MADDEN & LATEGAN SURNAMES

[tesscawley]

RESEARCHING THE MADDEN & LATEGAN FAMILY

JAMES (BERNARD?) MADDEN BORN ABT 1891 MARRIED JOCELYN FRANCES LATEGAN B 1902. THEIR SON FREDERICK STUART MADDEN 1926 – 1984 MARRIED VALARIE THERASA MURPHY AND HAD 2 DAUGHTERS. IT MAY BE THAT THE ORIGINAL MADDEN FAMILY CAME FROM IRELAND. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFORMATION?

[braw]

1936 was not a good year for James.

Depot:KAB (Cape Town Archive)
Source:CSC
Volume:2/1/1/1302
Reference:419
Description:Illiquid Case,Restitution of conjugal rights.Joycelyn Madden ( born Lategan) versus James Bernard Madden
Starting and ending :1936

Depot: TAB (Archives of the former province of Transvaal)
Source:WLD
Reference:445/1936
Description:Criminal case.State versus James Bernard Madden
Starting and ending 1936

[braw]

This one might be relevant.

Depot:KAB
Source:CDC
Volume:162
Reference:32/1/4446/9
Description: Groepsgebiede/ Group Areas.Aansoek om Permit.Plumstead.JF Madden
Starting:1967

Groepsgebiede = Group Areas
Aansoek om permit = Application for permit
Plumstead is a suburb of Cape Town

[tesscawley]

Thank you for your reply.

Would you be able to tell me about what seems to be a criminal record.

I am also trying to find out where James died, if he had OTHER children and where is father came from. I am completely stuck at tracing this line back. All help gratefully received.

[Gail Madden]

James Bernard Madden b. 1 Oct 1891, in Cape Town. He was married twice, all I know of the first marriage was a daughter ?Nancy. His second marriage was to Marjorie Eileen Thompson, don't know the date & cant find marriage certificate, and had one child Michael James Madden, was born 1933. I would love to find out more information

[Gail Madden]

Where can I get a copy of these documents, these may reveal a skeleton in the family cupboard. Bernard I think was my grandfather, Am interested that he was obviously married to Jocelyn in 1936, however my father was born in 1933, his mother was Marjorie Thompson.

[sarah]

Hi Gail,

Welcome to Rootschat

I am sorry but Tesscawley's emails have stopped working, I had sent a message via another website but sadly she had not picked up on the message.

In the mean time I think it is worth you starting off a new topic with what you know from your side of the family and lets hope that Tess eventually picks up one of our messages

Regards

Sarah

[Gail Madden]

Thanks for the information, I managed to track someone down that knew her but unfortunately  she died a few years ago. 
Thanks
Gail

[Nookie]

Where can I get a copy of these documents, these may reveal a skeleton in the family cupboard. Bernard I think was my grandfather, Am interested that he was obviously married to Jocelyn in 1936, however my father was born in 1933, his mother was Marjorie Thompson.

The KAB documents are held at the Cape Town Archives.  Unfortunately you will have to contact them directly and arrange to get copies or else appeal to someone who is going there to order them for you.

The TAB documents can be ordered through eggsa.org

If you look on eggsa.org under gravestones there is a photograph of the tombstone in East London for Michael James and his wife Susanna Elizabeth.  This has Michael's year of birth as 1934 not 1933.

Hope this helps!