On 9 Jul 2011 at 9:52, Denise Whitehead wrote: > Hello again listers, > > I have found NAAIRS doc that says ; > Description ex Parte application, Charles Edward Erasmus > Starting 1963 > Ending 1963 > I may be clutching at straws as I have no other information about him other > than his parents were Theunis Theodore Erasmus and Golda Sally Woolf. Sally > and Theunis were married in Barberton 1884 so I surmise he must have been born > after that. His siblings were Edmund Theodore(1895 1948) Isabel and Alice. > > Can anyone please tell me what ex parte application means? > Dee Ex Parte is an application for a cort order in which there is no opposing party. Sometimes it is for a change of name, or asking to do something contrary to the provisions of a will in a deceased estate or something like that. -- 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