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*Conrod Mercer’s [http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/ South African Genealogy Page]
*Conrod Mercer’s [http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/ South African Genealogy Page]
*[http://www.national.archives.gov.za/services_to_the_public.htm#research National Archives of South Africa: Research] Retrieved 6 October 2014
*[http://www.national.archives.gov.za/services_to_the_public.htm#research National Archives of South Africa: Research] Retrieved 6 October 2014
** All birth, marriage and death certificates as well as immigration, naturalization and name change records are kept at the [http://www.dha.gov.za Department of Home Affairs] Retrieved 6 October 2014
**All birth, marriage and death certificates as well as immigration, naturalization and name change records are kept at the [http://www.dha.gov.za Department of Home Affairs] Retrieved 6 October 2014
*Information about [http://www.archivalplatform.org/registry/entry/documentation_centre_department_of_defence_force_archives/ Documentation Centre (Department of Defence Force Archives)] which holds military records,  including personnel records. archivalplatform.org
*[http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/CivilRegSA.htm Civil Registration in South Africa] sagenealogy.co.za Retrieved 6 October 2014
*[http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/CivilRegSA.htm Civil Registration in South Africa] sagenealogy.co.za Retrieved 6 October 2014
*[http://www.1820settlers.com/index.html 1820 Settlers to South Africa]' The website includes transcriptions of Baptisms, Marriages and Cape Civil Death indices from records held on [[IGI|FamilySearch]] and links to a website “Records and Resources”
*[http://www.1820settlers.com/index.html 1820 Settlers to South Africa]' The website includes transcriptions of Baptisms, Marriages and Cape Civil Death indices from records held on [[IGI|FamilySearch]] and links to a website “Records and Resources”

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This article details connections between Colonial India and The Cape/South Africa, with particular reference to emigration/immigration.

A large group of Anglo Indians migrated to Cape Colony in the 1820s. [1].

The Cape was also a popular destination for people who were on furlough (leave) from their work in India, who had been obliged to leave India for health reasons, and did not wish to travel all the way back to England.

Records

FamilySearch records

Monument inscriptions

e-Family

  • e-Family A free site for those researching their roots in South Africa, with a Search facility for transcribed records. Includes First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records, a project to transcribe and publish copies of records relating to individuals who lived at the Cape (Cabo da Boa Esperança / de Caep de Goede Hoop / Die Kaap die Goeie Hoop) during the first decades of the settlement after 1652.

Jager (Jaeger) Corps

Also known as the British German Legion or the German Legion

In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by over 500 men of the Jaeger Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony (part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny The Jager (Jaeger) Corps had its origin in the German Legion sent to the Crimea, which was then resettled in South Africa

For further details , see Jager Corps.

Also see

Information about the database African Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1800-1925, part of Readex World Newspapers Archive.

External Links

Boer War

On return of the regiment to India, page 409 of the History states "They left nearly sixty of their number in South Africa, some as administrators, some in the Regular Army, some in the Police" and page 418 of the History gives a List of Lumsden’s Horse who joined the Johannesburg Police in December 1900.
  • See POW Camps in India-Boer War for details of the Boer prisoners of war who were taken to camps in India, Ceylon and elsewhere. Some of the prisoners in India died there.

General information

Mailing Lists

A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the immigrants from the United Kingdom to South Africa prior to 1900.

Historical books online

  • Geslacht-Register der Oude Kaapsche Familien by Christoffel Coetzee De Villiers c 1894 Archive.org (in Dutch/Africaans). Gives details/trees for families who settled in the Cape area of South Africa.
Part 1 A-J, with index. Part 2 A-O, with index, Part 3 P-Z, unfortunately index missing, with some additional entries at the end
This page mentions the East India Company.

References

  1. The Anglo-Indians at the Cape Anne Lehmkuhl's article in Generations - A South African genealogy newsletter