EARLY nee TITTERTON and 4 sons were lost in a shipwreck in the Bay of Biscay, off the south-western coast of France, but it isn't confirmed. Also - unreferenced - that Edward EARLY died 2 June 1877, aged 40, in Richland County, Louisiana.
Can anyone shed light on these people?
Best wishes
Frank Early
South Africa
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