1820 British Settler

Sarah Randall 1, together with her parents and 4 siblings, were members of James Party of 60 Settlers on the Weymouth.

Party originated from Wiltshire.

Departed London, 7 January 1820. Arrived Table Bay, Cape Town on 16 April 1820. Final Port - Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth 15 May 1820.

Area Allocated to the Party : Bethany on the Lynedoch River - the location being known early as Bethany.

Children :

• Mary Randall 14
  
• Jane Mary Randall 9
  
• Elizabeth Randall 7
  
• James Randall 3
  
• Sarah Randall 1
  

"South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23580-59553-49?cc=146... : accessed 16 Jul 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Grahamstown, Bathurst, St John the Evangelist > Baptisms, marriages, burials 1829-1849 > image 48 of 108; citing William Cullen Library, Wits University, Johannesburg.

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"South Africa, Methodist Parish Registers, 1822-1996," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-X929-ZNC?cc=1463648&wc... : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Bathurst > image 3 of 239; Methodist Church of Southern Africa, Grahamstown.

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Form of information of death: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-Y3Q8-7MR?i=211&cc=...

GEDCOM Note

&ltp&gt\\\\Box01\\workstuff$\\Genealogy\\Randall\\OUR FAMILY doc -THE SAGA OF SARAH.doc (Research):JAMES' PARTY - from FROME, WILTSHIRE - the "WEYMOUTH" - BETHANY, LYNEDOCH RIVER Weekend Post, 5 March 1983 Memories of an 1820 Great Gran Mrs May LEONARD, 91 years old and now living in Port Elizabeth, remembers her 1820 Settler great-grandmother, Sarah BRADLEY very well as she was six years old when Sarah died. Living in Seymour, she used to cross the little Geysie River by a two-plank bridge to visit her aged relative. Sarah's garden was a delight with its fruit trees, big shady Bellomore and one Moss rose, which May particularly remembers. The house and tree were still there a few years ago. Sarah was born in England, third child of RANDALL parents, shortly before the Weymouth sailed. This was confirmed by Drive. PRINGLE who investigated reported births during the voyage. These had not been recorded in the ship's log as the Weymouth being of Royal Navy was only required to record deaths. So Sarah was a baby when she arrived off Port Elizabeth in 1820 and she was the baby dropped into Algoa Bay when the bundle of rags in which she was wrapped was being handed from the Weymouth to the occupants of the boat alongside. She was fished out of the water and lived to continue an adventurous life, which included loading guns for the men during an attack on their thornbush-ringed stockade. A daughter from her first marriage became May's grandmother. At Seymour where they later settled, she was married again to SELBY, who was killed while transporting their produce to Grahamstown. BRADLEY was her third husband. She died in Seymour, aged 77, but her mother, Sarah RANDALL, lived to 100, according to her monument at Bathurst. !Was married three times. When disembarking, Sarah (6m) slipped out of her shawls into the sea and was snatched up again in time to save her young life. After the 8th Kaffir War John & Sarah left Bathurst to take up a farm near Fort Beaufort. There is a story about Sarah loading guns during an attack by Xhosas until she had to flee to the doctor's house for the birth of Caroline in 1851. \Box01workstuff$GenealogyRandallOUR FAMILY doc -THE SAGA OF SARAH.doc (Research):JAMES' PARTY - from FROME, WILTSHIRE - the "WEYMOUTH" - BETHANY, LYNEDOCH RIVER Weekend Post, 5 March 1983 Memories of an 1820 Great Gran Mrs May LEONARD, 91 years old and now living in Port Elizabeth, remembers her 1820 Settler great-grandmother, Sarah BRADLEY very well as she was six years old when Sarah died. Living in Seymour, she used to cross the little Geysie River by a two-plank bridge to visit her aged relative. Sarah's garden was a delight with its fruit trees, big shady Bellomore and one Moss rose, which May particularly remembers. The house and tree were still there a few years ago. Sarah was born in England, third child of RANDALL parents, shortly before the Weymouth sailed. This was confirmed by Drive. PRINGLE who investigated reported births during the voyage. These had not been recorded in the ship's log as the Weymouth being of Royal Navy was only required to record deaths. So Sarah was a baby when she arrived off Port Elizabeth in 1820 and she was the baby dropped into Algoa Bay when the bundle of rags in which she was wrapped was being handed from the Weymouth to the occupants of the boat alongside. She was fished out of the water and lived to continue an adventurous life, which included loading guns for the men during an attack on their thornbush-ringed stockade. A daughter from her first marriage became May's grandmother. At Seymour where they later settled, she was married again to SELBY, who was killed while transporting their produce to Grahamstown. BRADLEY was her third husband. She died in Seymour, aged 77, but her mother, Sarah RANDALL, lived to 100, according to her monument at Bathurst. !Was married three times. When disembarking, Sarah (6m) slipped out of her shawls into the sea and was snatched up again in time to save her young life. After the 8th Kaffir War John & Sarah left Bathurst to take up a farm near Fort Beaufort. There is a story about Sarah loading guns during an attack by Xhosas until she had to flee to the doctor's house for the birth of Caroline in 1851. \\\\Box01\\workstuff$\\Genealogy\\Randall\\OUR FAMILY doc -THE SAGA OF SARAH.doc (Research):JAMES' PARTY - from FROME, WILTSHIRE - the "WEYMOUTH" - BETHANY, LYNEDOCH RIVER Weekend Post, 5 March 1983 Memories of an 1820 Great Gran Mrs May LEONARD, 91 years old and now living in Port Elizabeth, remembers her 1820 Settler great-grandmother, Sarah BRADLEY very well as she was six years old when Sarah died. Living in Seymour, she used to cross the little Geysie River by a two-plank bridge to visit her aged relative. Sarah's garden was a delight with its fruit trees, big shady Bellomore and one Moss rose, which May particularly remembers. The house and tree were still there a few years ago. Sarah was born in England, third child of RANDALL parents, shortly before the Weymouth sailed. This was confirmed by Drive. PRINGLE who investigated reported births during the voyage. These had not been recorded in the ship's log as the Weymouth being of Royal Navy was only required to record deaths. So Sarah was a baby when she arrived off Port Elizabeth in 1820 and she was the baby dropped into Algoa Bay when the bundle of rags in which she was wrapped was being handed from the Weymouth to the occupants of the boat alongside. She was fished out of the water and lived to continue an adventurous life, which included loading guns for the men during an attack on their thornbush-ringed stockade. A daughter from her first marriage became May's grandmother. At Seymour where they later settled, she was married again to SELBY, who was killed while transporting their produce to Grahamstown. BRADLEY was her third husband. She died in Seymour, aged 77, but her mother, Sarah RANDALL, lived to 100, according to her monument at Bathurst. !Was married three times. When disembarking, Sarah (6m) slipped out of her shawls into the sea and was snatched up again in time to save her young life. After the 8th Kaffir War John & Sarah left Bathurst to take up a farm near Fort Beaufort. There is a story about Sarah loading guns during an attack by Xhosas until she had to flee to the doctor's house for the birth of Caroline in 1851. \Box01workstuff$GenealogyRandallOUR FAMILY doc -THE SAGA OF SARAH.doc (Research):JAMES' PARTY - from FROME, WILTSHIRE - the "WEYMOUTH" - BETHANY, LYNEDOCH RIVER Weekend Post, 5 March 1983 Memories of an 1820 Great Gran Mrs May LEONARD, 91 years old and now living in Port Elizabeth, remembers her 1820 Settler great-grandmother, Sarah BRADLEY very well as she was six years old when Sarah died. Living in Seymour, she used to cross the little Geysie River by a two-plank bridge to visit her aged relative. Sarah's garden was a delight with its fruit trees, big shady Bellomore and one Moss rose, which May particularly remembers. The house and tree were still there a few years ago. Sarah was born in England, third child of RANDALL parents, shortly before the Weymouth sailed. This was confirmed by Drive. PRINGLE who investigated reported births during the voyage. These had not been recorded in the ship's log as the Weymouth being of Royal Navy was only required to record deaths. So Sarah was a baby when she arrived off Port Elizabeth in 1820 and she was the baby dropped into Algoa Bay when the bundle of rags in which she was wrapped was being handed from the Weymouth to the occupants of the boat alongside. She was fished out of the water and lived to continue an adventurous life, which included loading guns for the men during an attack on their thornbush-ringed stockade. A daughter from her first marriage became May's grandmother. At Seymour where they later settled, she was married again to SELBY, who was killed while transporting their produce to Grahamstown. BRADLEY was her third husband. She died in Seymour, aged 77, but her mother, Sarah RANDALL, lived to 100, according to her monument at Bathurst. !Was married three times. When disembarking, Sarah (6m) slipped out of her shawls into the sea and was snatched up again in time to save her young life. After the 8th Kaffir War John & Sarah left Bathurst to take up a farm near Fort Beaufort. There is a story about Sarah loading guns during an attack by Xhosas until she had to flee to the doctor's house for the birth of Caroline in 1851.&lt/p&gt&ltp&gt&lt/p&gt