South Africa

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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

Refer External links below for a 1976 LDS Church guide, equivalent now to FamilySearch.

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, archived:

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.

Ancestry

Ancestry is a pay website

  • Ancestry Card Catalogue of all Record Databases (located as an option under the Search tab). Use Search terms such as Africa, and South Africa. Includes
    • "South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004" and
    • "South Africa, Methodist Parish Registers, 1822-1996"
    • "England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976", This is part of the Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish, section of the Ancestry database and holds some genealogical information relating to colonial countries including Africa.

Findmypast

Findmypast is a pay website.

  • Under the tab "Search records" is a category "A-Z of record sets" which is a listing of all the record databases. Use Search terms such as Africa, and South Africa.
    • First World War database South Africa Roll Of Honour 1914-1918, located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War. These records appear to be classified by findmypast as as "Great Britain". Most of the data will also be on the CWGC database, but additionally may include cause of death. Includes data to the official end date of the war, 31 August 1921.[3] The most likely source of this database is a South African publication, Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Ererol [the latter word is Roll of Honour in Africaans].[4]

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; and African Newspapers: The British Library Collection, both part of Readex World Newspapers Archive, both of which are available at the British Library. Also information about a database containing a collection of African Blue Books from thirteen colonies across Africa, including Cape of Good Hope, 1821-1909, also available at the British Library.

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.[5]

Mailing Lists

All Rootsweb Mailing Lists (part of Ancestry) have been discontinued from 2 March 2020, but the Archives will remain available. Search all Rootsweb Mailing List Archives.
The Ancestry Message Boards remain active and there may be a relevant Message Board. Search all Ancestry Message Boards. Freely available - you do not need to be an Ancestry member, but must register to post.

A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the immigrants from the United Kingdom to South Africa prior to 1900. However, Archives are Searchable as follows
Search South-Africa-Immigrants-British Mailing List Archives
Search South Africa Orange Free State Archives

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.
A brief guide to the various classes of documents in the Cape Archives for the period 1652-1806 by C Graham Botha in charge of Cape Archive. 1918 Archive.org
The French Refugees at the Cape by Colin Graham Botha (of the Cape Archives) 2nd edition 1921 Archive.org
Records for the early history of South Africa by C Graham Botha 1921 Archive.org
"Prices in the eighteenth century" by C Graham Botha, Chief Archivist, Union of South Africa. Reprinted from the South African Journal of Science, vol. XX, pp. 552-554, December, 1923. Archive.org
"The dispersion of the stock farmer in Cape Colony in the eighteenth century" by C Graham Botha, Chief Archivist, Union of South Africa. Reprinted from the South African Journal of Science", vol. XX, pp. 574-580, December, 1923. Archive.org
Social life in the Cape Colony in the 18th century by Colin Graham Botha 1926 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
  • The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope edited and annotated by Captain Padfield Oliver 1891. Volume I, Volume II. Printed for the Hakluyt Society. Archive.org. The narrative commences 1689.
  • Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa by William J Burchell. Volume I 1822, including Map; Volume II 1824. Archive.org. The travels took place 1811-1815.
Article "Heartbroken on St Helena: the naturalist William John Burchell" 1781-1863. Part One 23 January 2020; Part Two 30 January 2020. British Library Untold lives blog. William John Burchell Wikipedia.
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.
1862: First publication; 1867, 1877; 1878; 1879; 1881; 1889; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to 1922 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: A and B
In addition, Colonial Office List, 1863 and Colonial Office List, 1870 are available in the findmypast (pay website) dataset "Britain, Directories & Almanacs" located in Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs.
FamilySearch has a catalogue entry for a series of microfiches of the Colonial Office List, (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
Colonial Office List (to 1925) and the later title The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List are available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533

References

  1. ↑ Lehmkuhl. Anglo-Indians at the Cape Rootsweb South-Africa-Immigrants-British Mailing List 5 September 2003, archived. Anne Lehmkuhl's article in Generations - A South African genealogy newsletter
  2. ↑ Rootsweb South- Africa- Immigrants- British Mailing List 9 August 2003, archived.
  3. ↑ South Africa’s Roll of Honour for the First World War southafricaremembers.wordpress.com.
  4. ↑ Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Ererol, archived page from eBay.
  5. ↑ Chris_Baker. South African Service papers WW1 Great War Forum 27 July 2018. Earlier posts mention a researcher. Retrieved 28 July 2018.


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