Edward Guest, 1820 Settler

1783 -

• Name	Edward Guest  [1]
  Suffix	1820 Settler
  Born	1783	Fairford, Gloucestershire, England
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	24 Feb 1783	Fairford, Gloucestershire, England   [1]
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  1820 Settler	10 Jan 1820	Bristol, Somerset, England   [2]
  Address: Holder's party on the Kennersley Castle
  Settler ID	1912
  Person ID	I161491	master
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Edward Guest,   b. Abt 1760
  Mother	Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1760
  Family ID	F57015	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Herbert, 1820 Settler
  Married	6 Dec 1806	Fairford, Gloucestershire, England   [1]
  Children	1. John Guest, 1820 Settler,   b. 1811, Poulton, Somerset, England ,   d. 21 Nov 1896, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa  (Age 85 years)   2. William Edward Guest,   b. 1813, 1813
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2018
  Family ID	F57014	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  1820 Settler - Address: Holder's party on the Kennersley Castle - 10 Jan 1820 - Bristol, Somerset, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Embarkation record says John Guest, Mason aged 35 and Ann his wife aged 40; John aged 9 and William aged 7 Arrival record says Edward Guest 34. Mason. w Ann 40. c John 8. By 1827 the family had moved to Somerset East. In that year the Govt Agent took over a house and erf No 56 in that town to be sold to recover money to pay debts. (Cape of Good Hope Gazette, 14 July 1827). In 1841 Edward Guest presented a memorial for a grant of a piece of land in Port Elizabeth. (KAB LG 553 02 739:1841). The family presumably settled there.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3599] Rowse, Dorothea. [S6] "The Settler Handbook", M D Nash, (Chameleon Press ISBN 0 620 10940 8).