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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

WICHMANN, Peter Matthias - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of SEPHTON's Party)

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

Peter Mathias WICHMANN married Catherine RICE on 21 November 1813 in St.Ann, Soho.

Both signed their names.

Witnesses: Jno GOWAN and Jas. DAVIES

 

Marital status not given but daughter Elizabeth almost certainly from a previous marriage.

 

Westminster Archives

 

Elizabeth Priscilla, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth WICHMAN baptised 25 May 1800 in St.James, Piccadilly 

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

The following children of Peter and Elizabeth did not sail with Peter and Catherine to the Cape:

Matthias WICHMANN, son of Peter and Elizabeth, baptised 10 May 1807 in St.Marylebone (born 29 January 1805)

John WICHMANN, son of Peter and Elizabeth, baptised 10 May 1807 in St.Marylebone (born 9 December 1806)

Frederick WICHMANN, son of Peter and Elizabeth, baptised 10 May 1807 in St.Marylebone (born 9 December 1806)

William Mensham WICHMANN, son of Peter and Elizabeth, baptised 8 October 1809 in St.Marylebone (born 24 September)

 

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