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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

ALDRED, William - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

Independent Settler - does not appear in The Settler Handbook

(see correspondence of Daniel BEALEY and John LEIGH)

 

Applied to emigrate with wife Elizabeth and children Matilda (14), Anthony (13), Susan (10), Elizabeth (4) and Emma (1)

 

Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives

 

William ALDRED of Manchester, weaver, and Elizabeth FARRAND of Manchester were married by banns on 17 October 1803 in St.Mary, St.Denys and St.George, Manchester.

Both signed

No witnesses listed

 

Matilda dau of William and Elizabeth ALDRED, weaver, Ashton [parish?], was baptised 15 July 1805 in All Saints, Newton Heath, Lancashire

Anthony son of William and Elizabeth ALDRED, weaver, Newton, was baptised 22 February 1807 in All Saints, Newton Heath, Lancashire

Susannah dau of William and Betty ALDRED, weaver, Newton, was baptised 25 March 1810 in Newton Heath, Lancashire

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

Baptisms in All Hallows, Tottenham:

Elizabeth, daughter of William, labourer, and Elizabeth ALDRED, Tottenham, baptised 4 August 1816 (born 27 June 1816)

Emma, daughter of William, labourer, and Elizabeth ALDRED, Tottenham, baptised 8 November 1818 (born 8 October 1818)

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