Third Generation  

5. Sarah HURSTHOUSE [3395] (Mary JECKS², Isaac¹) was born on 17 Aug 1809 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England, was baptised on 7 Dec 1819 in Cripplegate London England, and died on 4 May 1873 in Hunstanton Norfolk England at age 63.

Noted events in her life were:

• Birth Registration: at Wisbech St Peters, in Church Lane, by the Dissenting Minister, Richard Wright, 21 Oct 1809, Wisbech Cambridgeshie England.

• Baptism: at Dr. William's Library, Redcross Street, 7 Dec 1819, Cripplegate London England.

• Residence: Church Road with her Uncle, William Jecks, 1861, Framingham Pigot Norfolk England.

Sarah married Dr., William STANGER, M.D. [3874], son of William STANGER [3828] and Mary DENT [3829], on 27 Sep 1842 in Lowestoft Suffolk England. William was born on 27 Sep 1811 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England, died on 11 Mar 1857 in Durban Natal South Africa at age 45, and was buried about 1857 in Fleet Baptist Chapel Fleet Hargate Lincolnshire England.

General Notes: Mary Stanger's Brother, First Name at present un-known is believed to have been Surveyor General in Natal, South Africa. ... H.U.SMITH, from letter from "Betty" SPENDER, dated July 7, 1988. ...
It is also thought that he was a member of the "Niger Expedition of 1841" (see Betty Spender's letter of 12/3/1989) H.U.SMITH, Mar 28, 1989. ...
University of N.S.W. have vols. I to III of a set of Books Titled Dictionary of South African Biography. William Stanger is recorded in Vol.II, which still has to be inspected at the University Library. H.U.S. Aug.2,1989.

In an Email, dated June 17, 2004, Chloris Mary "Tombi" Peck stated:
"Dr. William Stanger 1st Surveyor General, Natal 1845 - 1854

The following Snippet comes from 'To the Shores of Natal' T.V. Bulpin
..."Few of the officials were exempt from these bickerings. The technicians, like William Stanger the surveyor, were the best of the bunch for they were kept too busy to indulge in quarrels. In any case Stanger who had come to Natal fresh from exploring the Niger River and was well pickled with tropical diseases died in Durban on the 14th March 1854.
Dr. Peter Cormack Sutherland who had originally set up a medical practice in Durban in 1853 was then appointed to the position of Surveyor".

STANGER: The Town.
In 1870 the town was non-existent. Only two years later was the magistracy then known as the Tugela Division of Victoria County removed there from Umhlali. A large African hut served as the magistrate's office. In March 1873 the Surveyor-General Dr. P.C. Sutherland laid out a town and named the place Stanger after his late predecessor"
"Of the older places Stanger became a town on the 13th October 1920 and a borough on the 1st August 1949....
In the Encyclopaedia of South Africa it refers to it as "A town on the North Coast of Natal named after Dr. William Stanger"...."

In a Stanger Family File received from Mark Ward in April 2008, he included the following:
The Times, 22 January 1842
LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1842.
We transcribe, in another column, from a morning contemporary, what it justly calls "the afflicting intelligence" respecting the Niger expedition, and which is considered to be the official anti-slavery account of the matter. The result of that enterprise has been sadly correspondent with what all reasonable men must have augured, and what we ourselves hare always predicted. Three vessels have gone about 320 miles up the Niger and Chadda, and have come down again. A model farm some 300 miles from the coast has been bought, stocked, and abandoned; treaties have been made with the two negro Princes of Eboe and Iddah for the abolition of the slave trade and of human sacrifices, and then they have been left to their own practices; and this at an expense of health and life which is not indeed distinctly stated, but may well be divined from the account given by our contemporary, to whose statement we will add an extract from a letter written on board the Ethiope on the 21st of October :-
"We entered the Nun on the 10th inst., and proceeded up the river the next morning, and fell in with the Albert on the evening of the 13th inst. at Stirling Island, about 24 miles below Eboe. We found her in a worse state than the Wilberforce; all hands down with fever but Drs M'William, Stanger, a scientific gentleman, a marine, the boatswain's mate, and a servant. Captain Trotter very weak, Captain Bird Allen (who is since dead) very low; no engineers; Dr. Stanger was endevouring to work the engine the best way he could. We sent our head engineer on board, and the Albert followed the Ethiope to the coast. Captain Becroft then went on board the Albert, and took her to Fernando Po. The people at the model farm, including its manager, Mr. Carr, were all sick, and have been brought down by the Albert."
The Times, 27 January 1842
THE NIGER EXPEDITION.
REPORT OF CAPTAIN TROTTER.
On the 5th of October Mr. Willie weighed and dropped down the river, but was soon prevented by sickness from carrying on duty; and Dr. M'William, assisted by only one white seaman, lately recovered from fever,took charge of the vessel, not thinking it right, in my state of fever, to report Mr. Willie's illness.
From want of engineers we should have had to drop down the whole length of the river without steam, had not Dr. Stanger, the geologist, in the most spirited manner, after consulting Tredgold's work on steam, and getting some little instruction from the convalescent engineer, undertaken to work the engine himself. The heat of the engine-room affected the engineer so much as to throw him back in his convalescence, and prevent him rendering any further assistance, but Dr. Stanger took the vessel safely below Eboe, without anything going wrong with the machinery, while Dr. M'Willam, in addition to his enormous press of duty, as a medical officer, conducted the ship down the river in the most able and judicious manner. I may here remark that the Doctor steered the ship entirely by Commander William Allen's excellent chart of the Niger, of the correctness of which we had a good opportunity of judging on ascending the river, and which proved eminently useful on the passage down; and Mr. Brown, clerk, a native of Africa, who had been up the river before, also rendered, him considerable assistance in the pilotage.
When about 100 miles from the sea Captain Becroft happily made his appearance in the Æthiope, steamer, having been requested to ascend the river and communicate with us by Commander William Allen of the Wilberforce; and it was really a providential mercy that he arrived when he did, for had any accident, however trivial, happened, to the engines, they could not have been worked any longer, as Dr. Stanger had no knowledge of the manner of rectifying it. Fever still prevented my going on deck, and there was no executive officer to take the vessel over the bar, and only one convalescent sailor doing duty, and no black sailor who could properly take the helm. Captain Becroft, however, came onboard with an engineer, and not only took the vessel over the bar but brought her all the way across to this anchorage (a distance of 160 miles), where we arrived in safety on the 17th inst.
I have already alluded to Dr. Stanger's praiseworthy conduct in his acquiring a knowledge of the steam-engine, by which we were enabled to get down the river so much more speedily than we otherwise could have done; but this gentleman was, if possible, still more useful in the medical assistance which he rendered to Dr. M'William, who latterly had no assistant-surgeon to relieve him in his duties. I am sorry to say that Dr. Stanger is beginning to feel the effect of his exertions, having had fever (although slightly) within the last two days.

In an e-Mail received from Joyce [Pickering] Trousdale on August the 7th, 2012, she included an Article from the Yorkshire Gazette of June 10, 1854 that reads:
On March 11, at D'Urban, after a week's illness, Dr. Stanger, surveyor-general of the Colony of Natal. He was one of the few survivors of the memorable Niger expedition. Dr. Stanger's scientific attainments and sterling principles endeared him to every one who knew him, an his experience as surveyor-general of the colony, extending over a period of nine years, gave him a high position in the Legislative Council.
and,
In a further e-Mail received from Joyce [Pickering] Trousdale on September the 12th, 2012, she included an Article from the Rutland, Lincoln and Stamford Mercury of August the 8th, 1851, that reads:
WISBECH. ------ Dr. William Stanger, of the Niger Expedition celebrity, arrived in this town on Saturday from Port Natal, Cape of Good Hope. Dr. S. has taken up his residence at the Crescent.

Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Surveyor General, 1845/1854, Natal South Africa.

Children from this marriage were:

   17 F    i. Mary Alice STANGER [3394] was born on 20 May 1845 in Pietermaritzburg Natal South Africa and died in 1930 at age 85.

Noted events in her life were:

• Residence: 35 Mill Road with her Sister Hannah Elizabeth and Aunt Ann Hursthouse, 1871, West Walton Norfolk England.

+ 18 M    ii. William Harry STANGER [2853] was born on 25 Sep 1847 in Pietermaritzburg Natal South Africa and died on 13 Feb 1903 in Kensington Middlesex England at age 55.

+ 19 F    iii. Hannah Edith STANGER [3390] was born on 21 Aug 1851 in Pietermaritzburg Natal South Africa and died in 1937 at age 86.

+ 20 M    iv. Charles Hursthouse STANGER [2793] was born on 30 Oct 1852 in Wisbech Cambridgeshire England and died in 1931 in Beecroft Sydney NSW Australia at age 79.

7. Hannah HURSTHOUSE [101617] (Mary JECKS², Isaac¹) was born on 15 Nov 1813 in Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England, was baptised on 7 Dec 1819 in Cripplegate London England, and died on 19 Jan 1900 in March Cambridgeshire England at age 86.

Noted events in her life were:

• Birth: [registered], 7 Dec 1819, Tydd St Mary Lincolnshire England.

• Baptism: Dr William's Library, Redcross Street, 7 Dec 1819, Cripplegate London England.

• Immigration: with her Husband and Daughter Isa Ann, on board the SS Pekin, 1850, New Plymouth Taranaki New Zealand.

Hannah married John Stephenson SMITH [101628]. John was born in 1811 and died in 1874 at age 63.

Children from this marriage were:

   21 F    i. Isa Ann SMITH [101629] was born in 1844 in England and died in 1916 at age 72.

   22 F    ii. Nina SMITH [101630] was born in 1851 in New Plymouth Taranaki New Zealand and died in 1862 at age 11.

Noted events in her life were:

• Birth: "Okoare Pa", 15 Horne Street, Hurdon, 1851, New Plymouth Taranaki New Zealand.

   23 F    iii. Dora Isabel SMITH [101631] was born in 1859 and died in 1915 at age 56.

Noted events in her life were:

• Birth: "Okoare Pa", 15 Horne Street, Hurdon, 1859, New Plymouth Taranaki New Zealand.