Person:Charles Willmore (2)

Charles Arthur Willmore
b.8 Jul 1846 Cape, South Africa
Facts and Events
Name Charles Arthur Willmore
Gender Male
Birth? 8 Jul 1846 Cape, South Africa
Marriage Abt 1874 ,Cape,South Africato Esther Laura Chapman
Death? 11 Dec 1924 Queenstown, South Africa

The Willmore and Chapman families came to South Africa with the 1820'ssettlersin a ship called 'Chapman'. They settled in the Grahamstown district where Charles Willmore married Laura Chapman. They trekked to Kuruman by ox wagon (a week-long trip) where Charles Willmore became an ivory hunter. He retuned home infrequently; only long enough to conceive children, of which they had 6.