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Charles Southey has a great-grandson named Ken Southey who still farms on the family farm in South Africa.
"Sir Richard's son, Charles, a boisterous man with a fine disregard for the defeated "Kaffirs", as the Xhosa were known, made an unsteady start in the Cape civil service, then took a gamble on a couple of fierce breeding ostriches. The sale of ostrich feathers eventually made him a fortune, and he bought a farm near Middelburg in the Karoo. He continued to farm ostriches, and also bred sheep, cattle and racehorses. Sheep's wool was riding high on the world markets at the end of the 19th and into the 20th century, and profits from wool sales enabled the Southeys to import the best racing stock from Europe, turning their farm into a renowned stud.
Fame and fortune brought influence. Charles Southey moved in the best political circles of the times. He hobnobbed with princes, generals and their consorts, received honours from the king of England, entertained Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Milner at the farm at Culmstock, and was on first-name terms with General Jan Smuts.
Ken Southey, Charles's great-grandson, continues to farm the same land today. The fine, Cape Dutch house he has inherited would seem to be full of the ghosts of those imperial footsoldiers who paved the way for the present dispensation in South Africa. And yet Southey has done his best to free himself from the weight of that past. It is difficult to corner him into even talking about his ancestors. "For me the present is more important. That's why I have such a tenuous grasp of family history."
Source: http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/99apr2/28apr-xhosa.html
JOHN MATSHIKIZA reports, Daily Mail and Guardian
Johannesburg, South Africa. April 28, 1999