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Howard's Party
Main reference The Settler Handbook by MD Nash
Additional information from South African Settlers
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Party Details
- Leader William Howard
- Number 60
- Area Party originated from Buckinghamshire
- Area Allocated to the Party Salem Hills on the Blaauwkrantz River
- 1820 Settler Ship Ocean
- Dates
- Departure London, 13 December 1819
- Arrival Table Bay, Cape Town - 29 March 1820
- Final Port - Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth - 15 April 1920
(Other parties on this voyage - Damant, Dixon, Morgan)
M.D. Nash 1987 - Settler Handbook
"No. 21 on the Colonial Department list, led by William Howard of Blucher Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire. a school master 'on the Lancastrian plan', a system of education for the children of the poor that relied on the use of pupil-teachers, with one usher presiding over the whole school. His first application to take out a joint-stock party of 15 men and their families from Buckinghamshire was turned down, and he met this rejection with a desperate appeal to the Colonial Department, backed up by a testimonial to his moral character (which he drafted himself) signed by the curate, overseers, churchwarden and magistrate of Chesham. He stoutly asserted that he was 'prepared to conflict with difficulties of any description, and feared no dangers whatever'. On the strength of the testimonial his party was accepted to fill a late vacancy occasioned by the withdrawal of one Edward Webb Wilson. By this time, several of Howard's people had fallen away, but gaps in his list were filled by four members of a London party led by Thomas Bainbridge of Soho, whose application had been unsuccessful (Bainbridge, Willan, Felton and Niland).
Deposits were paid for 15 men, and the party embarked at Deptford in the Ocean (Not necessarily the ship illustrated above) regular transport, sailing from Portsmouth on New Year's Day 1820, and arriving in Table Bay on 29 March and Algoa Bay on 15 April. Its location on the Blaauwkranz River was named Salem Hills.
William Howard's florid calligraphy and literary style were put to good use in the Albany settlement; he was employed by his fellow-settlers as a professional writer of petitions to government, and much of the correspondence in the colonial records is unmistakably of his composition".
Members of Howard's List
[Bold links are to Geni profiles; other links are to other biographical notes]
- Thomas Bainbridge, 39. Tailor. Wife. Elizabeth 38.
Children
- Elizabeth Bainbridge 13,
- Jane Bainbridge 12.
- James Whittaker Barnes 12 and George Barnes 8 (stepsons of Henry Harper).
- John Henry Cadel, 24. Tallow chandler. Wife. Sarah 28.
Children
- Mary Cadel, 8,
- Elizabeth Cadel, 3,
- William Cadel, 1,
- John Cadel.
- George Henry Felton, 19. Farmer.
- Edward Henry Hanger, 30. Carpenter. wife. Harriet Sophia 26.
Child
- Caroline Hanger, 6.
- Henry Harper 30. Cooper. Wife. Mary Barnes (Dixon) 37.
Children
- James Harper 14,
- Elizabeth Harper 6.
- Edward Healey 34. Farmer. Wife. Mary 28.
- George Heath, 23. Shoemaker.
- William Howard 42. Schoolmaster. Wife. Elizabeth - 39.
Children
- John Henry Howard 17,
- William Howard 15,
- Mary Ann Howard 14,
- Thomas Howard 10,
- Emily Howard 1.
- Edward George Jeffries 12 and Gad 10 (in the care of J Watts).
- Seba Mehrtens, 25. Willow cutter. Wife. Ann 24.
- John Niland 219. Gardener. Wife Catherine Collins 25.
- John Poulton, 42. Shoemaker. Wife. Ann Heath 35.
Children
- Ann Poulton, 13,
- John Poulton, 11,
- Mary Poulton, 10,
- Samuel Poulton, 9,
- Eliza Poulton, 8, Married Gad Jeffires above.
- Sarah Poulton, 6, Married John Talbot of Sephton's Party
- Charles Poulton, 5,
- Charlotte Poulton, 3,
- Ruth Poulton, 1.
- William Tarr, 32. Butcher. wife. Susannah 35.
Children
- John Tarr, 9,
- Maria Tarr, 3,
- Sarah Tarr, 2,
- Oceanus Tarr (born and died at sea).
- John Vaughan, 19. Engraver.
- James Watts, 32. Brickmaker.
- Giles Willan, 38. Farmer. wife. Rachel 29.
Children
- Alice Willan, 6,
- Elizabeth Willan 1,
- Sarah Willan, (born at sea).
Main sources for party list
Agent of Transports' Return of settlers under the direction of William Howard (Cape Archives CO 136); Special Commissioner William Hayward's notes (Cape Archives CO 8542).
Further reading
William Howard's description of the Ocean's voyage to the Cape appears in Memorials of the British Settlers of South Africa (Grahamstown, R Godlonton, 1844, reprinted in facsimile by the South African Library, Cape Town, 1971).