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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

KNOTT, Kemp - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of BAILIE's Party)

 

Embarked for the Cape under the name William HARRISON

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says he was born in Ramsgate, Kent, the son of Sampson KNOTT and Susannah JOAD

 

Canterbury Cathedral Archives

 

Sampson KNOTT of St.Peter's, Sandwich, batchelor, and Susannah JOAD, spinster, were married by licence on 9 January 1780 in St.Lawrence in Thanet, Kent (Ramsgate)

Sampson KNOTT (signed)

Susannah JOAD (X)

Witnesses: John STOKES and Jno. HALES

 

Baptism of Kemp KNOTT not found 

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

Kemp KNOTT married Ann WALKER by banns on the 19th February 1814 in St.Martin in the Fields.

Both signed

Witnesses: George WALKER and Martha WALKER

 

George Whitton, son of Kemp and Ann KNOTT, Lamb St, Baker, was baptised 12 March 1815 in Christ Church, Spitalfields (presumably died in infancy)

George, son of Kemp and Ann KNOTT, baptised 2 May 1819 in St.Marylebone (born 17 April 1818)

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) for Ann WALKER says she was born in London, the daughter of George and Mary WALKER

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