Follow
Pigot's Party
Main References - The Settler Handbook by MD Nash and 1820 Settlers.com
The aim of this project is to link profiles on Geni to the names in the list, and to expand notes about individuals - mostly on the Profile page in the "About Me" field, or here if no profile exists.
To take part in any project
- you do need to first be a collaborator - so join the project. See the discussion Project Help: How to add Text to a Project - Starter Kit to get you going!
How to Participate
- Please add only the profiles of members of this party to this project (not their descendants)! This is easily done from the profile page using the Add to project link.
- If you have any queries related to these settlers please start a discussion linked to this project. (See the menu top right).
- Please add related projects to the menu on the right.
- If you have links to related web pages that would be of interest to others please add them in the relevant section at the bottom of the page. In order to do this use the drop down menu at the top left of the screen and Join the Project. If this option is not available to you then contact a collaborator and ask to be added to the project. As a collaborator you will be able to edit this page.
- Add any documents of interest using the menu at the top right of the page, and then add a link to the document in the text under the heading below. If you do not know how to do this please contact one of the other collaborators to assist you.
How to add a link is explained in the attached document - Adding links to Geni profiles in projects.
Party Details
- Leader Major George Pigot
- Number 54
- Area Party originated from Berkshire, England
- Area Allocated to the Party Pigot Park on 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, Dalgairn, Mahony, W Smith))
M.D. Nash 1987 - Settler Handbook
"No 11 on the Colonial Department list, led by Major George Pigot, a retired officer of dragoons and gentleman farmer of Chieveley, near Newbury, Berkshire. As the acknowledged natural son of Lord Pigot of Patshull, Pigot was both wealthy and well-connected, and was recommended to the Colonial Department by the Members of Parliament for Berkshire and Staffordshire. In his application to emigrate he asked to be given some public office in the colony, since 'a person of education would feel very awkwardly situated as an emigrant with out some authority under government'. Although his request was not immediately granted, he was in fact made a Special Heemraad for Albany soon after his arrival at the Cape. This was a proprietary party, consisting of Major Pigot and his family - including his young wife whom he married ten days before embarkation - and indentured servants recruited in Chieveley, which he described as 'a very populous village and the poor rates very high.' Deposits were paid for 20 men, and the party embarked at Deptford in the Northampton after approval had been obtained from the Colonial Department for last minute changes to be made to the official list of names. One man, William Gibbs, and his family deserted the party at Gravesend shortly before the ship sailed on 13 December 1819. The Northampton reached Table Bay on 26 March 1820 and Algoa Bay on 30 April. Two children, Sarah Marshall and William Goddard, and one woman, Mary Quince, died of smallpox during the voyage. Major Pigot was granted land on the left bank of the Blaauw krantz River which he named Pigot Park.
Members of Pigot's Party
[Bold links are to Geni profiles; other links are to other biographical notes]
Amos Boucher 24. Farmer.
John Boucher 20. Farmer.
Richard Boucher 22. Farmer.
Henry Brooks 30. Farmer.
Wife Sarah Horne 25.
Children :
- Caroline Brooks 4,
- William Brooks 3,
- Ellen Brooks 1.
William Comley 26. Gardener.
Wife Mary Ann Morris 24.
Child
- John Comley 2.
James Goddard 39. Farmer.
Wife Mary 39
Children
- Harriet Goddard 10,
- Mary Goddard 6,
- Jane Goddard 4,
- William Goddard 1 (died at sea)
- William Goddard (born at sea)
Charles Grubb 22. Carpenter.
James Hiscock 23. Farmer. (Later married Ann Hunt of Calton's Party).
John Hutton 22, Farmer. (Later married Jane Sephton of Sephton's Party.)
John Hyde 34. Mason. (Later married Mary Potter of Mill's Party.)
William Innis 20. Mason.
Charles Marshall 23. Farmer.
Wife Charlotte 23.
Children :
- Charles Marshall 6,
- Sarah Marshall 3 (died at sea),
- William Marshall 2.
George Pigot 47. Gentleman farmer and retired Major of Dragoons.
Wife Elizabeth Tomkinson 32.
Children
- Catherine Pigot 17,
- Eliza Sophia Pigot 15. (Later married Donald Moodie who stopped at Cape Town on his way to Bombay, India in 1820, and decided to remain in South Africa.)
George Pratt 35. Shoemaker.
Wife Hannah 20.
John Quince 25. Farmer.
Wife Mary 20 (died at sea).
John Smith 20.
Wife Jane 22.
Thomas Taylor 17.
Charles Webb 19. Wheelwright. (Later married Sarah Wills of Clark's Party.)
Main source for party list
Agent of Transports' List of persons belonging to Mr Pigot's party embarked on board the Northampton (Cape Archives CO 136). This list should be comparatively reliable, as Pigot obtained permission from the Colonial Department at the time of embarkation to make alterations to the earlier list he had submitted.
Further reading
The Journals of Sophia Pigot, ed Margaret Rainier (Cape Town, A A Balkema, 1974).