Hello Bryan Welcome to the list. First of all do you have a death notice or estate papers for Percy Matchett ? Well I have found his estate papers in the Cape Town Archives - you can search on line for estate papers, divorce papers, wills, liquidation and distribution accounts, mortgage bonds and much more at www.national.archives.gov.za You need to choose the option National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System - then you need to choose a database. If you think you know which province the person died in then choose that data base but if you are not sure select the one called RSA. When looking for a name do not type the whole name and surname in the first line - put the first name in the first name and then the second name in the second line and then click enter. You will then be told how many matches there are to your query - then click on "Result Summary" you can then look at a glance if any of the listings might be what you are looking for. You can then double click on one of the references that looks like a match. Then you will be given a brief description of what the contents of that file is on. You will not be able to view, buy or order this on line but will either have to write directly to the archive concerned, ask someone nicely on the list or pay a reputable or recommended researcher. I found 27 matches for the word "Matchett" - if you need any other help give me a shout kind regards Heather DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/5738 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 66928 PART 1 DESCRIPTION MATCHETT, PERCY NEVELL. ESTATE PAPERS. STARTING 19390000 ENDING 19390000 SELECT SOURCE VOLUME NO REFERENCE DESCRIPTION BEGIN DATE END DATE T 927 3688 MATCHETT AND CO, GLASGOW REQUIRES INFORMATION RE COMMERCE AND 1905 1905 CO 8365 X10,653 LIEUTENANT D MARTIN, LIEUTENANT J BRINK AND E MATCHETT, OUDTSHOORN 1906 1906 AG 1552 16014 MATCHETT, PRIVATE. CLAIM FOR $0-4-4 RAILWAY FARE. VRYBURG. 1904 1905 AG 1800 13494 MATCHETT, EM. LETTER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL CONCERNING CRANSWICK, A 1907 1907 PIO 1495 65655E IMMIGRATION PAPERS. MISS RR MATCHETT. 1954 1954 MOOC 13/1/6410 3254 MATCHETT, RICHARD WILLEY. LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNTS. 1928 1928 MOOC 6/9/14765 1054/48 MATCHETT, MARY CATHERINE. NEE WILLEY. ESTATE PAPERS. 1948 1948 MOOC 6/9/4088 33883 MATCHETT, DOUGLAS JOHN. ESTATE PAPERS. 1932 1932 DOC 4/1/438 2461 MORTGAGE BOND. SARAH ANN HADFIELD, BORN MATCHETT. 1895 1895 MOOC 6/9/3390 19802 MATCHETT, RICHARD WILLEY. ESTATE PAPERS. 1928 1928 3/CT 4/2/1/3/2940 B3614/54 MINOR WORKS: 20, CAMP GROUND ROAD, MOWBRAY: E MATCHETT. 1954 1954 MOIB 2/2482 171 PATERSON, ROBERT BAIRD. AND JOHN THOMAS MATCHETT. INSOLVENT 1900 1901 MOIB 2/2482 171 MATCHETT, JOHN THOMAS. AND ROBERT BAIRD PATERSON. INSOLVENT 1900 1901 MOIB 2/2511 96 PATERSON, ROBERT BAIRD. AND JOHN THOMAS MATCHETT. INSOLVENT 1902 1902 MOIB 2/2511 96 MATCHETT, JOHN THOMAS. AND ROBERT BAIRD PATERSON. INSOLVENT 1902 1902 MOIB 2/2542 36 PATERSON, ROBERT BAIRD. AND JOHN THOMAS MATCHETT. INSOLVENT 1903 1903 MOIB 2/2542 36 MATCHETT, JOHN THOMAS. AND ROBERT BAIRD PATERSON. INSOLVENT 1903 1903 MOIB 2/2564 147 PATERSON, ROBERT BAIRD. AND JOHN THOMAS MATCHETT. INSOLVENT 1903 1903 MOIB 2/2564 147 MATCHETT, JOHN THOMAS. AND ROBERT BAIRD PATERSON. INSOLVENT 1903 1903 DOC 4/1/908 874 MORTGAGE BOND. JOHN THOMAS MATCHETT OR MATCHEFF. 1903 1903 SELECT SOURCE VOLUME NO REFERENCE DESCRIPTION BEGIN DATE END DATE 3/CT 4/2/1/3/2538 B6483 PROPOSED MINOR WORKS AT PREMISES, "MILLWOOD". 7, STANLEY ROAD, 1952 1952 PIO 1801 79358E IMMIGRATION PAPERS. LR MATCHETT. 1956 1956 MOOC 6/9/4829 52025 HAWKER, FLORENCE. NEE MATCHETT. ESTATE PAPERS. 1936 1936 MOOC 6/9/4977 56423 MATCHETT, EMMA ISIT. NEE WARREN. ESTATE PAPERS. 1937 1937 MOOC 6/9/5288 64603 PEGGS, MONICA. NEE MATCHETT. ESTATE PAPERS. 1939 1939 MOOC 6/9/5738 66928 MATCHETT, PERCY NEVELL. ESTATE PAPERS. 1939 1939 MOOC 6/9/12682 707/46 MATCHETT, JOHN THOMAS. ESTATE PAPERS. 1946 1946 Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za Scribes Ink. Publishing - South African Genealogy on CD www.genealogy.co.za/scribes.html Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan King" <bking@sprint.ca> To: <SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:49 PM Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] John Clement Page > Hi All > > I hope I've found the right list. I'm interested in descendants of John > Clement Page, who died in Cape, South Africa in 1937. His daughter, Violet Hebe > Page married Percy Newall Matchett on 11th April 1923. They had five children > Douglas, Alan, Elizabeth, Doreen, and Peter. Elizabeth married a K Perron, and > Doreen married a M K Dreyer. The descendants that I know of are Margaret > Matchett, Douglas Matchett, Richard Matchett and Susan Mattcett, Simon Matchett, > and Sarah Matchett The Perron family had all daughters, their names being > Beverly, Sheryl, Lesley, and Deborah, while the Dreyer family had a Alison and > Gordon. These children were all born in the 1950's and 1960's, they and their > families must still me alive. > > They may know of the Page family connection, to England through a researcher > named Raymond Page of Norwich. > > I'm hoping to contact present day relatives of these families, our common > ancestor's were Thomas Page and Elizabeth Tooley. > > Any help would be appreciated. I've never tried to do research in South > Africa before. > > Bryan King > Calgary, Alberta > Canada > > > > > ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== > SCRIBES Ink. 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