1820 Settler: Charles James Pickman
Home Page| Settler ID | 1771 | |
| 1820 Settler Ship | Kennersley Castle | |
| Party | Greathead | |
| Gender | M | |
| Age in 1820 | 18 | |
| Occupation | Brewer | |
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| Other Information | He was not included in the Agents returns, but was known to have been in Natal: Per Dorothea Rowse, October 2018: Born c. 1801 “aged 18 at time of embarkation”; there is no entry for the baptism of a Charles Pickman or a Charles James Pickman on FindMyPast or FamilySearch for the UK (searched all main countries)or the USA where there was a family of brewers of that name. Alternative spellings include Packman and Peakman but all South African records give Pickman, which he clearly used. He was one of the signatories to the petition for a free press at the Cape addressed to the King in Council, 26 May 1824. By 1832 he had moved to Natal and seems to have mirrored Dick King’s career there quite closely. He was initially in the employ of Collis, a colleague of the explorer Fynn while King worked for Gardiner in the same way. Pickman was also employed by Gardiner for a while. He was granted a farm on the Umlazi River and set up a Kraal in Zulu style with an establishment of wives; was noted for his excellent crops of vegetables and corn. He was Secretary to the group who devised regulations for the town of D’Urban on 23.6.1835 and signed them off in that capacity. He was one of the signatories asking Gardiner to set up a mission in Durban. He took an active part in many of the events of the early 1830s see Cradle days of Natal. Following problems with the Zulus in May 1838 some of the traders and hunters, including Pickman, left Natal on board the Comet bound for Delagoa Bay. All were affected by malaria there and Pickman died. King was one of those who remained in Natal at that time. It is doubtful that he had any legitimate descendants. 1. He was well educated – was the “scribe” for most of the meetings and committees in early Natal and took on the role of Secretary to one of the Committees. 2. He had some sort of American connexion. His village on the Umlazi overlooked a lake which he had named Lake Washington in honour of the American hero. Most young Settler men of the time would not have heard of Washington and if they had would not have regarded him as a hero. 3. He befriended the American missionaries when they arrived and supplied them with vegetables and helped with translation. 4. They did not describe him as an American so clearly his accent and what he told them did not identify him as such. |
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