On 12 Apr 2011 at 21:47, Hetta Scholtz wrote: > had a look on my wallmap, it is between Christiana and Bloemhof. I suppose she > lived previously at Britten but now she is in Klerksdorp, not that the name of > the place changed, even though I first thought that was the meaning of the > words. I see on NAAIRS there was a rail accident at Britten in the 1930's. > Wonder what happened? H > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paxie Kelsey > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:36 PM > To: SA Eastern Cape Rootsweb ; SA Immigrants Rootsweb ; > south-africa@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Britten Station > > Thanks Hetta ... Christiana is obviously correct ... > Not to say anyone is incorrect at all ... I just wondered about the veracity > of the statement in the file ... Hetta see my answer posted in answer to Ian > ... Steve ?? any more thoughts?? P I looked for it in the New Dictionary of South African Place Names and it wasn't listed. I think Hetta is probably right -- that she was living there and moved to Klerksdorp. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk Web: http://hayesstw.tumblr.com/ (follow me on Tumblr) Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525