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William Simpson 1 Notes: According to the Simpson family notes collected by Ada Ethel Simpson (1874 - 1953) and supplied by the late Andrew McMurray, he was a Solicitor and was born in February 1775 at Larne Mills, County Antrim, Ireland.

married Elizabeth Peden

James 1806 - 1848 Dan Peden b.1807 William 1809 - 1863 children Agnes c1821 - 1902 Elizabeth John c1820 - 1859

children of William and Elizabeth Simpson James Simpson 2 1806-1848 born 1806 died 18 September 1848 Notes: His details come from the Simpson family notes collected by Ada Ethel Simpson (1874 - 1953) and supplied by the late Andrew McMurray of Cape Town. Dan Peden Simpson 3 born 1807 Notes: His details come from the Simpson family notes collected by Ada Ethel Simpson (1874 - 1953) and supplied by the late Andrew McMurray of Cape Town. William Simpson 1809-1863 born 2 February 1809, Larne, County Antrim died 21 November 1863, Tulbagh  married Helen Mccammon 4 1811-1870 Agnes Simpson 5 circa 1821-1902 born circa 1821 6 died 1902 7 Notes: Her details come from the Simpson family notes collected by Ada Ethel Simpson (1874 - 1953) and supplied by the late Andrew McMurray of Cape Town. Elizabeth Simpson 8 Notes: Her details come from the Simpson family notes collected by Ada Ethel Simpson (1874 - 1953) and supplied by the late Andrew McMurray of Cape Town. John Simpson circa 1820-1859 surgeon, Royal Navy born circa 1820 9 died 29 August 1859, Haslar Hospital, Plymouth 10 Notes: On his gravestone he is described as the 'youngest son of the late William Simpson of Larne'. In the Simpson family notes collected by Ada Ethel Simpson (1874 - 1953) and supplied by the late Andrew McMurray of Cape Town, his birth year is given as 1819. At the 1841 Census he was an Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Haslar Hospital, Hampshire. William Simpson, in a letter dated November 1858, stated that his brother was '38 years of age - was my pupil - was in the first China war for which he received a medal - on his return from the North Sea was appointed surgeon-superintendant of The Royal Naval Hospital at Malta - served [thus] during the whole of the late war in the Crimea, and is now surgeon superintendant of Haslar Hosptial Portsmouth'. HMS Plover spent two years in the Western Arctic as supply ship during the 1852-1854 expedition to search for Sir John Franklin. Among the officers of the Plover was John Simpson as surgeon. Transcription of gravestone in Portsmouth Cemetery. (Joan Meaden, courtesy of Andrew McMurray) Letter dated Nov. 4th 1858 from Tulbagh to the Colonial Secretary, Cape Town. (Cape Archives, CO 4105, S129, 1858)

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