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 South African Commercial Advertiser (1826-1840)
| Date transcribed | 2009-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Sue McKay - Marianne Mansfield | | Comment | Sue McKay has kindly authorized us to publish her transcriptions of Family History-related data from the Announcements in the South African Commercial Advertiser. This is because they include very many references to personnel in the service of The East India Company en route to or from India or on furlough in S. Africa, which offered a more temperate climate. Also included are many officers and soldiers of the British Army regiments who may well have served in India shortly before or after serving in South Africa. |
| | Publication Date | 2 May 1829 | | | Event Date | May 1829 | | | Surname | Daly | | | Full Entry | Saturday 2 May 1829: CASE OF MRS. DALY
Mrs. DALY, whose husband and eldest child were lately drowned in Table Bay, is the daughter of an officer in the army; and when the melancholy accident occurred, which deprived her in one moment of both husband and child, the family was on the way to the New Settlement at Swan River, depending for support and future provision upon 6s 6d per day, the slender income of Mr. DALY�s rank as an Assistant Surgeon.
A widow, and with four children, the eldest of whom is six years and the youngest three months old, without means of returning to her native country, or a friend there able to maintain her, if she should return, Mrs. DALY is determined still to proceed to the Swan River, in the hope that, assisted by the pension of £40 per annum, attached to the rank of her husband, those accomplishments which she acquired under other circumstances and expectations may now be rendered available for the support of her remaining children.
To purchase mourning, suited only to her present condition, a little livestock to be forwarded with that which is ordered for the settlement, on account of the Government, and to place a small fund in the hands of Messrs BORRADILES & Co (the agents of the new colony) at the disposal of Mrs. DALY, and to be drawn for whenever Governor STIRLING, and her friends there, can apply it beneficially for her � a subscription has been commenced under the kind auspices and liberal assistance of His Excellency the Governor, Lady Frances COLE, Colonel and Lady Catherine BELL, and the charitable aid of such of our fellow colonists as shall be induced to join in affording a slender relief to the Orphans and the Widow, will be thankfully received by
The Hon.Mr. Justice BURTON The Hon.Lt.Col. BELL CB, Messrs BORRADAILES, THOMPSON & PILLANS, And at the Office of this Paper. | | | Reference ( National Archives - Kew) | CO53/1 |
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