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[1] Mrs. Latham was: Jane Dixon born 20-7-1830 in Dublin, died 5-11-1898. Buried at ‘Roodebergkloof’ farm – 12 miles from Garies, Namaqualand. Jane Dixon and William Latham married in ± 1852.
[2] Benjamin Dixon married Jane Ledevia (neè Manifold). Their children: Jane, Rebecca, Benjamin, James, Matt – all born in Dublin; Richard presumably born on ship coming from England to South Africa; Tom born in Cape Town; Joseph, Robert and Willy were born later in South West Africa.
[3] Mr. Morris – Dixon’s partner. Mr. & Mrs. Morris and 2 children.
[4] Thomas Lawton, who financed the trip.
[5] Arrived in Walvis Bay June 1844.
[6] Kamiesberg.
[7] Lelifontein : Wesleyan Mission Station on top of the mountain, Namaqualand.
[8] Benjamin Dixon was using James Alexander’s map he made on his previous trip in 1837.

[9] December 1843.
[10] Now called Goodhouse.
[11] 1843.
[12] Today called Warmbad.
[13] January and February 1844.
[14] Wesleyan Missionaries.
[15] 1837 – 1838.
[16] Jane is now 14 years old and sister, Rebecca, 11 years old.
[17] Amraal was a Hottentot Chief who had settled with his tribe at Noasanabis or Wesley Vale, as it was called at one time. Noasanabis lies on the Nossob River.
[18] Rebecca.
[19] The Red Nation lived at Hoachanas.
[20] Today called Windhoek.

[21] Mr. Lawton : the third partner with Dixon and Morris who got the contract from the British Government to supply meat to the garrison on St. Helena which remained there after Napoleon died in 1821.
[22] Windhoek.
[23] Approximately February/March 1844.
[24] Tom.
[25] Jonker Afrikaner had requested traders to come and open up the country, so he assisted in road-making.
[26] Kuiseb River.
[27] Colquhoun now Rössing.
[28] June 1844.
[29] Rebecca or “Becky”.
[30] Dixon.
[31] June 1844.
[32] Swakop River.
[33] Kudu
Extract from “Lake Ngami” by Charles John Andersson – page 15 : “This lagoon teems with various kinds of fish; and, at low water, many, that have lingered behind, are left sprawling helplessly in the mud. At such times, the natives are frequently seen approaching; and, with a gemsbok’s horn, affixed to a slender stick, they transfix their finny prey at leisure”.
[34] Expecting !?

[35] At Sandfontain.
[36] Three buildings.
[37] Ben is now 9 years old.
[38] First child to be born in Walvis Bay.
[39] Ichaboe Island.
[40] Meat was sold by the company, Dixon, Morris & Lawton, to the guano vessels.
[41] The company of, Dixon, Morris & Lawton, had a British Government contract to feed the troops on St. Helena – October 1844. These were still the same army left on St. Helena after Napoleon died in 1821.
[42] Rebecca.
[43] Jane, who married Latham much later, is now 14 years old.
[44] End of 1844.
[45] Scheppmann.
[46] End of 1844.

[47]1846. Jane is now 16 years old.
[48] The partnership broke up in 1846 and was dissolved in 1850. See also “Lake Ngami” by Charles John Andersson, page 14 : “ During the time the guano trade flourished on the west coast of Africa, Walfisch Bay was largely resorted to by vessels of every size, chiefly with a view of obtaining fresh provisions. At that period, certain parties from the Cape had an establishment here for the salting and curing of beef. They, moreover, furnished the guano-traders, as, also, Cape Town, with cattle; and had, in addition, a contract with the British Government for supplying St. Helena with live stock. The latter speculation proved exceedingly lucrative for a time, and a profit of many hundred per cent, was said to be realized. From some mismanagement, however, the contract for St. Helena was thrown up by the Government, and the parties in question were fined a large sum of money for its non-fulfilment. Shortly afterwards, the establishment was broken up, and, for several years, the house and store remained unoccupied. But they are now again tenanted by people belonging to merchants from Cape Town.”
[49] A Swede.
[50] Rebecca or ‘Becky’.
[51] 1846 – 1847.
[52] 1846.
[53] Joseph was born in 1846 at Rooibank – the first boy to be born at Walvis Bay.
[54] Captain Greybourn. (See “Lake Ngami” by C.J. Andersson, page 17).
[55] Mr. Scheppman – he came to Walvis Bay after the Dixon’s.

[56] Morris’ sister, Mrs. Stewardson, arrived 1847.
[57] Elephantsfontein - today known as Gobabis.
[58] Joseph : born 1846 at Rooibank and died 1849 at Amraal’s Kraal.
[59] Richard : Jane’s brother who was born on the boat from England to Cape Town/South Africa in 1840.
[60] Otjimbingwe.
[61] Sandfontein.
[62] Robert was born in 1849 at Rooibank, died in 1850 and buried at Goanikontes.
[63] Goanikontes.

[64] Becky/Rebecca is 16 years old and Jane is 19 years old.
[65] Goanikontes.
[66] 1850.
[67] Corn.
[68] Lawson or is it Larsen.
[69] About 1850.
[70] Ben/Benjamin was born in 1835 and now 15 years old.
[71] James was born 10-12-1838 and died 1-4-1916. James is now 12 years old.
[72] Becky is 17 and Jane 20 years old.
[73] 1850. Francis James Bassingthwaighte is 30 years old.
[74] The Dixon Children : Ben is 15 years old.
James is 12 years old.
Jane is 20 years old.
[75] 1850. Mother – Mrs. Dixon.
Becky/Rebecca – Bassingthwaighte’s future wife – is 17 years old.
Richard is 10 years old.
Tom is 7 years old.
Robert (baby) approximately 1 year old.
[76] Richard is an errata : Robert died at Goanikontes at age 15 months = end of 1850 or early 1851.
[77] Francis James Bassingthwaighte.

[78] Early 1851 : Richard 11 years old.
Tom 8 years old : born August 1843 in Cape Town.
[79] Robert : born in 1849 at Rooibank and died in 1851 at Goanikontes.
[80] Stewardson : Hunter, trader, settler, farmer. He was first a tailor and then a dissenting parson before he made his way to South West Africa. Stewardson married a daughter of one of the Morrises. In August 1850 he had recently lost all his property, could not afford a passage to Cape Town, and was living in his house at Rooibank mission. (See “Pioneers of South West Africa & Ngamiland” page 101.
[81] Ben/Benjamin : 16 years old – possibly 17.
[82] Benjamin and James.
[83] Kuiseb River.

[84] 20th August 1852.
[85] Kuiseb River.
[86] Kuiseb River.

[87] Rehoboth.
[88] Hottentots who were centred at Hoachanans.
[89] Rehoboth.
[90] To the Cape Colony, South Africa.
[91] Approximately 1851.
[92] Cape Colony, South Africa.
[93] Hans Larsen
[94] End 1851.
[95] Cape Colony, South Africa.
[96] Rehoboth.
[97] Berg-Damara who spoke Hottentot and also known as Klip-Kaffir.
[98] Cape Colony,South Africa.
[99] Rehoboth.
[100] Rehoboth.
[101] Rehoboth.

[102] Warmbath.
[103] Cape Colony, South Africa.
[104] Warmbath.
[105] Cape Colony, South Africa.
[106] Cape Colony, South Africa.
[107] Spektakel.
[108] Willy born at Grootberg near Springbok on 22-9-1851.
[109] Frank Bassingthwaighte.
[110] Becky now 18 years old – born 1833.
[111] Roodebergkloof farm – 12 miles outside Garies, Namaqualand – Graveyard exists.
[112] October 1852.
[113] Frank and Rebecca Bassingthwaighte went to Walvis Bay in November 1852.
[114] Matchless Mine.
[115] From 1853 – 1856.

[116] Goanikontes.
[117] Should be Tom.
[118] Should be Tom.
[119] Robert who died at Goanikontes in early 1851 being 15 months old.
[120] James Benjamin Bassingthwaighte born 15-7-1853 in Goanikontes.
[121] Mr. Wallaston.
[122] Three miles from the present Walvis Bay.
[123] Goanikontes.
[124] No definite date when Jane married Latham but estimate 1852.
[125] Near Rooibank.
[126] Lovdy : Ledevia Maria Bassingthwaighte born 11-6-1855 at Sandfontein near Rooibank in the Bay – Rebecca’s second child.
[127] Matchless Mine – end of 1855.
[128] James Benjamin Bassingthwaighte – Rebecca’s first child.
[129] Runcie : Miner, trader, farmer, settler. A Scot who was on the staff of the Matchless Mine in 1857 and later became a dealer in cattle.
[130] Chapman and Edwards arrived in Walvis Bay from Lake Ngami in 1855 and trekked back to Ngami in November 1856. (“Pioneers of South West Africa and Ngamiland” page 21).
[131] Otjimbingwe.
[132] James Chapman (1831 – 1872) : Hunter, trader, explorer, naturalist, photographer, settler, farmer.
[133] James Benjamin Bassingthwaighte : Frank and Rebecca Bassingthwaighte’s eldest son – born 15-7-1853.
[134] Rev. Bam – Missionary – was buried at Rooibank – December 1855.
[135] Kamiesberg – early to mid 1856.
[136] Halifax.

[137] Eloline sailed from Cape Town to Hondeklip Bay under Captain Sinclair.
[138] Hondeklip Bay.
[139] Hondeklip Bay.
[140] William Latham : Trader, clerk, fisherman, farmer. He came from England to Walvis Bay in a guano ship via Ichaboe Island c. 1845 and hired out to Dixon at Sandfontein as bookkeeper and general assistant.
[141] Frederick Joseph Green (1829 – 1876) : Hunter, trader, explorer, partisan leader. Early in 1854 he left Ngami and trekked to Hereroland and Walvis Bay. See “Pioneers of South West Africa & Ngamiland”
page 45. Green married Stewardson’s daughter.
[142] Lake Ngami published in 1856 in London, England.
[143] Rev. Carl Hugo Hahn (1818 – 1895) : Missionary, trader, colonizer, Herero linguist.
[144] Rev. Johannes Rath (1816 – 1903) : Missionary.

[145] Kamiesberg.
[146] The “Canute” : In March 1861, Jane and husband William Latham, returning from Cape Town to
Walvis Bay in the “Canute” under Captain Steward or Stewart, were shipwrecked very near Lüderitz, in all probability, on Mercury Island. All survivors were brought to Walvis Bay in three different vessels; Chapman took the Latham’s back to Otjimbingwe. (See “Pioneers of South West Africa & Ngamiland” by Edward C. Tabler, page 67).
[147] Cape Town.

[148] Captain James Edward Alexander: born in Scotland on 16-10-1803 and died on the Isle of Wight on
2-4-1885. Alexander was the first scientific explorer of South West Africa, was a professional soldier, rose through the ranks to become a general and was knighted in 1885. On returning to England in 1838 he published a book “Expedition of Discovery Into The Interior of Africa” which has been published subsequently in South Africa by Struik as Africana in two volumes and is obtainable. It contains an excellent map of his trip which was used by Dixon on his trip approximately 5 years later, as he followed in Alexander’s tracks.
[149] See map in the book of “An Expedition of Dicovery into the Interior of Africa” by Sir James Edward Alexander published in 1838 in which he notes ‘ waggon abandoned’.
[150] Scheppmann : born 13-9-1818 and died 29-8-1847 and was buried at Rehoboth.
[151] Kuiseb River.
[152] Francis James (Frank) Bassingthwaighte: Trader’s assistant, settler, farmer, blacksmith. He was born in Norfolk, England in 1820 and came to South West Africa in 1844; he was hired by Dixon, on one of his trips to St. Helena. When he first worked for Dixon he had the additional, and in those days unusual, duty of caring for two young lions. He married Dixon’s daughter, Rebecca, in the Cape Colony, South Africa in 1852.

[153] A missionary.
[154] Farmer and settler. The Topnaars stole all his cattle in December 1863.
[155] Trader.
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