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

Correspondence 1821 to 1837.

Here only letters by known settlers or their families, or letters of great relevance to the 1820 settlers, have been transcribed, whereas ALL the 1819 correspondence was transcribed (see CO48/41 through CO48/46) whether or not the writers emigrated to the Cape.

Unless otherwise stated letters were written to either the Secretary of State for the Colonies or his deputy.The original correspondence is filed in order of receipt. Here it has been placed in alphabetical order according to the surname of the writer, with letters by the same writer in chronological order, for ease of reading. Original spelling has been maintained. Reference numbers, where given, refer to printed page numbers stamped on the letters and will enable visitors to the National Archives to locate the letter more easily.

COMBLEY, William, 1820

Written by Sue Mackay on 30 November 1999.

National Archives, Kew, CO48/52, 160

On Board the Sir G.Osborn

Febr. 10 1820

Sir

I will take it as a particular favour to inform me if I am obliged to produce a Certificate of my Marriage to the Wife I have on Board with with me. Captn YOUNG say's I am obligated but I think it wrong to oblige one more than another and nothing of the kind is mentioned in the Instruction's. I am at present accommodating the Passenger's as Surgeon, on their passage to the Cape of Good Hope without emolument. Awaiting an early answer

I remain Sir

Your most Obt. Humble Ser't.

W COMBLEY

P.S. Myself and Wife are entered in Mr WILSONs party, and should have sailed in the La Belle Alliance had I not been detained, as Surgeon to the Brilliant and since shifted to the Sir G Osborn. Capt. YOUNG's Inducement is on anonimos Letter he has received from an unknown hand. We are now 110 miles from Home.

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