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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. <ref>Lehmkuhl. [httphttps://listsearcheslists.rootsweb.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/SOUTHsouth-AFRICAafrica-IMMIGRANTSimmigrants-BRITISHbritish@rootsweb.com/2003-09thread/7953433/1062768187 The 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'' </ref>.
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.
*[https://www.nationalarchives.gov.za National Archives & Records Service of South Africa] contains a Search facility. Click on the icon in the middle of the page, or from the menu at the top of the page, select Collections/Using the Search Function.
===Monument inscriptions===
*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/south-africa-immigrants-british@rootsweb.com/2003-08thread/7955433/1060416919 Monumental inscriptions at the Cape of Good Hope] C. Graham Botha's transcriptions of graves in two Cape Town cemeteries include many with India connections.
*Stuart Green transcribed the following entries in the SA Genealogical Society database for the [[Mailing lists|Roots Mailing list]]:
:*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730330/1082208186 Gravestones in South Africa - Bombay Connections ]:*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730871/1082211570 Gravestones in South Africa - Madras connections ]:*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/thread/2004-047730598/1082213548 Gravestones in South Africa - Bengal connections]:*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/thread/2004-047730544/1082563665 Gravestones in South Africa - India connections]:*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730612/1082564074 Gravestones in South Africa - Calcutta connections ]:*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/thread/2004-047730882/1082564402 Gravestones in South Africa - St. Helens Burma connections]:*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730271/1082564796 Gravestones in South Africa - Ceylon connections]:*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730624/1082564896 Gravestones in South Africa - Karachi connections]:*[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730315/1082565106 Gravestones in South Africa - HEIC connections]
===e-Family===
*[http://www.e-family.co.za 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.
===Mailing Lists===
*[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/international/overview?country=South%20Africa Rootsweb South Africa Mailing Lists] includes
**South-Africa-Immigrants-British Mailing List
::A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the immigrants from the United Kingdom to South Africa prior to 1900.
*[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/international/overview?country=Africa Rootsweb Africa Mailing Lists] also include some South Africa Mailing Lists
==Historical books online==
