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1820 SETTLER MATTERS
If anyone would like to add information concerning the 1820 Settlers, please write to the Editor

• MD NASH writes ...

• Becky Horne writes ...

• BERNIE CRAMER writes ...
  May I please add a correction here on the WILKINSON family who sailed with the WAITE Party on the "ZOROASTER" which departed from Deptford via Downs on the 12 Feb 1820.

  Stephen WILKINSON : father : aged 28
  Amelia SISLEY : mother : aged 27 [ the name Cornelia SISBY is incorrect]
  Esther Sarah WILKINSON : daughter : aged 7
  Joseph Joshua WILKINSON : son : aged 8mths

  I can send documented proof of marriage, births and baptisms if required.

  This is my other small problem ! on the Albany Settlers Map the area designated No.53 is for the WILKINSON party, which WILKINSON, George WILKINSON of the ship "AMPHITRITE" or John, Stephen and William WILKINSON of the ship "ZOROASTER" ?? I cannot find any information pertaining to Stephen WILKINSON and his family other than that which is recorded on the Settler Index. The Question is, did Stephen and his family stay in the Caledon District after the ZOROASTER left the Settlers in Simon's Bay, or did they continue to Albany ??

  I ask this, as all my research of the Stephen WILKINSON family starts in Hoewhoek, district of Caledon and also Somerset West from about 1844 twenty odd years later. Where did he farm ?
  Entries in the CRAMER Family Bible for the WILKINSON branch starts in 1844 the year that Joseph Joshua WILKINSON married Magdalena Johanna Van AS in Somerset West.
  I really need to find this out !! Regards, Bernie.
  Bernard L Cramer (Family Researcher) P.O.Box 100805 Scottsville 3209 Pietermaritzburg KZN
  Email :- berniecramer@wam.co.za; phone :- 033-3420111; Cell :- 072-3045319; www.gencircles.com/users/cramerbl/1

• SHARON MARSHALL writes ...
  Snips from Grocott's Penny Mail, 1871, concerning the rush as well as other hopefully relevant notices and ads): Posted 7/5/2003 by Sharon Marshall

  April: Settler of 1820 Mr William BEAR, formerly of Winterberg and Fort Beaufort, now in his 88th year, is in GTN, having recently returned from Heidelberg in Transvaal. Mr BEAR was 35 when he came out with settlers of 1820. It is his wish to get to Queenstwon and spend his last days there with friends and family. He was in Dyason's party and was a blacksmith and wagonmaker in Grahamstown

  My Note: Nash has his age as 26 which would make his dob as 1793 but here 1871 - 88yrs = 1783
  1819 - 35yrs = 1784 (1819 being the year all 1820 settler shipping lists were supposedly drawn up)

• LYNN MACLEOD writes ...
  Note under your amendments to shipping lists from Nash... although she does have a notation against William MARSH, of Menezes' Party, this surely is the proof!!

  1820 settler plots Part 5
  From the Supplement to The Graham's Town Journal, March 27 1845 transcribed from the original at the National Archives in London (CO53/15) by Sue Mackay.

  "And whereas the said Board of Commissioners for Lands have recommended the following parties as the persons entitled to receive grants of the subdivisions undermentioned, respectively, viz:
  In MENZIE's or SWEETMAN's Party
  William MARSH, Lot No.6 - 371 morgen, being the share allotted to and surveyed for him."

• ANDY HALL writes ...
  I see there is some debate on William Marsh and was he part of the Menezes Party arriving on The HMS Weymouth, William Marsh is the ggg grandfather of my wife. I have spent the last 3 years trying to establish that he was an 1820 settler and have finally proved, to the satisfaction of the 1820 Settlers Association that he was.

  Besides the comments you have on his allocation of land. I would also like to submit the following extracts:

  ref: Marsh.09

  extract from The Grahamstown Journal, 6 Jan 1863, page 1, col. 5:

  "Died in Grahamstown on Sunday, 4th January 1863, at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Charles Poulton; Mr. William Marsh, sen., aged 86 years, 8 months and 12 days. [Note: therefore born 23 April 1776] Deceased came to this colony with the British settlers of 1820."

  He also had a daughter, Emily Elizabeth Weymouth Marsh, born on board the Weymouth on Feb 7th 1820 (note on the ships log, there is mention of a child born on this date to James Reed). The following was provided by ever helpful William Jervois, I have a transcript of Emily Elizabeth Weymouth Poulton (nee Marsh)'s DN, which clearly states that she was born at sea, the daughter of - Marsh and Sarah Marsh. She was 60 years old when she died in 1880. The DN was submitted by her eldest son, Charles George Poulton. It would be utterly illogical to name her Weymouth if she had been born elsewhere. There are many instances where prospective settlers dropped out before embarkation, and were replaced by by recruits who, to avoid complications with the authorities, simply took on the names of the deserters until they arrived at their destination.

  I also have a copy of William Marsh's will where he states that he was an original member of the 1820 settlers.

  Researching the following Familys : Marsh, Hall, Duthie, Gregori, Rundle.

• ROSEMARY DIXON-SMITH writes ...
  1820 settler plots Part 1
  I just thought the extracts threw a bit of light on the changes that occurred in these settlers' properties - nothing was cut and dried, obviously - and a few little personal details emerge too - like REES's widow marrying John TALBOT.

  "And whereas the said Board of Commissioners for Lands have recommended the following parties as the persons entitled to receive Grants of the Subdivisions undermentioned, respectively, viz.:

  In Hezekiah SEPHTON's or the Salem Party

  Thomas NELSON, Lot No.1 - 19 morgen 177 square roods, with two shares in the commonage, allotted to and surveyed for John TALBOT, and sold to said NELSON.

  Thomas NELSON, Lot No.2 - 20 morgen, with two shares in commonage, allotted to John TALBOT, being apparently the shares of REES and RAYNER. RAYNER appears to have sold to REES, whose widow married John TALBOT, who sold to said NELSON."

• JULIE DRIVER writes ...
  While reading the Log and Muster Roll for the Weymouth, I noted that STANFORD is written as STAMFORD. I would imagine this to be the error of Mr.Richard Turner, Master.

  Wed 26 January
  Am: Moderate and fine
  4 Do weather. Rec'd water from shore boats. Killed a bullock wt 342 lbs
  Rec'd 6 oxen and a quantity of fruit and vegetables for the settlers
  Pm: Employed receiving water. Departed this life SARAH STAMFORD settler's child
  8: Light winds and fine
  Midnight: Do weather

  Also the John STAMFORD and Maria STAMFORD listed in the male and female passenger lists.

  According to The Settler Handbook, there is no STAMFORD but there is STANFORD.