mags54
10-06-2011, 12:12 PM
I wonder if anyone can help?
I have found my grandfather Edgar Jenkins,a coalminer, up until the 1891 census,aged14yrs, but by 1910 there is no trace of him.He married my grandmother in 1904 in Pontypool,Wales and in the following few years he and the family moved to South Africa. .I don't know if Edgar was back and forth to Africa during this time but my mother was born in 1913 in Pontypool and was taken to Africa at 6 weeks old.
I have checked ship passenger lists and have found possible matches for my grandparents at various times and a definite for my grandmother in 1926 when she returned to Wales whe her mother died.
You're probably wondering what this had to do with the Boer War ,but I would like to know what made him decide to move to South Africa in the first place.Was it possible he joined as a volunteer in the 2nd Boer War,liked the country ,then decided to return with his young family?
Where do I go from here to find out if this was the case?
I have found my grandfather Edgar Jenkins,a coalminer, up until the 1891 census,aged14yrs, but by 1910 there is no trace of him.He married my grandmother in 1904 in Pontypool,Wales and in the following few years he and the family moved to South Africa. .I don't know if Edgar was back and forth to Africa during this time but my mother was born in 1913 in Pontypool and was taken to Africa at 6 weeks old.
I have checked ship passenger lists and have found possible matches for my grandparents at various times and a definite for my grandmother in 1926 when she returned to Wales whe her mother died.
You're probably wondering what this had to do with the Boer War ,but I would like to know what made him decide to move to South Africa in the first place.Was it possible he joined as a volunteer in the 2nd Boer War,liked the country ,then decided to return with his young family?
Where do I go from here to find out if this was the case?