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    1. Re:my Capetown ancestors named BODILY
    2. Elva Hanly
    3. Hi Luann, There is also a barque "Susan" which was grounded in March 1846 at Algoa Bay, listed in the Marine Casualty Database Southern African Coast. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/2216/text/MARITIME.TXT Regards, Elva >> Following is a letter written by Jane Pittam Bodily wife of Robert >> Bodily Sr. to an aunt in Great Britain: Cape Town, Sept. 13, 1847 >> Dear Aunt: I hope these few lines with our kind love will find you >> all well as it leaves us so at this time. >> My husband is still working in the engineers department. The work has >> been very slack this winter, there has been but two or three masons >> all winter. Robert and one more that came in the "Susan," the vessel >> before us.

    07/26/2005 06:42:27