On 25 Jan 2014, at 4:59 PM, Tombi Peck wrote (snip): > Perhaps the confusion about whether it was in Pretoria or > Johannesburg came about as it's situated in Johannesburg but in the > early days of Johannesburg it fell under the Diocese of Pretoria?! > Best wishes, > Tombi Peck > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message Correct -- Johannesburg was a small settlement at that time, mainly centred round the gold-mines, and Pretoria, although of course nowhere near as big as it is today, was the seat of Government of the ZAR. Johannesburg grew very quickly but not is such a helter-skelter manner as Kimberley, because Kimberley was open-cast mining in one "blue clay" pipe, whereas Johannesburg involved far more capital investment and much more onerous underground mining into rock. But any Lister on the Cornish Rootsweb List will be aware of the saying that if you looked into a hole anywhere in the world there would be sure to be a Cornishman at the bottom of it; as the iron mining in Cornwall declined because of falling yields, the miners went to California for the 1849 Rush, and in turn to New South Wales a few years later, and to Chile, Peru, Tasmania, New Zealand and many other places, and you'll find recognizably Cornish names in all these countries. O course many of their descendants stayed on in other occupations: I well remember a butcher in Alice, in the Eastern Cape, called "Tremeer". (He called his shop the "Reemert Butchery"!) Andrew Rodger [email protected]