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Parker remained a thorn in the flesh for the Cape authorities and, after relocating unsuccessfully

to Saldahna Bay, accepted the offer of a free return voyage to Britain.

John Hare, in contrast, eked out a living at Klein Valley for five years and supplemented his

income by travelling into Namaqualand to trade. It is virtually certain that he took his oldest
son, William, with him on these expeditions. Two sons, Luke and Robert, and two daughters,

Hester and Ellen, were added to John and Esther’s family after their arrival at the Cape.

In August 1825 an inquiry into the conditions of the 1820 Settlers led to a decision by the

British Government to remit all outstanding balances and John, relieved of these financial

obligations, immediately moved his family to Cape Town. He set up a bakery on the outskirts
of town at 3 Bloem Street. He must have done well, as two years later he moved to 27 Burg

Street in the town centre. A family narrative indicates that after 1830 John and Esther

established themselves in Stellenbosch before a final move to Mowbray to spend the last years
of their lives with their oldest son William John.

During his time in the Cape, John was visited by cousins from Ireland who invited him to rejoin
their elevated social circle but, having been married happily ‘beneath his class’, he declined

the proposal. One of these cousins, Colonel John Hare, became Lieutenant-Governor of the
Cape Colony in 1837 and was transferred to Grahamstown. Alerted by Dick King after his

courageous ride from Congella on the Durban Bluff, Colonel Hare commandeered two ships

to sail from Algoa Bay to relieve a British fort under siege from the Boer forces. He later built
a line of fortresses to protect the eastern border of the colony, one of which became known as

Fort Hare, a name that become well-known when adopted by the university built many years
later.

After John ‘1820’ Hare’s second son John had left school, his father helped him to set up a
successful business in Geelong, Australia, SW of Melbourne. Another son, Luke, also went to

Australia during a gold rush, and then moved to California where he is presumed to have died.

John’s youngest son, Robert, became a wagon maker at Mowbray.

John’s wife Esther was buried in the Hare family vault in the graveyard at St Paul’s Church,

Rondebosch in 1840, and he joined her 17 years later when he died at the age of 84. By then
their 1820 Settler family was well established at the Cape. (Figs. 4.1 – 4.4).