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The 1820 Settler Correspondence
 as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
 and edited by Sue Mackay

Additonal Information

This is pre 1820 information mainly taken from actual images of UK parish registers and other primary sources which I have personally researched. Further information about the settlers and their families once they reached the Cape can be found at https://www.1820settlers.com/

Sue Mackay

BENNETT, Samuel (BRADSHAW's Party) - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of BRADSHAW's Party)

 

Gloucestershire Archives

 

Possible baptism

Sam'l son of Thomas and Hannah BENNETT baptised 22 September 1782 in Randwick, Gloucestershire

 

Samuel BENNETT married Ann THURSTON by banns on 20 January 1807 in Dursley, Gloucestershire

Both made their mark

Witnesses: Thos. HANCOCK and Eizabeth GROVE (X)

 

Baptisms in Dursley:

 

Ann, daughter of Samuel and Ann BENNETT baptised 26 January 1808

Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Ann BENNETT baptised 1 August 1811 (buried 21 April 1815 aged 4)

Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Ann BENNETT, Dursley, weaver, baptised 28 April 1814 (buried 21 January 1816 aged 2)

Thomas, son of Samuel and Ann BENNETT, Dursley, weaver, baptised 7 November 1816 (buried 26 February 1817 aged 9 months)

Charlotte, daughter of Samuel and Ann BENNETT, Dursley, weaver, baptised 6 January 1818 (buried 22 December 1819)

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