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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

PALMER, George - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of CALTON's Party)

 

Nottinghamshire FHS Transcriptions

 

George SKERRY [sic] and Millicent RECKLESS were married on 16 September 1805 in St.Peter's, Radford, Nottinghamshire

 

Baptisms in St.Nicholas, Nottingham, 

Gervas son of George and Millecent PALMER baptised 3 May 1806

Henry son of George and Millicent PALMER baptised 8 May 1808*

Millicent daughter of George and Millicent PALMER baptised 27 May 1810

George son of George and Millecent PALMER baptised 22 December 1811

William son of George and Millicent PALMER, Angel Row, FWK,  baptised 10 March 1816

John son of George and Millicent PALMER, Hinds Yard, FWK, baptised 20 February 1817

Mildred daughter of George and Millecent PALMER, Hinds Yard, FWK, baptised 30 June 1818

*This is perhaps Benjamin PALMER (listed in The Settler Handbook), whose Death Notice (Cape Archives) suggests a birth in 1808.

 

Gervas RECKLESS married Millicent HORSLEY on 24 February 1785 in St.John the Baptist, Colwick, Nottinghamshire

 

Baptisms of children of Gervas and Millesant RECCLESS [sic] in St.Mary, Clifton, Nottinghamshire

Gervas baptised 26 June 1785 

Richard baptised 14 October 1787

Millesant  baptised 18 January 1789 

Mary Ann baptised 4 May 1790

John baptised 28 November 1791

Frances baptised 19 April 1793

John baptised 12 October 1794

Catherine baptised 4 October 1795

 

 

 

 

 

 

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