1820 Settler: John Hartell
Home Page| Settler ID | 1764 | |
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| 1820 Settler Ship | Kennersley Castle | |
| Party | Greathead | |
| Gender | M | |
| Age in 1820 | 55 | |
| Occupation | Farmer and varnish maker | |
| Date or Year of Birth | 1765 | |
| Spouse's Name | Mary | |
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| Other Information | Naairs has the following: DEPOT KAB SOURCE CO TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 3922 SYSTEM 00 REFERENCE 97 PART 1 DESCRIPTION MEMORIALS RECEIVED. JOHN HARTELL. REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY. STARTING 1822 ENDING 1822 This indicates that they did get to the Cape, but no further records of them have been found. Additional information supplied by Dorothea Rowse, October 2018: 1. Several ages are given for John Hartell at time of emigrating – 56, 54 and 44. 2. John Hartell was described as being aged 56 and his wife 40 when originally mentioned under Gardner’s Party (National Archives, Kew CO48/42, 284) 3. He was described as being 54 years of age and his wife 40 when it was suggested that he lead a Party of his own. There is no suitable baptismal entry for someone born in 1765 4. There is a baptism for John Hartel the son of Robert and Hannah baptised at Coleshill Warw. on 27.2.1756 (7 miles from Birmingham). This would have made him 63 at embarkation. 5. A John Hartel, possibly this man, married Nancy Jarvis in Birmingham on 29.11 1777, aged 21. 6. They had one child named West Hartell baptised at St Peter’s Wolverhampton on 3.7.1779 (12 miles from Birmingham). He died in Bilston in 1845. 7. A widower John Hartell then married Elizabeth Dowell on 22.7.1780. She was a widow aged about 21. She was buried on 16.8.1812 at St Martin’s, Birmingham. He was described as a Japanner. 8. There do not seem to have been any children. 9. The John Hartell who emigrated was a Japanner in Bilston in 1819 when he applied to emigrate; (about 4 miles from Dudley and about 10 miles from Birmingham). 10. In one of his applications it was said "The father of this family & head of the whole party is also a very experienced varnish maker & thinks his selection of gums suitable for that purpose may be advantageously availed of by exporters to the Mother Country." 1820 Settler Correspondence CO48/42 p404) 11. Given the above comments – it would seem that the man was the same as the one described in the quote below Of developments in Bilston, Lawley says: wood was soon found to be unsuitable, and a softer material, known as papier-mache, was invented in 1773. This was a few years after almost discarded for iron, a process of rolling having been invented by Wilkinson, which enabled the ironworkers to roll iron into thin sheets, from which an infinite variety of articles could be manufactured both for purposes of ornament and utility. One of the earliest and most ingenious of local manufacturers was a Mr. Hartill, whose house and shop stood, until a few years ago, midway between the Bull's Head, on the Wolverhampton Road, and Priestfield. This worthy invented several improved methods of ornamentation, which both facilitated the processes, and cheapened the cost. (http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/metalware/japtech.htm) 12. He seems to have been living with Mary Owen from about 1816 as two children were born prior to the marriage in 1819. He married Mary Owen in St Luke’s, Islington, London, November/October 1819 – banns found by Sue Mackay. 13. This family joined the Party on 1 October 1819 and replaced George Hadley who was ill. They paid an additional £5 over and above the £10 paid for Hadley in order to take the additional children. 14. The family of John Hartell 44, his wife Mary (b.c.1781) 38 and children John 13, Emma 8, George (1817) 2 and Joseph inf. (9 mths) embarked. 15. The change in age would have been to make him more acceptable – a 63 year old might not have been accepted. 16. The family of John Hartell, his wife Mary and children John 13, Emma 8 disembarked; presumably George and Joseph died en route and were buried at sea. 17. George Hartill was born 1817, baptised on 21.2.1819 at Bilston with parents John and Mary; John was a Japanner and they lived at Prestfield in Bilston 18. Joseph Hartill was baptised on the same day with the same details. 19. The two older children were probably Mary’s children by an earlier marriage. 20. A Mary Westwood married a Thomas Owen in Harborne (10 miles from Bilston) on 6.9.1808. He was probably John’s father and Mary seems to have been using his surname before the marriage. John Owen aka Hartell bap Bilston 25.5.1806 son of Mary Owen Emma Owen aka Hartell bap Bilston 7.2.1813, dau of Thomas and Mary 21. Thomas Owen was buried in Bilston 25.10.1812 22. John Hartell asked to take a mastiff, a sow and a cart (Settler correspondence 29.9.1819) 23. MEMORIALS RECEIVED. JOHN HARTELL. REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY. 1822 (CO 3922/97) |
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