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About Captain Simon Amm
AMM, Simon, Master Mariner Party Leader Year: 1821 Ship: 'Duke of Gloucester' Amm's Party
Wife: Elizabeth, Children: Jane, Mary and Philip, William
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Simon Amm, his wife Elizabeth Hollett, and their 3 children, were members of Amm's Party and arrived at the Cape in 1821 aboard the Duke of Gloucester
Sea Captain, master of the boat Canada, which brought some settlers to the Cape in 1820. He was later lost at sea with his two elder sons.
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My name is Margaret Elizabeth LINSCOTT born AMM and I am a descendant of the 1820 Settlers. I am so grateful to as I feel it is my duty to my family to write as much as I can possibly remember about our descendants.
My great-grandfather, Captain Simon AMM, owned a sailing vessel "Canada" which was sailed back and forth from England bringing out to South Africa immigrant "Settlers". This was many years before my time and actually school history when I was a child. Eventually he decided to bring his wife and 3 sons out to South Africa and after settling my great-grandmother and her baby son, Simon, in Grahamstown, set sail once more for England with his 2 older boys. But alas, it was his last voyage and he, and the 2 boys and "Canada" were lost at sea.
My great-grandmother, I believe, mourned in deep black for the rest of her life. Her son, Simon, grew up, married and had 4 sons - Phillip, Richard, Simon and William and as far as I know all the AMMs living in South Africa at present are all descended from that one boy Simon left behind.
Two of these 4 brothers married 2 sisters - Philip marrying a Miss VERITY and Richard, (my father) marrying her sister. The AMM family thus became related through marriage with the VERITY family and through them the GUSH family, Addie VERITY, daughter of John VERITY, marrying Richard GUSH - son of Richard GUSH whose noble character, bravery and goodness I have always cherished in my memory.
Richard GUSH did a tremendous amount of good work in regard to the Natives. He would trek by ox-wagon (laden with pocket knives, bread and food etc.) for miles out to the Native tribesmen and hundreds of Natives, accompanied only by an interpreter. He would talk to the Natives, settle disputes, give them the "luxuries" he had in his wagon and generally make peace with them. He would calm them and ask them to leave his cattle and his people in peace - this they did and after he had won them over, they never troubled the settlers again.
I was born in the year 1888 in Grahamstown and will be 80 in April and I am the only one of that generation left - my father Richard had .....[cut off].
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Captain Simon Amm's Timeline
| 1780 |
April 28, 1780
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Plymstock, Plymouth, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
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April 1780
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Plymstock, Plymouth, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
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1805
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| 1806 |
December 18, 1806
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Devon, England, United Kingdom
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| 1809 |
1809
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Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
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| 1815 |
1815
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Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
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1821
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| 1827 |
1827
Age 46
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