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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

FORD, James Edward - Extra Data

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(member of BAILIE's Party)

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says he was the son of Edward FORD and Jane MURRAY

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

Edward FORD of this parish, widower, and Jane MURRAY, parish of St.Andrew Undershaft, London, spinster were married by licence on 23 October 1756 in St.John, Hackney

Both signed

Witnesses: Daniel [VIALARS] and [illegible] TODD

 

James Edward son of Edward FORD by Jane his wife baptised 14 September 1761 in St.Andrew Undershaft

 

James Edward FORD of the parish of St.Stephen, Coleman Street, bachelor, married Frances STRANSHAM, spinster, by Licence on 19 June 1802 in St.Giles, Camberwell.

Both signed their names.

Witnesses: Robert TAYLOR and Robert [illegible]

 

Henry Stransham, son of James Edward and Frances FORD, East Street, baptised 12 December 1803 in St.George the Martyr, Southwark (born 2 November)

 

Essex Archives

 

Frances Jane Clarissa daughter of James Edward and Frances FORD born April 19th 1805 baptised May 14th 1805 in St.Mary Magdalene, East Ham, Essex

James Samuel son of James Edward and Frances FORD born July 4th and baptised July 20th 1806 in St.Mary Magdalene, East Ham, Essex

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

George Henry, son of James Edward and Frances FORD, baptised 22 February 1812 in St.Matthew, Bethnal Green (born 20 May 1808)

Edward Stransham, son of James Edward and Frances FORD, baptised 22 February 1812 in St.Matthew, Bethnal Green (born 26 June 1810)

Adelaide Elizabeth, daughter of James Edward and Frances FORD, baptised 22 February 1812 in St.Matthew, Bethnal Green (born 2 February 1812)

 

[Baptism of Jane Murray FORD not found. She appears aged 35 on the 1851 census for Birkfields Barracks, Liverpool HO107/2185/723 with her new husband William Glendonwyn SCOTT of the 91st Regiment, and her birthplace is given as Essex. William's service record WO76/455 at the National Archives, London gives his marriage as 8 January 1850 in the Roman Catholic Church, Grahamstown. In the report of the marriage written in February 1850 from Fort England included in WO25/3240 part 2 page 841, available as a free download from the National Archives, Jane's age on 8 January 1850 was 33 years 346 days, making her date of birth 27 January 1816. According to a family Bible in the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, she was born on 27 January 1814 in the parish of St.Matthew, Bethnal Green.]

 

National Archives, Kew, London

 

New Gravel Pit Meeting House, Paradise Fields (Presbyterian) RG4/4244

Ellen Hester, daughter of James Edward and Frances FORD of Homerton buried 22 August 1818, aged 12 months

 

London Gazette: 15 May 1810 Bankruptcy Notice

“...James Edward FORD, late of Coleman-Street-Buildings, in the City of London, factor, dealer and chapman....”

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