Capt Ernest Anton Marie de MARILLAC ST JULIEN [8246]

  General Notes:

Ernest von Marillac - St. Julien (afb. 13 ) is geboren op 30-06-1889 in Bloemfontein (SA), zoon van Ernst Anton Maria von Marillac - St. Julien en Elizabeth Lilian Symons. Ernest is overleden op 09-07-1938 in Athlone Nurs Hm, Benoi, (SA), 49 jaar oud.

Many files in the Cape Archives, including

1897 Prospecting licence in the Little Bushman Land

Served in South west Africa in the 1st World War.

Fruitgrower in Ceres when he married and first child was born.

Died at the age of 48 years Left three children (aged 12, 9, 6 years) and a wife

Occupation: Sampling in Mines

Residence: 1938: Benoni

Source: Death Notice no. 2440/38, Transvaal. Signed by his widow
Enlisted 26 Oct 1914 in 2nd I.L.H (Light Horse) German South West African Forces with the rank of Private. (G Squad), at the age of 25 years and 4 months. Father, Ernst Anton, noted as Next-of-kin, living in Rosemount Avenue Orangezicht Cape Town.

Embarked per SS ´Glenorchy? ´ on 09 Dec 1914 for German South West.
Discharged 09 June 1915 and regiment disbanded on 12 June 1915.

Mines sampler - Chamber of Mines- 1915
Belonged to Church of England

Enlisted at Roberts Heights with the South African Expeditionary Forces (NO 1505), on 21 Dec 1915, to serve as an Imperial Soldier under the Army act and swear allegaince to King George 5th.
Joined the 2de ZA Ruiters/3rd S.A.H.(Horse), regiment with the 1ste Bereden Brigade on 24 Dec 1915 in the Unions East and Central African Expeditionary Force, with the rank of Private. Signed in by Lieutenant AE Cooper. Mother noted as next-of-kin, living at 17 Belvedere Ave, Orangezicht, Cape Town.

Embarked on ´Professor Woermann´ on the 31 Dec 1915 at Durban, for unknown destination in East or Central Africa.
Promoted to Corporal.
Contracted Dysentry at Kondoa Frange? on 03 Aug 1916 and hospitalized at CCS hospital. (Room no 25)
Transferred to Section B (Room no 26) on the 11 Aug 1916.
Disembarked at Durban on HMT ´Miltiades´ on 12 Dec 1916.
Demobilized at Durban Discharge depot on the 17 Dec 1916 and signed proceedings of discharge.
Discharged effected 18 Dec 1916. (No 3191) by staff officer of Durban discharge depot.
Discharged as medically unfit due to dysentry on the 20 March 1917 and signed for war gratuity at the rate of ú1/6 per day.
On the 07 April 1917, Lieutenant Fraser ammended the discharge date from 21 March 1917 to 20 April 1917.

Ernst Left Durban Base on 16 April 1917 for Cape Town.

Military character noted as Good.

Admitted to Wynberg No 1 Military Hospital for Malaria on the 12 April 1919. Did he re-enlist?

1929- 1934- CERES FARM WAGENBOOMSRIVIER
LOTS 19 AND 20 LOT 82 CANNON ISLAND EM 18453- GJ WIEHAHN- 1934-1974

Source: Gedcom from M Robinson, July 2006

SEE - http://home.wanadoo.nl/jambastiaanssen/ermen/ermen_bergeijk.html#18409 - For the rest of his family tree.

Ernst Anton Maria von Marillac - St. Julien is geboren op 16-06-1835 in Bad Mariënberg (D), zoon van Theodore Paul Ernest, Count von Marillac - St. Julien en Maria Elisabetha Ermen. Hij is gedoopt op 09-07-1835 in Bad Mariënberg (D). Ernst Anton Maria is overleden omstreeks 1915, ongeveer 80 jaar oud.
His birth record was extracted by the LDS and listed in the IGI.
A.Holtzhausen wrote: "Additives, such as wheat, maize and chopped prickly-pear leaves were scarce and expensive. In 1860 E. de Marillac began experimenting with imported lucerne seed. The crop flourished in the limey irrigable soil of the Little Karoo river-flats. So too did ostriches. The protein and karotein-rich lucerne stimulated plumage growth. Under irrigation lucerne production was so successful that three times more ostriches could be carried on these local river-flats than other less fortunate districts." Source: 20-page booklet - The History of Ostrich Feather Farming pub. CP Nel Museum, Oudtshoorn, 1996.

1861 - 1865 there is a record of court cases involving the four de Marillac brothers, doing business as "E. de Marillac and brothers" in Outdshoorn and Mossel Bay, Cape Colony. Source: Cape Archives See also notes on brother Franz.

1867 and 1868 more court cases involving Ernst and Franz. Source: Cape Archives

1869 - 1871 more court cases involving Ernst. Source: Cape Archives

1870 Applies for Letters of Naturalisation. Source: Cape Archives CO Vol. 4164 Ref. M69

1872 - 1884 Court cases resulting from his insolvency. Source: Cape Archives

1876. Economic slump reported by Standard Bank on 21 August:-
So far as the Cape Colony is concerned no great changes marked its progress until near the close of the half year. Public works have been progressing, the money expended thereon being much the same as during the previous half year. The Imports and Exports of the Colony have however, fallen off considerably, and hence there has been some reduction in its material wealth but though the losses sustained have in many cases been severe, we are glad to observe that the larger houses in which we are interested, with a very few exceptions, shew no signs of weakness. The only firm which has succumbed, having large transactions with this Bank, is that of E. de Marillac of Mossel Bay, and it is satisfactory to be able to report that there is a fair prospect of our coming out without loss. . . . .
Source: "The Confidence of the Whole Country: Standard Bank reports on economic conditions in Southern Africa 1865- 1902." supplied by Quentin Buckland

1876 - 1877 Criminal case charging Ernst with fraudulent insolency. Source: Cape Archives

1877 Archives photo shows view of settlement and jetty showing the de Marillac building, later became Kenner and Co. building.

1877 Mossel Bay, George, Oudtshoorn and Cape Town inhabitants request remission of sentence passed on Ernst. Source: Cape Archives CO Vol. 4195 Ref. M11 & 03

1886 Ernst establishes a brewery in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State to supply Pretoria, Transvaal Republic. His brother, Henri is in the business, also in the Orange Free State. Source: Transvaal Archives.

1888 - 1903 More court cases concerning land at Aapiesriver, the brewery. Source: Transvaal Archives.

1898 Wants compensation for his beer brewery.

1902 Living in Wynberg, Cape Town. Claim from Ernst regarding the seizure of a brewery in Pretoria by the late government. Source: Transvaal Archives LD Vol. 144 Ref. AG4663/02

1903- 1904 Claims for compensation for the loss of his brewery, as a British subject of the Transvaal.

1911 - 1914 Court cases resulting from his insolvency. Source: Cape Archives

Beroep: merchant, farmer, brewer

Ernst Anton Maria trouwde, 44 jaar oud, op 30-07-1879 in George (SA) met Elizabeth Lilian Symons, 20 jaar oud. Elizabeth Lilian is geboren in 1859 in Truro, Cornwall (UK). Elizabeth Lilian is overleden in 1929 in (SA), 70 jaar oud.

She was either born in Bristol, Gloucester or Truro, Cornwall

  Research Notes:

Images courtesy of M Robinson & Family.

Ernest married Ivy Cornelia ALSTON [8245] [MRIN: 2731], daughter of Capt Edward Garwood ALSTON [3934] and Annie Cornelia Albertina de BRUYN [8241]. (Ivy Cornelia ALSTON [8245] was born in 1902 in South Sfrica and died on 1 May 1941 in Pretoria General Hospital.)