Forum: South Africa Genealogy

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 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'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...

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

Is it possible someone could check passenger lists on Find My Past for me? My grandparents were back and forth to South Africa between 1900-1930.Their names were Edgar and Elizabeth Jenkins and they lived in Durban.My mother also travelled with them and her name was Gwyneth Jenkins. Any help...

Hello folks, Having learnt that my relatives were in Pochtefstroom, and that this was a city of educational establishments, I got to wondering about how things were progressing in the field of digitisation of records. In Australia lots of libraries are loading digitised material on the...

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...

My grandfather Thomas Flaherty travelled to 'Natal' on the 21/04/1922 with a group of fellow musicians( info from FMP). We have always believed he landed at Durban.( my grandmother followed him and ended up living in Durban.....sadly on her own) Would there be any record of a visiting Theatre group...

Hi I’m new to family history. I am working on our family tree. I am looking for any of my husband’s ancestors from the 1900s to present with the surname Sidat My mother in law’s name was Aisha Sidat, also known as Asoo. She was born in Johannesberg , South Africa in the 1930s. She emigrated to...

Hello I am involved in a project reconstructing the family tree of the Baruch Lousada Barrow family. They come from the Abravanel, Arbabanel, Arbanel etc line. They were Sephardic Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula via Netherlands and Britain to become traders, plantation owners (with slaves)...

Patrick Adolphus Beart, born 1865, Scotland (of English parents), his widowed mother and several siblings (there were 6 in all) came out to Natal in the 1890s and it's driving me potty trying to find out more about the family's doings in South Africa, as I keep running into dead ends. I've combed...