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A new and updated list of the British Settlers who landed in South Africa in 1820, with information to enable the reader to access their genealogies on the author's website, www.1820settlers.com This reference book also includes descriptions of the Settler Scheme and background, the parties that they were grouped into and their voyage on the ships, written by previous well known authors. Maps of the settler initial land allocations are included, as well as a list of those who lost their lives during the Frontier Wars. The book also includes a Pictorial Gallery of over 140 of the original Settlers.
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Excerpt from British South Africa: A History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope From Its Conquest 1795 to the Settlement of Albany by the British Emigration of 1819 (A. D. 1795 A. D. 1825); With Notices of Some of the British Settlers of 1820 HE following pages are the outcome of a long-cherished wish to con tribute to the stock of information respecting the British Settlement in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. What little there is of this portion of the history of the Colony is now antiquated, and no writer has given particulars of the British Settlers themselves, their experiences after arrival, and their troubles and trials before the severe sufferings they had to endure by succe...
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