Hi Lynn Thank you for this link ref. I had my doubts about the 87 years all the time and was hoping that it is 67 yrs. If there was only a 15 year age difference and not 35, it might be possible that they had children. I am still searching for a birth or baptismal record of her to be very sure. Regards On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Lynn MacLeod <MacLeod.Family@xtra.co.nz>wrote: > HI Louise > If its any help... if you look again at the photograph on eGGSA > http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1315773 it shows her > age as 67 (not 87) at death making her d.o.b. Abt. 1858 - 15 years > difference > between their ages?? > Take care > Lynn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Louisa Louw > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:10 PM > To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] JEWELL, JAMES, JOHNSON, CHERRY, HARRISON, DU PLESSIS, > WARNER on Cape Civil Service List 1900 > > Hi Lynette > > My apologies for taking such a long time to reply. > > > > My JOHNSON connection: > > My grandfather Henry Stephen JAMES, born 22 May 1873, d.12 Oct 1950, PE > > Married 1st wife: Gertruida Wilhelmina Johanna JOHNSON. b abt.1838, d.2 Jan > 1925, PE. Buried at South End, PE. On the gravestone (eggsa) it says she > was 87 yrs old, which would mean she was 35 yrs older than him, so I don’t > think there could be any children between the 2 of them. I am in search of > the names of her parents and brothers and sisters, but up to now couldn’t > trace anything about her birth or whereabouts when and before she got > married to my grandfather. If I can find that, I’m sure I’ll be able to > bring the connection with other JOHNSON links. > > > > I have a copy of the Master of the Supreme Court which shows their address > at the time of her death as Fairview Estate, Walmer side, PE. According to > my mother Fairview Estate was the house where she grew up and the street > address was #18, 17th Avenue, Walmer, PE. > > > > Unfortunately the surname BEST sounds unfamiliar to me, BUT on the other > hand, my mother knows nothing at all about the JOHNSON side of the family > and won’t know if there maybe was a BEST married into the family. She was > the youngest child and away in a boarding school during her school years > and there wasn’t much opportunity to come to know more of the family. > > > > I’m going to put the info of the previous generations on the ZA-EC mailing > list for the other people to see. Hopefully it will be before the end of > the weekend, and hopefully it will lead to lots of new connections, for > some other people and for me. I really want to have a “mini” Family Tree > finished by Dec to give to my mother for Christmas. > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >