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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1783.

Gezin van Richard Halstaed

Hij is getrouwd met Ellen xx.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Thomas Halstaed  1811-1838
2. James Halstaed  1815-????
3. Nancy Halstaed  1817-????
4. Elizabeth Winnifred Halstaed  1830-???? 

Notities over Richard Halstaed

Op 13 januari 1820 vertrekt er uit Liverpool een schip genaamd "John". Dit schip komt aan in de Tafelbaai in Cape Town op 19 april 1820 en vaart uiteindelijk door naar Port Elisabeth, waar het in mei 1820 aankomt. Op dit schip was er een groep mensen onder leiding van Richard Heyhurst. Onder hen een 36 jarige passagier genaamd Richard Halstead, van beroep dyer (verver?)met zijn 21-jarige echtgenote Ellen en drie kinderen: Thomas , 9 jaar, James, 4 jaar en de 2-jarige Nancy
. De familie Halstead is op het allerlaatst in de plaats gekomen van de familie John Pollard. Mogelijk dat het hier om dezelfde Richard Halstead gaat.

M.D. Nash 1987 - Settler Handbook

"No. 51 on the Colonial Department list, led by Richard Hayhurst of Liverpool, who described himself as a miner and cabinet maker. Hayhurst and Michael Whitley set themselves up as emigration agents in Liverpool, although with no official support or sanction, charging would-be emigrants a fee of £1 a head to 'register' their names with government. Their advertisements aroused suspicion and even indignation - one angry member of the public complained to the Colonial Department, 'They are no better than Swindlers, their office is a Public House' - but they served as a rallying point for northcountrymen who were unable to make up parties of their own, and they succeeded in organising a party of 34 men and their families. This was far short of their original aim of 100 families, who would have been entitled to their own chaplain in terms of the emigration scheme. The Rev William Boardman (who in the event emigrated as chaplain to Willson's party) was entered as chaplain in Hayhurst's early lists, but withdrew to join Willson's party when it became apparent that Hayhurst would not achieve the required number of settlers.

This was a joint-stock party, each man paying his own deposit with the exception of Hayhurst's servant Thomas Kidd. Many of the men had to sell their furniture and working looms to raise their deposit money, which suggests that a number of the 'farmers' in the party were in fact weavers by trade.

Michael Whitley did not accompany the party, but applied unsuccessfully in July 1820 for permission to take out a further 40 or 50 families who were 'anxiously awaiting an opportunity to follow their relatives and friends'.

The party sailed from Liverpool in the John on 13 January 1820 and reached Table Bay on 19 April and Algoa Bay during May. One of the emigrants, Henry Hudson, died on board the John before sailing; his widow went on to the Cape with the support of her nephew, James Robinson. The party's first location, named Trappes Valley after the Provisional Magistrate of Bathurst, proved inadequate, and further land was assigned to three separate divisions under Cawood and Griffiths, Murray, and Watson".

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