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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

JAMES, Samuel Taylor - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

Leader of JAMES' Party

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says he was born in Christian Malford, Wiltshire.

 

Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Council Record Office

 

William JAMES of this parish and Mary TAYLOR of the same were married by banns on 5 May 1783 in All Saints, Christian Malford, Wiltshire.

Wm. JAMES (signed)

Mary TAYLOR (X)

Witnesses: [Oliffe] RICHMOND and James HULBERT

 

[Samuel Taylor JAMES does not appear to have been baptised in Christian Malford. There is a baptism in St.Anne, Soho, London for a Samuel JAMES, son of William and Mary on 20 September 1790, which has been suggested in several trees as the baptism for Samuel, but with such common names I have no means of knowing whether this is correct.]

 

Samuel JAMES and Elizabeth SMITH were married by banns on 13 November 1810 in St.James the Great, Bratton, Wiltshire.

Both signed

Witnesses: Dan'l SMART and Elizabeth JAMES

 

National Archives, Kew, London

 

Baptisms in Westbury Upper Independent Meeting House, Wiltshire RG4/2742/f17

Edward, son of Samuel Taylor JAMES and Elizabeth his wife (late SMITH spinster) of the parish of Westbury in the County of Wiltshire was born 17July 1811 and baptised 25 January 1818

Eliza, daughter of Samuel Taylor JAMES and Elizabeth his wife (late SMITH spinster) of the parish of Westbury in the County of Wiltshire was born 20 September 1814 and baptised 25 January 1818.

Stephen, son of Samuel Taylor JAMES and Elizabeth his wife (late SMITH spinster) of the parish of Westbury in the County of Wiltshire was born 27 September 1817 and baptised 25 January 1818.

 

Thomas and Samuel William (twins) born just prior to the sailing of the Weymouth

 

Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Council Record Office

 

Westbury Vestry Minutes 548/2

£10 deposit paid for Samuel JAMES to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope.

 

Muster Roll of HMS Weymouth 1819 ADM37/6145 (National Archives, Kew)

Eliz'th JAMES DD 30 Dec died on board

S Wm and Tho's JAMES S.Wm DD 12 Jan Thomas DD 2 Jan

 

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