George Gatehouse, SV/PROG

Transcribed from CO48/56 at the National Archives in Kew, London

Portsmouth, 23 Feb 1821

Lady CAMPBELL having sent Lord BATHURSTs answer to your letter about GATEHOUSE, I beg to acquaint your Ladyship that I have made every enquiry about him and find that GATEHOUSE was originally intended to go out in the Weymouth with Captain Duncan CAMPBELL as one of his Party, but as he had more than his complement he went out in the same ship as one of the Party of Mr. COX in the place of Charles INGRAM, who was going out but who could not pay the sum stipulated by Government. Mrs GATEHOUSE has received letters from her husband whi is well, is doing well, who is very anxious for her to join him.

Your Ladyships most humble servant

John GLOVER

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-...

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Gatehouse family. (Family of George Gatehouse - Cock's Party 1820). 1826 - Shepherd's Party. Wife. Mary 34 Children

Sarah Gatehouse 16

Francis Gatehouse 8

Third Gatehouse child.

Fourth Gatehouse child.

http://www.geni.com/projects/Post-1820-British-Settlers-in-South-Africa/14015

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http://www.geni.com/projects/1820-Settlers-Cock-s-Party/10537

http://www.geni.com/projects/British-Settlers-to-South-Africa-Shepherd-s-Party-1826/28135

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• The list of Cock's party compiled by Special Commissioner Hayward in 1824 included four men whose names do not appear on the sailing list: William Cook (Cock's servant), George Gatehouse, James White (a carpenter with a wife and family) and John Williamson. These men may have sailed in the Weymouth as unofficial replacements for those who withdrew, or may have joined the party in Albany.

from THE SETTLER HANDBOOK by MD Nash page 61

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