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

pre 1820 Settler Correspondence before emigration

ALL the 1819 correspondence from CO48/41 through CO48/46 has been transcribed whether or not the writers emigrated to the Cape. Those written by people who did become settlers, as listed in "The Settler Handbook" by M.D. Nash (Chameleon Press 1987), are labelled 1820 Settler and the names of actual settlers in the text appear in red.

COX, Francis and Samuel

Written by Sue Mackay on 21 March 2015.

National Archives, Kew CO48/42, 400

21 Worcester Street

Wolverhampton

Staffordshire

October 4^th 1819

The undersigned persons wising to go to the Cape of Good Hope are free settlers by paying the money as government directs and we are both brothers and married

Francis COX aged 39 by trade Locksmith and Jobbing Smith

Eliz. COX 32

No child

Samuel COX 29 by trade Locksmith and Jobbing Smith

Lydia COX 22

Male child 6 months

Sir, wishing to go by the first Conveyance

Hon's most obdt sevts

Fra's & Sam'l COX

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