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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

MOUNCEY, Charles - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

Leader of MOUNCEY's party

 

Manchester Central Library

 

Charles MOUNCEY married Sarah MELLOR on 26 November 1798 the Collegiate Church of St.Mary, St.Denys and St.George (later Manchester Cathedral)

 

John son of Charles & Sarah MOUNCEY baptised 14 February 1802 in St.Mary, St.Denys and St.George (later Manchester Cathedral)

 

National Archives, Kew, London

 

Register of Births and Baptisms at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at Great Bridgewater Street in the parish of Manchester, Lancashire from 1801 to 1807
RG4 / Piece 885 / Folio 3
William MOUNCEY, son of Charles and Sarah, Whip Maker, 2 Marble Street, baptised 3 June 1804, born 16 March 1804

Register of Births and Baptisms at Norfolk Street Brunswick and Park Wesleyan Chapels in Sheffield, Yorkshire from 1799 to 1834
RG4 / Piece 3744 / Folio 3
James, the son of Charles MOUNCEY, Whip Maker of Sheffield Moor of the Parish of Eccles O Barlow and Sarah MOUNCEY his wife whose maiden name was MELLOR, was born June 27th and baptised September 13th in the same year 1808 by me William MYLES

 

Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York (Yorkshire Bishop's Transcripts)

 

Thos. son of Charles and Sarah MOUNCEY, Whipmk'r born July 17 1806 was baptised on 17 August 1806 in the parish church of Sheffield

Mary dau of Chas. & Sarah MOUNCEY, Sheffield, Whipmk'r, born April 2 1810 was baptised on December 28th 1814 in the parish church of Sheffield

Ann dau of Chas. & Sarah MOUNCEY, Sheffield, Whipmk'r, born May 22 1812 was baptised on December 28th 1814 in the parish church of Sheffield

 

The Settler Handbook only lists William and James as emigrating. However, the anonymous letter written from Sheffield in November 1819 seems to suggest that he took out other children. His daughter Ann certainly travelled to the Cape as is shown by her Death Notice (Cape Archives)

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