Follow
Follow Us
Be a Fan
Clark's Party
Including Brown's and Stubbs Divisions
Main reference The Settler Handbook by MD Nash
Additional information from South African Settlers
The aim of this project is to link profiles on Geni to the names in the list, and to expand notes about individuals - mostly on the Profile page in the "About Me" field, or here if no profile exists.
To take part in any project
- you do need to first be a collaborator - so join the project. See the discussion Project Help: How to add Text to a Project - Starter Kit to get you going!
How to Participate
- Please add only the profiles of members of this party to this project (not their descendants)! This is easily done from the profile page using the Add to project link.
In the interests of uniformity please use one of the images attached to this project as "flags" for 1820 Settlers where there are no other photos available. It easily identifies the actual person who was on one of the ships when browsing the Tree.
- If you have any queries related to these settlers please start a discussion linked to this project. (See the menu top right).
- Please add related projects to the menu on the right.
- If you have links to related web pages that would be of interest to others please add them in the relevant section at the bottom of the page. In order to do this use the drop down menu at the top left of the screen and Join the Project. If this option is not available to you then contact a collaborator and ask to be added to the project. As a collaborator you will be able to edit this page.
- Add any documents of interest using the menu at the top right of the page, and then add a link to the document in the text under the heading below. If you do not know how to do this please contact one of the other collaborators to assist you.
How to add a link is explained in the attached document - Adding links to Geni profiles in projects.
Party Details
- Leader William Clarke
- Number 88
- Area Party originated from London
- Area Allocated to the Party Collingham on the Botha's River, and at the Clay Pits -the location being named Collingham.
- 1820 Settler Ship Northampton
- Dates
- Departure Portsmouth 13 December 1819
- Arrival Table Bay, Cape Town - 26 March 1820
- Final Port - Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth 30 April 1820
(Other parties on this voyage Dalgairn, Mahony, Pigot, W Smith))
The Pringle party which sailed on the Brilliant arrived on the same date.
M.D. Nash 1987 - Settler Handbook
"No. 6 on the Colonial Department list, led by William Clark, a surgeon of 19 Nelson Street, Commercial Road, London. After entering his name on the list of Bailie's party, he approached the Colonial Department for an official appointment as surgeon in the new settlement at the Cape, and when that was refused he applied for permission to take out a joint-stock party of 33 men and their families (none of whose names appeared in the final sailing list). Clark then arranged to include under his direction a group of young men from the Refuge for the Destitute in Hoxton, London, which supplied their outfits and paid their deposits. The party was accepted on the recommendation of the Governor of the Refuge for the Destitute, Robert Crosby, and deposits were paid for 31 men.
John Brown, who described himself as 'fisherman and trader', and John Stubbs, an 'agriculturist' of 48 Kenton Street, Bloomsbury, London, joint leaders of a proprietary party, joined forces with Clark after their own application had been refused and many of Clark's people had dropped out. Clark's party as it was finally constituted comprised William Clark as the nominal head; nine independent settlers, mostly married men with families (Harvey, Haugh, Honey, John and Henry Marshall, Taylor, Wentworth, Richard and John White), who had paid their own deposits; 11 men and a boy in service to Clark, some or all of them sponsored by the Refuge for the Indigent; and Brown and Stubbs with eight men and an orphan lad under indenture. Four other men who had engaged to emigrate with Brown and Stubbs eventually joined the party led by Charles Dalgairns which sailed in the same ship. As far as is known, the whole party was recruited in London.
Clark's party embarked at Deptford in the regular freight ship Northampton, which sailed from Gravesend on 13 December 1819, arriving in Table Bay on 26 March 1820 and Algoa Bay on 30 April. The two divisions of the party separated after landing: Clark's division was located at the source of Botha's River, and named the location Collingham; Brown and Stubbs were located at the Clay Pits, north-east of the Kap River".
Members of Clark's Party
[Bold links are to Geni profiles; other links are to other biographical notes]
- John Box 29.
- Edward Charlsley 18. Labourer.
- William Clark 25. Surgeon. Wife Catherine Eliza 27.
- James Dawson 18. Tailor
- James Desert 30. Silk weaver.
- James Evans 32. Labourer. wife. Mary 30.
- William Fulton 18. Labourer.
- John Goulding 18. Nailmaker.
- Richard Harvey 40. Wife Sarah 36.
Children
- Sarah Harvey 13,
- Elizabeth Harvey 11,
- Mary Ann Harvey 9,
- Job Harvey 4,
- Ruth Harvey 2,
- John.
- John Haugh 39. Cowkeeper and grazier. Wife Elizabeth 40.
- Charles Holliday 14 (servant to William Clark).
- Jeremiah Honey 36. Farmer. Wife Ann Webb 30.
Children
- Sarah Honey 10,
- Jemima Elizabeth Honey 8,
- Ann Webb Honey 5,
- Cordelia Honey 3 (died at sea),
- Frances Harriet Honey (born at sea).
- Henry Marshall 28. Silversmith. Wife Mary 24.
Children
- Henry Marshall 3,
- Mary Ann Marshall 1,
- James Northampton Marshall (born at sea).
Mary Marshall 32. (Wife of Henry Marshall Clark's Party 1820) is listed in 1826 as part of Shepherd's Party.
- John Marshall, John 40. Gardener.
- Thomas Parrymore 18. Shoemaker.
- William Robertshaw 18. Labourer.
- John Taylor 38. Shopkeeper. w Mary 40. c John Walton 8.
- George Thorn 28. Farmer.
- William Wentworth 35. Carpenter. Wife. Frances Maria 24.
Child
- William 13.
- John White 18. Ropemaker.
- Richard White 40. Merchant and ropemaker.
- Isaac Williams 18. Shoemaker.
Members of Brown's and Stubbs Divisions
[Bold links are to Geni profiles; other links are to other biographical notes]
- Blakemore, George 33. Farmer. wife Sarah West 34.
Children:
- John Brown, 28. Fisherman and trader. Wife. Ann 25.
Children
- Elizabeth Brown 4
- Ann Brown 2.
- David Davis, 40. Smith.
Child
- David Davis 16.
- William Denham, 31. Labourer. Wife. Sarah 32.
Child
- George Denham 3.
- Thomas Fancutt, 28. Husbandman. Wife. Ann 32.
Children
- Louisa Fancutt 11
- Thomas Fancutt 9.
- William Harrison, 34. Farmer and butcher.
- Thomas Mainman, 25. Labourer.
- John Saunders, 36. Gardener. Wife. Ann 33.
.Children
- John Saunders 9,
- Thomas Saunders 4.
- John Stubbs, 35. Agriculturist. Wife Ann Campbell 34.
Children
- Elizabeth Stubbs 13,
- John Stubbs 12,
- Thomas Stubbs 10,
- William Harrison Stubbs 6,
- Ellen Stubbs 3,
- Richard Stubbs 1.
- Ebenezer Warner, 28. Husbandman. Wife. Louisa 28.
Children
- Thomas Warner 10
- William Warner 4.
- Charlotte Whitfield, 23 (listed as Charlotte Brown).
- Thomas Foss.
- Robert Reynolds. Wheelwright.
- Thomas West.
- Daniel Wood. Butcher.
Main sources for party list
Agent of Transports' List of persons belonging to Mr Clark's party embarked on board the Northampton (Cape Archives CO 136); Special Commissioner W Hayward's notes (Cape Archives CO 8542); Reminiscences of Thomas Stubbs, ed WA Maxwell and RT McGeogh (Cape Town, AA Balkema, 1978).
A young woman who was entered in the sailing list as John Brown's sister, Charlotte Brown, is believed to have been Charlotte Whitfield, who settled near Brown at the Clay Pits and bore him five children between 1822 and 1829.
The names of the nine independent settlers of Clark's division are confirmed in Special Commissioner Hayward's notes, but the list of Brown's and Stubbs' settlers is known to be inaccurate and incomplete. Major George Pigot complained to the Colonial Department that the naval authorites at Deptford would not allow any person whose name was not on the official list to board the Northampton and he obtained the Department's sanction to admit substitutes in place of last minute withdrawals from his party. Brown and Stubbs were less influential than Pigot and desperate to emigrate, and substitutes in their party appear to have travelled under the name of the people they replaced, rather than risk rejection by bringing the changes to the notice of the authorities. No mention has been traced in colonial records of David Davis snr and jnr, Harrison and Saunders, other than their names in the sailing list, and it is possible that they did not emigrate.
- It is known from Thomas Stubbs' reminiscences that his father's party included three men, Tom Foss, Robert Reynolds and Daniel Wood, a butcher; an orphan lad of about 15, Tom West; and an 18-year-old maidservant, whose names do not appear on any list and who must be presumed to have joined the party as replacements for late withdrawals.
Further reading
Reminiscences of Thomas Stubbs, ed WA Maxwell and RT McGeogh (Cape Town, AA Balkema, 1978);
Journals of Sophia Pigot, ed Margaret Rainier (Cape Town, AA Balkema, 1974). This includes an account of the Northampton's voyage.