1820 Settlers – Some Frontier Families
This book by Ivan Mitford-Barberton and Violet White, is available under our book section on search. This valuable contribution to 1820 Settler Africana. It opens up a field in the recording of family life, adventure and romance. It contains records of 100 selected families that landed in this country in 1820. Many of these families settled throughout this country, and with their lives are wrapped much of our romantic and unrecorded history.
Have you added your 1820 Settler Families to our Free Tree Builder? This will help you find those missing links.
A majority of the 1820 Settlers remained on their original holdings in the Albany and Bathurst districts, but individual Settlers entered into and promoted every sphere of development in this country and became explorers and leaders in the establishment of townships and trade. Some qualified for important posts in administration and became High Commissioners, Judges, Members of Parliament, Magistrates, Doctors, Commandants and Field Cornets.
There were pioneers and traders whose names given to places mark their trail even in Rhodesia; two 1820 Settlers were chosen as candidates for Presidential elections in the Transvaal and O.F.S. They established schools and Mission Stations and built churches. Among their numbers were Ministers of Religion, Missionaries, Authors, Poets, Botanists, Historians, Editors, Architects, Engineers, Scientists and Geologists who left their mark and their records, but their experiences and achievements would be more inspirational if we could gather together, as this book does, more of the threads of their personal family lives, for this is the foundation on which history is built.
The 1820 Settlers brought a way of life and inspiration for human betterment to this country. They were not a force like the ocean which is spent on our beaches; for they came and enshrined themselves as a fundamental part of our population. Their descendants should furnish all possible information to facilitate the building of family trees extending back at least to the time of the arrival of the 1820 Settlers.
As we are in the process of building a nation, it is more necessary than ever before that we should record the annals of human endeavour that are the basic foundations of our nationhood and chronicle the character of the people that made up what today we know as South Africans.
Which party did your family belong to?
Wedderburn Family
Bailie’s Party
Biggar’s Party
Bowker’s Party
Bradshaw’s Party
Butler’s Party
Calton’s Party
Charles Campbell’s Party
Duncan Campbell’s Party
Carlisle’s Party
Clark’s Party
Cock’s Party
Crause’s Party
Dalgairns’ Party
Damant’s Party
Daniell’s Party
Dixon’s Party
Dyason’s Party
Erith’s Party
Ford’s Party
Gardner’s Party
Greathead’s Party
Griffith’s Party
Gurney’s Party
Hayhurst’s Party
Holder’s Party
Howard’s Party
Hyman’s Party
Ingram’s Party
James’ Party
Liversage’s Party
Mahony’s Party
Mandy’s Party
Menezes’ Party
Mills’ Party
Morgan’s Party
Mouncey’s Party
Neave’s Party
Osler’s Party
Owen’s Party
Parker’s Party
Parkin’s Party
Philipps’ Party
Pigot’s Party
Pringle’s Party
Richardson’s Party
Rowles’ Party
Russell’s Party
Scott’s Party
Sephton’s Party
George Smith’s Party
William Smith’s Party
Southey’s Party
Stanley’s Party
Synnot’s Party
Thornhill’s Party
Turvey’s Party
Wainwright’s Party
Wait’s Party
White’s Party
Wilkinson’s Party
Willson’s Party
My Norton Ancestor were with the Willson Party. Really digging into the families and their challenges they faced makes me very proud of what we have contributed towards the development of South Africa. I would love to hear from any of the Norton connections.
Heather thank you for the interesting articles. Something new learnt every time.