Joseph Oldham, SV/PROG 1

Joseph Oldham was a Master Mariner by trade.

See BAILIE'S PARTY for full details of the party

"No. 33 on the Colonial Department list, led by John Bailie of 7 Manchester Buildings, Westminster, London, a civil servant who had held the position of Secretary to the British War Claims Commission. Bailie was introduced to the Colonial Department by an influential patron, William Huskisson, MP for Chichester, Commissioner for Wood and Forests and a former Under-Secretary to the Colonial Department, and his application to emigrate was one of the first to be accepted.

This was one of the three large joint-stock parties (Bailie's, Sephton's and Willson's) with a high proportion of skilled tradesmen and professional men, which were intended to form 'village centres' in the new Albany settlement."

...The remnants of two other London parties were absorbed into Bailie's: James Leader, John Leonard and William Nobbs with their leader James Hoole, and Thomas and Edwin Oldham, Richard Taylor, Thomas Mills and Thomas Saunders with their leader Joseph Oldham"

• OLDHAM, Edwin 21. Shopkeeper.
• OLDHAM, Joseph 33. Master mariner. w Dorcas 30. c Harriet 12, Mary Anne 7, Lucretia 3, Josepha 1.
• OLDHAM, Thomas Wesley 27. Shopkeeper.

Further reading MD Nash, Bailie's Party of 1820 Settlers (Cape Town, AA Balkema, 1892).