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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

SMITH, George - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

Leader of George SMITH's Party

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says he was born in Manchester ca 1786. Additional Death Notice gives him the name George Vale SMITH.

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) of son John Crawford SMITH gives his mother's name as Mary BENSON

 

Manchester Cathedral Archives

 

George SMITH, bachelor of Manchester, servantman, and Mary BENSON, spinster of Manchester were married by banns  on 19 March 1818 in St Mary, St Denys and St George, Manchester

George SMITH (signed)

Mary BENSON (X)

Witnesses: William MAYOR and John BEARD

 

Elizabeth Caroline daughter of George and Mary SMITH, Manchester, shopkeeper, baptised 19th January 1819 in St Mary, St Denys and St George, Manchester

[This fits with his original submission, where he says he has a 10 month old child, but she presumably died in infancy, as she does not appear on his final return.]

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