1820 British Settler

Thomas Philipps Leader of this Party, together with his wife Charlotte Harriet Arbouin 41, and 7 children, were members Philipp's Party of 30 people on the Kennersley Castle.

Party originated from Pembrokeshire, Wales

Departure Bristol, 10 January 1820. Arrival Table Bay, Cape Town - 29 March 1820. Final Port - Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth 29 April 1820

Area Allocated to the Party : Bush River - Philipps named the location Lampeter, after the Carmarthenshire village of Lampeter Velfrey.

Children :

• Catherine Philipps 17,
  
• Edward Philipps 16,
  
• Charlotte Philipps 14
  
• Sophia Philipps 12,
  
• Frederick Philipps 10,
  
• Emma Philipps 6,
  
• John Philipps 4.
  

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"South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23580-56443-35?cc=146... : accessed 02 Jul 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Grahamstown, Bathurst, St John the Evangelist > Baptisms, marriages, burials 1829-1849 > image 14 of 108; citing William Cullen Library, Wits University, Johannesburg.

Mrs Jill Carlisle writes :

CARLISLE-PHILLIPS - 1820 SETTLERS:
You have asked your readers to display any knowledge and information
they might have of the 1820 Settlers. Here is some of our knowledge and
memories of stories told by Charlotte Carlisle to her daughter-in-law,
wife of the late Frederick Phillips Carlisle.
One of Charlotte's earliest memories was when she was four years old
and her father was struck by lightning and killed. This was in 1854.
They were all congregated in the drawing room after church when the
lightning struck down the chimney and killed him.

"A nurse standing in the doorway, with the baby, was also struck and
killed, but the baby was quite unharmed. After the death of the father,
Charlotte's mother, Mary-Anne took her children to her brother, William
Currie.

"While they were living there Charlotte remembered the great springbok
exodus. Thousands of springboks ran through the farm and went into the
sea. She was five years old at the time, so this was a wonderful sight
she would not have forgotten, or the mystery and why-for of the
springboks' behaviour.

"Three years later the family had to flee from the Xhosas. The children
walked eight miles, little Charlotte lost a shoe, but there was no time
to stop to look for it, so the little girl walked a very long way in
only one shoe. Many painful hours followed spent pulling thorns from her
poor little foot when they finally reached the safety of the laager.

"Soon afterwards her Uncle William was killed in the Kaffir War. The family was stranded again, so Mary-Anne decided to go and live with her
brother Walter (Sir Walter Currie), who was head of The 'F.A.M.P.

"When Charlotte was fifteen her mother married the Rev. L. Henchman.
They all went to live at Fort Beaufort. Three years later her mother
died and Charlotte returned to her Uncle Walter. Some time later she
married Frederick Carlisle and she began
another phase of her life on the family farm 'Belmont'.

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