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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

STRINGFELLOW, Thomas King - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of BAILIE's Party)

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says he was born in Cambridge.

Death Notice (Cape Archives) of his wife Ann says she was born in Newport Essex, the daughter of William and Sarah TROTT

 

Boyd's Marriage Index

 

Thomas STRINGFELLOW married Elizabeth KING on 21 July 1759 in St.Andrew the Great, Cambridge [grandfather] 

Thomas STRINGFELLOW married Susan SAINTY on 8 January 1781 in St.Mary the Great, Cambridge [father, also apparently given the middle name King] The SAINTY family came from Cottenham.

 

Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Baptism Index Transcriptions:

 

William Sainty son of Thomas and Susannah STRINGFELLOW baptised 11 February 1781 in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire

Maria Elizabeth daughter of Thomas and Susan STRINGFELLOW baptised 13 August 1786 in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire

Martha Sainty daughter of Thomas King and Susanna STRINGFELLOW baptised 30 June 1788 in St.Edward, Cambridge

Thomas King son of Thomas and Susan STRINGFELLOW baptised 12 October 1789 in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire

 

There is a baptism in All Saints, Cambridge for Thomas King STRINGFELLOW on 9 November 1763, transcribed as being the son of Richard and Elizabeth, which is probably the baptism of the father of Thomas King STRINGFELLOW the settler.

 

Essex Archives 

 

Thomas King STRINGFELLOW of the Parish of Blackfriars, Surrey, bachelor, and Ann TROTT of this parish, spinster, were married by banns on 21 March 1814 in St.Mary the Virgin, Newport, Essex

Both signed

Winesses: Ann BECKWITH, Elizabeth SKIPPER, Caroline TROTT, Ann MEAD, Rachel TROTT (X), Henry SKIPPER, ?? TROTT, Chs? TROTT, William TROTT

 

Anne Maria daughter of Thomas and Anne STRINGFELLOW, Printer, London, baptised 27 August 1815 in St.Mary the Virgin, Newport, Essex

Mary Anne daughter of Thomas and Anne STRINGFELLOW, Printer, London, baptised 20 July 1817 in St.Mary the Virgin, Newport, Essex

Sarah daughter of Thomas and Anne STRINGFELLOW, Printer, London, baptised 15August 1819 in St.Mary the Virgin, Newport, Essex

 

Anne daughter of William TROTT, labourer, and Sarah his wife baptised Aug 7 1785 in St.Mary the Virgin, Newport, Essex

 

William TROTT married Sarah PARISH by banns on 14 July 1778 in St.Mary the Virgin, Newport, Essex

Both made their mark

Witnesses: Catherine TROTT and Rich'd PATMAN

 

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