Forum: South Africa Genealogy

You can browse original registers of St.George's Cathedral, Cape Town and registers of the military chaplain at http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/index.php?digitalItems/U/ There are all sorts of other goodies on this site if you have a good browse

hello there. in the 1871 census my ancestor Henry Truman Carpenter by trade and born approx 1831 is listed with his wife F age 26, son J age 14, daughter C age10, daughter F age 4, Son H age 2,and daughter MyA age 2 months. (yes the enumerator did not bother to note their names ?) F is obviously...

Hello folks, You could have knocked me down with a feather today when I learnt that my grandfather's sister Emily Frances Griffith packed her bags in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, shipped out to Durban and married Hugh Owens. I wondered what had become of her. So now I'm a bit stuck as...

I noticed Sue Mackay has the book by ESME BULL: AIDED IMMIGRATION FROM BRITAIN TO SOUTH AFRICA 1857 - 1867 Could you please look up Charles Harman b abt 1832, Middlesex and Eliza Graham b abt 1835 Ireland who may have married either England or South Africa. ( Birth place for both is as per...

I am looking for descendants of Robert Urquhart Brechin dob 16/2/1880 who emigrated to South Africa circa 1912 with his wife Annie Morrison McOustra and 2 children Helen Catherine Brechin dob 24/11/1906 and David Brechin dob 16/4/1905. The family arrived from Falkirk Scotland having originated...

Hello everyone, Does anyone have the book "Aided Emigration to the Cape" by Esme Bull? If so, would someone be kind enough to check and see whether or not there are any entries for TREVOR LLOYD BLUNDEN who came to South Africa from Ireland - he would have emigrated somewhere between 1850 and...

I am trying to find out when James b1833 and Johanna (Carstairs)Park b1831 went to South Africa and when they travelled back to the UK. They had four daughters whilst they were in the Cape. Ellen S Park b1865, Mary E Park b1867, Johanna M Park b1871 and Margaret A b1873. The family appear again in...

Family Search has added original images to browse for South African Methodist parish registers for various places from 1822. This is in addition to the Dutch Reformed Church images from 1660 which were already browsable. The following places in the Cape are included: Aberdeen Albany...

I've hit a brick wall tracing distant relatives who married in St. Helier, Jersey in 1960 and who later lived in Rhodesia around 1966. The two individuals are Cornelis Abraham Ligtenstein and Margaret Henderson Cameron (widow of Cedric Rollo Swain). Cornelis Abraham Ligtenstein was born in...

Hi, Is there anyone who could look at Death Records in South Africa for Harold Victor Everett. He was born in Peckham, London on 6 February 1904. Family rumour has it that he emigrated to South Africa and died there. There was a phone call to my grandmother, Ada Everett, his wife, around 1981 to...

Looking for help in locating the birth/baptism of Elizabeth Cocks c1826. She gives her birthplace in the 1851 and 1861 censuses as Cape of Good Hope. There is a possible entry for her in 1841 HO107; Piece: 672; Book: 10; Civil Parish: St George Bloomsbury; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District:...

Help please, I am looking for any information that help, I am also new to this South African geneaology. In my tree I have a family of four, WILLIAM HENRY HANCOCK b.1856 England MARY ANN HANCOCKb.1856 England EDITH E HANCOCK 1881 CAPE COLONY ROSE MARY HANCOCK 1883 WOODSTOCK CAPE TOWN. In...

I am trying to find out what happened to my ancestor Edward William Fricker born 1860 in Lambeth, London to Edward William and Frances Fricker I have him in 1861 and 1871 in the censuses with his family but then he vanished, although his family remain. Then the only thing i can find of anyone...

hello I am trying to find the record of birth of SAMUEL J BENNETT born at sea off the Cape of Good Hope abt 1852.I believe his father was possibly the ships Captain.

I have been busy adding a lot more transcripts to the South African Newspaper Extracts at http://www. eggsa.org/newspapers/ One thing that made me smile was the Missing Relatives column in the magazine "South Africa". If you put Missing Relatives into the search facility with Exact Phrase...

My fathers eldest sister was born in Market Harborough, Leicester in Dec Qtr of 1914, I believe she is now deceased but as im not certain will not post her name,I know who she married in Surrey in 1941 but this is the only info I am certain of,Family lore tells me they went to South Africa where at...

I know from passenger lists there were 7 Coopers on board this ship when it sank. After leaving Table Bay on the evening of August 30th she struck an object off Quoin Point, between Danger Point and Cape Agulhas, on the south coast of South Africa only John Cooper survived (out of the Coopers on...

Born abt 1878 She married Benjamin Wingate Barrow, later Rear Admiral, and died in South Africa. I suspect she was the daughter of Richard Brooke|help| Archdeacon of Cape Town - can anyone check this for me please?

Is there anywhere these can be found on line? In particular I am after John, and his son William, COMLEY, Death Notices 6330/1870, 6306/1870, 3738/1876. (information found on 'Southafricansettlers.com') What information will the notice contain? Thanks