Locate immigrant family to South Africa

[Mazilby]

William Arthur Henry Filby born 30/04/1911 was taken to South Africa by his parents when he was a child, but I do not know the year AS I CANNOT FIND THEIR PASSAGE. I know he married Edna Eileen D Reuck at Cape Town in 1930's, but cannot get a marriage cert to see if his parents were named! This is what I need to trace his ancestors, I cannot find his birth in the UK and wonder where he came from if not Britain? Although his son, Neil Richard Filby came to live in England and died here in July 1994 at Bromley, Kent, aged 55.
Can anyone help me find WAH Filby's parents names please?  I do have the family going back to WAH.
Would be very grateful, THanks>

[emarbe]

All I can find is the following:

November 7th 1914 from London on the Dover Castle (Mail Steamship).

Master W Filby age 3
Mrs W R Filby age 27

Bound for Capetown.

Last permanent address — British Possessions.

For some reason these 2 entries are crossed out, so did they travel?.

If he was born out of the UK, then it's possible they could have migrated from that country.

Sorry it's not much help.

Mike

[Mazilby]

Thanks Mike, any new information is a big help and it does make me wonder if WAH immigrated with his mother only, or oif what you found was them following Mr Filby to SA. I wonder were her initial her husbands??? Capetown was where they resided, so I will keep looking.

[3sillydogs]

Hi there

It seems that William Arthur Henry is buried in the Maitland Cemetery in Cape Town but the date is unreadable, it looks like it may be 1934 but can't be sure.  I can find no trace of him in our archives either, so perhaps he left no Estate that had to be wound up.

You can try www.familysearch.org they have documents in their Africa collection but you have to browse them as they are not indexed, they have deaths and marriages for Cape Town, the Maitland cemetery is in Cape Town.

Good luck.

[Mazilby]

Thanks for the info. on the cemetery, it made me wonder if you could find the Mrs WR Filby in the cemetery  (possibly his mother?) as mentioned in the first answer from Mike?
 Or even a Mr Filby who may have been his father/
Hopeful anyway!

[Mazilby]

The date of WAH Filby's death was 1964.
His sons benefited from a Will. I have the family from here on. No one knows the names of their grandparents.

[3sillydogs]

Hi there,

You may be lucky and find it in those records on Family Search if you know the exact year.  Do you have the names that go with W R and I can look for you???

Sue

[Mazilby]

Hi,
 Did try familysearch but got a bit lost and gave up! I aren't very good at searching!!!
No idea what W R stands for and I did look through all the marriages for a W R Filby (male) and also a W R female who married a Filby between 1908 and 1911 when William Arthur Henry was born, also guessed at W being for William and looked at 1911 census for the family but no luck there either!
If Mrs WR was 27 in 1914 she was born in 1887 and no one knows when she died.
I have searched the births in England for WAH but not Ireland, Scotland or Wales. (Or marriages there)
No more information. sorry.

[Mazilby]

Thank you for the link and search results I will go through them and see if I can find the parents etc.
I found Neill Richards Grave and  we have his death in the UK I think so must have had him taken home to SA??
Will let you know what I find.
Many Thanks///