"Greg Korbee" <gregkorbee@xs4all.nl> skrev i en meddelelse news:422ff84d$0$28984$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl... > In a 1730 marriage record from the Cape (South Africa) the Danish > placename > "Grön Diep" is referred to. (Apparently this means "Grön-kanaal" in > Afrikaans.) I think it's possible that the name "Grön Diep" is a > dutchified > version of the actual place name. > > I cannot find anything similar to "Grön Diep" on the internet. Does anyone > perhaps immediately recognise what this place might be called today? Hi.. There is no such place in Denmark, however, the translation of "Gruen-kanaal" COULD be GRØNBÆK, (or Grönbaek) and there is such a parish on the peninsula of Jylland here in Denmark. Kind regards, Martin Bjarklev Denmark