DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 7/1/508 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 1646 PART 1 DESCRIPTION SHEARER, JANE MARIA WOODWARD. WIFE OF CLEMENT WALTER ASHLEY. WILL. STARTING 18880000 ENDING 18880000 REMARKS FILED IN 1888. DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 13/1/577 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 26 PART 1 DESCRIPTION ASHLEY, JANE MARIA WOODWARD. LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT. STARTING 18880000 ENDING 18900000 DEPOT KAB SOURCE CSC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 2/1/1/433 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 320 PART 1 DESCRIPTION ILLIQUID CASE. JANE MARIA WOODWARD COOMBER, BORN SHEARER, VERSUS HARRY COOMBER. ACTION FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BONDS OF MARRIAGE. STARTING 19030000 ENDING 19030000 A few other entries on www.national.archives.gov.za as well. Cape archives. You will need to write to them for copies or hire a private researcher to do it for you. Regards Marielle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Property Listing Association" <proplist@iafrica.com> To: <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] ELLEN STANTON - Death Certificates Hi Malcolm Thanks for the email. We have been researching the Ashley surname and have had one large hiccup in the process. Our main search was to find information on our Great Grandmother Jane Maria Woodward Ashley (nee Shearer). Below is a brief breakdown starting with her grandfather. Woodward Family - Joseph Woodward, b. 1808 Gravesend Kent England d. 22 May 1860 aged 52. Married Jane Lawrence (d. 1900 Cape Town) on 11 Oct 1830 at St Helena. Children are Sarah Louisa Woodward b. Nov 1831 St Helena, (baptised 5 Jan 1832 St Helena) and Mary Elizabeth Woodward b. 30 May 1833 St Helena,( baptised 16 Jan 1834 St Helena) d. 1903 aged 70). Shearer Family -Mary Elizabeth Woodward married 26 March 1856 St Pauls Church Rondebosch Cape William Ferris Shearer (b. 1834 d. 1882 aged 48). They had 9 children of which Jane Maria Woodward Shearer is our Great Grandmother and is the line we are following. Ashley Family - Jane Maria Woodward Shearer (b.12 March 1859 Baptised 24 April 1859). Married 09 May 1877 Clement Walter Ashley (son of George Alfred Ashley) born 1856 d. 29 Nov 1888). 7 children were born from this marriage. This is where our researching gave us a jolt to discover that Jane Maria remarried and our Grandfather's surname was not Ashley but Coomber and he had a brother of which we had no knowledge of at all. Coomber Family - Jane Maria Woodward Ashley married Harry Coomber 11 August 1896 in the Transvaal. According to the marriage certificate his age was 32 and his birth place was Sussex England. Two children were born from this marriage namely Edwin Langford Coomber (our Grandfather) b. 1896 d. 1928 and Lewis Woodward Coomber b. 1898 d. 1958. Action for the dissolution of the bonds of marriage was made by Jane Maria in 1903 (copies are in our possession). She then must have changed both her and the children's surname to Ashley as both their death notices state surname Ashley. Whether this was done legally or not we don't know. Copy of our grandfather's death Notice (Edwin Langford Ashley) reads name of mother Jane Maria Ashley (widow) so we presume she was still alive at that time. Copy of Lewis Woodward Coomber's death Notice reads (Lewis Woodward Ashley) and states mother deceased. Both Death Notices state place of death Pretoria. We have been trying to find a Death Notice or Estate Papers for our Great Grandmother Jane Maria Woodward Ashley using both the Surname Ashley and Coomber. All avenues tried have come back with no results. Unfortunately we have no idea where she was living, whether she left Pretoria and went back to the Cape where her immediate family were or even if she remarried although at the time that my Great Grandfather died she was 69 years old. So this is where we are sitting - the last piece of this puzzle unsolved. Thankng you Penny Hobbs(nee Ashley)

Hi Marielle Thanks very much but I have these documents Regards Penny Hobbs   -----Original Message----- From: south-africa-eastern-cape-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:south-africa-eastern-cape-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Marielle Ford Sent: 04 December 2012 10:58 AM To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com Subject: [ZA-EC] ASHLEY - COOMBER - SHEARER DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 7/1/508 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 1646 PART 1 DESCRIPTION SHEARER, JANE MARIA WOODWARD. WIFE OF CLEMENT WALTER ASHLEY. WILL. STARTING 18880000 ENDING 18880000 REMARKS FILED IN 1888. DEPOT KAB SOURCE MOOC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 13/1/577 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 26 PART 1 DESCRIPTION ASHLEY, JANE MARIA WOODWARD. LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT. STARTING 18880000 ENDING 18900000 DEPOT KAB SOURCE CSC TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 2/1/1/433 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 320 PART 1 DESCRIPTION ILLIQUID CASE. JANE MARIA WOODWARD COOMBER, BORN SHEARER, VERSUS HARRY COOMBER. ACTION FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BONDS OF MARRIAGE. STARTING 19030000 ENDING 19030000 A few other entries on www.national.archives.gov.za as well. Cape archives. You will need to write to them for copies or hire a private researcher to do it for you. Regards Marielle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Property Listing Association" <proplist@iafrica.com> To: <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] ELLEN STANTON - Death Certificates Hi Malcolm Thanks for the email. We have been researching the Ashley surname and have had one large hiccup in the process. Our main search was to find information on our Great Grandmother Jane Maria Woodward Ashley (nee Shearer). Below is a brief breakdown starting with her grandfather. Woodward Family - Joseph Woodward, b. 1808 Gravesend Kent England d. 22 May 1860 aged 52. Married Jane Lawrence (d. 1900 Cape Town) on 11 Oct 1830 at St Helena. Children are Sarah Louisa Woodward b. Nov 1831 St Helena, (baptised 5 Jan 1832 St Helena) and Mary Elizabeth Woodward b. 30 May 1833 St Helena,( baptised 16 Jan 1834 St Helena) d. 1903 aged 70). Shearer Family -Mary Elizabeth Woodward married 26 March 1856 St Pauls Church Rondebosch Cape William Ferris Shearer (b. 1834 d. 1882 aged 48). They had 9 children of which Jane Maria Woodward Shearer is our Great Grandmother and is the line we are following. Ashley Family - Jane Maria Woodward Shearer (b.12 March 1859 Baptised 24 April 1859). Married 09 May 1877 Clement Walter Ashley (son of George Alfred Ashley) born 1856 d. 29 Nov 1888). 7 children were born from this marriage. This is where our researching gave us a jolt to discover that Jane Maria remarried and our Grandfather's surname was not Ashley but Coomber and he had a brother of which we had no knowledge of at all. Coomber Family - Jane Maria Woodward Ashley married Harry Coomber 11 August 1896 in the Transvaal. According to the marriage certificate his age was 32 and his birth place was Sussex England. Two children were born from this marriage namely Edwin Langford Coomber (our Grandfather) b. 1896 d. 1928 and Lewis Woodward Coomber b. 1898 d. 1958. Action for the dissolution of the bonds of marriage was made by Jane Maria in 1903 (copies are in our possession). She then must have changed both her and the children's surname to Ashley as both their death notices state surname Ashley. Whether this was done legally or not we don't know. Copy of our grandfather's death Notice (Edwin Langford Ashley) reads name of mother Jane Maria Ashley (widow) so we presume she was still alive at that time. Copy of Lewis Woodward Coomber's death Notice reads (Lewis Woodward Ashley) and states mother deceased. Both Death Notices state place of death Pretoria. We have been trying to find a Death Notice or Estate Papers for our Great Grandmother Jane Maria Woodward Ashley using both the Surname Ashley and Coomber. All avenues tried have come back with no results. Unfortunately we have no idea where she was living, whether she left Pretoria and went back to the Cape where her immediate family were or even if she remarried although at the time that my Great Grandfather died she was 69 years old. So this is where we are sitting - the last piece of this puzzle unsolved. Thankng you Penny Hobbs(nee Ashley) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message