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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

BIDDULPH, Simon - Extra Data

Written by Sue Mackay on .

 

(member of BAILIE's Party)

 

Death Notice (Cape Archives)

 

Formerly of Tamworth and Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. Son of Walter and Mary BIDDULPH of Barton under Needwood, Staffordshire

 

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service:

 

Baptism 17 May 1761, Barton under Needwood, Staffordshire

Simon, son of Mr. Walter and Mary BIDDULPH

 

Family Search:

 

Marriage:

Simon BIDDULPH married Ann BURNETT 11 July 1785 in Halesowen, Worcestershire

 

Baptisms of children in Halesowen, Worcestershire

Anna Maria 28 March 1787 

Charlotte 24 March 1790 (born 17 Nov 1787)

Gilbert Burnet  24 March 1790 (born Dec 1788, died 17 April 1790)

Edward 24 March 1790 (born 16 January 1790)

Louisa 5 January 1792

Mary Burnett 23 April 1794 

George 20 September 1795 (born 11 May 1795)

 

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service

 

John Burnet son of Simon and Ann BIDDULPH, Wigginton, baptised 16 October 1796 in St.Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire

James Henry son of Simon and Ann BIDDULPH, Wigginton, baptised 15 June 1801 St.Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire (born 27 April 1799)

Thomas Jervis son of Simon and Ann BIDDULPH, Wigginton, baptised 15 June 1801 St.Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire (born 29 January 1801)

Margaret Jane daughter of Simon and Ann BIDDULPH baptised 2 September 1803 St.Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire

William Burnet son of Simon and Ann BIDDULPH baptised 18 May 1808 St.Editha Tamworth, Staffordshire

Frances Maria daughter of Simon and Ann BIDDULPH baptised 18 May 1808 St.Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire

 

From "Bailie's Party of 1820 Settlers" by M.D. Nash

According to his will MOOC 7/1/168 no.58 24:12:1841 three of his children, Simon, Gilbert Burnet and Anna Maria, died in England prior to 1819. Three of his daughters, Charlotte, Mary Burnet and Margaret Jane, married and lived in London. 

Edward, the third son, entered the navy and in 1820 he joined his parents in Albany. He later emigrated to New South Wales.

George, the fourth son, was entered on the original return but withdrew before the party emigrated. He subsequently joined his family and was in Albany in 1846, though he died in England in 1857.

Thomas Jervis, the seventh son, joined his family at the Cape between 1830 and 1833, when he bought the drostdy house at Bathurst

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