Hancock’s Drift: The story of the Great Wagon Road

After the Napoleonic Wars, conditions in Britain and Ireland were unbearable for millions of citizens. Work was scarce, crime was rife, cities were polluted and infant mortality rates were high.
In 1820, about 3,000 men, women and children left the British Isles and sailed to the Cape Colony at the southern tip of Africa. These 1820 British Settlers set out with high hopes of creating a better life for themselves and their children.
This is the story of one of those families, of James and Ann Hancock and their children, of their trials, hopes, sorrows and joy.