James Pawle, 1820 Settler

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1820 Lineage: Yes
• Settler ID: 3469
• Occupation: Between 1805 and 1812, TitchfielsdSt , Marylebone, Middlesex, England; Apprenticed to William Wood
• Occupation: 1813, Charlotte-Street, Rathbone place, London. England; Surgeon
• Occupation: 1818, Uxbridge St, Causeway,London, London, England; surgeon
• Emigration: 1820, Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Occupation: Between 1820 and 1860, South Africa; Surgeon
• Settler: 12 Feb 1820, The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
• other: 1823, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Loan
• other: 22 Jul 1825, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Application for Post of Surgeon
• Occupation: 1829, George, Western Cape, South Africa; District Surgeon
• Probate: 22 Jun 1875, George, Western Cape, South Africa

Notes:

James Pawle was a doctor from London who arrived on the Belle Alliance one of the 1820 Settler Ships.
It would appear that his medical training was an apprenticeship to an Appothecary William Wood from 1805 for 7 years at a cost of 50 pounds. In January1813 there is a dissolution of partnership notice between him and a George Edward Carruthers both male midwives, Surgeons and Appocaries.
I have not been able to locate any information about his parentage.
He married Jemima Pawle who was a Widow in April 1813.
The family applied to emigrate to South Africa under the 1820-Settlers scheme in 1819. He wrote a few letters which are on the record in Kew and I have obtained copies of them. According to these letters he was of 'reduced' circumstances and was desirous of emigrating to the Cape where he was sure to improve his circumstances. He was almost dropped from the Party and had to write a letter of complaint, which appears to have worked as he joined Wilson's party.
He was married and the father of two boys James 3 and Henry 1 when he and his wife Jemima joined Willsons party on the “La Belle Alliance” at Deptford, their departure was delayed for that a month because the Thames was icebound. The ship finally sailed on the 12 Feb 1820 and arrived at Table Bay (Cape Town) on 2 May and Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth) towards the end of May. The party was located on the Bush River, a tributary of the Torrens River
Wilson's Party
And Wilson’s party settled between the plains of Waay-plaats and the Kowie Bush, right across the path of the elephants, some of which they tried to shoot with fowling-pieces.
The grants of land made to each Settler, 100 acres - at a perpetual quit-rent, to be remitted for the first ten years, of not more than £2 for every 100 acres - were soon found to be of too limited extent for grazing and agricultural purposes, but the abandonment of their allotments by some left more ground for those who remained, and these gradually acquired, by purchase or grant, a perpetual right to them, so that, as time went on, small 100-acre farms grew into estates of considerable size, and their owners in time met with a fair share of prosperity.
In 1823 he was loaned 200RDS to assist in repairing damage to propery after rains.
In 1825 he applied for the post of Surgeon at Port Francis, in his letter he claims to be a long term resident of Bathurst where he haad been attending the residents. I am presuming that Port Francis is todays Port St Francis which is between Knysna and Port Elizabeth. By 1834 he was living George at no 7 York St with his family. It is here that Jemima died.
He became Surgeon General of George at some time after 1834.

He retired in 1865 and was pensioned. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1844 and Church Warden and School Commissioner in 1848. He was buried in George.

SA Medical Journal
The Doctors Who Came to the Cape with the 1820 Settlers

James Pawle, aged 30, arrived with Willson's party on the Belle A lliance. He was registered on 3 ovember 1823 and was appointed district surgeon at Bathurst. A month later he wrote to Dr Barry, complaining that persons named Howard and Williamson were carrying on illegal practices at Kowie Mouth (now Port Alfred), while a blacksmith named Hartley was drawing teeth and reducing dislocations at Bathurst. Later he was district surgeon at George from 1828 to 1845 and was paid £150 per annum. In 1845 he was awarded an annual pension of £60. He was appointed Roads Medical Officer from 1845 to 1848, in which year he was also appointed a Justice of the Peace. He was a Churchwarden of St Mark's Church, George, where he was buried in 1873, aged 84 years.

From: 'The Roll of the British Settlers in South Africa - E. Morse Jones. (1820 Settlers)

Graham's Town, 2d December, 1823.
Sir,
I have the honor to acquaint you, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, that in consequence of the heavy losses experienced by the undermentioned persons during the late rains, I have afforded them pecuniary assistance, to enable them to repair their damages, &c. Messrs. COLLIS and PAWLE have entered into Notarial Bonds for the repayment, with interest, of the sums advanced to them.
I have drawn on the District Agents for the following amount, and have the honor to request, that His Excellency will order a Warrant to be passed for the sum of Rds. 1,050, to enable him to meet these Drafts.
J. COLLIS Rds.600
T. PAWLE 200
T.P. ADAMS 50
J. WALKER 50
B. BURNETT 150

I have the honor to be,
Sir, Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) Harry RIVERS."


From: 'The Settler Handbook' - M. D. Nash
http://www.genealogyworld.net/nash/willson.html
Willson's Party.
No. 17 on the Colonial Department list, led by Thomas Willson, an architect and commercial agent of Bridge Cottage, Chelsea Waterworks, London. Along with Bailie, Parker and Edward Wynne (who was later succeeded by Hezekiah Sephton) Willson was given permission to take out one of the four largest settler parties, consisting of 100 able-bodied men and their families. Wynne's application was well received because of his party's religious convictions, and Bailie and Parker had powerful patrons in Government, but the Colonial Department later admitted that Willson's selection was a mistake that was not discovered until it was too late to rectify it. One Edward Webb Wilson had applied to emigrate with the influential backing of J. Kynaston Powell of Ellesmere, and the Colonial Department confused the two similar names and accepted Willson's proposal in error.
This was a joint stock party, recruited by advertisement, and like Parker's and Baillie's, it served to absorb the remnants of smaller parties whose applications had been rejected or whose numbers had diminished. Many of these men were London tradesmen ...
Early in September 1819, before Willson had been notified of the success of his application, he claimed a first instalment of five pounds from his prospective settlers, who were required to pay two further instalments of five pounds per man to cover the cost of their deposits and the 'necessary stores', which Willson proposed to purchase for the party. In addition, he levied a five per cent surcharge on the total amount paid, as a personal fee for his efforts on their behalf. In October he issued a printed circular containing a bewildering set of proposals for the organisation and management of the party.
He suggested that ten men of the party should form a 'society', each contributing an equal amount of capital and five labourers, and constitute themselves a Committee of Management to oversee the erection of houses and the cultivation of their land. In addition to this party within a party, he proposed that every ten settlers should select a Director to represent them, who would assist Willson himself in 'the dispensation of benefits'. In the distribution of land to the members of his party he would be as generous as was consistent with 'the public good' and the preservation of his 'own individual rights as Lord of the Manor'. He was willing to give a written guarantee of his intention to grant land to any settler who was entitled to a share, and who would 'pay a stipulated sum towards a Fund of Indemnity' intended to go into Willson's own pocket. All that emerges clearly from this extraordinarily unclear document is that Willson is anxious to avoid responsibility for the management of the Party, as he was to ensure his own 'adequate pecuniary support'. Willson's settlers subsequently denied that they had given their approval to these confused proposals, 'nor was it ever asked'.
Although most of the party were 'free' settlers who paid their own deposits, there were not many among them whom their contemporaries would have classed as 'gentlemen'. Several men, however, were sufficiently well-off to take servants with them: the Wilmots employed four servants, as did Collis; Cock, Currie and Willson each employed three; and Bisset, Lloyd, John Smith, Webb and the Rev. William Boardman had one servant each. The size of the party called for the inclusion of at least one medical man, and at one stage, in fact, had three: Thomas Cock, James Pawle and William Combley. Combley did not remain with the party; he was seconded to travel in the 'Sir George Osborn', which had no surgeon on board, but shortly before sailing he decided not to emigrate after all. His servant, Charles Bowsher sailed in the 'Sir George Osborn' but it is not known whether he rejoined Willson's party on its location.
Under the terms of the emigration scheme, any party of 100 settlers could be accompanied by a clergyman, who would receive a government stipend. Willson saw this as an opportunity not only to provide for his settlers spiritual welfare but also to establish a 'classical academy' at the new settlement. His first nomination was the Rev. Edward Pizey, who was rejected as ineligible by the Colonial Department; he was more successful with his second nomination, the Rev. William Boardman. Boardman was the headmaster of Blackburn School in Lancashire, and was desperate to emigrate: he hoped to attach himself to Hayhurst's party, but it was not large enough to qualify for the services of a clergyman. The Colonial Department accepted Boardman's nomination on the recommendation of his patron, Thomas Claughton, Member of Parliament for Newton, which was counter-signed by the Bishop of Chester, as well as numerous testimonials to Boardman's good character, strenuously denying allegations of drunkenness which he feared would prejudice his chances of success.
Deposits were paid for 102 men and their families, and the party boarded 'La Belle Alliance' at Deptford. One of the men withdrew at the last minute because of illness. After more than a month's delay before leaving the ill-bound Thames, the ship sailed from the Downs on 12 February 1820. Thomas Cock's wife and three of his children and one of Wilmot's servants died on the passage out, and Thomas Henderson and Thomas Randall obtained permission to disembark at Simon's Town with their families and leave the party.
When 'La Belle Alliance' sailed from Simon's Bay on the last leg of her voyage to Algoa Bay, Willson distributed another circular to his party, claiming 'indemnification' for the effort and expense he had been put to and the right as 'Lord of the Manor' to hunt, fish and cut timber on the party's lands and call on its members for labour. The 'free' settlers under his direction were unanimous in their determination to resist these demands, and on arrival at Algoa Bay toward the end of May, they submitted a petition to the Acting Governor, Sir Rufane Donkin, asking for his intervention. Their anger was exacerbated by Willson's refusal to issue them either with regular rations or the additional 'necessary supplies' for which they had been required to pay in England. Donkin held a meeting with Willson and the petitioners, and 'after explaining and exhorting, and deciding rather against Mr.W', he believed that 'union was restored'. The party was located on the Bush River, a tributary of the Torrens.
Willson, however, abandoned his settlers as soon as they reached their location and returned to Algoa Bay, from where he retreated to Cape Town, claiming that 'the wretched-minded classes' had threatened to put a bullet through his head. The direction of the party was left in the hands of the Rev. William Boardman. Willson had planned to found a town called Angloville, where he hoped to erect 'a colossal Monument to our beloved Sovereign' but the name eventually given to the location was Beaufort Vale.
Note: there was a poem written by A. Vine Hall called 'The 1820 Settlers' - reference is made to it in 'The Story of the British Settlers of 1820 in South Africa' by H. E. Hockly.
James died in George at age 83, he appears to have realised his potential.

PAWLE, James

122
No. 33 Uxbridge Street
Newington Causeway
Thursday Augt 12th 1819
Sir
Having a desire to Emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope & being unacquainted with the proper mode of obtaining the requisite information I trust you will excuse the liberty I am now taking in thus addressing you upon the subject.
I am a Medical man who has been respectably settled in Practice but now much reduced from various severe pecuniary losses and disappointments. Finding it very difficult & indeed almost impossible (from the want of friends &c) to recover myself or to procure a living for my family I am desirous of Emigrating to the Cape, where I feel confident that I may (with the proper industry & perseverance) in course of time somewhat recover myself. It may be necessary to mention that I have a wife and two young children.
Your early attention to the above will very particularly oblige, Sir
Your most Obed Humble Servt
J. PAWLE
32 Gt St Helens
Novr 22nd 1819
Sir
As the principal Medical attendant in Mr Thomas WILLSON’s party (that is about to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope) I have to beg the favor of your furnishing me with some information as to the extent of the supply of Medicines & Instruments, which I understand will be given by Government but more particularly, as to trusses for Ruptures, it appearing probable such accidents may not be very infrequent and therefore that a supply of them will be absolutely necessary.
The favor of an early reply will very much oblige, Sir
Your most respectful Obed Servt
J. PAWLE

[GOULBURN’s notation] Refer to the Navy board with whom I believe the necessary discretions rest

[The letter below is filed with the Thomas WILLSON correspondence in CO48/46. It was addressed to Thomas WILLSON]
32 Gt.St.Helens
Dec 15th 1819
Sir,
I was yesterday with the Agent of Transports at Deptford and had the mortification to learn that it is the intention of Government to remove me from your party. I should certainly be very sorry to create difficulty but as you are aware of the engagement that exists between Mr. COCK and myself to render mutual assistance, I should hope by your representation of the case to Earl BATHURST that such removal may be abandoned.
I am Sir
Your most obed’t serv’t
J. PAWLE

From: 'The Settler Handbook' - M. D. Nash
http://www.genealogyworld.net/nash/willson.html
Willson's Party.
No. 17 on the Colonial Department list, led by Thomas Willson, an architect and commercial agent of Bridge Cottage, Chelsea Waterworks, London. Along with Bailie, Parker and Edward Wynne (who was later succeeded by Hezekiah Sephton) Willson was given permission to take out one of the four largest settler parties, consisting of 100 able-bodied men and their families. Wynne's application was well received because of his party's religious convictions, and Bailie and Parker had powerful patrons in Government, but the Colonial Department later admitted that Willson's selection was a mistake that was not discovered until it was too late to rectify it. One Edward Webb Wilson had applied to emigrate with the influential backing of J. Kynaston Powell of Ellesmere, and the Colonial Department confused the two similar names and accepted Willson's proposal in error.
This was a joint stock party, recruited by advertisement, and like Parker's and Baillie's, it served to absorb the remnants of smaller parties whose applications had been rejected or whose numbers had diminished. Many of these men were London tradesmen ...
Early in September 1819, before Willson had been notified of the success of his application, he claimed a first instalment of five pounds from his prospective settlers, who were required to pay two further instalments of five pounds per man to cover the cost of their deposits and the 'necessary stores', which Willson proposed to purchase for the party. In addition, he levied a five per cent surcharge on the total amount paid, as a personal fee for his efforts on their behalf. In October he issued a printed circular containing a bewildering set of proposals for the organisation and management of the party.
He suggested that ten men of the party should form a 'society', each contributing an equal amount of capital and five labourers, and constitute themselves a Committee of Management to oversee the erection of houses and the cultivation of their land. In addition to this party within a party, he proposed that every ten settlers should select a Director to represent them, who would assist Willson himself in 'the dispensation of benefits'. In the distribution of land to the members of his party he would be as generous as was consistent with 'the public good' and the preservation of his 'own individual rights as Lord of the Manor'. He was willing to give a written guarantee of his intention to grant land to any settler who was entitled to a share, and who would 'pay a stipulated sum towards a Fund of Indemnity' intended to go into Willson's own pocket. All that emerges clearly from this extraordinarily unclear document is that Willson is anxious to avoid responsibility for the management of the Party, as he was to ensure his own 'adequate pecuniary support'. Willson's settlers subsequently denied that they had given their approval to these confused proposals, 'nor was it ever asked'.
Although most of the party were 'free' settlers who paid their own deposits, there were not many among them whom their contemporaries would have classed as 'gentlemen'. Several men, however, were sufficiently well-off to take servants with them: the Wilmots employed four servants, as did Collis; Cock, Currie and Willson each employed three; and Bisset, Lloyd, John Smith, Webb and the Rev. William Boardman had one servant each. The size of the party called for the inclusion of at least one medical man, and at one stage, in fact, had three: Thomas Cock, James Pawle and William Combley. Combley did not remain with the party; he was seconded to travel in the 'Sir George Osborn', which had no surgeon on board, but shortly before sailing he decided not to emigrate after all. His servant, Charles Bowsher sailed in the 'Sir George Osborn' but it is not known whether he rejoined Willson's party on its location.
Under the terms of the emigration scheme, any party of 100 settlers could be accompanied by a clergyman, who would receive a government stipend. Willson saw this as an opportunity not only to provide for his settlers spiritual welfare but also to establish a 'classical academy' at the new settlement. His first nomination was the Rev. Edward Pizey, who was rejected as ineligible by the Colonial Department; he was more successful with his second nomination, the Rev. William Boardman. Boardman was the headmaster of Blackburn School in Lancashire, and was desperate to emigrate: he hoped to attach himself to Hayhurst's party, but it was not large enough to qualify for the services of a clergyman. The Colonial Department accepted Boardman's nomination on the recommendation of his patron, Thomas Claughton, Member of Parliament for Newton, which was counter-signed by the Bishop of Chester, as well as numerous testimonials to Boardman's good character, strenuously denying allegations of drunkenness which he feared would prejudice his chances of success.
Deposits were paid for 102 men and their families, and the party boarded 'La Belle Alliance' at Deptford. One of the men withdrew at the last minute because of illness. After more than a month's delay before leaving the ill-bound Thames, the ship sailed from the Downs on 12 February 1820. Thomas Cock's wife and three of his children and one of Wilmot's servants died on the passage out, and Thomas Henderson and Thomas Randall obtained permission to disembark at Simon's Town with their families and leave the party.
When 'La Belle Alliance' sailed from Simon's Bay on the last leg of her voyage to Algoa Bay, Willson distributed another circular to his party, claiming 'indemnification' for the effort and expense he had been put to and the right as 'Lord of the Manor' to hunt, fish and cut timber on the party's lands and call on its members for labour. The 'free' settlers under his direction were unanimous in their determination to resist these demands, and on arrival at Algoa Bay toward the end of May, they submitted a petition to the Acting Governor, Sir Rufane Donkin, asking for his intervention. Their anger was exacerbated by Willson's refusal to issue them either with regular rations or the additional 'necessary supplies' for which they had been required to pay in England. Donkin held a meeting with Willson and the petitioners, and 'after explaining and exhorting, and deciding rather against Mr.W', he believed that 'union was restored'. The party was located on the Bush River, a tributary of the Torrens.
Willson, however, abandoned his settlers as soon as they reached their location and returned to Algoa Bay, from where he retreated to Cape Town, claiming that 'the wretched-minded classes' had threatened to put a bullet through his head. The direction of the party was left in the hands of the Rev. William Boardman. Willson had planned to found a town called Angloville, where he hoped to erect 'a colossal Monument to our beloved Sovereign' but the name eventually given to the location was Beaufort Vale.
Note: there was a poem written by A. Vine Hall called 'The 1820 Settlers' - reference is made to it in 'The Story of the British Settlers of 1820 in South Africa' by H. E. Hockly.

from Queenstown Free Press transcribed by Sunelia Heath:
Tuesday, March 4, 1873

Local and General.

DEATH OF DR. PAWLE. – The death is announced in the papers of Dr. PAWLE, an old and respected inhabitant of the George district. Deceased came to this colony in 1820 in the Belle Alliance, with a party of British Settlers, and after remaining in the Eastern Province a year or two was appointed district surgeon of George. He had attained the advanced age of 84 years

see also https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVZ-YSRD-4?i=960&cat=305287


Occupation:
We the undersigned George Edward Carruthers, of Mile-End, and James Pawle, of Charlotte-Street, Rathbone place both in the County of Middlesex, Surgeons, Apothecaries, and Men-Midwives, do hereby signify and declare that thr Partnership which hath lately subsisted between us in the Commercial-Road, .in the above County, was disolved on the 23th day of January 1813, by mutual consent. — All G. E. Carruthers. Js, Pawle,debts due to the said Partnership are requested to be paid to G. E.Carruthers and all claims and demands to be disharged by the- said George Edward Carruthers : As witness our hands the 19th day of October I813.
http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/16787/pages/2040

Occupation:
PAWLE, James (correspondence filed under WILLSON) London Metropolitan Archives: James PAWLE, bachelor, married Jemima STEPHENSON, widow, on 21 April Both signed their names. Witnesses: Stephen BACON and Susannah MUSTOPH First marriage of Jemima: John STEPHENSON, bachelor, married Jemima BACON, spinster, on 29 1807 in St.Sepulchre, Holborn. Both signed their names. Witnesses: Wm.KING and E.R. KING Jemima, daughter of Stephen BACON, Custom House Officer, by Martha, Henry Rigg, son of James and Jemima PAWLE, Uxbridge St, Causeway, IGI extracted baptism: James PAWLE, son of James and Jemima, baptised 8 August 1817 in Ware, London Gazette: 12 October 1813 Dissolution of partnership "..George1813 in St.Pancras Old Church.OctoberVirginia St, baptised 16 June 1784 in St.George in the East, 29 daysold.surgeon, baptised 7 February 1819 (born 22 December 1818)Hertfordshire (born 10 July)Edward CARRUTHERS of Mile End and James PAWLE of Charlotte-Street,Rathbone-Place, both in the County of Middlesex, Surgeons,Apothecaries and Men-Midwives...."

Emigration:
An 1820 Settler

Settler:
Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance

James married Jemima Bacon, 1820 Settler on 21 Apr 1813 in London, England. Jemima (daughter of Stephen Bacon and Martha Aydon) was born on 18 May 1784 in Stepney, Middlesex, England; was christened on 16 Jun 1784 in Stepney, Middlesex, England; died on 15 May 1834 in George, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
St. Pancras

1. James Henry Pawle, 1820 Settler was born on 10 Jul 1817 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England; died in 1900 in Zastron, Free State, South Africa.
2. Henry Rigg Pawle, 1820 Settler was born on 22 Sep 1818 in Newington, Surrey, England; was christened on 7 Feb 1819 in Newington, Surrey, England; died in Jan 1820 in London, England.
3. Jemima Pawle, 1820 Settler was born on 20 Apr 1820 in Mid Ocean between England and South Afica; died on 26 May 1900 in George, Western Cape, South Africa.
4. Julia Pawle was born on 7 Aug 1822 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 24 Aug 1886 in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
5. Maria Olivia Pawle was born on 28 May 1828 in George, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 3 Dec 1909 in Zastron, Free State, South Africa.