Dalgairns' Party

1820 Settlers

Main reference The Settler Handbook by MD Nash

See also eGGSA - The 1820 Settler Correspondence

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Party Details

• Leader Charles Dalgairns
• Number in the Party 33
• Area Party originated from London, England
• Area allocated to the party Left bank of the Blaauwkrantz River
• 1820 Settler Ship

Northampton

• Dates

• Departure Portsmouth 13 December 1819
  
• Arrival Table Bay, Cape Town - 26 March 1820
  
• Final Port - Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth 30 April 1820
  

(Other parties on this voyage Clark, Mahony, Pigot, W Smith)

Correspondence connected to this Party eGGSA

M.D. Nash 1987 - Settler Handbook

"No 18 on the Colonial Department list, led by Charles Dalgairns, a gentleman of of 1 New Court, Bow Lane, Cornhill, London. Dalgairns was a widower with three young daughters and 'respectable connections'; his application to take a party of indentured servants to the Cape with the intention of growing flax commercially was supported by a recommendation form 'Mr Laing of the City'. Dalgairns was an impractical man and his business affairs in England and subsequently in the colony seem to have been consistently unsuccessful.

Before applying to take out a proprietary party of his own, Dalgairns had been associated with John Leigh, a City merchant and shipowner, in a project to form a company to settle emigrants at Saldanha Bay. This scheme was turned down by the Colonial Department as 'not conversant with the views of government'. Dalgairns then entered his name with Willson's Party, but withdrew it when his own party was accepted to emigrate.

Dalgairns' first list of his party contained none of the names, apart from his own, that appeared in the final sailing list. He recruited his men in London, and as the party was finally constituted it included four men - Blakemore, Denham, Stephenson and Williams - who had originally engaged to emigrate with Brown and Stubbs, whose Party was rejected (see Clark's Party). Tobias Tharratt's name was originally on the list of another rejected party proposed by James Wilmot (see Willson's Party).

Dalgairns paid deposits for 11 men, and the party embarked at Deptford in the Northampton transport which sailed from Gravesend on 13 December 1819. The baby son of James Williams died at sea, perhaps one of the five deaths from smallpox that occurred during the Northampton's voyage. Table Bay was reached on 26 march and Algoa Bay on 30th April.

Dalgairns' party was located n the left bank of the Blaauekrantz River, but he left his location to move to Somerset early in 1823".

Members of Dalgairns' Party

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Christopher Adcock 35, Tallow Chandler.

Wife Elizabeth Sarah Simmonds 26.
Children :

• William Adcock 7. (Later married Ann Colling of Gardner's Party.)
  
• George Adcock 4
  
• Edward Adcock 2
  

William Bailey 21. Smith

John Blakemore 28 Farmer.

Wife Mary Nelson 29
Child :

• Elizabeth Blakemore 2
  

Charles Dalgairns 42 farmer

Children

• Agnes Dalgairns 14
  
• Eliza Dalgairns 11 - who later married Dr. Charles Augustus Wentworth - an Independent 1820 Settler
  
• Magdalene Dalgairns 8
  

Stephen Denham 26 Carpenter

Wife Martha Townsend 26
Children :

• Mary Denham 2
  
• Martha Denham
  

William Eatwell 33 Army pensioner

Simon Haw 37, farmer.

Wife Alice Margaret Penn 27
Child

• Charles Haw 1. (Later married Emma Cyrus of Sephton's Party.)
  

Richard Hill, 32 Carpenter

Frederick Stephenson 20

Tobias Tharratt 39 Gardener

Wife Ann Verry 34
Children

• John Tharratt 6
  
• Tobias Tarratt 5
  

William Williams, 40 Gardener.

Wife Mary 36.
Children

• Mary Williams 4
  
• James Williams 1 (died at Sea)
  

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