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Research in Other Countries => South Africa => Topic started by: Rowlandson on Tuesday 10 March 20 20:51 GMT (UK)
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Hi All,
I'm hoping that someone with more knowledge of research in Bulawayo, might be able to help me.
I've found a death notice on Family search for the above Annie Sophia Congdon 1886 - 1957. Annie or Sophia as she was known in the family was born in London, England. If my research is correct she was the daughter of a Thomas & Fanny WALLER. (Nee Peckover)
The death notice which I've located doesn't list her parents names, they are just recorded as deceased. (So I cant be 100% certain this is my actual Waller relation) It does however give a marriage place & date. Bulawayo February 1914. (The Annie Sophia's who's death I've found, married an Arthur Congdon) So I'm just wondering how do I go about obtaining a copy of their marriage, is there a national index available ?... online perhaps ?
Any help would be very much appreciated,
Regards - Rowlandson
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Birth registration Sep 1885 St Giles
Waller Annie Sophia mothers name Pettefer
Thomas possibly dies in 1910 but Fanny hasn't died.
Do you know when she left England? Did she travel alone?
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Her age in Jan 1957 is listed as 71 years & 8 months which would place her birth about June 1885
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There is a marriage of a Annie Sophia Waller in 1909, Poplar, London to either Alfred Donovan or John Ford.
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There is a marriage of a Annie Sophia Waller in 1909, Poplar, London to either Alfred Donovan or John Ford.
Annie S Waller married John Edwin Ford.
Alfred Victor Donovan can be found with his wife Rose (Pearce) in 1911
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Her father according to the marriage cert was Richard William Waller
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Annie Sophia Waller daughter of Thomas & Fanny was born 11 June 1885 and baptised on 9 August 1885
Her age in Jan 1957 is listed as 71 years & 8 months which would place her birth about June 1885
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She is listed as Ann S Waller age 5 bn Bloomsbury in 1891
RG12/55 f188 p31
She is not with her parents in 1901
RG13/9 f50 p1
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Annie Sophia Congdon was living in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. The Steam Locomotive capital of the country. No South Africa.
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Many thanks to Milliepede, Kloumann, rosie99 & barryd for both your research and your kind suggestions.
I had seen the marriage in 1909 in Poplar, London but as you have noted it gives a different father, my Annie Sophia's father was definitely Thomas Waller. Her mother Fanny dies in the March Qtr 1949 aged 94 yrs.
I still think the death notice I've located in 1957 is my Annie Sophia Congdon (Waller), if only there were a way to obtain a copy of the original document from 1914 in Bulawayo ???
Once again many thanks for all your help.... it is appreciated
Rowlandson
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Surely Family Search has what you are looking for. For your purposes the country is known as Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia but more recently Zimbabwe. Family Search is calling the records Zimbabwe which is not technically correct for the your time period
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Zimbabwe,_Death_Records_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records
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Hi Again barryd,
Many thanks for this.
Sadly it does not however have what I'm looking for, as I mentioned in my original post I'm after a marriage that took place in Bulawayo in February 1914.
Regards - Rowlandson
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Hi Rowlandson,
I am also looking as to when Ann Sophia (known to her family as Sophia) Waller was sent to Rhodesia (as it was in the early 1900s). I have been told that the son of the house and Sophia fell in love, and consequently were sent away!!
I have copies of photos of Sophia, and her two daughters Elsie (my grandmother's name) and Joyce.
Sophia's parents were certainly Thomas Waller and Fanny Peckover.
But, unfortunately like you I have not been able to locate a Marriage certificate.
I am having difficulty in finding in the 1911 census for Arthur Congdon, that shows on Annie Sophia Congdon's Death Notice.
I have noticed that the first child listed is a Frederick Arthur Robert Congdon - may be a clue there!!
Regards,
Cheryl