Alexander Tait, SV/PROG

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/211138 Marriage registration 1805-1824 pg912

March 1817 Capt. Moodie and 52 of his party set sail from London to South Africa NOT an 1820 Settler Party. Captain Benjamin MOODIE, Leith Militia, organised a party of 200 from Edinburgh. He sailed with 53 of them in "Brilliant:. In 1827, 37 followed in "Garland" and Surgeon ABERCROMBIE brought the remaining 90 in "Clyde", all in 1817. Initially they were employed at Cape Town by Captain MOODIE some going later to work for him at Grootvaders Bosch on the Swellendam district.

Alexander Tait age 23- a carpenter was part of the Moodie Party on the Brilliant

From Peter Philip's 'British Residents at the Cape 1795-1819

TAIT, Alexander, carpenter, aged 25, good appearance, good character, townsman, from Ormiston, MS (157). 4.6.17 arr. TB in 'Brilliant' ex Downs (100/104). 6.6.17 PR 1445, under Moodie's direction (79). 1818 on Q Roll, ward 23 (138). 7.7.19 discharged from Moodie's service, PR 2640 (80/91). 26.12.20 mar. (Eng. Church) of A T of Edinburgh, aged 26, & Margaret Buchanan of Clonmel, Tipperary, aged 18 (24). 4.2.33 will signed by A T of Cape Town, master carpenter, & his wife. Filed 14.12.35 (MOOC 7/1/132-127).