Henry King, 1820 Settler^{[1, 2]}

1786 - Aft 1835  (> 50 years)

• Name	Henry King
  Suffix	1820 Settler
  Birth	1786	Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England   [2]
  Baptism	29 Oct 1786	Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	29 Oct 1786	Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England   [3]
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  Settler	10 Jan 1820	Bristol, Somerset, England   [2]
  	Bradshaw's party on the Kennersley Castle
  Settler ID	386
  Name	Henry King 1820
  Occupation	a Labourer  [2]
  Occupation	a Shoemaker
  Residence	Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [4]
  Residence	29 Jan 1826	Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [5]
  Death	Aft 1835  [6]
  Person ID	I23836	master
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Elisha King,   b. Aug 1759, Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England d. England
  Mother	Ann M Worlock,   b. Abt 1751, North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England d. Abt 1829, Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F5697	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hannah Passer,   b. Abt 1790, England d. 1819, Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	26 Oct 1804	Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Hannah King, 1820 Settler,   b. 1816, Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England d. 22 Jun 1861, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 45 years)   2. George King,   b. 22 May 1819, Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England
  Family ID	F8681	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah Smith, 1820 Settler,   b. 1794
  Marriage	22 Dec 1819	Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England   [2, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Caroline King,   b. 14 Sep 1825, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Family ID	F8682	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family 3	Mary Keightly,   b. Est 1805
  Marriage	31 Oct 1831	St George's Cathedral, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [6]
  Married	31 Oct 1831	St George's Cathedral, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [6]
  Children	> 1. Dorcas Lydia King,   b. 17 Mar 1835, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 12 Jun 1889, Fort Brown, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F8683	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2018

  
  

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  Birth - 1786 - Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England Baptism - 29 Oct 1786 - Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England Baptism - 29 Oct 1786 - Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England Marriage - 26 Oct 1804 - Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England Marriage - 22 Dec 1819 - Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, England Settler - 10 Jan 1820 - Bristol, Somerset, England Residence - - Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa Residence - 29 Jan 1826 - Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa Marriage - 31 Oct 1831 - St George's Cathedral, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa Married - 31 Oct 1831 - St George's Cathedral, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Henry supposedly married Hannah Passer/Passen in 1804 when he would have been 18 years old. The only recorded children were born in 1816 and 1819 when his wife then died, presumably in child birth or shortly thereafter. Extracted from "The Settlers Handbook: by M D Nash: "Henry was 32 years old when he and his wife Sarah aged 26, with their children, Samuel (5), Hannah (3) and George (1) plus Rhoda* came to South Africa as part of the Bradshaw Party of 1820 Settlers. Most of the party came from Cam, near Dursley, Gloucestershire and had been recommended and sponsored by the Cam parish authorities who were anxious to relieve the parish purse who were 'overburdened with poor'. The party sailed from Bristol in the regular transport ship "Kennersley Castle" on the 10th January 1820 and arrived in Table Bay on the 29th March and Algoa Bay on the 29th April 1820. A fellow gentleman traveller thought Bradshaw was an 'obliging farmer' but dismissed the party from the parish as 'a horrid dirty set and the pest of the ship'. The party was located in Albany on the Torrens River and the location was named New Gloucester." Dorothea Rowse wrote in October 2017:" 1. His first wife Hannah died in Cam shortly after the birth of their son George. 2. His marriage to Sarah Smith took place in a double ceremony with his brother Joseph on 22 December 1819. 3. The embarkation lists (Theal) gives Samuel, Hannah, George and Rhoda. 4. The disembarkation list (Nash) gives just Samuel and Hannah. 5. Samuel was his stepson, the illegitimate son of Sarah Smith 6. Rhoda was his stepdaughter also the child of Sarah Smith prior to her marriage to Henry King. She probably died at sea. 7. George did not disembark and probably died at sea. " 8. A daughter Caroline was born at Port Frances in 1825 (mother Sarah Smith). 9. Henry exchanged his original allocation for that of Samuel Bennett but soon sold the land to James Powell. He had left the location by 1824 and settled on the Kowie River at Port Frances. 10. A daughter Dorcas was born in Grahamstown in 1835, the daughter of Mary Keightley. 11. There is no death notice for him. In 1854 Jeremiah Goldswain made a sworn declaration that he had known Henry and he had been dead for many years. This would have been after 1835.

  
  

• Sources

  [S98] Tessa King, Descendants of Joseph King, (Extract Report from Tessa's FTM database, 24/02/2003). [S6] M D Nash, "The Settler Handbook", (Chameleon Press ISBN 0 620 10940 8). [S348] Whittal, Vernon, WHITTAL Family GEDCOM, (See list of further references below in the note). [S390] Grahamstown Methodist - Commemoration Chapel, Register 29/3/1822 -1860, (CORY MS 15 899/1). [S483] Lower Albany Chronicle, Lower Albany Chronicle, (p 2), Part 2 1826 - 1840. [S431] Grahamstown Anglican - St Georges Register, Marriages: 20/2/1826 - 8/6/1835, (CORY MS 14 879/1). [S368] King,Tessa, DELL Family Tree.