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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

OLDHAM, Joseph - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of BAILIE's Party)

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

Joseph OLDHAM, bachelor, married Dorcas SMITH, spinster, on 10 February 1810 in St.Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney.

Both signed their names.

Witnesses: Mary BRENNAN and Dan'l PRICE

 

Harriet, daughter of Joseph OLDHAM, Master Mariner, by Dorcas, Catharine Street, baptised 28 October 1812 in St.George in the East (born 31 March 1807)

Mary Ann, daughter of Joseph OLDHAM, Master Mariner, by Dorcas, Jane Street, baptised 28 October 1812 in St.George in the East (born 29 February 1812)

Beliza Lambert, daughter of Joseph and Dorcas OLDHAM, Lower Chapman Street, Master Mariner, baptised 25 May 1814 in St.George in the East (born 5 April 1814)

Lucretia, daughter of Joseph and Dorcas OLDHAM, Richard Street, Master Mariner, baptised 8 November 1816 in St.George in the East (born 20 May 1816)

Josepha Dorcas, daughter of Joseph and Dorcas OLDHAM, Richard Street, Master Mariner, baptised 5 May 1819 in St.George in the East (born 10 April 1819)

 

Beliza assumed to have died in infancy.

 

Joseph, Thomas Wesley and Edwin OLDHAM (all of BAILIE's Party) were three of the sons of Joseph OLDHAM and Mary WOOD of Melton, Suffolk (Source: M.D. Nash “Bailie's Party of 1820 Settlers”

 

Family Search

 

Joseph OLDHAM married Mary WOOD on 14 January 1779 in Melton, Suffolk

 

Joseph, son of Joseph OLDHAM and Mary WOOD baptised 16 January 1786, Melton, Suffolk

Thomas, son of Joseph OLDHAM and Mary WOOD baptised 27 May 1795, Melton, Suffolk (born 16 May 1795)

 

Baptism of Edwin not found

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