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- Daniel Hockly was a member of Bailie's party aboard the Chapman.
Freedom of the City of London Admission Registers (Held at LMA):
This indenture witnesseth that Daniel HOCKLEY, son of Thomas HOCKLEY of Seven Dials, Oilman, doth put himself Apprentice to Samuel REILY, Citizen and Fishmonger of London (by trade a Goldsmith), to learn his Art and with him (after the Manner of an Apprentice) to serve from the day of the date hereof unto the full End and Term of seven years from thence next following, to be fully compleat and ended. During which term the said Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve, his Secrets keep, his lawful Commands every where gladly do. He shall do no Damage to his said Master, nor see it to be done of others, but that he, to his Power, shall let or forthwith give Warning to his Master of the same. He shall not waste the goods of his said Master, nor lend them unlawfully to any. He shall not commit Fornication, nor contract Matrimony within the said Term. he shall not play at Cards, Dice, Tables or any other unlawful Games, whereby his said master may have any Loss. With his own Goods or others, during the said Term, without Licence from his said Master, he shall neither buy nor sell. He shall not haunt Taverns, nor Play-houses, nor absent himself from his said master's Service Day or Night unlawfully; but in all Things, as a faithful Apprentice, he shall behave himself towards his said Master, and all his, during the said Term. And the said Master in consideration of thirty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, being the money given with his said Apprentice, his said Apprentice in the same Art and Mystery which he useth, by the best Means that he can, shall teach and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed, finding unto his said Apprentice Meat, Drink, Apparel, Lodging and all other Necessaries, according to the Custom of London, during the said Term. And for the true Performance of all and every the said Covenants and Agreements, either of the said Parties bindeth himself to the other by these Presents. In witness whereof the Parties above-named to these Indentures interchangeably have put their Hands and Seals, the twenty fifth day of March in the forty first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and so forth, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one.
Signed Daniel HOCKLY (The e in HOCKLEY at the start of the document has been scored through for Daniel's name, though not for his father's)
- He was born in London, the son of Thomas Hockly and his wife Ann Poulter, and married Elizabeth Moore. He applied to emigrate from 9 Brooke Street, Holburn, after suffering severe business losses. On arrival at Algoa Bay he left the party and set up in business as tinsmith and general mechanic at Uitenhage, employing a number of apprentices. His wife opened a school for young ladies. He practised his trade of silversmith in several towns in the eastern districts, but was dogged by financial difficulties; in 1824 he applied unsuccess¬fully for a government loan on the security of his house and land at Uitenhage, and in 1826 he surrendered his estate to sequestration. He moved for a time to Bathurst where his wife kept a school. His property was auctioned in a forced sale in Grahamstown in 1832. and his estate declared insolvent for the second time after his death in Graaff Reinet in 1835. He left a widow and eight children, Elizabeth Ann (Mahony), Harriet, Frances Chapman, Alfred Moore, Richard, Daniel Thomas, Maria Isabella and William Henry. His estate com¬prised furniture, tools, and a small quantity of gold and silver for working. Mrs Elizabeth Hockly kept a school in Grahamstown after her husband's death.
RCC XII, 272, Hockly to Goulburn, 28.7.1819; CO 136 no.70, 18.7.1820; CO 223 no.226, n.d. (1824); Gazette, 8.9.1826; CO 8460 no.210, 4.10.1827; GTJ 6.12.1832; MOIC 2/285 no.93; MOIB 2/468 no.25; MOOC 7/1/130 no.105, Will of Daniel Hockly and Elizabeth Moore, 15.4.1835; MOOC 6/9/5 d.n. 890/1835; Directory 1838.
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