How a labourer from Lancashire braved the high seas with his young family and started a new life on the Eastern Cape in South Africa.
Thomas Baines 1853
Baines The British Settlers of 1820 Landing in Algoa Bay
Thursday, 30 May 2013
How this blog came to be!
I wanted a way to share my family history research and decided that a blog would be a good start! I have been able to prove that Tom Harvey, my husband, is a direct descendent of an 1820s settler called James Cowie - and this is his story.
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