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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

BAGSHAW, Robert - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of SEPHTON's Party)

 

Robert was the brother of Susannah BAGSHAW, who married Charles PENNY, also of SEPHTON's Party

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

William BAGSHAW and Ann SMITH were married by banns on 5 May 1785 in St.Leonard, Shoreditch

Both signed

Witnesses: William Carr SMITH and Elizabeth PROBIN

 

Isaac Smith, son of William and Ann BAGSHAW, Labourer, White Grounds, was baptised on 17 April 1791 in St.Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey (born 22 March)

Robert, son of William and Ann BAGSHAW, Labourer, White Grounds, was baptised on 19 April 1793 in St.Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey (born 25 March)

Susannah Smith, daughter of William and Ann BAGSHAW, Leather Dresser, White Grounds, was baptised on 26 April 1795 in St.Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey (born 7 April 1795)

Stephen Smith, son of William and Ann BAGSHAW, Leather Dresser, White Grounds, was baptised on 9 April 1797 in St.Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey (born 20 February)

 

Robert BAGSHAW of St.Leonard's Foster, bachelor and Ursula COVENTRY of the same parish were married by banns of 16 January 1818 in St.Leonard's, Foster Lane, City of London

Both signed

Witnesses: E. MACKAY and Jno. BURNLEY

(Family Search lists this marriage for the same date in Christ Church, Newgate Street, which is the church where Susannah BAGSHAW married Charles PENNY. Jno BURNLEY was a witness at both marriages)

 

 

Richard & Ursula, Son and Daughter of Wm. COVENTRY, a Sawyer, and Ursuala [sic], were baptised on 4 June 1797 in St.Alfege, Greenwich (born 18 May)

 

 

Robert William, son of Robert and Ursula BAGSHAW, Straits Mouth, Wire Worker, was baptised 21st December 1818 in St.Alfege, Greenwich (born 27th November last)

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