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Research in Other Countries => South Africa => Topic started by: LDStranack on Tuesday 15 July 25 12:19 BST (UK)
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Hi everyone,
I’m researching my South African family roots and hoping to connect with anyone who may have knowledge or connections to the following families in the Western Cape:
• Anna Wilhelmina Theunissen (married Lambert Hendrik Fick – they had 14 children)
• Florence May Bobbins (my great-grandmother)
• Patricia Cynthia Jane Helena Theresa Stranack (née Hickey) – lived in Rhodesia, later in Hermanus
• Stranack and Metcalf family names also feature prominently
These families lived in or around Caledon, Prince Albert, and the Swartberg region. I’m particularly interested in any records, photos, or descendants still in the area — or even just pointers on where to search locally.
My father was Barry Brian Frederick Stranack (b. 1945, Durban), and his mother was Patricia Hickey. I’m based in the UK now but feeling a strong ancestral pull back to this land and would love to trace any living relatives or learn more about these family lines.
Any help would be incredibly appreciated! 🙏
Warm regards,
Lynn D. Stranack
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There are 130 files for Lambert Fick here http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300ds?20250717105838DA15F780
To use NAAIRS http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl (you select RSA and then type first name in the first line, surname in the second line and then SEARCH).
DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/4397
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 40743
PART 1
DESCRIPTION METCALF, FLORENCE MAY. NEE BOBBINS. ESTATE PAPERS.
STARTING 19340000
ENDING 19340000
DEPOT TBD
SOURCE RSC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO II/5A/304
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE I181/52
PART 1
DESCRIPTION STRANACK, PATRICIA CYNTHIA JANE HELEN THERESA. BORN HICKEY. ILLIQUID
CASE.
STARTING 19520502
ENDING 19520502
REMARKS DIVORCE. JOHN FYNNEY STRANACK.
DEPOT TBD
SOURCE RSC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO II/5A/406
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE I497/56
PART 1
DESCRIPTION GREGG, PATRICIA. FORMERLY STRANACK. ILLIQUID CASE.
STARTING 19561119
ENDING 19561119
REMARKS DIVORCE. ERIC LLEWELLYN GREGG.
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Some Stranack graves in Durban https://graves.eggsa.org/cgi-bin/library/KWaz/kwadosearchGraves.p
When it opens click Kwazulu Natal, then click on SearchKwazulu-Natal, in the surname box type in Stranack
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Some Metcalf graves https://graves.eggsa.org/cgi-bin/library/WCape/wcdosearchGraves.pl
Do the same as for Stranack but select Western Cape.
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Lambert Fick grave https://www.graves.eggsa.org/westerncape/MAITLAND-cemeteries/Maitland-Woltemade/F%20-%20Vanne%20__%20Surnames%20-%20F/sd_001/101_0004.JPG
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There was a Des Stranack electrical in Durban, his slogan was Dont panic, phone Stranack!
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This post is already becoming rather confusing. Unfortunately the OP has too many names listed within the one post, a lot of generic wants, but barely any background information. I have therefor no idea what you already know or don’t know. However, here is an attempt for one person:
Patricia Cynthia Jane Helen Theresa HICKEY b 3 Nov 1922 Durban Natal, died 27 Aug 2005 Worcester (Western Cape?)
NB: In 1942, father dead, mother still alive
2005 probate file: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLX-3Q8F-K?i=1
2005 grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187956537/patricia-bird
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First husband John Fynney Stranack 26 April 1917 Durban, Natal – 9 August 1956
Marriage: 4 Oct 1942 - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DT1Q-PZP?i=2543 (witness: D Hickey!!!)
Divorce: abt 1952
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Second husband: ERIC LLEWELLYN GREGG.
Divorce abt 1956
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Third husband: Kenneth Charles BIRD
Marriage: 1963: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLX-3QDW-9?i=3
I suspect that Patricia could be the daughter of Charles John Hickey (b abt 1864, possibly died between 1921 and 1942) and Daisy Gardner (b abt 1893, died 1958)
Their 1921 marriage: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68J7-DR2?i=1443
Daisy’s 1958 death: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91P-K2RB?i=35
Unfortunately the stuff needed to prove this either way is not online yet: e.g. Patricia’s 1922 BC, Daisy’s 1958 (#558/1958) Natal probate file …
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There are quite a number of sources for Anna Wilhelmina Theunissen in the following tree. Let us know what you are still missing:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/K2N9-X16