GSSA
The 1820 Settler Correspondence
 as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
 and edited by Sue Mackay

Additonal Information

This is pre 1820 information mainly taken from actual images of UK parish registers and other primary sources which I have personally researched. Further information about the settlers and their families once they reached the Cape can be found at https://www.1820settlers.com/

Sue Mackay

DIXON, John Henry - Extra Data

 

Leader of DIXON's Party

 

(see also correspondence of Daniel BARUK)

 

London Metropolitan Archives:

 

John Henry DIXON, bachelor, married Margaret Ann GURNEY, spinster, on 26 December 1806 in St.Leonard, Shoreditch

Both signed their names.

Witnesses: George GURNEY and Susannah PLUMMER

 

Baptisms:

John Thomas, son of John and Margaret DIXON, baptised 23 August 1807 St George the Martyr

Eliza daughter of John Henry and Margaret DIXON, baptised 14 July 1816 (born 14 July 1815) in St.Dunstan's, Stepney. Address: M.E.O.T. [Mile End Old Town]. Father's occupation: Cabinet maker

Sarah, daughter of John Henry and Margaret DIXON, baptised 29 March 1819 (born 4 July) in St.Dunstan's, Stepney. Address: M.E.O.T. Father's occupation: Bedstead maker.

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