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Biographical Information
"Thomas Bates Cullinan was the father of Sir Thomas Major Cullinan (1860-1936). His father died when he was a child, and his mother remarried, and thus the name Bates was added to his name.
Thomas Bates Cullinan in due course became a blacksmith, wagon-maker and contractor on the East London to Queenstown railway line. On May 14, 1861, at the age of 23, he married Eliza Pitchers, then aged 21, in the little mountain village of Hertzog
near Seymour. They had seven children, four sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom was Thomas Major."
Source
Sir Thomas Major Cullinan: a Biography by Nigel Helme (McGraw-Hill, Johannesburg, 1974).
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