Garfield Ralph

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: mechanical engineer

Samuel + Mary Maria Walker Kidson. Mary (daughter of Joseph Parke Kidson and Anne Knott) was born on 17 Jul 1846 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 16 Feb 1938 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa; was buried on 17 Feb 1938 in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1740
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Ford's party on the Weymouth

Died:
he has a 2nd dn filed by his son Samuel Richard at https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-H9J4-X which lists Katherine

Joseph + Carolina Margaret Pietersen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Occupation: King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Wagonmaker

Notes:

Birth:
Sensitive:0

Occupation:
Sensitive:0

Died:
Sensitive:0

Joseph married Anne Knott on 3 Jul 1845 in Tarkastad, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Anne (daughter of Kemp Knott, 1820 Settler and Ann Walker, 1820 Settler) was born on 3 Mar 1822 in Cuylerville, Bathurst district, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 22 May 1851 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes

Notes:

Birth:
.

Richard + Elizabeth. Elizabeth died in 1794; was buried on 19 Sep 1794 in Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 381
• Name: William Kidson 1820
• Occupation: a Farmer
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
• Occupation: Between 1826 and 1827, Albany District, Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Dealer in Cattle
• Occupation: 1829, Beaufort Vale, Clumber, Bathurst (nr), Eastern Cape, South Africa; a Farmer

Notes:

Carol Gainsford writes in the EGGSA Genesis magazine no 56 of August 2017:
One of the family visited Bathurst, and met an old resident, named Mr. Armstrong, who had lived in the village all his life, and was then 84 years of age. In his time he had been the undertaker, builder, carpenter, farmer, etc. He remembered Thomas Hartley Jnr., from whose store he had made purchases as a child.
He took him to the old Hartley homestead and to the cemetery where he could photograph the Kidson grave. The old man said that about the year 1912, he and his father were commissioned to renovate the Settler graves, in both the Anglican and Methodist churchyards. The Kidson grave was found to be in a lamentable state of dilapidation – the inscriptions on the tomb were faded and illegible, a tree having grown right through the crypt, dislodging the bricks and breaking the plaster.

The tree was chopped out and the damage repaired, and when digging down to the roots, they discovered the grave was not the orthodox type, but in fact a vault, or subterranean room, to which admittance could be gained by removing a stone trap-door and leading down some steps. On the floor of the vault were little platforms, upon which had rested the remains of William and Anna Kidson, the one on the right, directly below the tomb, had upon it a lead sealed coffin containing the body of William, the outer wooden shell had long since rotted away;whilst on the left rested the body of Anna – completely exposed as the wooden coffin had rotted away and she had not been placed in a leaden shell. The amazing part of the discovery was that she had not suffered the ravages of time, having been so well embalmed that after some 70 years, she was still perfectly preserved – the features perfect, her red hair lying in a tumbled mass about her head and the skin unmarked.

The article continues to inform the reader that the Settler William Kidson and Morris Slowman (or Sloman) spent a month in Gaol – 14 days on bread and water and 14 days on normal Government Prison rations. Their crime? Leaving their allocated locations with goods bought from the Government Stores at Bathurst and travelling further afield in the hope to sell these goods so that they could better provide for their families.

Even though they had permission from the Rev. William Boardman who was the eventual leader of the Willson Party, they were charged on the 1st April 1822 by the unpopular Harry Rivers (Landdrost of Albany) who was acting for the Governor Lord Charles Somerset.
Our Settlers certainly lived a miserable life under these conditions and seem to have been treated as criminals rather than settlers.

Birth:
Sensitive:0

Bruce Webber has 16/1/1785

Occupation:
Sensitive:0

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Occupation:
Sensitive:0

Occupation:
Sensitive:0

Died:
Sensitive:0

Buried:
Sensitive:0

William married Anna Maria Parke, 1820 Settler about 1807. Anna (daughter of Joseph Parke and Elizabeth Tollemache) was born on 18 Apr 1788; died on 18 May 1843; was buried on 23 May 1843 in Bathurst Church (St John's - Anglican), Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England

Notes:

Birth:
Sensitive:0

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

Died:
Sensitive:0

Buried:
Sensitive:0

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1016
• Name: Kemp Knott
• Name: William Harrison
• Residence: Ramsgate, Kent, England
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

He seemed to use a fake name "William HARRISION" in the settler records, and his details are under that name

He seemed to use a fake name "William HARRISION" in the settler records, and his details are under that name.
per Bailies Party of 1820 Settlers by M D Nash:
He was elected to lead a subdivision of Bailie's party, but was replaced by George Anderson. He was at Cuylerville at the end of June 1820.
CO 4843 no.320, Ellis to Adams, Harrison etc., 19.5.1820; CO 8541, Hayward's notes; CO 136 no.64, address of the Cuylerville settlers, 30.6.1820.
('William Harrison' may have been a name assumed by Kemp Knott in order to conceal his identity when he left England. His reason for this subterfuge is not known, and he seems to have reverted to the use of his real name from about 1822.)


Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman

Kemp married Ann Walker, 1820 Settler on 19 Feb 1814 in St Martin's in the Field, Westminster, London, England. Ann was born on 19 Jan 1790 in Bishopsgate, London, England; died on 4 Jun 1874 in Fish River, Cradock District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Settler ID: 1015
• Settler: 3 Dec 1819, Gravesend, Kent, England

Notes:

Her husband and family travelled on the Chapman under the name of Harrison, - probably a last minute replacement.

Settler:
Bailie's party on the Chapman