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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

PEEL, Thomas - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on 20 July 2018.

(member of HAYHURST's Party)

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says he was born ca 1795 in Elland, Yorkshire, the son of Jno. and Susanna PEEL

Calderdale FHS Transcription

Thomas PEEL OTP, dresser, married Mary MIDGELY of Elland by banns on 8 February 1819 in St.John's, Halifax, Yorkshire

Death Notice (Cape Archives) for Mary says she was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth MIDGLEY, and was born ca June 1797

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