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battalions of Town Guard Infantry. He died at home in January 1915 after a short illness, his

funeral was attended by thousands of people in the community.

Billie and Ellen’s older son, William Daniel Hare, appears to have been a similar character to

his father. Born in 1874, he was a lieutenant in the Cape Town Highlander Regiment during
the Anglo-Boer War and a Captain in the Highlanders during WW I. In 1931 he wrote a history

of the Hare family. He was a very successful company director and property owner and married

twice, having two daughters, one of whom had predeceased him when he died at his holiday
home in Glencairn in 1950 at the age of 76. His brother, Lionel Harold Hare, born in 1892,

never married and died in Perth, Australia, at the age of 37. With William Daniel’s death, the
surname Hare from the Woodstock branch of the family came to an end.

Billie and Edward Hare’s mother, Susan, helped her young son Edward take over the

management of the Mowbray brickfields. After his marriage she moved to a house in Princess
Road, Mowbray, where she became well-known for her many deeds of charity. Mourned by

all who knew her, she died in 1914 at the age of 90.

Edward and his wife Catherine Ellison married in the early 1880s and lived in Mowbray House,

the home inherited from his father William John. In the 1890s Edward rebuilt their home in a
Victorian style, incorporating a bay-windowed front with a wooden lattice-work veranda and

a roof of patterned slate. Next door he built a large double-storied home named Haredale,

adding a garage behind it in 1915. (Fig. 4.12). Edward and Catherine had four sons, William
George, Fred, Percy and Edward John, and two daughters, Ethel and Jessie. Fred moved to

Canada where he died in 1925 and Lt. Edward John Hare was killed in action in Flanders on
24 March 1917. Ethel married Caspar Badenhorst and Jessie married Robert Mitchell.

Edward continued to expand the brickfields business at Mowbray and bought large tracts of
adjoining land for residential development. He built many houses in streets such as Osborne,

William, George, Vine, Hare, Belmont and Falmouth Roads in Mowbray. Edward was a keen

hunter and took his sons on many expeditions into the veld. The Mellish family, who farmed
at the Welbeloond estate in the Durbanville Hills, were friends and in 1925 Edward took his

sons and grandsons hunting on the estate. (Fig. 4.13). He was not as civic-minded as his brother

Billie, but for a short period acted as a Councillor for the Municipality of Mowbray.

Edward died in 1932 at the age of 75. Haredale still stands today and one of many oak trees

planted by his father William John still stands in front of it. But unfortunately, Mowbray House
was demolished c.1978 when the site was rebuilt as the Mowbray Baptist Church. (Fig. 4.14).