The Cawood File
This file contains the known descendants, to the 6th
generation, of Joshua Cawood, born about 1690, nailmaker of Otley, Yorkshire.
Notes for Richard William HULLEY
Richard and Ann were 1820 settlers. Arrived on the ship Stentor as members
of Richardson's Group [21]. N.B. his age is given in burial register as 99
yr 10 mo, but this is incorrect (94 ys 10 mo). There is no gravestone for
Richard in the Cradock cemetery [6]. Cutler's apprentice 1797 [33].
Lister's diary states: "Richard son of Joseph and Ann Ulley born Thursday morning about 2 o'clock 26th of May [1785] and christened June 5th."
Enlisted at Rotherham 11-Feb-1807, aged 19 years: 5'5" tall, fair complexion, dark hair and grey eyes. Illiterate. [From military records as per [6]].
Served as a gunner in the Ninth Battalion in Ireland. Stationed at Bandon, Co. Cork, from July 1809 to June 1812. During this time married Ann BRANGAN. Their first three children were born in Ireland: Richard Brangan (1810, Bandon); Ann (1814, Cork);
Sarah (1815, Bandon). After this they returned to Yorkshire, for their next child was born in Sheffield. Then they emigrated to South Africa. [6].
Arrived in Algoa Bay 1820. Settled on farm "Claxton" in Clumber area of Albany District. [44]. Van Riebeeck Society Publications, vol.7, pp 157 and 171.
[33] gives the following information:- Served with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Listed under the page for the Ninth Batallion Pay List (British Army Pay and Muster Books, PRO) for the month of July 1815 for a Detachment of
the Regiment under the command of Coloney S C Parry, Bere Island (the RRA had bases at Ballincollig, Island Bridge, Charlemont, Bere Island and Loughswilly), under Gunners, Richd Hulley Pounds 2 1s 113/4 pence 2 Class. This sum was his pay for the
month. No further entries occur in the same book for him; hence he had either returned to England in August 1815 or transferred to another Battalion.
From John Perfect:-
1820 Settler - Ship "Stentor" - With the Richardson Party.
The Caxton Farm
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It is believed that Richard HULLEY, an 1820 Settler, was the first to occupy
Caxton Farm. His 5th child, Edward John HULLEY, born 1821, was probably born on the farm, according to F.E. HULLEY of Umtali, Zimbabwe - who kept record of the HULLEY family genealogy.
Richard HULLEY - farmer, 34 came as a Settler in J. Richardson`s party,
numbering 36, from Yorkshire, aboard the ship named Stentor. The ship sailed from Liverpool with his wife Ann, 33 and children Richard 9, Francis 1, Ann 6, and Sarah 4. The son Richard became an interpreter to the Rev. Francis Owen at Dingaan's kraal
in 1837 and wrote an account of the events preceding and following the massacre of Piet Retief's party by Dingaan and his impis.
The Richardson`s Party was No. 24 on the Colonial Department list, led by
James Richardson, a corn dealer of Heartstead, Sheffield, Yorkshire. They came aboard the Stentor which left Liverpool on 13 January 1820, reaching Table Bay on 19 April 1820. Her charter expired at that port and the five settler parties on board were
disembarked. Richardson`s Party was transhipped to HM Store Ship Weymouth reaching Algoa Bay on 15 May 1820. This party was to be located in Albany on the right bank of the George River.
The British Settlers of 1820 in South Africa
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This particular group of four thousand men, women and children who sailed from the shore of their native land in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty and gallantly played their part as pioneers on the frontier in the
foundation and gradual building up of their new home South Africa.
The 21 emigrant ships required for the transport of the Settlers, small
sailing vessels of about 400 tons each, were sent to various convenient ports such as London (Deptford), Portsmouth, Liverpool, Bristol and Cork to prepare for the long voyage and to await the arrival of their passengers. About November, 1819, the
leaders of the various parties received notices from the authorities informing them of the ships to which they had been allotted, the port of departure and the probable date of sailing, after which they set out by stage-coach for their respective
destinations, certainly objects of curiosity and wonderment in the towns and villages at which they stopped on their last journey in Britain.
Early in December, the ships began to leave, usually in twos, and by the
middle of January 1820, the whole fleet of 21 ships was on the high seas.
Extremely bad weather was experienced and almost at the outset, several
vessels nearly suffered shipwreck.
After long and arduous individaul voyages varying from 11 to 14 weeks, all the ships eventually reached the Cape of Good Hope safely. Here having sailed more than 6000 miles since leaving the shores of England, they spent about 10 days replenishing
provisions and fresh water supplies, and preparing for the last stage of the journey along the southern coast of Africa to their final destination of Algoa Bay. The average time taken by each ship for the whole journey from England was about 4 months,
the usual period in those days for such a voyage.
There being no landing jetty at Algoa Bay, the sailors of H.M.S. Menai were
entrusted with the difficult business of conveying the settlers from the ships
in large flat-bottomed boats through the surf, the men and grown boys then
wading ashore, the women and children being carried by the soldiers of the
72nd Regiment and the 21st Light Dragoons stationed at Fort Frederick on the heights overlooking the beach. This delicate operation, which commenced on 10th April 1820, when the passengers from the Chapman were landed, was repeated as each of the
transports arrived, and finally concluded late in June 1820 without a single mishap of any description.
On shore the parties waited for varying periods in the camp prepared for them until the wagons which had taken earlier parties to their locations returned to convey them to the interior. In some cases the sojourn at the camp was considerable as some of
the larger parties required up to 100 of the available ox wagons to convey them to their locations.
The easily understandable feelings of dismay and utter helplessness which
possessed the majority of the Settlers when they were literally dumped down on the locations may be gauged by quotations from early records. "Well does the writer remember", says Robert Godlonton, "the moment when the kind-hearted Dutch farmer - the
owner of the wagon which conveyed him and his family to the spot intended for their future home - bade them, in a tone of mingled compassion and surprise, farewell - leaving them without the smallest shelter from the weather, with their luggage strewed
upon the long grass, themselves friendless, unknowing and unknown, and with not other dependence, save upon their own exertions and upon the protection and guidance of God Himself, who had led them from their native land, who had preserved them in
perils by sea and by land, who had supplied their necessary wants, and who had brought them in peace and in safety to their destined home."
Lured by the promise of a free passage, a grant of prime agricultural land,
remission of the quit-rent thereon for the first 10 years, implements and seed etc supplied at prime cost and rations issued until the first harvest, 24
ships laden with enthusiastic families set sail for Algoa Bay to take up
occupation in the "Zuurveld", which to their dismay was found to be a pastoral district and thus a grant of 100 acres per family was totally inadequate. It also soon became clear that they were to act as a human buffer between the warlike black tribes
ont he Eastern Frontier, and the European colony on the western perimeter of this area. The hardships of many years had only just begun.
[Account from John Perfect]
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