Charles Hilton Taylor

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Shopkeeper

James married Charlotte Boyd Rennie on 8 Mar 1887 in St Paul's Anglican Church, Komga, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Charlotte (daughter of Charles Rennie, 1820 Settler and Miss Elizabeth Sophia Ridgard) was born on 27 Apr 1859; was christened on 6 Jun 1859 in Wesleyan Methodist Church, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

Wesleyan Methodist Church, Queenstown
Methodist Parish Records - Queenstown Christenings 1858-1860 - Entry #267

Notes:

Married:
Married on 8 Mar 1887, St Paul's Anglican Church, Komga
Rev Richard McCormick
Witnesses Walter TAYLOR (Father of Groom), NC RENNIE & AM TAYLOR

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2551
• Occupation: Hotel Keeper
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Charles was a member of the Rennie section of the Pringle Party on the Brilliant. It is not known if he was in fact Elizabeth's son, or just a nephew/cousin?
PTT - I have added him here so as to "not" lose him and his family.

Settler:
Pringle's party on the Brilliant

Charles married Miss Elizabeth Sophia Ridgard on 9 Mar 1843 in Glen Lynden, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Elizabeth (daughter of Ezra Ridgard, 1820 Settler and Elizabeth Keen, 1820 Settler) was born on 11 Apr 1825; was christened on 11 Apr 1825 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Name: Elizabeth Ridgard

Alexander + Elizabeth Brown, 1820 Settler. Elizabeth was born in 1776 in East Lothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 2549
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Cousin of Thomas Pringle's wife, Margaret and her sister Janet.

Settler:
Pringle's party on the Brilliant

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 693
• Occupation: a Saddler
• Residence: Roxburgh, Scotland
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England
• Residence: 1840, Baviaans River, Bedford District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Notes:

In his book "The Scottish Settler Party of 1820", J V L Rennie went to great lengths to trace the family origins of the members of Pringle's party. He first established that Ezra Ridgard was born on 10 June 1790 at Holywell in Flintshire, North Wales, and that his baptism certificate recorded him as being the son of Benjamin Ridgard. On page 202 Rennie dealt with the Elliott/Ridgard connection:

"The fact that Elliott was born in Sheffield and Pringle's statement that he was related to Ezra Ridgard prompted the writer to make enquiries in Sheffield for possible Ridgards there, with positive results. It appears that there was an Ezra Ridgard in Sheffield who in 1787 was recorded as a bookseller and stationer. He died there in 1815, and a note in the local press spoke of "his integrity as a tradesman for half a century". In his will he left, inter alia, six hundred pounds to "Ezra Ridgard son of my late nephew Benjamin Ridgard". There does not appear to be any reason to doubt that this beneficiary and Ezra Ridgard, Benjamin's son, baptised in Holywell and later the 1820 Settler, were one and the same person.

"Family records in South Africa indicate that William Elliott was born in Sheffield on 22 September 1792, the son of Samuel Elliott and his wife Rebecca, but these sources give no further information about his ancestry. The writer has ascertained, however, that Samuel Elliott's wife and the wife of Ezra Ridgard the Sheffield bookseller and stationer were sisters, daughters of a William Parker, a Sheffield cutler who became a master cutler in 1761, and his wife Mary Swinden, daughter of Joseph Swinden of Royd's Mill. The Settlers Ezra Ridgard and William Elliott were thus not related other than through a marriage connection, the former the great-nephew of his namesake the Sheffield bookseller, the latter the nephew of the bookseller's wife".

Settler:
Pringle's party on the Brilliant

Ezra married Elizabeth Keen, 1820 Settler about 1815. Elizabeth was born on 13 May 1796 in Marylebone, London, England; died on 14 Sep 1870; was buried on 15 Sep 1870 in Queenstown Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 371
• Name: Elizabeth Ekron Keen 1820
• Settler: 15 Feb 1820, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Settler:
Pringle's party on the Brilliant