Surname List: British 1820 Settlers to South Africa

Settler ID	1915
1820 Settler Ship	Kennersley Castle
Party	Holder
Gender	M
Age in 1820	24
Occupation	Tailor
Date or Year of Birth	1796
Age at Marriage
Age at Death
Other Information	Bap Nov. 1795, Westbury on Trym, son of George and Hannah Hancock (This is the only baptism for a John Hancock in Glos for 1796 +-2 years.) Embarkation list John Hancock aged 23 tailor b. c. 1797 Arrivals list John Hancock aged 23 tailor Does not appear anywhere on the NAAIRS database, on the Probate Records database, on the St Johns, Bathurst indexed records, on the Destination Albany database except as a listed Settler, on the Cape of Good Hope Gazette, or in the first few years of the Grahamstown Cathedral registers; on the indexed marriages or baptisms. BUT He may not have finally sailed with the Party. A man who fits his description appears in the 1851 census in Westbury on Trym as John Hancock, born Westbury on Trym, married and with the occupation of a tailor; born in 1796. (Census record HO 107 1955/76) Someone clearly landed as John Hancock but he may have been a late inclusion. I don’t think that the real John Hancock did ever arrive at the Cape per Dorothea Rowse, Oct 2018

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