The Cawood File
This file contains the known descendants, to the 6th
generation, of Joshua Cawood, born about 1690, nailmaker of Otley, Yorkshire.
Notes for William Gradwell HULLEY
In 1835 a star-shaped fort was built to protect the 1600 members of the Fingo people, refugees from the area now comprising the Transkei who were allies of the Europeans in the wars with the Xhosa. The fort was named after Colonel John Peddie of the
Seaforth Highlanders. In 1846 it withstood a siege by 9000 warriors.
A town grew around the fort. Fort Peddie was built in 1841 on the site of an earlier earth stronghold.
In 1836 the Reverend John Ayliff was responsible for the resettlement of the Fingo into the colony from "the country beyond the Kei", and a bronze plaque has been erected under a large milkwood tree in Peddie by the Monuments Commission recording the
Fingos' declaration of loyalty to "God and the King". Fingo people congregate around the old milkwood tree on 14 May every year for a remembrance service.
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