William Storey Bridekirk

Sailed on the "Gertrude" from Gravesend, England, arrived Table Bay, Cape, South Africa on 30 July 1817.

William Storey Bridekirk, whose firm at '31, Heeregracht,' printed The Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette at this time, was born in County Durham and arrived in Table Bay in 1817, already trained as a printer. For some years, he served as a compositor in the Government printing office, resigning in 1824 to found his own establishment. He was responsible for the printing of a number of important publications, including Suasso de Lima's Geschiedenis van de Kaap de Goede Hoop (1825), which was the first history of the Cape, published at the Cape. He also took a leading role in the fight for a free colonial press in the 1820s.

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14 Jul 1822
1822,
William Bridekirk
status: bachelor
and
Eliza Griffiths
status: spinster
Source: Cape Town, English Church (from 1847 St George's Cathedral) (Anglican), Cape Town, Western Cape. marriage register, 1811-1839. Repository: Western Cape Archives, 72 Roeland Street, Cape Town. Transcribed by Charles Fison.

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Death Notice : "South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-65DW?cc=2517051&w... : 12 September 2017), 007846093 > image 260 of 2225; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa.

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• SOURCE MOOC
• TYPE LEER
• VOLUME_NO 6/9/30
• SYSTEM 00
• REFERENCE 6337
• PART 1
• DESCRIPTION BRIDEKIRK, WILLIAM STOREY. DEATH NOTICE.
• STARTING 1843
• ENDING 1843

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South African Commercial Advertiser 1843 - 3 - July to September Written by Sue Mackay. Posted in The South African Commercial Advertiser 1824-1856

Wednesday 13 September 1843

DEATHS

Sept 8: William Storey BRIDEKIRK Esq, aged 47 years.