Hello Eileen The best place to start is the National Archives. You can search for documents references on-line at www.national.archives.gov.za you will however only be given some references numbers and a brief description of the document. You will either have to ask someone nicely on the mailing list or contact the archives directly. I did find a death notice for Eduardo - this death notice might give insight to his parentage and his descendants. DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 6/9/343 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 1573 PART 1 DESCRIPTION DE CARVALHO, EDUARDO AUGUSTO. DEATH NOTICE. STARTING 18950000 ENDING 18950000 DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 13/1/780 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 165 PART 1 DESCRIPTION DE CARVALHO, EDUARDO AUGUSTO. LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT. STARTING 18960000 ENDING 18960000 kind regards Heather 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: "Eileen Flinn" <david.flinn@ntlworld.com> To: <SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:23 AM Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] DE CARVALHO > Hello everyone, > > I am trying to trace the origins of Eduardo Augusto DE CARVALHO. I believe that he was born around 1835 in Lisbon and eventually became 1st Portuguese Consul in the Cape of Good Hope in 1881. > > If anyone knows anything about this family or could give me any pointers on how to proceed, I would love to hear from you. > > Eileen Flinn > Nottingham, England > > > > ==== 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 > > > >