Hi Rowena If you are going to share the photos before they are posted on the eGGSA site, I would be most interested in a copy of the PHILIPPS grave. Thank you Ian Currie On 2014/03/11 11:27 PM, Rowena Nelson wrote: > Greetings All > > Thanks to the directions from our wonderful hostess at Glencoe Guest House > (KWT) and the encouragement of Gail Röthlin, we managed to find the Toise > River church and burial ground. > > Travelling on the N6 between Stutterheim and Cathcart, take the turnoff > signposted Toise onto a dirt road. As the road is about to make a 90 > degree bend to the right, continue straight - the tracks are barely visible > and are very overgrown, but the churchyard is just a little up ahead on the > left, surrounded by pines, and, in fact, backs onto the N6. If you had > continued on the main dirt road, taking the sharp bend to the right, this > would have taken you between some farms, one of which has an old water > wheel on it - if you see this, you know you've gone too far. The > coordinates are S 32°27'54.2" E 27°22'57.4". > > Unfortunately, the weather, the undergrowth (mostly over waist-high!) and > time were against us, so we were not able to find the grave of our family > member who ought to be buried there, but we did manage to photograph a > few of the gravestones in the time we had, which I'll be sending through to > the eGSSA Photo Project soon, but in the meantime, the list of the legible > ones we managed to photograph are as follows: > > ALEXANDER Isabel Louise > BOTES Dina Johanna > CAWTHORN Annie Charlotta & CAWTHORN Thomas > ELLA Grace Mary > ELS Obed N. > EVENS Fannie Amelia > JAMES Burton Hayward > JAMES Ethel > JAMES Hannah > JAMES J.I. > JAMES Percival Cedric > JAMES William Irvine > JOHNSTON George > JOUBERT Johannes Jacobus Jannie > KELLY Agnes Newsam Ella > KELLY Fraser > MARSHALL Cecilia Jane > PHILIPPS Esme Winifred & ELLA Alfred Newsam > PUSEY Maria (Polly) > SHEARD Florence Mary > SHEARD Henry Newton & SHEARD Charlotte Letitia > > Kind regards > Rowena > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >