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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Tracing great grandfather
« on: Sunday 24 August 25 20:53 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Koda101 on Saturday 23 August 25 10:42 BST (UK)
His name was Alfred Godfrey McDonald born 1877/1877.
His death certificate says he was born in Transvaal. His probate says he was born at Martinbrook possibly a farm in Cradock Cape colony.
He married Sarah Pullen in 1902 in Johannesburg at the church of Providence.
Her name was Sara Salomina Pullen. Pullens we’re from England originally
I cannot find an Alfred Godfrey on Scotlands people. I also have wondered if he was as from Ireland There are Alfred’s on Scotspeople but can’t confirm it’s him without parents names. They had 9 children
I have done a dna test and there are McDonalds but ones I have been in contact with have no further information. Some are private and don’t respond to my message
Thanks for ideas so far.
I will try the South African roots too

I will see if I can link with your PULLEN family.
Thomas Pullen
Birth 18 AUG 1775 • Cuton Park, Chelmsford, Essex, England,
Death 22 SEP 1837 • Tindals, Port Elizabeth, EC, South Africa

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South Africa / Re: De Villiers South African / French roots and marriages...
« on: Thursday 21 August 25 14:29 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: KGarrad on Thursday 21 August 25 14:00 BST (UK)
Needs a Dutch or Afrikaans speaker to properly translate, but first sentence:

It is perhaps not sufficiently known that some time ago a useful and quite laborious work was begun by one of our diligent compatriots.

Het Volksblad (English: People's Journal) was an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper published in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and distributed in the Free State and Northern Cape provinces, where it was the largest Afrikaans daily. It was South Africa's oldest Afrikaans newspaper.
KGARRAD
Many thanks for your encouraging response.
When I am faced with a PDF document, I seem unable to highlight and use TEXT TO SPEECH or copy and paste to any translation website.

Today, I have had a generous offer from a local Africaans speaker for this Introduction but also need to develop my skills with the much repeated phrases like BORN, MARRIED, DIED across the main research which seems vast and comprehensive.


The second half of the Introduction is by the Canadian born historian George McCall THEAL who may be easier to follow!

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South Africa / Re: C.W De Villiers. Attorney General Pretoria in 1913.
« on: Thursday 21 August 25 11:17 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: saddlehill on Wednesday 07 March 12 06:59 GMT (UK)
Hi John,
There is a book in the Victoria State Library called "Geneologies of old South African Families" written by C. C. De Villiers. It has been completely revised by C. Pama 1966. It's in 3 volumes. I could not get it interloaned because it is a geneology resource. Do you have access to that library. Otherwise I could ask them to look in it for me to see if there is information about Louis.
Regards
Annette
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffel_Coetzee_de_Villiers

 "Geneologies of old South African Families" written by C. C. De Villiers. It has been completely revised by C. Pama 1966.

Is a copy available in the UK library system please?

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South Africa / De Villiers South African / French roots and marriages...
« on: Thursday 21 August 25 10:47 BST (UK)  »
I am relatively new to South African research but so far found many interesting DE VILLIERS  marriages and am starting to follow some of the influential South African families.

Today, I have been sent a PDF of an 1893 document and need help to translate the Introduction.

https://archive.org/details/geslachtregister01devi/page/n3/mode/2up

Many thanks!

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The Lighter Side / Is the bigger always a better place to live? Magna, Super, Higher, Greater
« on: Tuesday 19 August 25 22:31 BST (UK)  »
Is the bigger, always a better place to live?  Magna, Super, Higher, Greater  etc....
 
Have they always been the superior and self-aggrandizing sibling just bullying and trampling over the  little siblings?  Did the pecking-order ever get reversed and overthrown when Little became Big?
 

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Isle of Man / Re: Purser with the Isle of Man Packet? Any additional records please?
« on: Thursday 07 August 25 18:35 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: rosie99 on Thursday 07 August 25 17:49 BST (UK)
Quote from: elliot on Thursday 07 August 25 17:32 BST (UK)
There are other curious examples of name changing between baptism and Civil Registration.

Could you please give details

ROSIE
Thank you for your response.
I was in the middle of adding/modifying my post and must have pressed the Send button and then had an incoming 90 minute phone call!  I will try to get my head back into 'brickwall' mode of posting.   Further detail to come.

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Isle of Man / Purser with the Isle of Man Packet? Any additional records please?
« on: Thursday 07 August 25 17:32 BST (UK)  »

1901 census [claims birth in SCOTLAND]
RG13/5302/80 p6
Conchan Isle of Man
Frederick Anstruther 28 b Scotland


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1911 census
10 Victoria Avenue Onchan, Isle of Man
 Fred Elliot Anstruther Claims birth in Fife, Scotland. Boarder
Ship’s purser b   Fife, Scotland
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I wonder if Fife might be correct even though all his sibling all have RC baptisms at Southwark RC Cathedral OR Hanwell RC church.
His untracable, supposed father

There are other curious examples of name changing between baptism and Civil Registration.

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The Common Room / Re: Definition of adulterer/adulteress
« on: Thursday 07 August 25 15:24 BST (UK)  »
MIKE,
I am naive in this area, after a brief search at Wikipedia, I find substantial 'grey areas' in the various legal definitions in relation to the Child/Adult boundaries.

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The Common Room / Re: Definition of adulterer/adulteress
« on: Thursday 07 August 25 15:07 BST (UK)  »

For those of you with sharper minds and who can cope with definitional contradictions,
do I have to be an ADULT to be an ADULTERER?
If so, what is the definition of an ADULT in our United Kingdom please?

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