Alexina Isabella Biggar, 1820 Settler

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1064
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

Settler:
Biggar's party on the Weymouth

Alexina married Richard John Eaton on 28 Sep 1845 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Richard (son of Richard Webber Eaton and Sarah Norman Ebden) was born on 17 Apr 1816 in Strand, London, England; died on 24 Dec 1857 in Caledon, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Harry Robert Eaton was born on 25 Jul 1846; died on 12 Jun 1896 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
2. Agnes Mary Eaton was born on 30 Oct 1847 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 14 Feb 1908 in 156 Coventry Road, Lewisham, Kent, England.
3. George St John Whittle Eaton was born on 20 May 1849; died on 19 Jun 1896 in Chipanzi's Kraal, Abercorn District, Rhodesia.
4. Francis James Alexander Eaton was born on 7 Jun 1851.
5. Alfred Richard Strickland Eaton was born in 1854; died on 18 Jan 1854 in Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa.
6. Harriot Mary Eaton was born on 17 Aug 1854; died on 22 Mar 1937.
7. Helen Anne Eaton was born on 17 Aug 1854.
8. Arthur Richard Eaton was born on 23 Apr 1857 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 23 Apr 1957 in Caledon, Western Cape, South Africa.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1057
• Occupation: Captain 85th Regiment
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

From The Settler Handbook, M D Nash: "Alexander Biggar of 79 St Aubyn Street, Plymouth, Devon, a Captain of the 85th Regiment of Foot on half pay. Biggar had been paymaster of his regiment, but his active career in the army was precipitatedly ended in May 1819 when a General Court Martial found him guilty of embezzling £1300 from War Office funds and suborning a clerk who was to give evidence against him. He was cashiered and ordered to repay the money. The Cape emigration scheme provided a timely opportunity to put this disgrace behind him and make a new begginning."

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE ANDER ARGIEWE
VOLUME_NO 6/9/15
SYSTEM 00
REFERENCE 3291
PART 1
DESCRIPTION BIGGAR, ALEXANDER. DEATH NOTICE.
STARTING 1839
ENDING 1839

Further information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggar_family


Settler:
Biggar's party on the Weymouth

Alexander married Mary Straton, 1820 Settler on 2 Mar 1799 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland. Mary was born in 1781; died in 1855. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 1067
• Settler: 7 Jan 1820, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Notes:

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/69
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 2987
PART 1
DESCRIPTION BIGGAR, MARY. DEATH NOTICE.
STARTING 1855
ENDING 1855

Settler:
Biggar's party on the Weymouth

Notes:

Marriage in Brechin, Angus, Scotland
2 March 1799
Lieutenant Alexander BIGGAR of His Majesty's 15th Regiment of Foot and Miss Mary STRATON, daughter of the Rev Mr. George STRATON, Episcopal Clergyman in Brechin, were contracted in order to marriage; and their banns having been published three several times and no objection offered were married the 3rd current.