The 1820 Settler Correspondence
as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
and edited by Sue Mackay

Correspondence 1821 to 1837.

Here only letters by known settlers or their families, or letters of great relevance to the 1820 settlers, have been transcribed, whereas ALL the 1819 correspondence was transcribed (see CO48/41 through CO48/46) whether or not the writers emigrated to the Cape.

Unless otherwise stated letters were written to either the Secretary of State for the Colonies or his deputy.The original correspondence is filed in order of receipt. Here it has been placed in alphabetical order according to the surname of the writer, with letters by the same writer in chronological order, for ease of reading. Original spelling has been maintained. Reference numbers, where given, refer to printed page numbers stamped on the letters and will enable visitors to the National Archives to locate the letter more easily.

WRIGHT, Thomas Samuel re Anne CLARKE, 1831

Written by Sue Mackay on 04 June 2014.

National Archives, Kew CO48/145, 446

Southam, 24th Feb'y 1831

Sir,
Your predecessor was so obliging as to obtain information from the Cape of Good Hope for me two years ago whether Anne, the wife of Thomas CLARKE, who left this country in 1819, was still living, and he stated that she was living on the 8th July 1829 with her husband Joseph (I presume by mistake for Thomas) CLARKE on the place of Mr. LANGEMAN near Wynberg. May I be allowed to request you to oblige me by making the same inquiry respecting her, and if intelligence of her could be forwarded to me annually it would further oblige
Your most obed't serv't
Thos. Sam'l WRIGHT

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