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The 1820 Settler Correspondence
 as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
 and edited by Sue Mackay

Additonal Information

This is pre 1820 information mainly taken from actual images of UK parish registers and other primary sources which I have personally researched. Further information about the settlers and their families once they reached the Cape can be found at https://www.1820settlers.com/

Sue Mackay

KIRKMAN, John - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 (member of George SMITH's Party)

 

Manchester Central Library

 

Baptisms in the Collegiate Church of St.Mary, St.Denys and St.George (later Manchester Cathedral)

Hannah, daughter of John and Mary KIRMAN 24 April 1808
John, son of John and Mary KIRKMAN 31 December 1809 (born Mar 15) - died in infancy
Albert, son of John and Mary KIRKMAN, Manchester, weaver, 24 January 1813
Mary, daughter of John and Mary KIRKMAN, Manchester, weaver, 22 January 1815

 

National Archives, Kew, London

 

Register of Births and Baptisms at the Independent Chapel on Mosley Street in Manchester, Lancashire RG4 / Piece 2694 / Folio 22

Margaret, daughter of John and Mary KIRKMAN, weaver, baptised 29 June 1817 (born 11 April 1817)

Register of Births and Baptisms at the Independent Chapel on Mosley Street in Manchester, Lancashire RG4 / Piece 2694 / Folio 24

Martha, daughter of John and Mary KIRKMAN, weaver, baptised December 9 1819 (born June 14 1819)

 

Sources in South Africa list the wife of John KIRKMAN as Mary Alice ASHWORTH, with a marriage in Cheshire. This appears to have originated from a submitted IGI entry, but there is no gravestone or death notice to prove Mary's maiden name. However, there is a marriage in the Collegiate Church of St.Mary, St.Denys and St.George (later Manchester Cathedral), where their first child was baptised, which seems a likely match.

John KIRKMAN of the Parish and Town of Manchester, weaver, and Mary HEALSE [sic] of the same place, spinster, were married by banns on 7 December 1806
John KIRKMAN (signed)
Mary HEALES [sic] (made her mark)
Witnesses: James KIRKMAN and Mary KIRKMAN

The date and place of this marriage fits, as does John's occupation, and the signature bears a strong resemblance to his signature on the 1823 Settler Statement (qv)

The top signature below is from the Settler Statement, and the bottom one from the marriage of John KIRKMAN to Mary HEALES.

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