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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

SINGLETON, William - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of WHITE's Party)

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says his wife was Mary HARDY and suggests that he was born ca April 1786, the son of another William SINGLETON

 

Nottinghamshire Archives

 

William SINGLETON married Mary HARDY by banns on 2 November 1804 in St.Mary the Virgin, Southwell, Nottinghamshire

William SINGLETON (signed)

Mary HARDY X

Witnesses: William ADAMS and W. SHACKLOCK

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) of son John Peter SINGLETON suggests he was born 3 March 1810 in Nottinghamshire

 

Nottinghamshire Archives

 

Henry, son of Willm. and Mary SINGLETON, baptised 30 October 1808 in St.Mary the Virgin, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire [died 29 January 1809]

Harriot, daughter of William and Mary SINGLETON, baptised 10 December 1809 in St.Mary the Virgin, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire [died 10 March 1811]

 

Nottinghamshire FHS Transcriptions 

 

John, son of Willm. and Mary SINGLETON, baptised 11 March 1810 in St.Mary, Arnold, Nottinghamshire [this is John Peter SINGLETON]

Charlotte, daughter of William and Mary SINGLETON, baptised 31 August 1812 in St.Mary, Arnold, Nottinghamshire [died prior to her father's death in 1843]

 

No baptism of the eldest daughter under the name Elizabeth SINGLETON (who married John FLEETWOOD  on 25 Feb 1822 at the Cape) has been found. She was almost certainly the illegitimate daughter of Mary HARDY, adopted after marriage by William SINGLETON.

 

Nottinghamshire Archives

 

Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Mary HARDY baptised 15 October 1804 in St.Mary the Virgin, Southwell, Nottinghamshire [Mary married William SINGLETON just over two weeks later]

 

William SINGLETON was probably the son of William SINGLETON and Cassandra CHAPMAN, who married in in St.Mary the Virgin, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire on 14 September 1783 and baptised a son William there on 2 May 1784 (born 26 April 1784)

 

Eastern Province Herald 14 April 1863

 

DIED on the 13th inst. at the residence of Mr. FLEETWOOD, Mrs. Mary SINGLETON, widow of the late Mr. William SINGLETON, aged 89 years and 3 months.

 

If the above is correct then Mary HARDY was born ca January 1774

 

Nottinghamshire Archives

 

Mary, daughter of Richd. and Mary HARDY, was baptised 14 July 1776 in  St.Mary the Virgin, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire

 

Banns of marriage between Richard HARDY and Mary BAILEY were published in St.Mary the Virgin, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire on 17th, 24th and 31st May 1772

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