Hi Nikki, could you let me have any info on SHEPPERSON please. Regards Moyra Joyce, Bedford Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: "Nikki" <alnic@polka.co.za> Sender: south-africa-eastern-cape-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:04:12 To: <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com>; <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com Subject: [ZA-EC] Her South African Ancestors FEATHERSTONE, FINAUGHTY, CRON, WRIGHT, CRONWRIGHT Hi All Just obtained a copy of the book Her South African Ancestors by Samuel Cron Cronwright. 1930. Lots of family info mostly on names above as well as HURNDALL SHEPPERSON etc etc. Please shout if i can help anyone with any info from the book. Kind regards Nikki ( canil) No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.930 / Virus Database: 2441.1.1/5408 - Release Date: 11/20/12 22:15:00 ------------------------------- 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

Hi Moyra here you go! Hope this all helps to add some colour to the family story! Kind regards Nikki HURNDALL came to South Africa to "take up a billet under B.M. SHEPPERSON, an Englishman who had married our Aunt Fan ( nee FEATHERSTONE) and was a member of parliament for Grahamstown." " 'Old Aunt HURNDALL' as mothers family called our Great Aunt Elizabeth, died at Kimberley in about 1874. She lived for a long time with the SHEPPERSONs, part of that time at Bathurst; she was with them there in 1870, possible earlier. When quite a small boy, Mother took me to the SHEPPERSONs at Bathurst. I was too young to remember much, but two small incidents while on that visit remain with me and may be of some interest. I doubt whether i should remember the visit but for them. One morning early, as I was running up the passage of the house, Uncle SHEPPERSON put his head into the passage out of the doorway of his bedroom and called for something. I knew him as a man with a head of glossy, flaxen, dark-chestnut hair, always well brushed, in perfect order, lying close to his head and curling up as a little fringe at the back of his neck and above the ears. But the head that suddenly confronted me, and that i recognised from the voice must be his, was no such head; it was as bald as an ostrich egg. In terror I turned round on the instant and ran as fast as i could from the dreadful apparition, and out at the other end of the passage. In this way I learnt what a wig was." " Elizabeth Ann ( FEATHERSTONE)married in 1857 an Englishman, B.M. SHEPPERSON, who is mentioned early in this narrative. She was a tall hansome and stately woman, and her son Bertie stood 6ft 5 in. in his socks. Father used to say that Aunt Fan was a cery capable business woman. She accompanied her husband to England not very long after their marriage. Apropos of this visit she told me two amusing incidents. As they passed through Cape Town they engaged a coloured nurse for the little children. In England, when Uncle took her and the children, accompanied by the coloured nurse, to meet his people, it was the nurse they welcomed and kissed, under the impression that, coming from the Cape, his wife would be coloured, and that a white nurse had been engaged. On another occasion, when shopping in London, she asked for a pair of gloves. When it transpired that she came from South Africa, the salesman was astonished and looked at her as though he could not believe his eyes; then apologising, he explained that he thought all the people "out there" were black and wore blankets." -----Original Message----- From: moyraj@r63.co.za Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:30 PM To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Her South African Ancestors FEATHERSTONE, FINAUGHTY,CRON, WRIGHT, CRONWRIGHT Hi Nikki, could you let me have any info on SHEPPERSON please. Regards Moyra Joyce, Bedford Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: "Nikki" <alnic@polka.co.za> Sender: south-africa-eastern-cape-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:04:12 To: <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com>; <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com Subject: [ZA-EC] Her South African Ancestors FEATHERSTONE, FINAUGHTY, CRON, WRIGHT, CRONWRIGHT Hi All Just obtained a copy of the book Her South African Ancestors by Samuel Cron Cronwright. 1930. Lots of family info mostly on names above as well as HURNDALL SHEPPERSON etc etc. Please shout if i can help anyone with any info from the book. Kind regards Nikki ( canil) No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.930 / Virus Database: 2441.1.1/5408 - Release Date: 11/20/12 22:15:00 ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.930 / Virus Database: 2441.1.1/5409 - Release Date: 11/21/12 09:34:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.930 / Virus Database: 2441.1.1/5410 - Release Date: 11/21/12 22:05:00