Hello out there This is the last mail I have received, do I have a problem? Lucky -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary Shearar Sent: 10 January 2014 01:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Resending Memories, West Rand I remember the time when a mother called her children to come in side ,they listened at once and when they got inside there was a sink hole where they had been playing {Oh for children who listen at once today!] Mary Shearar ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 6:04 AM Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Resending Memories, West Rand > Morning Lucky,Google " Flooding of the West Wits Line," for details of > what actually happened at that time.Regards,Rod g > From: [email protected] > Sent: 2014/01/06 08:51:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: RE: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Resending Memories My cousins were > born there in the 70's the family moved to Welkom after what happened > at Blyvooruiysicht with the sink holes in the same street. > > Lucky > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Deare > Sent: 06 January 2014 08:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Resending Memories > > My Grandparents managed a hotel in Welkom in the 70's. Grandmother was > a tiny thing and she had to drive all the drunks out of the pub with > her broom at closing time. > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laquita > Belinfante > Sent: 06 January 2014 07:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Resending Memories > > Tombi > > With a name like Laquita Belinfante classmates use to speak to me in > pidgeon English, and I had great fun answering them in Afrikaans. > > Did you ever come across the Mollentze family while living at the St. > Helene > Mine in Welkom? They are one of my brickwalls. > > Lucky > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tombi Peck > Sent: 05 January 2014 04:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] early South Africa > > Thank you very much for this information Brian. > I try (where possible) to use the correct name for an area at the time > of the specific occurrence. I get irritated when people add a date in > the late 1800's and use the name Gauteng! > Do you know the date the names Gauteng, Mpumulanga (spelling?) etc. > came into use. > I for instance was born in the Union of South Africa and married in > the Republic of South Africa. > I tend to use the names of the individual countries here in the U.K...... > It was only after I left St. John's D.S.G. in Pietermaritzburg to go > to school in the Transvaal that I learned that most of the girls I was > at school with thought I came from the Island of St. Helena rather than St. > Helena Mine, Welkom! > Best wishes, > Tombi > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Margetson" > To: > Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 2:02 PM > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] early South Africa > > >> *Dates used by me when entering place names:-* >> >> >> *Transoranje 1830s to 1848* >> >> *Orange River >> *Sovereignty >> >> Sir Harry Smith >> proclaimed British sovereignty over the Transorange on >> >> 3rd February 1848 up until 16th February, 1854 >> >> *Republic of Orange Free State * >> >>>From 17th February, 1854 until 30th May, 1902 >> >> (Although the British annexed the OFS republic on 6th October, 1900 >> the boers and President Steyn had not conceded) >> >> *Orange River Colony* >> >>>From Treaty of >>>Vereeniging >> on 31st May, 1902 until 31st May, 1910 >> >> >> *ZAR ....* *Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek**-----Transvaal Republic* >> >> Est. 1852 & independent 1856 -1877, then again from 3-8-1881-1900. >> >> In between 1877-1881 it was Transvaal Colony. >> >> Annexation of Tvl......1st September, 1900 >> >> *Colony of Transvaal * >> >>>From 31st May, 1902 until 31st May, 1910 >> >> *NATAL.........*Natalia Republic from 12th October, 1839. >> >> Britain annexed 12th May, 1843 thence Colony of Natal to 31st May, 1910. >> >> ++++++ >> >> *Nieuwe Republiek* part the old Boer Republic of Natalia...see below >> weblink >> >> On August 5, 1884 was formed the Nieuwe Republiek (New Republic) with >> Vryheid as its capital. >> >> On 20 July 1888 it was incorporated into the South African Republic, >> [ZAR] when the British annexed Zululand. >> >> After the ABW reincorporated into Colony of Natal in 1903. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuwe_Republiek >> >> >> For the* Cape* I use Cape of Good Hope up until abt 1710 and then >> Cape Colony to 31st May, 1910. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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