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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

BAGLEY, Simon - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on 30 November 1999.

(member of COCK's Party)

Army service record WO97/1/62 (National Archives, Kew)

Simon BAGLEY, born Coleraine, Derry, enlisted at the age of 22

Considered unfit for service owing to swelling of groin following a riding accident during a drill in March 1814.

Six feet tall, brown hair, grey eyes

Served in 25^th Light Dragoons and 1^st Life Guards

Discharged aged 24

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