Susannah Garbett, 1820 Settler^[1]

1809 - 1889  (79 years)

• Name	Susannah Garbett
  Suffix	1820 Settler
  Born	3 Aug 1809	London, England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	10 Jun 1810	St Andrew Holborn, London, England
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  Settler	12 Feb 1820	The Downs, Deal, Kent, England
  	Willson's party on the La Belle Alliance
  Settler ID	3652
  Died	14 Feb 1889  [2]
  Person ID	I932	master
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Samuel Garbett,   b. 1785,   d. 1813  (Age 28 years)
  Mother	Susannah Clark, 1820 Settler,   b. 1794,   d. 21 Oct 1835, At sea aboard Roxburgh Castle en route to South AFrica from India.  (Age 41 years)
  Family ID	F534	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George Alfred Wood, 1820 Settler,   b. 1 May 1805, Camberwell, London, England ,   d. 1 Nov 1884, Woodville, Beaufort St, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa  (Age 79 years)
  Married	6 Jul 1826	Grahamstown Cathedral (St Michael and St George), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [3, 4]
  	Description: Rev John Ireland
  MARL Marriage Licence	6 Jul 1826	Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [5]
  Children	+ 1. George Samuel Wood,   b. 8 Jan 1828, Fort Brown, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 29 Aug 1884, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa  (Age 56 years)   2. John Edwin Wood,   b. 22 May 1829, Fort Brown, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 18 Jul 1901, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa  (Age 72 years)   3. William Wood,   b. 17 May 1831, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 1856, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa  (Age 24 years) + 4. Joseph Garbett Wood,   b. 14 Feb 1833, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 25 Sep 1892, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa  (Age 59 years) + 5. Susannah Martha Wood,   b. 13 Sep 1834, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 15 Dec 1890, Greystone, Eastern Cape, South Africa  (Age 56 years)   6. Eleanor Jane Wood,   b. 21 Aug 1836, Greystone, Eastern Cape, South Africa + 7. Henry Richard Wood,   b. 24 Mar 1838, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 24 Jul 1921, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa  (Age 83 years) + 8. Harriet Porter Rhodes Wood,   b. 22 May 1839, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 11 Feb 1916, Wimbledon, London, England  (Age 76 years)   9. Benoni Horace Wood,   b. 21 Aug 1840, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 29 Dec 1898, Jersey, Channel Islands  (Age 58 years)   10. Elizabeth Lucy Wood,   b. 16 Aug 1841   11. Louisa Anne Wood,   b. 14 Mar 1843, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 1843 + 12. Lydia Roberts Wood,   b. 17 Jul 1844, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 13 Oct 1941, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England  (Age 97 years)   13. Mary Ann Wood,   b. 12 Sep 1845, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 1887  (Age 41 years) + 14. Alfred Jesse Wood,   b. 7 Feb 1848, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 9 Aug 1910, Upper Norwood, London, England  (Age 62 years)   15. Garbett Wood
  Last Modified	6 Sep 2008
  Family ID	F529	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - 3 Aug 1809 - London, England Baptism - 10 Jun 1810 - St Andrew Holborn, London, England Settler - 12 Feb 1820 - The Downs, Deal, Kent, England Married - 6 Jul 1826 - Grahamstown Cathedral (St Michael and St George), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa MARL Marriage Licence - 6 Jul 1826 - Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Susannah and her brother Thomas were stepchildren of taxidermist Joseph Donovan, who came out on La Belle Alliance with Willson's party. Extract from "They came from a far land" by May Bell - Page 18: Susan was a demure little nine-year-old, with pale gold hair and the mild expression so much admired at that time. But placid as she appeared, Susan was a frightened child: afraid of her stepfather, afraid of the sea - which had drowned her sailor uncle - enduring agonies of concealed terror in the storms they passed through. For her little brother Thomas she had an absorbed devotion, perhaps because she felt the two of them to be alone in the world. Her father had been a musician. He died young, leaving his wife two children, a pile of manuscript music, and not much else. Fortunately for Mrs Garbett, who seems to have been a nonentity, but a blonde and pretty one - she met and married Joseph Donovan and produced two sons.....He [Joseph Donovan] could not bear the idea of his wife having belonged to another man. He burnt all Garbett's manuscript music, for which Susan never forgave him, and he may sometimes have wished that Garbett's children could have been as easily disposed of. Susan certainly thought so."

  
  

• Sources

  [S6] "The Settler Handbook", M D Nash, (Chameleon Press ISBN 0 620 10940 8), p 138 - 143, 11 Feb 2003. [S16] King, Tessa, King, Tessa, (emails on South-Africa-L@rootsweb.com Mailing list), tck19genie.tessaking@gmail.com. [S431] Marriages: 20/2/1826 - 8/6/1835, Grahamstown Anglican - St Georges Register, (CORY MS 14 879/1), (Entry# 134). [S379] "The 1820 Settlers of Salem (Hezekiah Sephton's Party)", Makin, A E, (ISBN 0 7021 0208 3). [S398] Albany/ Grahamstown 1821 - 1884, Matrimonial Court Minutes and Special Licences, (LDS Microfilm # 1886513), as transcribed by Ellen Stanton., (Entry# 131).