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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

CRAWFORD, James - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

(member of WILLSON's Party)

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says that he was born in Edinburgh and that he was about 78 when he died, which fits with his obituary in the Eastern Province Herald of 9 December 1873, which states that he died on 5 December 1873, aged 78. This would make his birth about 1795, but his gravestone in St.George's Park Cemetery in Port Elizabeth states that he was born on 26 January 1797, although the stone is now barely legible.

 

New Register House, Edinburgh

Baptism in Canongate, Edinburgh

31st Jan'ry 1797
Charles CRAWFORD, coppersmith, and Janet RIDDELL, his spouse, had a son born 26th inst. and baptized 31st inst. named James

 

London Metropolitan Archives

James CRAWFORD of this parish, bachelor, and Martha WISE of this parish, spinster, were married by banns on 30th September 1818 in St.Mary's, Whitechapel

Both signed

Witnesses: George SHELBY and Sarah TURNER

 

Mary, daughter of James and Martha CRAWFORD, Penton Place, Book Seller, said to be born 22nd February 1819, was baptised 21st April 1819 in Pentonville Chapel, Parish of St.James, Clerkenwell, Pentonville Road, London.

 

The obituary of James CRAWFORD says he was brought up in the publishing world of Paternoster Row in London. Paternoster Row, near St.Paul's Cathedral, was the centre of the publishing trade in London, with numerous bookshops in the area, but it was destroyed by bombing in World War II. At the time of his eldest daughter's baptism in 1818, James was working as a bookseller.

 

New Register House, Edinburgh

Register of Marriages - St.Cuthbert's, Edinburgh
7th April 1787
Mr. Charles CRAWFORD, coppersmith and ironmonger in Canongate, residing at Burntfield Links, and Miss Margaret DUNCAN, also residing in this Parish, dau'r of the Rev'd. Mr. John DUNCAN, Minister of Alva, gave up their names for Proclamation of Banns Matrimonial.
 
Margaret DUNCAN died on 7 July 1792  aged 26 and was buried in Canongate Kirk
 
Register of Marriages, Canongate, Edinburgh
20th April 1793
Charles CRAWFORD, coppersmith in Edin'r, and Jannet RIDDELL, daughter of Deacon Jas. RIDDELL, late smith & farrier in Canongate, gave up their names to be proclaimed for marriage.
Witnesses Mr. Mark DUNCAN and Arch'd HUME.
 
 
 
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