Charles Penny
Born: ~ September 1786, Ingatestone?, Essex, England
Baptized: 1 October 1786, St Margaret's, Margaretting, Essex, England
Parents: Philip Nathaniel Penny and Sarah Penny (nee Green; 1760-1825)
Siblings: Philip Penny, 1783-1860
Charles Penny, 1786
Elizabeth Penny, 1788 (Married William Rogers)
William Penny, 1790 (Married Rosanna Brough)
Sarah Penny, 1792
Jemima Penny, 1793
Susan Penny, 1794
Annie Penny, 1797 (now Wood)
Married 1: Sarah Nunn (born 1787), 3 November 1807, St Edmund and St Mary, Ingat(e)stone, Essex, England
(By banns; Charles, bachelor, of Parish of Margaretting, and Sarah, spinster, of Parish of St Edmund and St Mary, signed;
witnesses Philip Penny and Sarah Mason)
Children: Elizabeth C Penny (now Wright), 8 May 1808, Bermondsey, Surrey, England
(b. 28 May 1808, bp. 29 May 1808, St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey - London Metropolitan Archives)
(Married John Cecil Wright 4 May 1825, Grahamstown cathedral)
(Elizabeth died 5 July 1881, Kareefontein, Cradock)
Charlotte Penny, 28 April 1810, Bermondsey, London
Charles Penny (Junior), 25 April 1812, London (died 1 May 1888, Southwell, Albany District, SA)
(Married Ellen Walker, 1841)
Widowed: Sarah (nee Nunn) died 4 October 1814, (aged 27), Bermondsey, Surrey
Married 2: Susannah Smith Bagshaw, 16 March 1816, Newgate, London
Children: Edward Penny, 15 September 1818
Philip Penny, 17 January 1824, Grahamstown
Mary Ann Penny (now Gardner), 21 May 1826, Grahamstown (married John Gardner)
Joseph William Penny, 1829
Margaret Ann Shaw Penny (now Fisher), 13 February 1833, Reed Fountain, Albany
John Penny, 6 May 1834, Salem
Maria Ann Penny (now Hartley), 4 May 1835 (married Thomas Henry Hartley)
Samuel Palmer Penny, ~1837, Lower Albany (Farmer; Married Esther Trollip)
(Died 27 August 1861, Cradock, aged 24 years and 10 months)
(Children: William John Gardener PENNY, Lavina Anwin PENNY)
Susannah Penny (now Wood), 5 July 1840
Occupation: Bricklayer (1808)
Address: Long Lane, Bermondsey, London (1808)
Died: 12 June 1870, Mount Pleasant, Trappes Valley, near Bathurst, aged 83 years and 9 months (implying a birth date of ~12 September 1786)
Buried: Methodist Church, Salem, Albany
The photograph of Charles Penny shown here is held by the Cory Library, and was published in 'The 1820 Settlers of Salem' by A.E. Makin. The photograph shows his son Charles Penny (Junior) (1812-1888), not Charles Penny (1786-1870).
Death notice for Charles Penny
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-V9KM-R?i=1435&cat=331262
1820 Settler, part of
Hezekiah Sephton's party in the ship Aurora (344 passengers).
Departed from London on 15 February 1820. Arrived at Simon's Bay 1 May 1820.
Arrived at final destination of Algoa Bay, Cape Colony on 15 May 1820.
Larissa Meyer (from Facebook) is writing an archaeology thesis for Unisa on an 1820 Settler household in Salem that
is known as The Hall (around 1830s-1850s). It was owned by Joseph Short, later James Hayward, and eventually by Charles Penny (snr). The following images are from Larissa.
www.amethyst.co.za/FamilyTree/
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(Last updated on 10 August 2022)