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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

PULLEN, Thomas - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of OWEN's Party)

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says his parents were John and Ann.

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

Baptisms:

John, son of John and Ann PULLEN, baptised 30 June 1770 (born 4 June) St.Sepulchre

Joseph, son of John and Ann PULLEN, baptised 26 April 1772 (born 25 March) St.Sepulchre

Samuel, son of John and Ann PULLEN, baptised 29 May 1774 (born 3 May) St.Sepulchre

Thomas, son of John and Ann PULLEN, baptised 17 Sep 1775 (born 18 Aug) St.Bride's, Fleet

 

Thomas PULLEN, bachelor, married Dorothy CARTER, spinster on 18 August 1798 in St.Giles Cripplegate.

Both signed their names.

Witnesses: Jos. PULLEN, Ann JENKIN, Jane CARTER and Louisa CARTER

 

Dorothy, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy PULLEN baptised 19 June 1799 in St.Luke Old Street (born 18 May)

Adelaide, daughter of Thos. PULLEN, Gent and Dorothy baptised 18 August 1801 in St.Giles Cripplegate (born 22 June)

Augusta, daughter of Thos PULLEN, auctioneer, and Dorothy, baptised 9 February 1803 in St.Giles Cripplegate (born 12 January)

Thomas PULLEN of Thomas, Gent, Church Street, by Dorothy baptised 17 July 1804 in Christ Church Spitalfields (born 16 June 1804)

Edward PULLEN of Thomas and Dorothy baptised 9 June 1807 in St.Anne's, Soho (born 25 September 1805)

Tyndall PULLEN of Thomas and Dorothy baptised 9 June 1807 in St.Anne's, Soho (born 16 May 1807)

 

Essex Archives 

 

Julia, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy PULLEN, East Ham, Gent, was baptised on 20 July 1813 in St.Mary Magdalene, East Ham (born August 25th 1809)

William Turner, son of Thomas and Dorothy PULLEN, East ham, Gent, was baptised on 20 July 1813 in St.Mary Magdalene, East Ham (born June 18th 1811)

Ellen, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy PULLEN, East Ham, Gent, was baptised on 20 July 1813 in St.Mary Magdalene, East Ham (born 2 April 1813)

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

Triple baptism on 23 November 1819 in St.Alban, Wood Street, City of London:

Harriet Louisa, Charles and Lavinia Ann, children of Thomas PULLEN, Gent and Dorothy.

Address: Barbers Hall, Monkwell Street

Two children of Samuel and Sophia PULLEN, Attorney, at the same address, also baptised on the same day.

 

Freedom of the City of London Admission Registers (Held at London Metropolitan Archives)

Thomas PULLEN, son of John PULLEN, Citizen and Joyner of London, came before the Chamberlain the day and Year aforesaid and desired to be admitted into the Freedom of this City by Patrimony in the said Company of [Joiners] because he is legitimate and was born after the admission of his Father into the said Freedom....

The document has not been dated but is probably 1799 because of its position in the file. A note has been added "Copy 1770, Born 1776", which almost certainly refers to the date that John PULLEN was admitted, followed by the approximate birth date of Thomas PULLEN.

 

Freedom of the City admissions for John  and Samuel also exist. Filed with Samuel PULLEN's application is the following:

These are to certify that John PULLEN son of Joseph PULLEN, late Citizen and Joiner of London deceased, was admitted into the Freedom of this Company by Patrimony on the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy as appears by the said Company's Register of Freedoms

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

Parents:

John PULLEN married Ann TINDALL by Licence on 21 August 1765 in St.Mary, Whitechapel

John PULLEN (signed)

Ann TINDALL (X)

Witnesses: W. WEBSTER and Henry COOLEY

 

John PULLEN was buried 19 February 1808 in St.Giles, Cripplegate, aged 67.  At the time he was living in Winchmore Hill, Middlesex. His will can be downloaded here. 

 

 

 

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