Hi all Someone on the South Africa list was compiling a list of Cornish emigrants from those books mentioned if I remember rightly Perhaps worth a post to that list with an enquiry Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 13/11/2012 21:51, Bill Curnow wrote: > Arlene, > > I'm aware of two books on Cornish immigrants in South Africa, and there are > probably more. > > The first (and more frequently helpful to me) is the previously mentioned > "Cornish Immigrants to South Africa" by Graham B. Dickason published by A. > A. Balkema of Cape Town in 1978. > > The second is Richard D. Dawe's "Cornish Pioneers in South Africa" published > in 1998 by Cornish Hillside Publications of St. Austell. > > > Bill >> On Nov 13, 2012, at 8:42 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>>> On 13/11/2012 1:30 AM, Bill Curnow wrote: >>>>> Rowena, >>>>> >>>>> In his book "Cornish Immigrants to South Africa," Graham B. Dickason >> >> >> Bill, >> I didn't know there was a book on Cornish Immigrants to South Africa. My >> grandmother, Kate Hoskin Williams immigrated in 1903 or 04 after her >> parents, Josiah (died 26 Jan 1902,) and Mary Vivian Laity Williams (died >> 24 May 1903) died. I can find no record of her leaving, only the family >> story that she left with a friend. She married Emil Ferdinand Hansen (a >> Boer War vet) in Sept 1907. If anyone has any information on her I would >> love to have it. Her parents died in Ludgvan, but I still have not found >> their burial place. I know the Church cemetery has been checked and I >> believe Crowlas. >> >> Cheers, >> Arlene Hansen Amodei