Hi Patty, If there's a chance that they could have belonged to the Anglican church, you can browse through these on familysearch : https://familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffamilysearch.org%2Frecapi%2Fsord%2Fwaypoint%2FMCM6-QNL%3A44975801%2C44975802%2C49789201%3Fcc%3D1468076 Linda On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Accounts IBF <[email protected]>wrote: > Registration of the birth should be recorded at the Cape Archives so > perhaps > they could be of assistance with that? My husband found his grandmother's > birth record in large handwritten volumes that are kept at the archives. As > far as the baptism record goes, do you know what church they would have > attended? (presume Dutch Reformed?) Do you know her exact date of birth or > can you calculate the approximate date from her date of death? > > > > Antoinette Saunders > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patty > Myers > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:42 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [ZA-EC] Willowmore > > My grandmother Maria Magdalena Gertruida van der Mescht was born around > 1896 > and would imagine in Willowmore as I know her parents lived there as they > raised my mother when Maria died in 1931. > > I am looking for a baptism record for her. Can anyone steer me in the > right > direction of where to look. > > > > Kind regards > > Patty > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks Linda, I'll have a peek but I think they were Dutch Reformed. She married Miles Walker Capstick in PE and that marriage would probably been in the Anglican Church as my mother was baptised in St Pauls St Barnabas Church. -----Original Message----- From: Linda Farrell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 10 April 2014 11:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Willowmore Hi Patty, If there's a chance that they could have belonged to the Anglican church, you can browse through these on familysearch : https://familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffamilysearch.o rg%2Frecapi%2Fsord%2Fwaypoint%2FMCM6-QNL%3A44975801%2C44975802%2C49789201%3F cc%3D1468076 Linda On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Accounts IBF <[email protected]>wrote: > Registration of the birth should be recorded at the Cape Archives so > perhaps they could be of assistance with that? My husband found his > grandmother's birth record in large handwritten volumes that are kept > at the archives. As far as the baptism record goes, do you know what > church they would have attended? (presume Dutch Reformed?) Do you know > her exact date of birth or can you calculate the approximate date from > her date of death? > > > > Antoinette Saunders > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Patty Myers > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:42 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [ZA-EC] Willowmore > > My grandmother Maria Magdalena Gertruida van der Mescht was born > around > 1896 > and would imagine in Willowmore as I know her parents lived there as > they raised my mother when Maria died in 1931. > > I am looking for a baptism record for her. Can anyone steer me in the > right direction of where to look. > > > > Kind regards > > Patty > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >