1820 Settler Party : Southey
Party | Southey | |
Leader | George Southey | |
Number in the Party | 49 | |
Area Party originated from | Somersetshire, England | |
Area allocated to the party | Bush River | |
1820 Settler Ship | Kennersley Castle, | |
Surnames in party | Baker, Berry, Biggs, Fouracre, Glass, Grant, Hutchings, Ingram, Laskey, Parsons, Sawyer, Skinner, Southey, Stark, Style, Thomas, Unknown, | |
Other Information | A party of 49 from Somersetshire led by George SOUTHEY sailed in "Kinnersley Castle". They were located in Lower Albany. |
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Settler Handbook Content: | No. 39 on the Colonial Department list, led by George Southey, a gentleman of Wellington, Somerset, described by his fellow-emigrant Thomas Philipps as 'a plain, respectable man'. Wellington was a centre of the depressed woollen industry, and Southey informed the Colonial Department in his application to emigrate that there were 'many industrious men with families in this neighbourhood who would be glad to embrace the opportunity, and they are not disaffected persons who want to live in anarchy but men that would be content to work hard for seven shillings per week if they could get constant employment'. This was a semi-proprietary party; Southey paid the deposits for six indentured servants (Ingram, Stark, Thomas Berry, Parsons, Sawyer and Hutchings) and James Berry, a lad 'brought from the workhouse'. Four free settlers in the party, Thomas, Glass, Style and William Berry, were parish-assisted; Southey advanced part of the deposit money for James Thomas, who received financial help from the parish of Wellington to enable him to take his wife and all his children to the Cape. (This was expediency rather than charity on the part of the local authorities, who feared that Thomas's family, if left behind, would be 'chargeable to the parish'.) Thomas Glass's deposit was paid by the parish of Wellington and Thomas Style's and William Berry's by the neighbouring parishes of Holcombe and Bradford. The Biggses, father and sons, were last minute replacements and not bound to Southey in any way; they left the party on landing at Algoa Bay.
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