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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

SEPHTON, Hezekiah - Extra Data

 

Leader of SEPHTON's Party

 

(see correspondence of Edward WYNNE)

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives) says he was born in Stockwith, Nottinghamshire, the son of John and Elizabeth

 

Nottinghamshire FHS Transcriptions

 

John SEPHTON married Elizabeth JACKSON on 6 October 1751 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

 

Elizabeth SEPHTON, daughter of John and Elizabeth, baptised 22 February 1754 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

John SEPHTON, son of John and Elizabeth, baptised 15 October 1756 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

Francis SEPHTON, son of John and Elizabeth, baptised 30 November 1760 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

Thomas SEPHTON, son of John and Elizabeth, baptised 20 January 1762 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

Ann SEPHTON, daughter of John and Elizabeth, baptised 17 June 1764 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

Hannah SEPHTON, daughter of John and Elizabeth, baptised 19 April 1767 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

Thos. SEPHTON, son of John and Elizabeth, baptised 16 November 1774 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

Hezekiah SEPHTON, son of John and Elizabeth, baptised 6 September 1776 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

 

 

Hezekiah SEPHTON married Jane HARDY on 7 March 1797 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire.

 

John SEPHTON, son of Hezekiah and Jane of Stockwith, baptised 25 December 1801 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

Thomas SEPHTON, son of Hezekiah and Jane of Stockwith, baptised 28 July 1802 in All Souls, Misterton, Nottinghamshire

 

London Metropolitan Archives

 

Jane daughter of Ezekiah SEPHTON & Jane baptised 28 July 1805 in St.Luke, Finsbury (born Nov 13th 1804)

 

Baptisms of other children not found

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