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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

MOSLEY, Joshua - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of RICHARDSON's Party)

 

Sheffield City Council Libraries, Archives and Information Services

 

Joshua son of Thos. and Eliz'th MOSLEY, scissorsmith, baptised 27 April 1800 in Sheffield St.Peter and St.Paul (born 26 March)

 

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

 

Geo. son of Thos. MOSLEY lab'r baptised 26 June 1808 in Ecclesall, Sheffield (born 6 June 1808

 

Only Joshua is listed in the Muster Roll of the Stentor on transfer to the Weymouth. According to The Settler Handbook, George MOSLEY was a stowaway on the Sir George Osborn, but later claimed to be a member of RICHARDSON's Party. (Cape Archives 1/AYv8/71)

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