Thomas Benjamin DAVIE

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation. TB Davie age 10mo in census in South Africa by 1884
Bp 1 Dec 1850 Wesleyan Methodist chapel Frome, age 6wks of Falkland
A Mr T.B Davie of Prieska described one of the four great springbok migrations between 1887 and 1896 as a continuous 47 mile (~ 75km) long stream!
ENQUIRY BY TB DAVIE RE RIGHT OF DISPOSING OF MINERAL RIGHTS OF FARM
KLEIN MODDERFONTEIN, PRIESKA DIVISION. 1908
GENERAL AND COMMISSION AGENT PRIESKA.
DAVIE, Mrs, Postmaster at Prieska, 1 July 1890
T B Davie of Prieska gave Lawrence Green his impressions of four great springbok migrations between 1887 and 1896. During the 1888 bokke-trek Davie and a Dr Gibbons tried to estimate the numbers involved. In front of them was a kraal with 1,500 sheep, counted by the farmer. "If fifteen hundred can stand there, then about ten thousand can stand on an acre, and I can see in front of me ten thousand acres covered with buck. That means at least one hundred million buck. Then what about the miles upon miles around all sides as far as the eye can reach, covered with them?" The great herds, numbered in multi-millions, have vanished forever.

Thomas married Caroline Charlotte HALLIDAY. (Caroline Charlotte HALLIDAY was born in Apr 1855 in Grahamstow and died in 1900.)

Thomas next married Lucetta Elizabeth DANCER. (Lucetta Elizabeth DANCER died in 1935 in ZAF.)