SHEPHERD, William, 1826
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 362
No.6 Crown Court
February 1826
My Lord,
In reply to your Lordship's favor of 9th inst in behalf of the families & children of certain settlers of the Cape of Good Hope in which your Lordship states that upon enquiry into the extent of the expence of their transport, the amount appears too great for your Lordship to hold out any hopes of its accomplishment, I can assure your Lordship the expence is in no way equal to the benefit that will result to the Colony, independent of the consideration of the feelings excited for the at present fatherless mothers & children and I beg to inform your Lordship that upon a minute enquiry which I have made among merchants & respectable brokers the amount will not exceed £5000, the accommodation and comforts to be according to the inclosed scale, which is a liberal one.
At the close of the communication the good feeling of your Lordship for the destitute has induced you to offer on the part of His Majesty's Government to bear half the expence upon my giving security for the due performance of the other half to be paid by fixed instalments. This my Lord would place me in most difficult circumstances as I have but few heads of families to contract with and your Lordship is well aware I cannot make contracts binding with women and children whose husbands & fathers are at the settlement or on the relatives after the family has landed, and therefore I trust the liberality of Government will be further extended to defray the whole of the expence.
My Lord in behalf of myself allow me to say that, commiserating the situation of your petitioners and in consideration of the interests of my brother colonists, I have undertaken this cause and desire only the reimbursement of the expences I have already incurred & to be further incurred, and still sanguine in the ultimate prosperity of the Colony of Settlers in Albany, South Africa, sent under your Lordship's patronage, of which your humble servant was one, I shall with pleasure return amongst them, and remain
Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant
Wm. SHEPHERD
[Attached]
Estimate of the expence for conveying from London to Algoa Bay from thence to Grahams Town Cape of Good Hope 285 persons rationed as 200 adults.
To hire of ship 500 tons & £4/10 per ton |
£2250 |
To tender building of bed cabins, water closets &c |
£150 |
To provisions for 200 adults for a passage of 120 days & 1/2 per day |
£1291:13:11 |
Water casks for the voyage 700 tons |
£220 |
To bedding for 200 persons |
£132:10 |
To surgeon for 6 months, his mess with the captain, medicine & herbs &c |
£120 |
Medical comforts, pork?, bread, soups, preserved meats &c for the sick and children |
£100 |
Coals, candles &c |
£20 |
£4284:3:11 |
|
Expence of landing at Algoa Bay |
£100 |
Expence of conveyance up the country a distance of 100 miles |
£500 |
£4884:3:11 |
|
My expences as superintendent |
Having observed in my former passage out that the morals of the single females were much corrupted by a promiscuous placing of them too near the males, an additional allowance is here made to separate them as there will be a greater proportion of females. This calculation is made on a liberal scale after the under stated allowance
Scale of Rations for One Week
Days |
Bread lb |
Beef lb |
Pork lb |
Flour lb |
Plums or Suet oz |
Tea oz |
Sugar oz |
Spirits Gill |
Butter or Cheese lb |
Oatmeal Pint |
Vinegar Pint |
Pease Pint |
Cocoa oz |
Monday |
B |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
¼ |
1 ½ |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
B |
Tuesday |
B |
- |
¾ |
- |
- |
¼ |
1 ½ |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
B |
Wednesday |
B |
1 |
- |
¾ |
2 |
¼ |
1 ½ |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
B |
Thursday |
B |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
¼ |
1 ½ |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
B |
Friday |
B |
- |
¾ |
- |
2 |
¼ |
1 ½ |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
B |
Saturday |
B |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
¼ |
1 ½ |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
B |
Sunday |
B |
- |
¾ |
¾ |
2 |
¼ |
1 ½ |
1 |
½ |
½ |
2 |
- |
B |
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 366
No.6 Crown Court
Broad Street
20th February 1826
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 8th inst I beg to observe that the settlers at Grahams Town Cape of Good Hope who had expected me to apply to Lord BATHURST for conveyance of their wives & families thither had no idea that they would be required by His Majesty's Government to defray any part of the expence of their conveyance and although the Colony is in a flourishing condition, yet the settlers have not so far recovered from the difficulties they experienced on their first going out as to be able (at least for some time to come) to advance any considerable sum of money & as they had reason to believe that if they had taken their wives & children with them in the first instance His Majesty's Government would have provided conveyance for them in common with other wives & children who actually did go at that time they imagined there would be no objection to their being now sent out to them now as they consider they are able to support them when arrived there. I trust his Lordship will give directions that as far as relates to the actual wives and families a passage may be granted them, that the settlers who now make this request may not be placed in a worse situation than those who took their wives & families with them. And with regard to the other persons memorialised who are more distant relatives of the settlers there, I trust his Lordship will be pleased to bear a considerable proportion of the expence & to signify the [obscured] amount or portion His Majesty's Government will do for them as these persons by increasing the British population at the Cape are creating a balance with the Dutch, who are as yet the most numerous, and I am willing to undertake the collecting the sum to be reimbursed should it meet the approbation of His Lordship. I should hope His Majesty's Government would be the more inclined to send to a colony where females are so much needed, and I have further to beg that you will be pleased to signify the nature of the [obscured] required for the remainder of the expence, and I am ready to get any document signed by [any] individual for I am not able to obtain security of the parties in the Colony who [obscured] me without too great a loss of time & expence. I also beg to know the period within which His Lordship will require the reimbursement to be made. In the mean time I beg to [assure] his Lordship none of these your petitioners are settlers that have gone out on their own account but are of the number sent out by His Majesty's Government in the year 1819 & 1820 & I have no hesitation in saying they will feel glad to satisfy the government as far as in their power for the sake of that feeling of content & happiness which results from having our families & relatives around us.
I have the honor to be Sir
Your most obedient humble servant
Wm. SHEPHERD
[Colonial Office note across corner]
What was the arrangement made for the conveyance of the wives and families of those who went out to the Cape in ____ and what were the regulations adopted on that occasion?
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 368
[Received March 2nd 1826]
Sir,
I received your communication of the 27th and beg the favour of an interview when most convenient, as to several of the communications made and the security I am prepared to give too long for the subject of a letter.
I am Sir your most obedient servant
Wm. SHEPHERD
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 370
No.6 Crown Court
Broad Street
3rd March 1826
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ult. In reply I feel bound to admit the justice of your remarks as to the propriety of my having come to this country prepared with some offer on the part of the settlers for the repayment of the expence to be incurred provided these settlers had been in a capacity to have made such a proposition, but they considered that their recent hopes & contracted means (wch every one acquainted with the colony must acknowledge are great) would be a sufficient inducement to His Majesty's Government to grant the prayer of your petitioners; considering also the want of servants in the colony together with the small number of females making it highly necessary in a moral point of view that more females should be sent out; joined to the political benefit to be derived from putting the British population more on a par with the Dutch, all these considerations your petitioners thought would have sufficient weight with his Lordship in granting their request. However, should my Lord BATHURST still require a security I beg to repeat that I am ready to get the signatures of each individual now desirous of proceeding with me to any undertaking his Lordship may think fit. Or should that not be admitted, feeling as I do towards those whose cause I have undertaken I can give my personal bond for the repayment of half the expence of whatever may be advanced to me for the purpose of conveying out these persons, or that it may cost His Majesty's Government to convey [them] provided my said bond may be allowed to be redeemed on producing the engagement of the settlers who deputed me, for their respective families, which engagement I will procure as soon as possible and exchange for my own bond, and in default of my doing so to the satisfaction of the Colonial Government my own [bond] is to stand in force against me so long as it is not cancelled by the Settlers Bond or Bonds which I may give in
I am Sir your most obedient servant
Wm. SHEPHERD
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 373
No.6 Crown Court
Old Broad Street
April 14th 1826
Sir,
In reply to your favour of the 12 inst I beg to state that no person of the name of J. WILSON has applied to me for a passage neither am I aware of any one person being brought to town by any letter that I have written, as I have invariably stated to each the offer of the Government and desired them to write an answer if they wished to go and could meet the expence and I am positive the assertion of they have come a great distance with their families is a false one.
I thought it necessary that each person should pay a small deposit of from 10s to 20s on the insertion of their names as an assurance of their intention. This has been done by those who could afford it, that I might not possess a long list of nominal names, at the same time it was distinctly stated to them it should be returned if no arrangements took place with His Majesty's Government.
With respect to the deposits of money I beg to state Sir it is a malicious insinuation calculated to make an impression on your mind that I am taking sums of money from the poor to their great inconvenience. That the principal part of them are poor I have sufficient evidence but I abhor the thought of distressing them in any way as my only wish is to serve them, to do which I have incurred considerable expence.
There is a person whose name is Wm. WATSON who has deposited 10/- but whose residence is in town. This is the only name I have like it.
I am Sir your most obedient servant
Wm. SHEPHERD
[Colonial Office note]
Let the party who complains of Mr. SHEPHERD to be called upon to explain what he means by making statements which are not founded in truth & recommend to Mr. SHEPHERD not to exact any sum of money whatever from those he addresses on the subject of conveyance to the Cape or to bring anyone to London untill his scheme is more matured. Remind Mr. S that he has taken no steps for providing the security as was pointed out to him was necessary to be given.
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 375
Crown Court
Old Broad Street
April 20th 1826
Sir,
I have to acknowledge receipt of yours of 18th ultimo and in reference to the security mentioned beg to state I am prepared with any security his Lordship may require, provided the nature of that security is expedient and safe for me to give, and I hope his Lordship will be as favourable as possible as to that required as my only wish is to serve the colony, and destitute, and unemployed to the extent his Lordship shall enable me.
I beg also to remark that I am proceeding agreeable to his Lordships directions in your letter of the 10th ultimo to obtain a list of those persons wishing to proceed with me that the expence may be accurately ascertained, with a view to inform each individual the sum required to reimburse His Majesty's Government one half the expence to be incurred. That list will be closed in a short time and shall immediately transmit them to the Colonial Office.
I am Sir your most obedient servant
Wm. SHEPHERD
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 377
Crown Court
Old Broad Street
April 30th 1826
Sir,
I beg to inclose the lists of the names of those persons wishing to proceed with me to their parents, husbands &c at Grahams Town Cape of Good Hope, agreeable to Earl BATHURST's letter of the 10th inst and request you will be pleased to direct the solicitor of the Treasury to favour me with the terms of security his Lordship wishes me to give.
I am Sir your most obedient servant
Wm. SHEPHERD
Names of Persons, Relatives of Settlers, with their Families desirous of proceeding to Grahams Town South Africa under the patronage of His Majesty's Government
To whom Related |
Names of Families |
Age |
Sons |
Age |
Daughters |
Age |
D. ROBERTS |
John PASKIN |
41 |
John |
21 |
||
Wife Elizabeth |
38 |
|||||
W. SHEPHERD |
Henry YARRINGTON |
30 |
||||
Wife Charlotte |
28 |
|||||
C. CROFT |
George FURBY |
52 |
George |
22 |
Charlotte |
14 |
Wife Jane |
52 |
Benjamin |
9 |
Elizabeth |
10 |
|
J. HOWE |
Francis CATO |
34 |
George |
12 |
||
Wife Jane |
32 |
Joseph |
12 |
|||
Henry |
4 |
|||||
Orlando |
1½ |
|||||
J. PARKIN |
Will'm PARKIN |
44 |
William |
20 |
Charlotte |
16 |
Isack |
11 |
Sarah |
14 |
|||
John |
10 |
Elizabeth |
12 |
|||
H. CROWLEY |
Elizabeth CROWLEY |
50 |
Margaret |
30 |
||
Thomas |
7 |
Mary Ann |
13 |
|||
J. CROWLEY |
Ann CROWLEY |
26 |
John |
12 |
Eliza |
14 |
Catharine |
6 |
|||||
Elizabeth |
4 |
|||||
J. BIGGS |
Mary Ann BIGGS |
16 |
||||
Harriott |
14 |
|||||
J. PANKHURST |
Thos. PANKHURST |
30 |
Thomas |
3 |
Ann |
5 |
Wife Ann |
28 |
Elizabeth |
1 |
|||
A. KIDWELL |
Elinor KIDWELL |
30 |
Charles |
11 |
Eliza |
7 |
Elizabeth OSBOURN |
34 |
George |
9 |
|||
John Thomas |
2 |
|||||
W. WATSON |
Will'm WATSON |
60 |
||||
Wife Sarah |
56 |
|||||
G. GATEHOUSE |
Mary GATEHOUSE |
34 |
Francis |
8 |
Sarah |
16 |
Elizabeth BROWN |
45 |
George |
14 |
Mary Ann |
10 |
|
C. HYMAN |
Elizabeth WOOD |
14 |
||||
D. LEWIS |
John LEWIS |
14 |
||||
J. LEANY |
Ann LEANY |
35 |
||||
J. O'DONNELL |
Ellin O'DONALD |
22 |
||||
Jane O'DONALD |
18 |
|||||
C. GRUBB |
Sarah GRUBB |
22 |
||||
C. SLATER |
Sarah SLATER |
23 |
||||
Mary Ann HALL |
6 |
|||||
R. PICKSTOCK |
Thos DOWLAN |
29 |
Mary |
10 |
||
Wife Ann |
31 |
Amelia |
3 |
|||
Thos DOBSON |
27 |
|||||
Wife Mary |
29 |
John |
1 |
|||
D. GOLDEN |
Mary GOLDEN |
30 |
John |
9 |
Mary |
5 |
John STEARDEN |
35 |
Margaret |
4 |
|||
Catharine GOLDEN |
30 |
|||||
J. EVA |
Samuel PASK |
20 |
||||
D. HOLLAND |
Florence MACARTY |
36 |
||||
W. VERITY |
Benjamin VERITY |
25 |
||||
Rd. NEWTON |
William STARLING |
18 |
||||
Kezia STARLING |
19 |
|||||
A. KIDWELL |
James ATKINS |
44 |
Caroline |
18 |
||
Wife Fanny |
44 |
Eliza |
15 |
|||
Samuel |
8 |
Phebe |
13 |
|||
Jane |
11 |
|||||
R. PITT |
Wm. PITT |
49 |
John |
23 |
Sarah |
22 |
Wife Mary |
49 |
Thomas |
7 |
Mary |
2 |
|
John |
½ |
|||||
William |
13 |
|||||
James |
10 |
|||||
J. THACKWRY |
Crofts MAYER |
47 |
Francis |
24 |
Hannah |
23 |
Wife Catharine |
50 |
Joseph |
18 |
Grace |
19 |
|
David |
29 |
Matilda |
13 |
|||
Francis |
5 |
|||||
J. WYATT |
Charles WYATT |
43 |
William |
11 |
||
Wife Francis |
37 |
George |
9 |
|||
James |
4 |
|||||
John |
1 |
Mary Ann |
7 |
|||
A. HARPUR |
Eliza BARNES |
19 |
||||
Rich'd HUMPHRIES |
45 |
Stephen |
12 |
|||
Wife Ann |
37 |
James |
9 |
|||
Joseph |
6 |
|||||
R. ATTWELL |
Wm. WELLS |
37 |
William |
7 |
||
Wife Mary Ann |
31 |
Robert |
5 |
|||
Richard |
3 |
|||||
S. BROWN |
Nathan MORRIS |
40 |
John |
6 |
Jane |
14 |
Wife Sarah |
36 |
Sarah |
4 |
|||
J. ADAMS |
Jane ADAMS |
30 |
John |
13 |
Mary |
16 |
William |
8 |
Jane |
14 |
|||
Susanah |
10 |
|||||
T. YOUNG |
Samuel WEBBER |
38 |
Samuel |
9 |
Eliza |
13 |
Wife Martha |
30 |
George |
5 |
Mary |
7 |
|
Martha |
3 |
|||||
J. MANDY |
Ann MULLIGAN |
42 |
Elizabeth |
18 |
||
James |
16 |
Amelia |
14 |
|||
Ann |
6 |
|||||
R. ROE |
Hannah ROE |
40 |
Mary Ann |
16 |
||
Elizabeth |
11 |
|||||
J. HANNAN |
Sarah SAYERS |
26 |
||||
Jane SAYERS |
22 |
|||||
Hy. MARSHALL |
Mary MARSHALL |
32 |
||||
J. MANDY |
Henry COOK |
27 |
||||
Wife Elizabeth |
22 |
|||||
R. PITT |
Robert MITCHENER |
47 |
William |
21 |
Jane |
20 |
Wife Jane |
44 |
John |
11 |
Elizabeth |
25 |
|
Francis |
19 |
|||||
James |
8 |
|||||
Edward |
6 |
|||||
J. WILLS |
James ADAMS |
56 |
Sarah |
30 |
||
Wife Mary |
56 |
|||||
J. DIVINE |
John MACKINTOSH |
34 |
Jane |
1 |
||
Wife Jane |
34 |
|||||
J. RATHBONE |
Sarah BURLING |
18 |
||||
James BURLING |
19 |
|||||
W. AUSTIN |
Sarah DAWSON |
30 |
||||
J. NIELAND |
Hugh NIELAND |
36 |
Patrick |
12 |
||
Henry HOWARD |
47 |
Sarah |
11 |
|||
Wife Maria |
47 |
Elizabeth |
9 |
|||
J. PARTRICK |
John WITNALL |
24 |
Total Number 179 Relatives, of whom
Men 39
Women 53
Children above 12 years 30
Children under 12 years 57
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 382
Crown Court
Broad Street
May 7th 1826
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 6 inst in which my Lord BATHURST requires a more distinct statement of the degree of relationship in which those persons stand towards the settlers of the Cape of Good Hope and the cause of the present list varieing from that of December last.
I beg to inform his Lordship a number of the names will necessarily be different from those in that list in consequence of their being relatives by marriage and otherwise and the present list is not so large as that of December last in consequence of some of the partys wished for not being to be found and others declineing to proceed to the Colony.
And I have forgotten further to state I have taken the liberty to insert several names of persons who have applied to me stateing they have relatives at the settlement (and of whom I have some knoledge of) whose friends have written for them since I left the Colony and directed them to apply to me, which may account for some names appearing in the present list which is not in that of December among whom are two wives of settlers residing in the Colony. The inclosed list is as correct a statement of the relationship they stand in to the persons residing at the Cape of Good Hope as I can obtain.
And allow me in reference to the latter part of your letter to assure his Lordship in behalf of myself and brother colonists that no confusion would arrise should His Majestys Government be pleased to send five hundred persons of the present unimployed labourers and great disappointment will be felt should the prayer of your memorialists not succeed, not only by your petitioners but by those gentlemen who are expecting in them to find a number of servants to supply the present necessity.
I am Sir your most obedient servant
Wm. SHEPHERD
Degree of Relationship of a Number of Persons
wishing to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope to join their Relatives
Name of person wishing to proceed |
Relative's name residing in the Colony |
Degree of Relationship |
John PASKIN |
Daniel ROBERTS |
Brother-in-law |
Henry YARRINGTON |
Wm. SHEPHERD |
Cousin |
George FURBY |
Charles CROFT |
Cousin |
Francis CATO |
… James HOWE |
Daughter |
William PARKIN |
John PARKIN |
Brother |
Elizabeth CROWLEY |
Humphrey CROWLEY |
Wife & family |
Ann CROWLEY |
Malachy CROWLEY |
Wife & family |
Mary Ann BIGGS } |
John BIGGS |
Daughters |
Harriott BIGGS } |
||
Thos. PANKHURST |
John PANKHURST |
Brother |
Elenor KIDWELL } |
Alex. KIDWELL |
Sisters |
Elizabeth OSBOURNE } |
||
Will'm WATSON |
Will WATSON |
Son |
Mary GATEHOUSE |
Geo. GATEHOUSE |
Wife & family |
Elizabeth BROWN |
Geo. GATEHOUSE |
Sister |
Elizabeth WOOD |
Chas. HYMAN |
Daughter |
John LEWIS |
… Dd. LEWIS |
Son |
Thos. DOWLAN |
Rich'd PICKSTOCK |
Son-in-law |
Thos. DOBSON |
Rich'd PICKSTOCK |
Son-in-law |
Ann LEANY |
… James LEANY |
Wife |
Ellen O'DONNELL } |
Patrick O'DONNELL |
Nieces |
Jane O'DONNELL } |
||
Sarah GRUBB |
James GRUBB |
Sister |
Sarah SLATER |
Thos. SLATER |
Daughter |
Mary GOLDEN |
David GOLDEN |
Wife & family |
John STEADMAN |
David GOLDEN |
Brother-in-law |
Catharine GOLDEN |
David GOLDEN |
Sister |
Samuel PASK |
James EVA |
Cousin |
Florence MACARTY |
Dennis HOLLAND |
Brother-in-law |
Benjamin VERITY |
Will VERITY |
Son |
William STARLING |
Rd. NEWTON |
Nephew |
Kezia STARLING |
Rd. NEWTON |
Niece |
John ATKINS |
Alex. KIDWELL |
Brother-in-law |
Wm. PITT |
Robt. PITT |
Brother |
Crofts MAYER |
William THACKWRAY |
Brother-in-law |
Charles WYATT |
John WYATT |
Brother |
Eliza BARNES |
James HARPUR |
Daughter |
Rich'd HUMPHRIES |
James STANTON |
Cousin |
Wm. WELLS |
Rich'd ATTWELL |
Son-in-law |
Nathan MORRIS |
Stephen BROWN |
Son-in-law |
Jane ADAMS |
Henry ADAMS |
Wife & family |
Samuel WEBBER |
Thos. YOUNG |
Cousin |
Ann MULLAGAN |
… James MANDY |
Sister |
Henry COOK |
… James MANDY |
Brother-in-law |
Hannah ROE |
Rob't ROE |
Wife & family |
Sara SAYERS } |
John HANNAN |
Sisters |
Jane SAYERS } |
||
Mary MARSHALL |
… Henry MARSHALL |
Wife |
Robert MITCHENER |
Rob't PITT |
Cousin |
James ADAMS |
… James WILLS |
Father-in-law |
John MACKINTOSH |
Will DIVINE |
Brother-in-law |
Sarah BURLING |
James RATHBONE |
Sister-in-law |
James BURLING |
James RATHBONE |
Brother-in-law |
Sarah DAWSON |
John AUSTIN |
Sister-in-law |
Hugh NILAND |
James NIELAND |
Brother |
Patrick NIELAND |
James NIELAND |
Son |
Those marked with a … are names not in the memorial of December last
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 387
Crown Court
Old Broad Street
May 7th 1826
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 6th inst I beg to state that no inducement has been offered by me to the individual named Adam MULHOLLAN of Baltinglass, neither have I had communication with any person of that name, but suppose that the applications arrise from the information of their relatives in the colony stating that I am indeavouring to obtain permission of His Majestys Government to bring them to the settlement, and I beg further to observe his Lordships caution has and will be duly attended by, Sir
Your obed't humble serv't
Wm. SHEPHERD
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 389
[Memorandum in different hand]
Mr. SHEPHERD
The number of settlers who signed the original petition amounted to 93 and the numbers of their relatives whom they wished to be sent out to the Cape amounted to 291.
The list which Mr. SHEPHERD has lately sent to the office contains the names of only 38 of the settlers who signed the original petition, and the number of individuals for whom Mr. SHEPHERD makes his present application amount to 179
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 390
[Received 29 May 1826]
Sir,
Not having received an answer to my letter of the 7th inst I beg the favour of your informing me if my papers are refered to the solicitor of the Treasury as the parties are exceedingly anxious to know the most favourable terms on which my Lord BATHURST will allow them to proceed to their relatives in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
I m Sir your most obed't serv't
Wm. SHEPHERD
[Note on reverse from Colonial Office]
Acquaint Mr. SHEPHERD that Lord B finds on reference to the Treasury that there are no funds from whence the expence of sending out the wives & families of settlers can be defrayed & that independent of this circumstance the very imperfect instructions with which on leaving the Colony he appears to have been furnished & his total inability to give security for that part of the expence which it was always in Lord B's contemplation shd be borne by the Parties most interested would have rendered it [obscured] ..
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 392
Crown Court
Old Broad Street
June 5th 1826
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th ult and feel extremely sorry for the parties concerned that so much should have been done and such expectations raised in the minds of those persons before it was assertained that there was no funds in the Treasury out of which the expence could be defrayed, which is a source of great disappointment to the parties interested, and so far from being totally unable to give security, I am provided with the money to a certain extent and waited to know what the solicitor of the Treasury (to whom I was to be refered on delivering the list of names according to your letter if the – inst) required as to the amount of each persons expence and for the security required, that I might consider how far I could undertake with safety to myself for the other part, the expence of which with the arrangements would be no way great to His Majesty's Government, tho' important for an individual to be responsible for, but provided nothing more can be done for these persons I shall trouble his Lordship no further than to say that I was not deputed by any person at the settlement but took up their cause at the anxious desire of the people from a [sense] of their necessities and the desire of benefiting the Colony, which I should feel pleasure in serving in an object so much desired.
I am Sir your most obedient servant
Wm. SHEPHERD
1826 Petition [Filed under P for John PASKIN, the first signatory]
National Archives, Kew, CO48/86, 309
[Answered 9 June 1826]
The humble petition of the undersigned mechanics and labourers praying to be sent to their parents and relations at Grahams Town Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
To the Right Hon'ble Earl BATHURST
My Lord,
We the undersigned beg to lay before your Lordship our humble petition. Your Petitioners all of us have parents & relatives about the settlement of Grahams Town Cape of Good Hope & were instructed by our relatives to apply to a Mr. Wm SHEPHERD who has arrived from that place to intercede with your Honorable Government for us to be sent out. On our application to Mr. SHEPHERD he made known to us he had applied to your Lordship and by an official letter dated 27th inst informed us that by paying half the expence of our transport your Lordship would send us out. This my Lord we were preparing to do but were much disappointed at Mr. SHEPHERD informing us he had read another official letter dated 29th May by which he is instructed to acquaint us that in consequence of his not offering security (which we could not expect as most of us are strangers to him) your Lordship has declined his intercession and that there are no funds in the Treasury for any such purpose, that we must pay the whole of our transport which we are unable to do. Your petitioners beg to state to your Lordship that upon the faith of the Under Secretary of State's letter dated 27th inst to Mr. SHEPHERD we put ourselves to great inconvenience by the sale of our goods and articles of furniture in preparation to meet half the expence required for our transport and therefore pray your Lordship will reconsider our case, many of us having large familys and unable to support them for want of employment.
Your petitioners feel satisfied with the information given by Mr. SHEPHERD as to the immediate employment on our arrival in the Colony for ourselves & familys & that the price of provisions there will enable us to support our familys by our own labour & industry, an object we so much desire but cannot obtain here, and as Mr. SHEPHERD is going to return shortly he has kindly offered to superintend our going out, which from his local knowledge of the country, its resources & conveniences would be so very desirable. We therefore pray your Lordship will take into consideration the disappointment & distress it will occasion your petitioners & their familys shd your Lordship not comply with the promise held out in your Lordship's letter dated 27th inst. We beg to acquaint your Lordship we are ready to pay the half of our transport money at any place your Lordship will please to appoint. We pray your Lordship will grant this your petitioners request for the sake of their families & your petitioners in duty bound will ever pray.
Signed
John PASKIN & wife
John PASKIN
Geo FURBY & wife 4 children
Benj'n BROWN wife & sister
Richard HUMPHREYS wife 3 children
John MACKINTOSH wife 1 child
Will'm STARLING
Kezia STARLING
Henry YARRINGTON & wife
Francis CATO & 4 children
William PITT wife 7 children
Sarah BURLING
Sarah DAWSON
Mary Ann BIGGS
Harriet BIGGS
Elenor KIDWELL
Elizabeth OSBOURN & 4 children
Ann LEANY
Ellen O'DONNELL
Sarah SLATER & child
Samuel PASK
Sara SAYERS
Jane SAYERS
Mary MARSHALL
Henry COOK & wife
Eliza CROWLLEY
Eliza BROWN
Eliza WOOD
Amelia MILLIGAN and 4 children
Hugh NIELAND & wife
Samuel WEBER wife and 5 children
William PARKIN wife and 6 children
Place of Meeting No. 3 Half Moon Court, Stanhope Street, Clare Market
National Archives, Kew, CO48/69, 78
Memorial of several Settlers at the Cape praying that their Relations may be sent out to the Cape
Enclosure in Lord C.H. SOMERSET's Despatch dated 6 July 1825 No.187
Copy
To His Excellency the Rt. Hon'ble. General Lord Charles Henry SOMERSET
The humble memorial of the undersigned settlers
Humbly sheweth
That in consequence of Your Excellency's having whilst at Grahams Town been graciously pleased to declare that the memorial (praying for Your Excellency's recommendation for bringing out the relatives of the settlers at the Government expence) should be taken into your Excellency's attentive consideration.
Your Memorialists in returning their unfeigned thanks for this Your Excellency's humane and continued attention to the welfare of the settlement beg most humbly to state that Mr. Wm. SHEPHERD is willing to return to England and has offered on his return to the Colony to take charge of the embarkation and from his well known correctness of character we are anxious that he should superintend the same, and should your Excellency be pleased to assist him in the undertaking your Memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray.
Mrs. HARPER
Stephen BROWN
George GATEHOUSE
Robert BRADY
William MILLER
John BIGGS
Rich'd BRADSHAW
Robert ROE
J. NIELAND
Wm. VERITY
Wm. HUNT
James PAXTON
George MARSDEN
Thomas KEMPSTER
Charles CROFT
William PIKE
Rich'd NEWTON
Wm. GODDARD
John BROWN
James KIDD
Wm. STANTON
Geo. FOOTER
John HANNAN
Henry BROOKS
William MATHEWS
George HODGKINSON
James J. EVA
Richard BOWLES
James BOWSHER
Thos. KING
Malachy CROWLY
Humphry CROWLY
David GOULDING
Christopher DALE
Peter VALLENTINE
Richard ATTWELL
John MOODY
Rt. WICKS
Rich'd PICKSTOCK
Thos. SLATER
Benj'n PATRICK
John GITTINS
Sam'l SCROOBY
James HOOK
A. KIDWELL
William SHEPHERD
Mrs. THOMAS
John McKENNY
James GREATHEAD
James RATHBONE
John AUSTIN
Sam'l FIELD
Wm. SERGEANT
Charles GRUBB
Wm. LUCAS
Chs. HYMAN
Thos. YOUNG
Benj'n NORDEN
Dennis HOLLAND
James HOWSE
John PANKHURST
John MARSHALL
Jeremiah HONEY
J. DEDMAN
Jeremiah GOLDSWAIN
Geo. BAGER
Robert PITT
Samuel PRINN
W. WATSON
James KEMP
Edw'd TURVEY
W. HOWARD
William TARR
Robert ROBERTS
Benj'n FORD
J.A. DUDLEY
Wm. DIVINE
P. ELEVAND
Christopher ADCOCK
Wm. THACKWRAY
National Archives, Kew, CO48/69, 82
Names of Settlers who have petitioned for their relatives to be sent out to the Cape |
Relations |
Their place of abode in Great Britain and Ireland |
Henry HARPER |
1 daughter |
Eliza BARNES at Mr.MEASON's at the Star, Burton on Trent |
Stephen BROWN |
1 son 2 daughters |
Wm. BROWN Great Gidding near Stilton, Huntingdonshire |
Geo. GATEHOUSE |
Wife & 4 children |
Mr. GATEHOUSE at Mr.WOOD's, No.146 High St, Portsmouth |
Rob't BRADY |
Wife & 3 children |
Mr. BRADY, Carpenters Arms, High Holborn |
Wm. MILLER |
1 son |
Thos. MILLER at Mr. CLARKE's, Charles Street, Covent Garden |
John BIGGS |
2 daughters |
Inquiry to be made of Mr. James SUTCLIFFE, St.James Square, Bristol |
Rich'd BRADSHAW |
Wife & 6 children |
Ulley near Dursley, Gloucestershire |
Rob't ROE |
Wife & 3 children |
Mrs.H. ROE at the Revd. Mr. VERICK's, Somers Town |
James NIELAND |
1 son |
Mathew NIELAND, J. HICKS Esq, Green Lodge, Castle Bar, Mayo |
Wm. VERITY |
2 sons |
Mr. VERITY, Tailor, Little Windmill Street, Haymarket |
Wm. HUNT |
2 daughters |
At Mary HUNT's, Brasenton near Derby |
James PAXTON |
1 daughter |
Miss PAXTON at Mr. WARD's, 24 Queen St, Kings Road, Chelsea |
Geo.MARSDEN |
1 son |
Mr. J. MARSDEN, Aswith, Heath, near Chesterfield |
Thos. KEMPSTER |
Wife & 4 children |
Mrs. KEMPSTER at Parlows, Princes Risborough, Bucks |
Chas. CROFT |
Brother, sister & 2 children |
No.6 Cross Lane, Long Acre |
Wm. PIKE |
2 brothers 2 sisters 1 son & children |
Stilton near Huntingdonshire |
Rich'd BRADSHAW |
Brother, wife & 4 children |
Ulley near Dursley, Gloucestershire |
Rich'd NEWTON |
Wife & 1 son |
Mrs. NEWTON, Goswell Street Road |
Will'm GODDARD |
1 son |
On board the Revenue Cutter of Deal, Kent |
Stephen BROWN |
1 Brother |
B. BROWN at Mr. VERITY's, Tailor, Little Windmill Street, Haymarket |
James KIDD |
2 brothers 1 sister & 6 children |
At Mrs.J. THOMPSON's, Velinhilston near Wrexham in Wales |
Will'm STANTON |
3 brothers & 1 sister |
No.18 Princes Street, Blackfriars Road |
Geo. FOOTER |
2 sisters |
J.FOOTER, Little Bell St, John St, Westminster |
John HANNAM |
1 sister |
Parish of Kilbonane, Barony of Eyre, County Kerry |
Hy BROOKS |
2 brothers & 1 sister |
Mr. J. WHEATLEY, Old Brompton near London |
Wm. MATHEWS |
Brother & sister |
Mr.J. CROXTON or Messrs.LARD & Co, 97 St.Martins Lane |
Geo. HODGKINSON |
1 brother |
Mr.LEWIS ? at Mr.BOWNERs, Bleakmarket? Street, Leicester |
James J. EVA |
1 son |
North Crescent, Bristol |
Rd BOWLES |
Daughter, son-in-law & 2 children |
Mr. Hy. HERBERT at Crab Oak near Dover, Kent |
James BOWSHER |
Wife & 3 children |
Woodlands, East Garston, Berkshire |
Malachy CROWLEY |
Wife & 3 children } |
Mrs. CROWLEY's, Mason? Fair Lane, Cork |
Hy. CROWLEY |
Wife & 2 children } |
|
David GOULDING |
Wife & 3 children |
Parish of Kilbonane, Barony of Eyre, County Kerry |
Chris'r DALE |
1 son |
Music Warehouse, Cornhill |
Peter VALENTINE |
1 son |
Mr.J. LEDDOW?, Little Allum near Elkinstone, Denbighshire |
Rich'd ATTWELL |
Son & daughter & 2 children |
No.9 Permit Office, Excise Office |
John MOODY |
Wife |
Mrs. MOODY at No.1 Charles St, East Hampstead Road, Fitzroy Sq. |
Rob't WICKS |
1 son |
Kings Street, Ramsgate, Kent |
Rd.PICKSTOCK |
2 daughters, son-in-law & 5 children |
Mr. DOWLAN at 25 Warwick Street, Manchester |
Thos. SLATER |
1 son 1 daughter |
High Street, Borough |
Benj'n PARTRICK |
Daughter |
Mr. A. MARTIN, High Street, Portsmouth |
John GITTANS |
2 brothers |
Charles GROVE, Oxford |
Sam'l SCROOBY |
Mother |
At Mr.BARKWORTH, Butcher, Gt. Guildford Street, Borough |
James HOOLE |
1 brother 2 sisters & 4 children |
E. COTTRELL's, [obscured] Street, Bloomsbury Square |
Alex KIDWELL |
2 sisters 1 brother 5 children |
Alpha Cottage, Lambeth |
Will'm SHEPHERD |
1 brother 1 sister 1 child |
J. SHEPHERD at W. TURNER, Little Windmill St, Haymarket |
M. THOMAS |
1 daughter |
Miss CADLE St. {obscured] Church, Hoxton |
John MACKENNY |
Brother |
Mr. MACKENNY, Bare Head Close, High Street, Glasgow |
James GREATHEAD |
Brother |
Wm. GREATHEAD, Summer Hill, Sand Pits, Birmingham |
John AUSTIN |
2 sisters |
Mr. J. DAVIDSON, Queen Street, Ramsgate, Kent |
Sam'l FIELD |
2 brothers & 2 sisters |
Near the Moorhen's? Hichen, Herts |
Wm. SERGEANT |
2 brothers & 2 sisters |
Hy SERGEANT, Wheelwright, Buckingham, Berks |
Chas. GRUBB |
7 brothers |
Newbury, Berks or Mr. BOWLES, No.49 Long Lane, Borough |
Wm. LUCAS |
Mother & sister |
Mr. LUCAS, Churchover, near Rugby, Warwickshire |
Chas. HYMAN |
Father, mother & brother |
Near Salisbury, Wiltshire |
Thos. YOUNG |
Brother, sister & 7 children |
Mr. ? Baker, Halfway House, Thorn, Kent |
Benj'n NORDEN |
Brother |
Joshua NORDEN, Abram NORDEN's, Hammersmith |
Dennis HOLLAND |
Brother & sister |
Mr.F.MACARTY, Cooper at Mr. PIERCE's near Broad Wall, London |
James HOWSE |
2 brothers & 2 sisters and 6 of their children |
6 White Church Lane, Oxford |
John PANKHURST |
1 brother & 1 sister |
Wm. PANKHURST in the Parish of Munster, County of Kerry |
John MARSHALL |
2 nephews, brother & sister |
Mr. HAMMOND, Draper, Wadhurst, Sussex |
Jeremiah HONEY |
2 nephews & 1 brother |
Rd. HONEY, Leeds near Maidstone, Kent |
Jas. DEDMAN |
2 brothers, 2 sisters, 6 children |
Wm. and John DEDMAN, Frome, Somersetshire |
Jeremiah GOLDSWAIN |
Father |
West Street, Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire |
Rob't PITT |
Brother & 2 sons |
No.1 Crown Street, Russell Square |
Geo. BAGER |
1 son, brother, sister & 2 children |
Elizabeth BAGER, Spilsbury, Lincolnshire |
Sam'l PRINN |
1 sister |
Mrs. Mary CLARKE, Mr.LOADE's? School House, York. George Yard, Drury Lane |
Wm. WATSON |
Father, mother & brother |
No.21 Bribe? Place, Somers Town |
Jas. KEMP |
Brother |
J. KEMP, Rodmersham near Sittingbourne |
Ed. TURVEY |
1 son |
Mr. BURGES, Maiden Lane, Southampton Street, Strand |
Wm. HOWARD |
Wife, mother, 2 sisters in law and 5 brothers |
Mr. LENNON?, Howlett, Chinor near Thame, Oxfordshire |
Wm. TARR |
Brother, sister & 2 children |
James MOON? Mr.WAGS?, 29 Wigmore Street or Blandford Cha.. |
Rob't ROBERTS |
2 brothers, 2 sisters, 4 children |
Mr.PARKIN at Mr. DAY's, Trunk maker, Strand |
Benj'n FORD |
Son & daughter |
Mr. DICKS, Crockerton, Warminster, Wilts |
J.H. DUDLEY |
Son & daughter |
Mrs. DUDLEY, No.4 Gough Street, Suffolk Street, Birmingham |
Wm. DIVINE |
1 brother & 1 sister |
John BYRNE Wm BRUNGER?, Chards near Dublin |
P. ELEVAND |
1 daughter |
John MACDONALD, Mr.Joseph LYONS, Waterhead Mill |
Christ. ADCOCK |
1 son |
71 Wardour Street, Soho or 51 Brewer Street, Golden Square |
Wm. THACKWRAY |
Sister, brother-in-law and 10 children |
Mr. J. GREENWOOD, Thorp Arch, or Boston near Wetherby, Yorkshire |
H. ADAMS |
Wife & 6 children |
Jane ADAMS near Chittlehampton, South Molton, Devon |
John WYAT |
Brother & 3 sisters |
Mrs. STEPHENS at Messrs STUBBS & Co, Coachmaker, White Chapel Road |
William OGILVIE |
Mother |
Mrs. Ann OGILVIE, John CLARKE's, Hutchinson Town, Glasgow |
P. O'DONNELL |
2 nieces & brother |
Ellen O'DONNELL, Buff in the County of Limerick |
J.PARKIN |
Daughter |
Mr. HOWARD on the Old Bridge, Exeter, Devon |
J.PARKER? |
Wife & 2 daughters |
J. CASPER Esq Canterbury |
? NEEDHAM |
Wife & 3 children |
Mary NEEDHAM, Halliwell Street, Chesterfield |
Thos. KING |
1 son |
Mrs.F. PRIME, Spencer Place, Goswell St Road |
J. RATHBONE |
1 brother, 2 sisters |
Mr. CASTLE, No.1 Pro.. Buildings, Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell |
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