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Brilliant

Official Number none

The Brilliant was a full-rigged ship built by William Bowes and launched at Whitehaven on the 14th April 1807. She was owned by Fleming and Co. and operated in the trade to India. On the 10th March 1821 whilst bound from London to Calcutta she stranded off Coringa, but was refloated. After repair the Brilliant was bought by the Nawab of Nellore.

Sources :

1. "Shipbuilding in Whitehaven - A Checklist" by Harry Fancy, Whitehaven Museum (1984)
2. "Ships of the East India Company" by Rowan Hackman, World Ship Society, 2001.
3. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1818 - vessel registered at Whitehaven, owned by Fleming, master Capt.B.Fenn, voyage to India.
4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1820 - vessel registered at Whitehaven, owned by Campbell, master Capt.B.Fenn.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA/2003-03/1049020283

SETTLERS
>
> This is a newspaper cutting from a newspaper in the Eastern Cape. No name
of the paper is supplied but the date is 29 Nov 1987.
>
> If you are an 1820 Settler descendant, do you sometimes have the feeling
creeping up on you that you ought to know the names of all the ships in
which the Settlers came out to South Africa? Here they are, as recorded on a
plaque on the garden wall of the Port Elizabeth public library:
>
> ALBANY
> AURORA
> BRILLIANT
> CANADA
> CHAPMAN
> DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
> IMPORTER
> JOHN
> KENNERSLEY CASTLE
> LA BELLE ALLIANCE
> NAUTILUS
> NORTHAMPTON
> OCEAN
> SIR GEORGE OSBORNE
> WEYMOUTH
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http://pagesperso-orange.fr/euroleader/wedderburn/settlers/settlerships.htm

The following list contains details of those Settler parties which formed part of the government-assisted emigration scheme. Privately chartered vessels are not included:

also from "A New List of the 1820 Settlers"

"In George Smith's party: Wedderburn, Christopher 45. Tailor. w. Ann 45. c. Ann 16, George 10, Elizabeth 8. Wedderburn, William 19. Tailor Embarked at Liverpool on the "Stentor", sailed 13 January 1820, reached Table Bay (now Cape Town) 19 April 1820 As the ship's charter expired at this port the parties under Smith and James Richardson were transhipped to HM Store ship "Weymouth" for the rest of the voyage to Algoa Bay (Now Port Elizabeth). Arrived 15 May 1820"

Travelling conditions were difficult, with cabin accommodation reserved for the heads of the larger parties and their families, and "females above the class of common settlers". Other heads of parties were permitted to erect their own cabins using temporary partitions.

Written by Isobel Joan Donald (Curror) to Peter Brian Donald (cousins) between 1990-2000

(Unfort this letter was damaged by water but some of it is readable)

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Notes on George Maxfield King

Went to school in Bedford, (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) - the GiII College, Somerset East. He married Isabella Brown and farmed "GLENROCK" near Tarkastad, where all his children were born. His sons moved to Johannesburg so he sold his farm and moved to Edenvale and started dairy farming.

When the Boer war broke out he had to leave all his possessions and take his wife and daughters to Colesberg as the neareat point of safety.

When the boer forces entered Colesberg, he (and others), was jailed as a hostage. out Donald grandparents were worried about Granny King (Isabella) and her daughters living alone so invited them to share their home. (thisis...

Written by Isobel Joan Donald (Curror) to Peter Brian Donald (cousins) between 1990-2000

(Unfort this letter was damaged by water but some of it is readable)

KING - Paternal Ancestry (Page 2)

The King family that came to South Africa in approx 1820 on the sailing ship "Brilliant" were:

Thomas King - his wife Sarah (Nee Brown) both born 1781, and their two sons:

1. Thomas Francis aged 14 (born approx 1806)

2. Willaim aged 4 (Born approx 1816)

They were decended form the Earl of Kingston (Irish peerage, but English/Scots)

Family name King Tenison (Created Baron 1766, Vicount 1776, Earl 17....)

Francis King, our maternal great, grandfather married twice and had 7 children.

1. Thomas William King who had 5 children (Wilfred, Glanville, Winnie, Hettie and mary. His daughter Mary married a Mr Mull? Moll? and had 2 children (Mary's children were 1. Jean who went to school with IJC (Writer of this letter) and Jean married a Cochrane, 2. Toby who became a mojor general inteh pernament force)

2. John Henry King who married (?) and had 6 (?)children. Lilian (Lillian married Bert Ryan and had Raymond. Raymond Ryan's son now ..... near Tarkastad.), Molly (Molly married Dr Grey of East London), Norah who married one of the sugar Huletts, Peggy (no word of her), Patrick (married and had sons but is dead), Biddy (Married). All the girls were very, very beautiful.

Jack (FARM: GLENROCK)

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