Thomas FIELD - 1820 Settler

[Dinkydidy]

I am seeking info on Thomas Field, 25 year old carpenter, who arrived without relatives on the Weymouth in 1820 with William Cock's party.

Did he stay, and are there any descendants, death details etc. out there to confirm this? Or did he go back to England and then return to Cape Town later? Am trying to link or exclude him as there are similarities in age and occupation to the following.

OUR Thomas Field arrived in Cape Town "about May 12th" 1840 on the "Thomas & Joseph Crisp" (quotes from a scrapbook he left), travelling with Alfred Lawrence, in his 40's, married  Ann Harris July 8th 1841 (not registered), worked in the customs as a tide waiter (no reference in NAAIRS), moved on to South Australia with wife and children in 1853, and was variously described as a carpenter, joiner and coachbuilder. Unfortunately, he left virtually no information about his life before 1840, and South Australian sources have no birthplace details.

Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

Didy

[Leanne68]

The Lower Albany Chronicles
compiled by E. Morse-Jones makes reference to Thomas FIELDS in the following entries:

Part 1
1821 Jan 15
Thomas FIELD requested permission to move to Cape Town to seek employment in his calling as a coach-driver.

1821 May 23
Sugeon Daniel O'FLINN certified that Elizabeth, wife of Thomas FIELD, was suffering from acute rheumatism due to exposure to cold and rain, through lack of proper shelter.  Her husband begged permission to move to Cape Town.

1821 June 30
Thomas FIELD was at Bathurst awaiting permission to move to Cape Town.

1821 Sept 17
Thomas FIELD and his invalid wife, Elizabeth, had now been waiting three months at Bathurst for leave to go to Cape Town

And a reference to another FIELD fellow, linked to coachs and the *old country*

1823 Sept 30
Good Intent, sailed from Port Kowie, with <snip> and Samuel FIELD of Charles  CAMPBELL's party about to leave the colony, as a passenger.

1824 Dec 31
Samuel FIELD had asked permission, from London, to bring out a stage-coach, to run between Bathurst and Grahamstown.

Hope you find something useful here.
best wishes
Leanne

[Dinkydidy]

Thanks for that, Leanne. A few more pieces of the puzzle.

Didy

[J.J.]

IGI & pedigree files ...Submission on LDS site for a death Thomas Field in  1895, Nov.12 inAdelaide, South Australia., Australia
 
 The birth children-Capetown, Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa
Thomas Howard - 1842   
Ann - 1844 Richard - 1846  Henery - 1848
Manassah - 1850    Ephraim - 1850  Moses - 1853

Must be a set of twins, there....
Then In Australia...
Caleb - 1855    Rhoda - 1858

actual months & days are submitted as well as death dates....Ann Harris's details are also there...

[J.J.]

Perhaps this look up site can find a connection to the two...Certainly seems as though the wife Elizabeth's health was failing...and the occupation with coaches...
This site says it will do lookups into their owned publications...
Perhaps "The Story of the British Settlers of 1820 in South Africa" may have something...(or others listed)
http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/lookup.htm

[Dinkydidy]

Thanks for the suggestion, J.J. I will try the look-up site.

Thomas left very detailed records of his marriage to Ann Harris and their children's births - Ephraim & Manasseh were twins - but nothing about his own history, unfortunately. However, he would have been in his 40's when he married Ann Harris - old enough to have had quite a full past, including another marriage.

Didy.

[Dinkydidy]

Tried several look-up requests - all returned "hosts unknown". Does that mean their email addresses were out of date?

Didy 

[J.J.]

Awe...Too bad...Guess that means they don't want to do lookups anymore...Perhaps they were inundated with email that had nothing to do with their publications.
sorry about that...I only gave that url out once before but it was ages ago...
....J.J.

[dgrubb]

Hello Dinky, (Diane)
I have been given to following information from Brian in South Africa.
Digitised SA records are extremely scarce and census records were destroyed after each census thus making genealogical tracing via the internet almost impossible. I did find a record for a Thomas Field on http://www.southafricansettlers.com/?p=2213

Don't know if this is our old Tom but has some details which seem a bit familiar. Worth hanging onto just in case it works for us.
There seems to be a little error with the Birth Date after the Christening Date.

Field, Thomas

Last Name:  Field
First Name:   Thomas
Date of Birth:   b. 3 Aug 1795 chr. 19 Apr 1795
Place of Birth:  St. Giles Cripplegate, London, England Parents – Father:
Parents – Mother:
Spouse:
Marriage Date:
Marriage Place:
Date of Death:
Place of Death:

Regards Dennis