National Archives, Kew, London  
RG8/60 Register of Births and Baptisms in the British Lying-In Hospital in Endell Street, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn Mary RAWLINS, 20, wife of Joseph, Soldier, St.Giles in the Fields. Delivered 28 February 1804, Boy, Robert. Child baptised 1 March 1804.

There is an error in the Sue Mackay transcript of Robert RAWLINS' birth and baptism. She wrote that he was baptized on 10 March 1804, but correctly it is 1 March 1804. There are 2 different original ledgers with the same information. The ledger she was looking at was written in a very flowery hand, and the curly beginning of the M in March looks like it could be a zero, so 1 March looks like 10 March. The clue is in the other March entries, which look like 180 March and 90 March, etc. then...

1820 British Settler

Robert Rawlins 15, was a member of Sephton's party of 344 people on the Aurora. James was in the care of William Sargeant.

Party originated from London.

Departure Gravesend, 15 February 1820. Arrival Simon's Bay, 1 May 1820. Final Port - Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, 15 May 1820

Area allocated to the Party : Assegai Bush River, Salem

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Robert Rawlins

1805 - 

Birth 1805 Gender Male 1820 Settler 15 Feb 1820 Gravesend, Kent, England [1] Address: Sephton's party on the Aurora Person ID I69263 Master Last Modified 28 Oct 2012

Father ?? Rawlins, b. Est 1780, d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F20586 Group Sheet

Family Martha Slater, b. Est 1810, d. Yes, date unknown Married 10 Aug 1826 St George's Anglican Cathedral, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa Children 1. Elizabeth Rawlins, b. 1827, d. Feb 1902, Barkly East, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

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Robert and his brother James both died 1835 during the Xhosa Wars (also known as the Kaffir Wars or Cape Frontier Wars).