1961, Lawrence George Green, Eight Bells at Salamander: The Unwritten Story of Ships and Men:
Apparently the Conservative closed in with the shore on the night of March 14 in thick fog. The following evening a man named February was herding cattle with his son when they saw the brig well up on the beach[.]
and about the same person:
2007, Michael Walker, Forgotten Shipwrecks of the Western Cape (→ISBN), page 95:
The following evening a man named February was herding cattle with his son when they saw the brig close to the beach with all sails set.