I am hoping someone on the list can explain to me what the Colonial Orphan Chambers were. In 1905 my husband's grandfather was before the magistrates in Cape Town for unpaid rent to this organisation. He was a clergyman so maybe worked/lived at the Chambers. Would be grateful for any assistance with this or any information about the names (below) which I'm researching. If any listers are researching these families, I'll be more than willing to share information with them. Thanks, Jan Hill Researching in S Africa: Rev Frederick WINGATE (various postings 1890-1910). He married Dorothy Maxwell. THOMPSON family (descendents of Francis THOMPSON b. 1829 Yorkshire ENGLAND, died in native raid on his son's farm, Cornforth Hill near Kimberley in 1878. MAXWELL family (John MAXWELL married Penelope THOMPSON (b 1851, daughter of Francis Thompson and sister to Francis "Matabele" Thompson, a colleague of Rhodes)