Hello Fay This is my Murdoch family members: Descendants of William Murdoch Generation No. 1 1. WILLIAM1 MURDOCH was born 11 November 1901, and died 02 September 1976 in Cape Town, South Africa.. He married CECILY MAY DAWES 02 December 1928 in Woodstock Presbyterian Church, daughter of WALTER DAWES and SALINA EVANS. She was born 31 August 1901 in Cape Town, South Africa., and died 02 September 1977 in Cape Town, South Africa.. More About WILLIAM MURDOCH and CECILY DAWES: Marriage: 02 December 1928, Woodstock Presbyterian Church Children of WILLIAM MURDOCH and CECILY DAWES are: 2. i. JEAN2 MURDOCH. ii. RODNEY MURDOCH. 3. iii. MICHAEL JOHN MURDOCH, b. 02 November 1934, Cape Town, South Africa.. Generation No. 2 2. JEAN2 MURDOCH (WILLIAM1) She married MR HERBERT. Children of JEAN MURDOCH and MR HERBERT are: i. GRAHAM3 HERBERT. ii. JOHN SUTCLIFF HERBERT. iii. GAIL HERBERT. iv. JENNIFER ANN HERBERT. v. LYN HERBERT. vi. WENDY HERBERT. vii. BEVERLEY HERBERT. 3. MICHAEL JOHN2 MURDOCH (WILLIAM1) was born 02 November 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa.. He married JOAN AUDREY ELLAM. She was born 30 August 1932 in Windhoek. Children of MICHAEL MURDOCH and JOAN ELLAM are: i. STEVEN JOHN3 MURDOCH, b. 26 September 1961; m. RONA SCHNETLER, 17 March 1990, Fish Hoek Presbyterian Church. More About STEVEN MURDOCH and RONA SCHNETLER: Marriage: 17 March 1990, Fish Hoek Presbyterian Church ii. WILLIAM ANTHONY MURDOCH, b. 09 March 1964; m. MICHELLE CHIVERS, 07 November 1998, Pinelands Presbyterian Church. More About WILLIAM MURDOCH and MICHELLE CHIVERS: Marriage: 07 November 1998, Pinelands Presbyterian Church iii. GAVIN WINSTON MURDOCH, b. 05 April 1970; m. MARIA THERESA ASAI, 02 August 2002, Mexico City. More About GAVIN MURDOCH and MARIA ASAI: Marriage: 02 August 2002, Mexico City iv. JUDITH NICOLLETTE MURDOCH, b. 25 May 1972. v. STUART ANDREW MURDOCH, b. 19 March 1974; m. BERNADETTE BUTTERWORTH, 03 March 2001, St. Georges Dockyard Church, Simonstown. More About STUART MURDOCH and BERNADETTE BUTTERWORTH: Marriage: 03 March 2001, St. Georges Dockyard Church, Simonstown regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/socweb.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fay Lea" <cancun@icon.co.za> To: "Heather MacAlister" <heather@genealogy.co.za> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:04 PM Subject: RE: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Surname Interests > Hello Heather, > Wondered if there was any connection to the Beresford in our Flemmer tree, > see below. I would also be interested in your Herbert & Murdoch > connections. > Kind regards Fay > > Oswald Beresford Lonsdale b: in Kingwilliamstown S.A. d: December 23, 1943 > in Parkwood Johannesburg S.A. > Married: Rosa Flemmer b: November 22,1882 in Cradock m: November 15, 1909 > in Cradock South Africa > ...... 2 Rosemary Hilda Beresford Lonsdale b: March 03, 1911 in Boksburg > Transvaal > .......... Married: Harry Dixon Carter m: April 17, 1933 in St George's > Church Parktown Johannesburg > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Heather MacAlister [mailto:heather@genealogy.co.za] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:24 AM > To: SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Surname Interests > > Morning all > > List very quiet indeed - let's speed up things a bit. > Please send your surname interests and introduce yourself to the list > > This is a list of my surname interests for Cape Town: > > Evans > Auber > Ash > Ball > Beresford > Bini > Bollen > Broodryk > Budd > Cheminais > Clementson > Collier > Cressey or Cressy > Dawes > Dillon > Docke > Downham > Drummer > Edwards > Ellwood > Fairbanks > Forbes > Gabb > Gentz > Gibson > Hansford > Herbert > Horsley > Hosford > Hunter > Ingram > Kendall > Lane > Mann > Mathfield > Mosca > Murdoch > Ockleford > Owen > Penrith > Peters > Power > Reddell > Slauck > Small > Smorenburg > White > Woodland > Osborne > kind regards > Heather > > > Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za > The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 > The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands > on names !!! > 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD > The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the > City Bowl until Simonstown. > To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html > Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society.html > > > ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== > Heather's South African Genealogy Help List > www.genealogy.co.za > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. 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Hello Fay With regards to my Beresford's my great grandmothers sister Harriet Yeoman's was married to THOMAS BERESFORD He married FLORENCE HARRIET YEOMAN'S 1920 in Bombay India, daughter of ALEXANDER YEOMAN'S and LOUISA HARRIS. She was born 1874 in England, and died 02 April 1948 in Johannesburg General Hospital. They never had any children and I have no idea when Thomas died - he died after her. We were told that he was related to Lord Beresford (or so the family proclaims !!) kind regards Heather : Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/socweb.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fay Lea" <cancun@icon.co.za> To: "Heather MacAlister" <heather@genealogy.co.za> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:04 PM Subject: RE: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Surname Interests > Hello Heather, > Wondered if there was any connection to the Beresford in our Flemmer tree, > see below. I would also be interested in your Herbert & Murdoch > connections. > Kind regards Fay > > Oswald Beresford Lonsdale b: in Kingwilliamstown S.A. d: December 23, 1943 > in Parkwood Johannesburg S.A. > Married: Rosa Flemmer b: November 22,1882 in Cradock m: November 15, 1909 > in Cradock South Africa > ...... 2 Rosemary Hilda Beresford Lonsdale b: March 03, 1911 in Boksburg > Transvaal > .......... Married: Harry Dixon Carter m: April 17, 1933 in St George's > Church Parktown Johannesburg > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Heather MacAlister [mailto:heather@genealogy.co.za] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:24 AM > To: SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Surname Interests > > Morning all > > List very quiet indeed - let's speed up things a bit. > Please send your surname interests and introduce yourself to the list > > This is a list of my surname interests for Cape Town: > > Evans > Auber > Ash > Ball > Beresford > Bini > Bollen > Broodryk > Budd > Cheminais > Clementson > Collier > Cressey or Cressy > Dawes > Dillon > Docke > Downham > Drummer > Edwards > Ellwood > Fairbanks > Forbes > Gabb > Gentz > Gibson > Hansford > Herbert > Horsley > Hosford > Hunter > Ingram > Kendall > Lane > Mann > Mathfield > Mosca > Murdoch > Ockleford > Owen > Penrith > Peters > Power > Reddell > Slauck > Small > Smorenburg > White > Woodland > Osborne > kind regards > Heather > > > Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za > The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 > The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands > on names !!! > 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD > The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the > City Bowl until Simonstown. > To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html > Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society.html > > > ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== > Heather's South African Genealogy Help List > www.genealogy.co.za > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > >

Hello Jill My Ellwood's come from Fish Hoek - although they are still around one does not always like to phone up relatives and ask then when there kids were born especially if they have no interest what so ever in family history. These folk are all still alive So this is my Ellwood connection: Descendants of Basil Ellwood Generation No. 1 1. BASIL ELLWOOD died 15 June 1992. He married JEAN DILLON, daughter of JOHN DILLON and ALICE WOODLAND (my great grandfather's Richard Woodland's cousin). She was born 20 September. Children of BASIL ELLWOOD and JEAN DILLON are: 2. i. JOHN ANDREW2 ELLWOOD. 3. ii. RUSSELL ELLWOOD. Generation No. 2 2. JOHN ANDREW2 ELLWOOD (BASIL1) He married MRS ELLWOOD. Children of JOHN ELLWOOD and MRS ELLWOOD are: i. ANDREW3 ELLWOOD. ii. GARETH ELLWOOD. iii. STUART ELLWOOD. iv. BRIDGIT ELLWOOD. 3. RUSSELL2 ELLWOOD (BASIL1) He married MRS ELLWOOD2. Child of RUSSELL ELLWOOD and MRS ELLWOOD2 is: i. TODD ALEXANDER3 ELLWOOD. kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/socweb.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Jill Martin To: Heather MacAlister Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] Surname Interests Hi Heather I have an Ellwood in my tree as well. His name was William Bertie Milner ELLWOOD. Ring a bell? Jill

Greetings All Good idea about posting surnames interests: Mine are: Rodwell, de Roos, Ley, Fourie, and de Wit for the moment. Regards Sharon Warr Scribes Ink. Publishing - South African Historical resources on CD Visit our website at www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html

Hello Christine I searched the National Archives at www.national.archives.gov.za and found his death notice: DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/763 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 2287 PART 1 DESCRIPTION CHATTERLEY, DENHAM ROBERT. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 19140000 ENDING 19140000 To get a copy of this you will either need to write to the Cape Town Archives, ask someone on the list, pay a researcher or you can join the Cape Town Family History Society for R100.00 per year where you are entitled to 5 free death notices per year from the Cape Town archives (KAB) as long as you look up the reference. By the way his death notice is not a medical certificate so it probably will not give his cause of death. Death certificates had not been around for very long when he died. kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/socweb.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Anderson" <famhist@iinet.net.au> To: <SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:03 PM Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] New Lister > Hello everyone, > My name is Christine Anderson and I live in Western Australia. > I have located the death of a relative on the English wills Index and would like to order his death certificate. > Can any one advise me of the address for this and the cost. > My details are.. Denham Chatterley died 6th Sept. 1914 > Between Kimberley and De Ar in the colony of the Cape Of Good Hope. > I have not researched in Sth. Africa before, Denham was quite a young man, so wondered what caused his death. > Thankyou to you all, Chris Anderson. > > > > ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== > Cape Town Family History Society > www.genealogy.co.za/society.html > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > >

Hello Eileen This is a transcript from the Book British Residents at the Cape 1795 to 1819 by Peter Philip. I hope this helps. BURKE, Edmund, Capt. 38th Foot. Served SA 1818-20 (21). 26.11.18 arrived in Table Bay in 'British Colony' ex Falmouth (104/25). 17.4.20 PL in 'Baring' for England (88). BURKE, J, Ens. 61st Foot. Served SA 1800-01 (21). BURKE, John. 1798 clerk in the Secretary's Office (27). 5.1.1799 signed loyal address to Gen. Dundas (2). 1801-02 clerk, Secretary's Office & assistant, Paymaster-General's Dept. (21). 3.11.01 security for Wm. Rowe (67). 26.6.02 all persons having claims on J B invited to present them (intending departure?) (25). BURKE (or Burk), V. 1806-10 boatswain, Naval Office (21). 19.9.07 tenders invited to supply victuals for prisoners of war by Mr B, boatswain, Navy Yard or Capt. Culverhouse, agent for POW's (25). 5.5.09 boatswain of the yard (6). kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/socweb.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Eileen Martsch To: Heather MacAlister Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:01 AM Subject: Re: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] BURKE in Cape Town 1823 Thank you Heather for your quick response. I should have made it a little clearer about my Henry Joseph BURKE. As I said before, I do not know who his parents were, but from Army Lists that I have looked at, am wondering if his father was a William BURKE. Henry Joseph married Elizabeth Jane WHITE in 1848, I believe in Stoke Dam'l but am not sure as I have never sent for the certificate. She was born in 1828 Devonport, Devon.. He died Sept. 24, 1892 at 69 years in Plymouth England. He was a retired Lt. Col. Army Pay Dept. I have his will. His 1850 address was in Devonport, Devon as was listed on my g. grandfather's birth certificate. I do not know of any brothers or sisters for Henry. Who were the BURKE entries mentioned in your book of British residents ? Were the years given? What other info was given if any? Thanks again. Eileen Heather MacAlister wrote: Hello Eileen Welcome to our mailing list. Do you know when and where Henry Burke died ? Did he die in Cape Town ? If he died in Cape Town a good place to start is the National Archives website at www.national.archives.gov.za here you can use a system called NAAIRS (National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System). Choose the Cape Town Data Base KAB and then type his first name in the first line and his surname in the second line and then click on enter. You will then be given a list of documents with reference numbers and a brief description. You will not be able to see the document but can either contact the archives concerned and order copies, ask someone nicely on the mailing list or pay a researcher. Who was he married to ? This might also help if he died in Cape Town and you cannot locate his death notice or estate papers Did he have any other brother's or sisters ? This would also help if he does not have a death notice as his parents might be listed on his siblings documents. If you know what religious denomination he belonged to church records can be consulted for his baptismal entry. I have checked through one of my books called British Residents at the Cape 1795 to 1819 and found a couple of Burke entries but their are no children listed. hope this helps Kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileen Martsch" <emartsch@sasktel.net> To: <SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:55 AM Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] BURKE in Cape Town 1823 Dear List: I am a new subscriber. I live in Saskatchewan , Canada. I am a little lost when turning to research in South Africa and hope someone may offer some help. My gg grandfather was Henry Joseph BURKE born July 13, 1823 Capetown, Cape of Good Hope. I do not know his father's name or when they came to SA. I think they would have come from United Kingdom. I believe his father would have been in the military, as was Henry Joseph and sons of succeeding generations. The birth information came from Henry's military record WO76. I am wanting to find his birth record and therefore his parent's names. Can anyone help? 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Morning all List very quiet indeed - let's speed up things a bit. Please send your surname interests and introduce yourself to the list This is a list of my surname interests for Cape Town: Evans Auber Ash Ball Beresford Bini Bollen Broodryk Budd Cheminais Clementson Collier Cressey or Cressy Dawes Dillon Docke Downham Drummer Edwards Ellwood Fairbanks Forbes Gabb Gentz Gibson Hansford Herbert Horsley Hosford Hunter Ingram Kendall Lane Mann Mathfield Mosca Murdoch Ockleford Owen Penrith Peters Power Reddell Slauck Small Smorenburg White Woodland Osborne kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society.html

Morning all Here is part two of the First British Occupation Macartney, too, tried in vain to persuade both black and white to respect the Fish River as the definitive boundary between their respective peoples, but the frontier continued to be a centre of unrest throughout the first British occupation. Fort Frederick was constructed at Al goa Bay, from which troops could be deployed to trouble spots involving either Boers or Xhosa, and Maynier was installed as Resident Commissioner at Graaff-Reinet. However, he lacked anything like the means needed to maintain peace and order, and antagonised the farmers by forbidding them to use armed parties to recover stolen cattle. Finally, the colonial authorities were obliged to recall him. The frontier remained combustible, and the period from 1799 to 1803 was called, in retrospect, the Third Frontier War. Twice the Khoikhoi went into rebellion in conjunction with the Xhosa, and by 1803 the authorities could do no more than make a peace which merely papered over the cracks. It was in a highly unsettled state that, in terms of the Treaty of Amiens between Britain and France, the Cape was handed over to the new Batavian Republic early in 1803. The Batavian occupation, 1803-1806 The regime of the Batavians, which succeeded that of the British, is traditionally associated with the spread of the thinking of the Enlightenment, but in fact it was somewhat more conservative than is usually believed. Unlike the British, the Batavians expected to retain the colony permanently, and sent out one of the members of the Council for Asiatic Possessions, Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, to implement a memorandum which he had submitted in 1802, outlining proposals for extensive reforms in the colony's system of government. Both De Mist and the Governor, Lieutenant- General Jan Willem Janssens, were intent primarily upon imposing order upon the far-flung and loosely structured colony. Tighter organization led inexorably to an increasing degree of centralization of power and, despite De Mist's strong belief in the sovereignty of law and the rights and freedom of the individual, to a more authoritarian approach. The powers of the Governor were extended, and the restored Council of Policy consisted almost entirely of Hollanders, not colonists. The Burgher Council (re named the Raad der Gemeente) remained an appointive body, and attempts were made to reduce its functions further. Central government control was further promoted by the establishment of new drostdies at Uitenhage and Tulbagh in 1804. Districts were subdivided into wards, each under a newly created official, the field-cornet, and a weekly post between the drostdies was instituted. The most significant judicial change was the creation of a Council of Justice, consisting of six members with legal qualifications. The judicature was to be quite independent of the executive. The historian G M Theal and those who followed his lead erred in the belief that the ordinances on religion and education shocked the colonists by their radical nature. In fact, the self-supporting church administration which the Kerkorde of 1804 inaugurated, received considerable support from church boards and ministers alike. Civil marriage was instituted, but the practice was not very different from what had obtained during the days of the Company. Similarly, the Schoolorde of 1805, which was promulgated with the avowed intention of secularizing education in order to train civil servants, was generally welcomed by the colonists because of the advances which it was expected to bring in formal education. Financial stringency also prevented the Batavians from launching a more positive attack upon the problems of the eastern frontier. De Mist and Janssens had both hoped that their administrative reforms would enable them to establish a firmer grip upon the frontiersmen; but to afford them protection was another matter. Janssens was obliged to continue the policies of his predecessors, merely attempting to keep the peace. Khoikhoi were moved into locations, and Dr J T van der Kemp was granted land for a mission station at Bethelsdorp near Algoa Bay. Other Khoikhoi were persuaded to return from the Zuurveld to labour on white farms in terms of a regulation that employers might hire their labour only on a written contract signed before official witnesses. As for the Xhosa, Janssens found himself without the powers of coercion needed to induce the victorious tribesmen to leave the Zuurveld and continued to pursue a policy of merely maintaining a rigid frontier between black and white. kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society.html

Dear List: I am a new subscriber. I live in Saskatchewan , Canada. I am a little lost when turning to research in South Africa and hope someone may offer some help. My gg grandfather was Henry Joseph BURKE born July 13, 1823 Capetown, Cape of Good Hope. I do not know his father's name or when they came to SA. I think they would have come from United Kingdom. I believe his father would have been in the military, as was Henry Joseph and sons of succeeding generations. The birth information came from Henry's military record WO76. I am wanting to find his birth record and therefore his parent's names. Can anyone help? Eileen Martsch emartsch@sasktel.net

Helllo and Good afternoon I am looking for some lost relatives - if anyone is related (fat chance at this stage) or know of anyone researching these surname that would be a great help. Descendants of Thomas Evans Generation No. 1 1. THOMAS1 EVANS was born 1836 in Wrexham, Denbigh, Wales. He married HANNAH MARIA MANN 10 July 1856 in St. Georges Cathedral Cape Town, daughter of MICHAEL MANN and MARY CRESSY. She was born 13 November 1839 in 2 Molineux Street, Marylebone, London, England, and died 1890 in Cape Town. More About THOMAS EVANS: Occupation: Fireman at Gasworks More About HANNAH MARIA MANN: Baptism: 13 November 1839 Children of THOMAS EVANS and HANNAH MANN are: i. EDWARD2 EVANS, b. Abt. 1856. More About EDWARD EVANS: Occupation: Gold Prospector 2. ii. RICHARD JOHNATHAN EVANS, b. 04 January 1857, Cape Town. iii. HANNAH EVANS, b. 20 November 1858, Benning Buildings, Cape Town. More About HANNAH EVANS: Baptism: 16 January 1859, St. Johns Evangelistic Church Cape Town Witness: at baptism Henry William Mann and Hannah Osbourne iv. MARY ANN ELIZABETH EVANS, b. 20 November 1858, Burnings Buildings, Cape Town. More About MARY ANN ELIZABETH EVANS: Baptism: 16 January 1859, St. Johns Evangelistic Church Cape Town v. EMMA MARIA EVANS, b. 30 November 1860, Dixon Street Cape Town; m. SOMEONE HEWSON. More About EMMA MARIA EVANS: Baptism: 23 December 1860, St. Johns Evangelistic Church, Cape Town God Parents: William Mann and Elizabeth Spearing 3. vi. THOMAS WILLIAM EVANS, b. 08 December 1862, Dixon Street, Cape Town; d. 24 April 1939, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape Town. 4. vii. HENRY WILLIAM JOHN EVANS, b. 22 June 1864, Dixon Street, Cape Town; d. 22 February 1906. viii. ELEANOR SELINA EVANS, b. 30 March 1867, 11 Dixon Street, Cape Town. More About ELEANOR SELINA EVANS: Baptism: 05 May 1867, St. Johns Evangelistic Church, Cape Town God Parents: Henry Simpson, Eleanor & Selina Osburn 5. ix. JOHN MICHAEL FREDERICK EVANS, b. 08 March 1869, 11 Dixon Street, Cape Town; d. 08 January 1937, Garrick Road, Woodstock, Cape Town. 6. x. SOPHIA ELIZABETH EVANS, b. 11 February 1871, Waterkant Street, Cape Town; d. Abt. 1951, 37 Nelson Rd, Vasco, Goodwood. 7. xi. SALINA ANN EVANS, b. 19 June 1873, 17 Glynn Cottages, Cape Town; d. 13 July 1959. Generation No. 2 2. RICHARD JOHNATHAN2 EVANS (THOMAS1) was born 04 January 1857 in Cape Town. He married ALICE GEORGINA DRUMMER 04 December 1891 in Johannesberg. She was born 1861 in London, and died 07 April 1895 in SS Geulph - vessel. Notes for RICHARD JOHNATHAN EVANS: Richard was said to have been a Pharmacist in Johannesburg in 1921 and he lived at 22 William Street. He was also reputed to be in the Gold Rush. More About RICHARD JOHNATHAN EVANS: Baptism: 15 February 1857, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Cape Town Occupation: Pharmacist More About ALICE GEORGINA DRUMMER: Burial: 07 April 1895, At sea, at midnight1 Cause of Death: Hemhorraging whilst giving birth More About RICHARD EVANS and ALICE DRUMMER: Marriage: 04 December 1891, Johannesberg Child of RICHARD EVANS and ALICE DRUMMER is: i. CECIL FITZHENRY3 EVANS, b. Kleingelaagte; d. 1969, Cape Town; m. IDA ELIZABETH CAPES; b. 11 November 1897, Cape Town; d. 20 August 1970, Hazelmere, St.Thomas Road, Newlands, Cape Town. Notes for CECIL FITZHENRY EVANS: In 1939 he lived at 11 York Street, Woodstock, Cape Town. More About CECIL FITZHENRY EVANS: Occupation: Lithographer for Heyns Mathews Reference:: Masters Office : 4793/69 More About IDA ELIZABETH CAPES: Reference:: Masters Office 4518/70 3. THOMAS WILLIAM2 EVANS (THOMAS1) was born 08 December 1862 in Dixon Street, Cape Town, and died 24 April 1939 in Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape Town. He married (1) ELIZABETH DAVIS in Wynberg, Cape, daughter of WILLIAM DAVIS and MARY WARD. She died 1957. He married (2) ALICE SARAH JANE GIBSON 25 July 1888. She was born 1871, and died 11 January 1894 in Cape Town. More About THOMAS WILLIAM EVANS: Baptism: 28 December 1862, St Johns Evangelistic Church, Cape Town Burial: 25 April 1939, Woltemade Cemetery, Cape Town (TW Evans Plot 9366B Episcopalian) Cause of Death: Cancer of the throat God Parents: Mrs. F Moyan & Mrs. Chasdowning Occupation: Draper More About THOMAS EVANS and ELIZABETH DAVIS: Marriage: Wynberg, Cape More About ALICE SARAH JANE GIBSON: Burial: 13 January 1894, Maitland Plot of Evans 9366C Episcopal Cause of Death: Typhoid Fever More About THOMAS EVANS and ALICE GIBSON: Marriage: 25 July 1888 Children of THOMAS EVANS and ELIZABETH DAVIS are: i. ROBERT FREDERICK3 EVANS, d. 1970. ii. ELIZABETH ELSIE EVANS, d. 23 January 1955; m. FRANK WALTER HORSLEY; b. Sea Point, Cape Town; d. 15 May 1951, De Beers Road, Strand, Cape. iii. THOMAS WILLIAM EVANS, b. 07 January 1898, Cape Town; d. 08 November 1970, Observatory, Cape Town2; m. ETHEL RAE WARDLAW; d. 08 November 1968. Notes for THOMAS WILLIAM EVANS: In 1939 he lived at no 43 Mountain Road Woodstock, Cape Town. More About THOMAS WILLIAM EVANS: Occupation: Draper Reference:: Masters Office : 6144/70 More About ETHEL RAE WARDLAW: Burial: 19 November 1968, Maitland Cemetery 20046A Reference:: Masters Office : 6599/68 iv. HAROLD RICHARD EVANS, b. 28 September 1908; d. 29 July 1980; m. NELLIE ELIZABETH WOODLAND, 22 May 1937, Woodstock Presbyterian Church, Woodstock, Cape Town; b. 02 July 1918, 5 Mountain Road, Woodstock, Cape Town. More About HAROLD RICHARD EVANS: Occupation: Mechanic - Motor More About NELLIE ELIZABETH WOODLAND: Baptism: 29 September 1918, Woodstock Presbyerian Church, Cape Town Marriage Notes for HAROLD EVANS and NELLIE WOODLAND: Harold was Nellie's first cousin. More About HAROLD EVANS and NELLIE WOODLAND: Marriage: 22 May 1937, Woodstock Presbyterian Church, Woodstock, Cape Town 4. HENRY WILLIAM JOHN2 EVANS (THOMAS1) was born 22 June 1864 in Dixon Street, Cape Town, and died 22 February 1906. He married FRANCISCA DAVIS 15 August 1899 in St. Pauls Rondebosch, daughter of WILLIAM DAVIS and MARY WARD. She was born 02 February 1872, and died 22 June 1900. More About HENRY WILLIAM JOHN EVANS: Baptism: 14 August 1864, St Johns Evangelistic Church, Cape Town Burial: 25 February 1906, Woltemade Cemetery, Cape Town (Plot of TW Evans 9366) Cause of Death: Malarial Fever God Parents: N.J. Cressy & Thomas Evans & Mary Ann Mason More About FRANCISCA DAVIS: Burial: 02 July 1900, Woltemade Cemetery, Cape Town More About HENRY EVANS and FRANCISCA DAVIS: Marriage: 15 August 1899, St. Pauls Rondebosch Child of HENRY EVANS and FRANCISCA DAVIS is: i. FANNY3 EVANS, b. 22 June 1900; d. Rhodesia; m. FRANK INGRAM. 5. JOHN MICHAEL FREDERICK2 EVANS (THOMAS1) was born 08 March 1869 in 11 Dixon Street, Cape Town, and died 08 January 1937 in Garrick Road, Woodstock, Cape Town. He married ANNIE ROSS ADAM 23 December 1891 in Clifton Hill Church, Hanover Street, Woodstock, Cape Town, daughter of JAMES ADAM and JANET MCKENZIE. She was born 1871 in Aberdeen, Scotland, and died 18 July 1921 in Somerset Hospital, Cape Town. More About JOHN MICHAEL FREDERICK EVANS: Baptism: 07 April 1869, St. Johns Evangelistic Church Cape Town Burial: 10 January 1937, Maitland Cemetery (United Section 11593C) Cause of Death: Arterio Sclerosis Ref: 60/1937 Dept. Home Affairs God Parents: I. Lorentz & Elizabeth Lorentz Medical Information: Duration of illness was 2 months Occupation: Coachbuilder S.A.R.H Notes for ANNIE ROSS ADAM: In her will left to James Thomas Greentree was her wedding band and a life policy of 20 pounds. James Greentree MOOC 6/9/2270 Ref: 852/22 Annie sailed from London on October 20 1881 on board the Dublin Castle. It then arrived in Dartmouth on 22 October and arrived in Table Bay on 15 November 1881. Salina Evans was her sister in law More About ANNIE ROSS ADAM: Burial: 19 July 1921, Maitland Cemetery, Cape Town (Plot of McKAY 4485C) Reference:: MOOC 6/9/2052 Cape Town Archives Witness: At wedding was Selina Avans and Sherrif Adam More About JOHN EVANS and ANNIE ADAM: Marriage: 23 December 1891, Clifton Hill Church, Hanover Street, Woodstock, Cape Town Children of JOHN EVANS and ANNIE ADAM are: i. BERTHA FLORENCE3 EVANS, b. 08 June 1895, Church Street, Rondebosch; m. DAVID MORRISON SCOTT. ii. JOHN HENRY EVANS, b. 12 February 1898, Church Street, Rondebosch; d. Bloemfontein, South Africa; m. MARY FLETCHER. iii. JESSIE ANN EVANS, b. 12 November 1892, Cape Town; d. 20 May 1981, Victoria Hospital, Wynberg, Cape Town; m. CHARLES WILLIAM WOODLAND, 30 September 1915, Woodstock Presbyterian Church, Woodstock, Cape Town; b. 02 October 1890, Napier Street, Cape Town; d. 25 September 1945, Woodstock, Cape Town. Notes for JESSIE ANN EVANS: More About CHARLES WILLIAM WOODLAND: Baptism: 02 November 1890, Sacred Heart Church, Somerset Road, Cape Town Burial: 26 September 1945, Maitland Cemetery, Cape Town Cause of Death: Coronary Thrombosis God Parents: Thomas Woodland & Mary Hansford Occupation: South African Railways More About CHARLES WOODLAND and JESSIE EVANS: Marriage: 30 September 1915, Woodstock Presbyterian Church, Woodstock, Cape Town iv. EMMA MARTHA EVANS, b. 28 April 1900, Cape Town; d. 01 February 1979, Cape Town, South Africa.; m. WILLIAM EDWARD WHITE; d. 24 October 1986, Cape Town. More About EMMA MARTHA EVANS: Burial: Maitland Cemetery Reference:: MOOC 2112/1979 More About WILLIAM EDWARD WHITE: Burial: Maitland Cemetery Plot 63608A Reference:: MOOC 205/1987 6. SOPHIA ELIZABETH2 EVANS (THOMAS1) was born 11 February 1871 in Waterkant Street, Cape Town, and died Abt. 1951 in 37 Nelson Rd, Vasco, Goodwood. She married JOSEPH REDDELL, son of WILLIAM REDDELL and ELIZABETH. He was born Abt. 1866 in Birmingham, England, and died 06 November 1923 in Cook Street, Vasco, Goodwood Cape. More About SOPHIA ELIZABETH EVANS: Baptism: 08 March 1871, St. Johns Evangelistic Cape Town God Parents: Henry William Mann & Sophia Mann Children of SOPHIA EVANS and JOSEPH REDDELL are: i. CLIFFORD ARTHUR3 REDDELL, Adopted child; m. GUDRUN. ii. GRACE REDDELL. iii. ARTHUR REDDELL, b. Bef. 1900. iv. ETHEL JANE REDDELL, b. Abt. 1900; m. GEORGE COOK. v. GEORGE PERCY REDDELL, b. 12 October 1903, Cape Town, South Africa.; d. 25 December 1977, Cape Town, South Africa. Estate Number 150/78; m. HENRIETTA BOTHA; b. 20 September 1906; d. 27 September 1992. vi. DORIS REDDELL, b. 16 July 1913; d. Abt. 1996; m. ALFRED ROWAN. 7. SALINA ANN2 EVANS (THOMAS1) was born 19 June 1873 in 17 Glynn Cottages, Cape Town, and died 13 July 1959. She married WALTER EDWARD DAWES 25 April 1899 in Baptist Church Cape Town. He was born Abt. 1869 in Deal, Kent England, and died 03 September 1939. More About SALINA ANN EVANS: Baptism: 27 July 1873, St. Johns Evangalisitic Church Burial: Plumstead Cemetery (Plot EAA 34) God Parents: N.J. Cressy & I. Cressy & S. Osburn More About WALTER EDWARD DAWES: Burial: 03 September 1939, Plumstead Cemetery Occupation: gaoler More About WALTER DAWES and SALINA EVANS: Marriage: 25 April 1899, Baptist Church Cape Town Witnesses: Cecily Marion Dawes and John Edgar Thorndike Children of SALINA EVANS and WALTER DAWES are: i. SONNY3 DAWES, m. MURIEL DAWES. ii. CECILY MAY DAWES, b. 31 August 1901, Cape Town, South Africa.; d. 02 September 1977, Cape Town, South Africa.; m. WILLIAM MURDOCH, 02 December 1928, Woodstock Presbyterian Church; b. 11 November 1901; d. 02 September 1976, Cape Town, South Africa.. More About WILLIAM MURDOCH and CECILY DAWES: Marriage: 02 December 1928, Woodstock Presbyterian Church iii. EMILY DAWES, m. LAWRANCE JACKSON. iv. WILLIAM HENRY DAWES, m. ELSIE GABB. v. ANNIE SALINA DAWES, b. 1910; m. PERCIVAL JOHN STEYN, 02 December 1939, Woodstock Presbyterian Church. More About PERCIVAL JOHN STEYN: Occupation: garage proprietor More About PERCIVAL STEYN and ANNIE DAWES: Marriage: 02 December 1939, Woodstock Presbyterian Church Witnesses: Cecilia and William Murdoch vi. BABY DAWES. Endnotes 1. REF: MOOC 6/9/350 REF: 517 CAPE TOWN ARCHIVES 2. REF: 6144/70 hope you don't all choke on the info regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society.html

Good Afternoon everyone Please find below the second section of this very interesting part of our history The local elite of relatively wealthy farmers of the south-western districts, who dominated the hierarchy of heemraden, church officials and officers in the militia, established a working alliance with the other major sections of Cape society: the farmers of the other regions, the emerging mercantile elite, and the central government of the colony. From the earliest days of British rule, too, the local Afrikaner notables were courted and wooed, a process in which the charming Lady Anne Barnard, whose husband was secretary to the Military Governor of the Cape, Earl Macartney, played an active role. The Governor's wife did not accompany her husband to the Cape, and Lady Anne acted as his official hostess, entertaining the colonial elite at the Castle. Although she endeared her self personally to the colonists by the warmth of her personality and her genuine interest in their way of life, these efforts at conciliation were not conspicuously successful, for the Afrikaner population was sharply divided between those who were prepared to collaborate (the Anglo mannen) and those who rejected the overtures with contempt (the so-called Jacobijnen). The main task confronting the British on their arrival was the restoration of peace on the eastern frontier of the colony, since the naval base, Cape Town, was dependent for its meat supply upon the hinterland, especially upon Graaff-Reinet. By the late eighteenth century, the settlement of the Gqunukhwebe and other peoples in the area between the Fish and the Bushmans rivers in the Zuurveld had begun to be challenged by the whites. Exasperated at the failure of the colonial authorities to protect them against the Xhosa and their refusal even to allow them to defend themselves, the colonists of Graaff-Reinet expelled the unpopular landdrost, Maynier, set up a republican government and renounced their allegiance to the VOC in the very week in which the British fleet arrived to occupy the Cape. Swellendam followed suit. Craig reacted decisively to this threat. He cut off all supplies of goods, including ammunition, to Graaff-Reinet, and when a Batavian fleet which had sailed from Europe to attempt to re cover the Cape, was forced to surrender, the Graaff-Reinet farmers submitted to the new regime. Yet in their very submission lay hints of further trouble. They requested permission to be allowed to occupy land beyond the Fish River, which had been the official boundary of the colony since the days of Van Plettenberg. The British, like their Dutch predecessors, lacked the means to embark upon a policy for adequate control of relations between colonists and Xhosa; they therefore fell back upon at tempting to maintain a rigid boundary between black and white, and to insist on a policy of non- intercourse. Craig sternly warned against acts of hostility against the Xhosa or against any at tempt to dispossess them of their land. 'With what face,' he demanded indignantly, 'can you ask of me to allow you to occupy lands which belong to other people? What right can I have to give you the property of others?. Reflect for a moment on what would be your own sensations were you to hear that I was even debating on a proposal. . . to turn you out of your farms, and to give them to others.' kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za The 1902 Municipal Voters Roll of Cape Town - Districts 1 to 6 The 1878 Voters Roll for the Cape is now available with tens of thousands on names !!! 1805, 1829, 1835 and 1849 Cape Almanacs now on CD The Juta's Directory of 1900 which lists residents of Cape Town from the City Bowl until Simonstown. To view our catalogue go to www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society.html

Morning all and welcome to the Cape Town mailing list. To start off I will be sending snippets of interesting information of historical interest. If anyone would like to comment or add to it please feel free. The Occupations of the Cape, 1795-1854 For the inhabitants of the Cape Colony, the coming of British rule in 1795 at first brought few striking changes in the ways of living to which they had long been accustomed. Geography and climate continued to set bounds to the freedom of choice and action of all the people and communities of the region. The vast distances which separated the colony from the centres of world population, the inhospitable coastline, the absence of navigable rivers to penetrate the interior, the irregularity of the rainfall - these, together with the exceptionally sparse population and the absence of cheap labour and advanced agricultural techniques, ensured that the colony's productivity would be limited. Its domestic market was underdeveloped, and until at least one export staple could be produced, ties with the wider world would continue to be all too heavily dependent upon passing ships. To these environmental constraints upon change was added the profound weight of deep- seated social forces. Contrary to what is traditionally thought, the Cape was one of the most closed and rigid slave societies in the era of European colonization. In 1795 the largest sector of the colonial population was the slaves, of whom there were some 25 000. Next in number came the 20 000 white colonists, followed by 15 000 Khoikhoi and some 1 000 free blacks. During the eighteenth century Cape society had come to be dominated by a privileged white caste, determined to preserve and strengthen the solid legal and customary barriers between free and unfree and between white and black. The habit of differentiation on the basis of race did not originate on the colonial frontier, as has been believed since the classic work of I D MacCrone (Race Attitudes in South Africa) in 1937; it was deeply embedded in the society of the original, settled western districts of the colony long before a recognizable frontier existed, and continued to evolve there after the frontier had disappeared. Nor did the Enlightenment thinking of the late eighteenth century have any marked early impact upon the colony. Whatever slogans the activists of Graaff-Reinet and Swellendam might mouth in the 1790s, they were motivated by individual and group self-interest rather than by ideological principles; only in the western districts did Enlightenment ideals reveal any strength among the colonists. The limited objectives of the British in occupying the Cape in 1795 served to reinforce the maintenance of the status quo. Their primarily strategic aim of preventing the Cape from falling into the hands of the arch imperial rival, France, and their assumption that the occupation would be temporary, resulted in the new British rulers setting their minds to the task of preserving law and order and taking pains to conciliate and to win the loyalty of their new subjects. When the need to make the colony pay for itself was subsequently impressed upon the governors, this merely heightened their aware ness of the need to avoid disturbing the delicate social and political equilibrium. Between 1795 and 1814, while the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars raged in Europe, the Cape changed hands three times. This transitional period did not end until the Dutch permanently ceded the Cape to Great Britain at the London Convention of 13 August 1814. The first British occupation, 1795-1803 The British military government which took over the Cape in 1795 was all too conscious of the widespread local opposition to the occupation. While standing firm on matters of fundamental importance to their hold upon the colony, they guaranteed the maintenance of the existing laws and customs of the settlement, including the Roman-Dutch legal system. They promised that no new taxes would be levied, and they guaranteed the property rights as well as the money circulated by the VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or Dutch East India Company). The Council of Policy was replaced by a Governor, in whose hands all civil and military power was concentrated. On the departure for India of the British fleet under Clarke and Elphinstone, General Craig took over the government, which he administered in a sympathetic and efficient manner. Arrears of land rents were remitted and the commission of the High Court was replaced by a nominated Burgher Senate whose members were appointed by the Governor from lists submitted by the Senate itself, and whose responsibilities were extended. The new authorities also took full advantage of a social process which had set in from the l780s, i.e. the emergence of a colonial gentry and its interpenetration with the class of leading officials. In the latter part of the eighteenth century the heemraden, through their control over local resources such as land and labour, were able to assert their pre-eminence in the colonial countryside and to extend this power in part to the central organs of government. Contrary to Afrikaner nationalist tradition, Afrikaner society was not egalitarian, but increasingly stratified. regards Heather

Hello everyone, My name is Christine Anderson and I live in Western Australia. I have located the death of a relative on the English wills Index and would like to order his death certificate. Can any one advise me of the address for this and the cost. My details are.. Denham Chatterley died 6th Sept. 1914 Between Kimberley and De Ar in the colony of the Cape Of Good Hope. I have not researched in Sth. Africa before, Denham was quite a young man, so wondered what caused his death. Thankyou to you all, Chris Anderson.