thank you Phil and Steve for your responses I can see I need to dig further, the plot thickens. regards Dee -------------------------------------------------- From: <south-africa-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 7:01 PM To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Subject: SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 6, Issue 193 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Erasmus (Denise Whitehead) > 2. Re: Erasmus (Steve Hayes) > 3. Re: Erasmus (Philip Curtis) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 09:52:53 +1200 > From: "Denise Whitehead" <dlwhitehead@xtra.co.nz> > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Erasmus > To: "SA Rootsweb" <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <131FB651EC0A4EBE8410C5161BF47929@DenisePC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:53:52 +0200 > From: "Steve Hayes" <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Erasmus > To: south-africa@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <4E17ECF0.3324.1F8371@localhost> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 06:28:35 +0200 > From: Philip Curtis <russellf97@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Erasmus > To: south-africa@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CAFfEiS2JhZ2Jioh-fjjL3VzODh8iEP7b+D2e7LU46sf1+Eo8Kw@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello Dee, > > ex-parte = from one side only. > > It's a legal expression which means literally 'from a party', applied to a > proceeding in which only one side of the case is presented, and the > opposing > side is absent. > > Regards, > > Phil > > > On 8 July 2011 23:52, Denise Whitehead <dlwhitehead@xtra.co.nz> 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 >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the SOUTH-AFRICA list administrator, send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the SOUTH-AFRICA mailing list, send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 6, Issue 193 > ********************************************