South Africa: Difference between revisions

From FIBIwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Maureene (talk | contribs)
No edit summary
Maureene (talk | contribs)
Line 71: Line 71:
:[https://archive.org/details/genealogist3019selb/page/n631 "Extracts of marriages at the Cape of Good Hope 1806-1821"; and "Extracts of Baptism at the Cape of Good Hope 1810-1821"]  by C Graham Bortha.    ''The Genealogist'' 30, 1914. (digital page 632/744).These are separately numbered sections towards the back of the book. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/genealogist3019selb/page/n631 "Extracts of marriages at the Cape of Good Hope 1806-1821"; and "Extracts of Baptism at the Cape of Good Hope 1810-1821"]  by C Graham Bortha.    ''The Genealogist'' 30, 1914. (digital page 632/744).These are separately numbered sections towards the back of the book. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/extractsofmarria00both#page/n5/mode/2up  Alternative version: Marriages and Baptisms] from ''The Genealogist Volume 30, Supplement 11, 1913-1916'' by Colin Graham Botha. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/stream/extractsofmarria00both#page/n5/mode/2up  Alternative version: Marriages and Baptisms] from ''The Genealogist Volume 30, Supplement 11, 1913-1916'' by Colin Graham Botha. Archive.org.
: The writings of  C Graham Botha were  re-published in 1962 as ''The Collected Works of C. Graham Botha'', in three volumes, being Volume 1 ''General History and Social Life of the Cape of Good Hope''; Volume 2 ''History of law, medicine, and place names in the Cape of Good Hope'' and Volume 3 ''Cape Archives and Records''. It appears that at least volumes 1 and 3 include genealogical transcriptions.  
: The writings of  C Graham Botha were  re-published in 1962 as ''The Collected Works of C. Graham Botha'', in three volumes, being Volume 1 ''General History and Social Life of the Cape of Good Hope''; Volume 2 ''History of law, medicine, and place names in the Cape of Good Hope'' and Volume 3 ''Cape Archives and Records''. It appears that at least volumes 1 and 3 include genealogical transcriptions. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000426508
*''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.
*''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.
:[http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart1/OudeKaapscheFamilien-1#page/n1/mode/2up Part 1 A-J], with index. [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart2/OudeKaapscheFamilien-2#page/n1/mode/2up Part 2 A-O], with index, [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart3/OudeKaapscheFamilien-3#page/n0/mode/2up Part 3 P-Z], unfortunately index missing, with some [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart3/OudeKaapscheFamilien-3#page/n665/mode/1up additional entries at the end]
:[http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart1/OudeKaapscheFamilien-1#page/n1/mode/2up Part 1 A-J], with index. [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart2/OudeKaapscheFamilien-2#page/n1/mode/2up Part 2 A-O], with index, [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart3/OudeKaapscheFamilien-3#page/n0/mode/2up Part 3 P-Z], unfortunately index missing, with some [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart3/OudeKaapscheFamilien-3#page/n665/mode/1up additional entries at the end]

Revision as of 05:01, 11 January 2019

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

National Archives of South Africa

  • National Archives & Records Service of South Africa contains a Search facility. Click on "Search National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System", on the left hand side of the webpage. the databases include “Data of the South African Genealogical Society on Gravestones”.

Monument inscriptions

  • Monumental inscriptions at the Cape of Good Hope[2] 1799-1861. Transcriptions, in 1907, of graves in two Cape Town cemeteries extracted from General History and Social Life of the Cape of Good Hope by C. Graham Botha 1962. Include many with India connections.
  • Stuart Green transcribed, in April 2003, the following entries from the SA Genealogical Society database at the National Archives of South Africa for the Rootsweb India Mailing list:

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.

Other

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

Update: July 2018. Email address has changed to archive@dod.mil.za and other contact details have also changed.[3]

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

"Extracts from the register of deaths at the Cape of Good Hope 1816-1826" by C Graham Botha. Page 47 The Genealogist 32, 1915. Archive.org
"Extracts of marriages at the Cape of Good Hope 1806-1821"; and "Extracts of Baptism at the Cape of Good Hope 1810-1821" by C Graham Bortha. The Genealogist 30, 1914. (digital page 632/744).These are separately numbered sections towards the back of the book. Archive.org
Alternative version: Marriages and Baptisms from The Genealogist Volume 30, Supplement 11, 1913-1916 by Colin Graham Botha. Archive.org.
The writings of C Graham Botha were re-published in 1962 as The Collected Works of C. Graham Botha, in three volumes, being Volume 1 General History and Social Life of the Cape of Good Hope; Volume 2 History of law, medicine, and place names in the Cape of Good Hope and Volume 3 Cape Archives and Records. It appears that at least volumes 1 and 3 include genealogical transcriptions. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000426508
  • 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. Lehmkuhl. Anglo-Indians at the Cape Rootsweb South-Africa-Immigrants-British Mailing List 5 September 2003. Anne Lehmkuhl's article in Generations - A South African genealogy newsletter
  2. Rootsweb South- Africa- Immigrants- British Mailing List 9 August 2003.
  3. Chris_Baker. South African Service papers WW1 Great War Forum 27 July 2018. Earlier posts mention a researcher. Retrieved 28 July 2018.