Issue :	#53
Date :	January 2008
Publisher :	Delyse Brown
e-Mail :	editor@genealogyworld.net
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'GENEALOGY WORLD' - NEW ITEMS :
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I hope you enjoyed the Festive Season. Wishing a HAPPY 2008 to all!

A special thank you has to be said to the many contributors to GENEALOGY WORLD who generously give their time and effort to aid other researchers find information. It is because of their generosity that this website is able to grow.

OF SA MARITIME INTEREST:
Rosemary Dixon-Smith tells us of 'The Wreck of the Fascadale' in 1895 - a heroic story indeed.

WELL KNOWN NATAL SCHOOLS:
Robin Griffiths sends a List from the book ‘Merchiston, A South African School, 1892-1953’ by Professor Alan F Hattersley, published in 1953 by AA Balkema. Robin will accept emailed requests for look-ups but the name and page numbers must be included.

DURBAN HIGH SCHOOL:
The Early Days of the Durban High School by Robert Russell, I.S.O. including a transcription by Rosemary Dixon-Smith from 'The Durban High School Record' is now appearing in this section.

ANNE's TRANSCRIPTIONS:
Anne Clarkson who has recently transcribed:

1/KWT 8/1/1 - The information in this transcription is taken from declarations by widowed persons wishing to remarry. The date is the date of the declaration, not the date of the marriage. 1878-1886

1/KWT 8/1/5 - The information in this transcription is taken from (a) the affidavits made by persons wishing to marry by licence and (b) declarations by widowed persons wishing to remarry. The date is the date of the licence or the declaration, not the date of the marriage. 1906-1908

1/KWT 8/1/6 - The information in this transcription is taken from (a) the affidavits made by persons wishing to marry by licence and (b) declarations by widowed persons wishing to remarry. The date is the date of the licence or the declaration, not the date of the marriage. 1916-1919

1/PTA 9/1/1 - Marriage licence affidavits from Port Alfred, 1874 - 1890

HAEC 1/2/6/1/2 - Marriages performed by the resident magistrate, East London 1893 -1902

Repository where records are held: Western Cape Archives

These additional files make interesting additions to Anne's transcriptions.

MISSIONARIES IN SA:
Wesleyan Missions in Albany and Kaffraria from The Cape Town Directory and Annual Advertiser, 1863 has now been added to this section by Anne Clarkson.

Anne also lists the Mission Stations from The Argus Annual and South African Directory 1894.

TRANSCRIPTIONS and GENERAL SHIPPING LISTS:
Charlie Fison has recently transcribed the following items:

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Civil Christenings for the years 1811 and 1812

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Civil Christenings for the years 1813 and 1814

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1812

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1813

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1814

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1815

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1816

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1817

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1824

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1825

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1826

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the year 1827

The English Church, Cape Town, later St. George's Cathedral
Christenings for the years 1828 and 1829

Only LOOK UPs available unfortunately.

1820 SETTLERS:
As you are aware Sue Mackay has recently transcribed the following CO53/3 National Archives, Kew, items: - 1830s Extracts from South African Commercial Advertiser.

This month Sue adds the following file:
CO53/3 - 1835 Extracts from South African Commercial Advertiser

and Karel Marais is indexing the names appearing in the South African Commercial Advertiser. This is a very useful aid in the use of these lists.

INDEX TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
15 July 1826-30.

ROBIN's LISTS:
Rhodesian Pioneers Society Index is now included in the many transcriptions of Robin Griffiths.

Robin informs us that Ian Carruthers has now helped expand the 'Rhodesian Treks' list included previously.

URLs of interest:
The following website has asked Genealogy World to mention their URL:
Your Scottish Descent
http://www.yourscottishdescent.com
Based in Scotland Your Scottish Descent offer a professional Scottish family history research service to anyone looking to find out about their Scottish ancestry. This is a pay site!

The following URL you will find in Rosemary's new article (see below).
www.plimsoll.org/RegistersAndRecords/LloydsRegisters/

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
2007 has been a busy year for ScotlandsPeople with the launch of a major OPR index update, OPR district/county search and the addition of OPR images. RCE images were also added, and the time limit for using credits was extended to 90 days. In response to customer requests, we added 'Mothers maiden surname' to the statutory death forms, 'second person forename' to the census forms, and improved the 'previous searches' and 'viewed images' functionality to include filtering and sorting of results.

Customers can now access, online, records from the Statutory Register of Births for 1906, the Statutory Register of Marriages for 1931, and the Statutory Register of Deaths for 1956. Almost 100,000 new index and corresponding image entries have been added to the site, amounting to six gigabytes of data.

BRICK WALL and MISSING PERSONS:
Please look at each of these Pages from time to time in case you are able to assist someone in their research!

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SHIPWRECKED IN THE ATLANTIC? - by Rosemary Dixon-Smith
The wreck of the Union RMS American on 23 April 1880, including passenger and crew lists. News reports of shipwrecks are an excellent source of information for family historians.
Family Tree Magazine (published in January 2008)

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