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Morgan's Party
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Party Details
- Leader Nathaniel Morgan
- Number 41
- Area Party originated from London
- Area Allocated to the Party Beauty Vale on the Blaauwkrantz River
- 1820 Settler Ship Ocean
- Dates
- Departure 1st Jan 1820
- Arrival Table Bay, Cape Town - 29 March 1820
- Final Port - Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth - 15 April 1920
(Other parties on this voyage - Damant, Dixon, Howard)
M.D. Nash 1987 - Settler Handbook
"No. 15 on the Colonial Department list, led by Nathanael Morgan of 19 Shoemakers Row, Blackfriars, London, an Assistant Surgeon of the 81st Regiment of Foot on half-pay. (Like all other half-pay officers who wished to emigrate, Morgan had to make formal application to the Commander in Chief, HRH the Prince Regent, for leave of absence to proceed to the Cape.)
This was a joint-stock party made up principally of London tradesmen and their families. Phillips lived in Whitechapel, James Thomas in Poplar, Kestell in Limehouse, Halse in Finsbury and his brother-in-law Poultney in Bishopsgate. (Joseph Jinks' young maidservant Martha Smith was a sister of Susan Halse and Ann Poultney.) Jinks and Floodgate were the only men of the party as it finally sailed whose names did not appear on Morgan's original list.
Deposits were paid for 12 men, but three of them - Robert Allen, Robert Gadson and Joel Tilke - appear to have withdrawn from the party before it sailed. The nine remaining families embarked at Deptford in the Ocean regular transport which sailed from Portsmouth on New Year's Day 1820. William, the infant son of Thomas Henry Halse, and Jane, the infant daughter of William Thomas, died at sea. The Ocean reached Table Bay on 29 March and Algoa Bay on 15 April. Morgan's party was located on the Blaauwkrantz River and its location was named Beauty Vale".
Member's of Morgan's Party
[Bold links are to Geni profiles; other links are to other biographical notes]
- Edward Floodgate 28. Farmer.
- Thomas Henry Halse 27 Wholesale ware-houseman. Wife. Susan Smith 20.
Children
- Henry James Halse 2,
- William Halse (died at sea).
- Joseph Jinks 37. Veterinary surgeon. w Sarah 21.
- to investigate http://www.redhill-reigate-history.co.uk/jinks.htm
- Charles Kestell 32. Carpenter and Builder. Wife Grace Wemouth 28.
Children
- John Kestell 10,
- Elizabeth Kestell 8,
- Susannah Kestell 5,
- Charles Kestell 1.
- Nathaniel Morgan 27. Asst. Surgeon (half-pay). Wife. Mary Sadler 22.
- George Philips 29. Narrow weaver. Wife. Ann 26.
Children
- George Philips 3,
- James Philips 1.
- James Poultney 28. Tailor. Wife. Ann Smith 21. child Ann Lydia Poultney - married Henry James Halse (above)
- Martha Smith 13 (servant of Joseph Jinks).
- James Thomas 26. Carpenter and builder. Wife. Martha 21.
Child
- Harriet Thomas.
- William Thomas 29. Carpenter and joiner. Wife. Elizabeth 30.
Children
- Elizabeth Thomas 6,
- Rebecca Thomas 5,
- William Thomas 3,
- Jane Thomas 1 (died at sea).
Main source for party list
Agent of Transports' Return of settlers under the direction of Nathanael Morgan (Cape Archives CO 136).
Ship: Ocean
Scheme: the Government Settler Scheme
Tonnage: c 400
Type: Frigate
Departure Port: London
Parties: Damant, Dixon, Howard, Morgan
Number on Board: 206
Departure Date: 13th December 1819
Landfall Port: Table Bay, Cape Town
Landfall Date: 29th March 1820
Final Port: Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth
Final Port landfall date: 15th April 1820