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Benjamin Adkins 1755-circa 1821 Mary Baker 1767-1814 Henry Adkins 1798-1830 Maria circa 1790-1857

Benjamin Adkins 1 engineer (1864) of King William's Town born circa 1826 2 baptized 12 January 1826, Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent 3 died 11 February 1866 4 buried 12 February 1866, Holy Trinity, King William's Town will dated 6 February 1864 5 Notes: At the time of the 1841 census he was living in the household of Samuel Pearson, a tailor, in the High Street, Market Harborough, and is described as a tailors apprenctice. in his will of 1864 he directs the following: "I nominate and appoint my said wife and my brother, Henry James Adkins, to be joint Executor and Executrix..."

married Charlotte Elizabeth 1840-1911

Benjamin Henry b.1859 George Edward Sidney Charles 1864 - 1932 children

children of Benjamin and Charlotte Elizabeth Adkins Benjamin Henry Adkins born 1859 born 5 February 1859 baptized 17 February 1859, Holy Trinity, King William's Town, Cape Colony 6 George Edward Adkins 7 Sidney Charles Adkins 1864-1932 born 5 November 1864, King William's Town baptized 18 December 1864, Holy Trinity, King William's Town, Cape Colony died 26 July 1932, 'Jenia', Tsolo District, Cape Province  married (1) Gqaqula, Tsolo Lizzie Samuels 8 circa 1879-1924  married (2) after 1924 Ntsundwana, Ngaleni District Kotso

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8 Death notice - Adkins, Lizzie - 1923 name of deceased: Lizzie Adkins (born Samuels)

7 Will - Adkins, Benjamin - 1864, Cape Town Archives, 7/1/300,44 my 3 children, Benjamin Henry, George Edward and Sidney Charles

6 Register - King William's Town - Holy Trinity, Cory Library, Grahamstown, South Africa, Cory MS 19 baptism no. 331 17 Feb 1859 - Benjamin Henry, son of Benjamin and Charlotte Elizabeth Adkins of Dohne [a mission station near present day Stutterheim]

5 Will - Adkins, Benjamin - 1864, Cape Town Archives, 7/1/300,44 7/1/300,44 Last will and testament of Benjamin Adkins

4 Register - King William's Town - Holy Trinity, Cory Library, Grahamstown, South Africa, Cory MS 19 Cory MS 19 194/2 Holy Trinity, KWT, burials register, vol.2, #87 Benjamin Adkins, aged 40 yrs, abode KWT King Williams Town, Main Cemetery, eGGSA Library of Gravestones gravestone Bejamin Adkins, died 11th Feb 1866, aged 40 years.

3 Register - Ash next Sandwich baptisms 1826 Jan 12, no. 242 Benjamin son of Henry and Maria Adkins of Ash, Taylor

2 Register - King William's Town - Holy Trinity, Cory Library, Grahamstown, South Africa, Cory MS 19 Cory MS 19 194/2 Holy Trinity, KWT, burials register, vol.2, #87 Benjamin Adkins, aged 40 yrs, abode KWT

1 Will - Adkins, Benjamin - 1864, Cape Town Archives, 7/1/300,44 I nominate and appoint my said wife and my brother, Henry James Adkins, to be joint Executor and Executrix... Census 1841, PRO via Ancetry.coluk HO 107/589/7 Market Harborough, High Street, In the household of Samuel Pearson, tailor: Benjamin Atkins, aged 15, not born in county, tailor's apprentice.