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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

SHEPSTONE, William - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of HOLDER's Party)

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says he was born in Bristol ca 1797

 

Somerset Archives and Local Studies

 

William son of George SHEPSTON was baptised January 22nd 1797 in Rowberrow, Somerset

 

Bristol Record Office

 

William SHEPSTONE married Elizabeth BROOKS on 18 February 1816 in St.Mary le Port, Bristol

Both signed

Witnesses: Jonathan MATHEWS and Sarah REED (X)

 

Theophilus SHEPSTONE son of William and Elizabeth was babtised on 30 January 1817 in Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire

 

National Archives, Kew, London

 

RG4/1389

Elizabeth daughter of William & Elizabeth SHEPSTONE, Westbury, was baptised on 31 January 1819 in Portland Chapel, Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire

 

 

Elizabeth BROOKS was the sister of Ann BROOKS, wife of Richard TAINTON, also of HOLDER's Party

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