Richard (aged 23) arrived at the South African coast on HM Store Ship Weymouth, which left Portsmouth on 7 January 1820. At their own request, Gurney's people were embarked at the Downs. The Weymouth reached Table Bay on 26 April and Algoa Bay on 15 May. The party was located near Port Elizabeth, west of the Zwartkops River mouth, and named the location New Deal (today an industrial area).

Richard and another settler John Darby was granted free passage back to England at the end of 1820 to fetch three whale boats for a fishery to be established at Port Elizabeth.

Source: THE SETTLER HANDBOOK by MD Nash

Last Name: Claringbould First Name: Richard David Date of Birth: 1797 Place of Birth: Deal, Kent, England Parents – Father: Richard Claringbould Parents – Mother: Mary Robeson Spouse: Dorothea Johanna Hartman who died 9 Jun 1829; 2nd wife Mary Shrewsbury Marriage Date: 8 Apr 1823 Marriage Place: Uitenhage, Cape Date of Death: 14 Aug 1835 Place of Death: Port Elizabeth, Cape

Notes: Gurney’s party of 1820 settlers. DN 1099/1835. He was a butcher. He had two children by his first wife Dorothea, both minors in 1835:

Dorothea Maria Richard.