E-Books

The settler handbook / MD Nash
(Chameleon Press, Cape Town 1987)

The over 4,000 British people, who came to South Africa as the 1820 Settlers had a powerful impact on the development of the country. Today, their numerous descendants are scattered throughout the sub-continent, and the world, even though most of the Settlers were initially located on grants of land in and around Albany, in the Eastern Cape.

Mrs Nash has compiled a revised list of the original settlers of 1820, working mostly from documents in the Cape Archives and the Public Record Office, London. The result is a valuable aid to researchers and settler descendants wanting to explore their ancestral origins.

The author, herself a settler descendant, was born in Grahamstown, the 'settler city'. She has an MA degree in history from Rhodes University, and was head of the cultural history divisions of the Port Elizabeth and Albany museums. Her publications include Bailie's Party of 1820 settlers SETTLERS (Balkema, Cape Town 1982), and she is acknowledged as an authority on the 1820 settlers.

The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access to historical print collections that now exist also in digital format. The Internet Archive contains a number of diigitised books on a variety of topics to do with the Eastern Cape, and southern Africa in general. Search under "texts" here.

Project Canterbury
Project Canterbury is a free online archive of out-of-print Anglican texts and related modern documents. Reproduction for study or religious purposes is permitted under the terms of the Creative Commons Deed.

There are several items on South African Anglican history

Pic: Bishop John Armstrong, first Bishop of the new See of Grahamstown, 1853. Frontispiece from: A Memoir of John Armstrong, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of Grahamstown, by the Rev. T. T. Carter. Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker, 1857.

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