Bailie's party of 1820 settlers
- Authors: Nash, M D
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Bailie, John, 1788-1852 , British settlers of 1820 (South Africa) , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Emigration and immigration , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2588 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006907 , Bailie, John, 1788-1852 , British settlers of 1820 (South Africa) , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Emigration and immigration , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History
- Description: From preface: This study of the British settlers of 1820 in South Africa uses one party of emigrants as a unit of historical research. In unfolding their story, it attempts to discover how far the standard assumptions about the 1820 settlement are borne out by the historical facts. No systematic set of hypotheses for investigation was established in advance; instead, the structure of the thesis has been determined by the course of the narrative, and the main issues have emerged spontaneously as it has progressed. Although the chronology has been maintained as far as possible, the narrative itself does not follow an entirely straightforward course. The emigrant party of eighty-four men and their families under the leadership of John Bailie which is the subject of the study was officially subdivided five weeks after landing at Algoa Bay, and the dispersal of its members to the established towns of the colony began even sooner. At the end of the three-year period laid down as a residential qualification by Government, less than a third remained to claim land on the party's location in Albany.
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- Date Issued: 1981
J C Chase: 1820 settler and servant of the Colony
- Authors: McGinn, M J
- Date: 1975
- Subjects: Chase, J. C, 1806-1876 , British settlers of 1820 (South Africa) , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2610 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012872
- Description: J.C. Chase was an 1820 settler who travelled to the Cape with Bailie's party. He was a man of some standing and education. There is evidence that he was a member of the Worshipful Company of Founders, whose arms were later adopted by Aliwal North, but he was reputedly a bookseller in London in 1819. Clearly the reading and writing of books were among his chief preoccupations at the Cape. He was particularly interested in travel and exploration and was one of the early white visitors to Griqualand. But his main objective at the Cape was probably to seek the security of a government appointment, and he held quite a succession of offices until he secured a permanent post in the administration. Even then he was moved from Graham's Town to Albert before he found his niche at Uitenhage, where he was Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate from 1849 to 1863. Intro., p.1.
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- Date Issued: 1975