This is a transcription of a column that appeared in South Africa magazine April 3, 1909. The column is titled "Domestic Announcements".

BIRTHS

BIRT - On February 24, at Standerton, the wife of Lascelles Birt, a son.

COPPINGER - On February 26, at Kimberley, to Mr. and Mrs. E. Coppinger, a son.

CULLEN - On March 24, at the Dynamite Factory, Modderfontein, Transvaal, the wife of William Cullen, General Works Manager, a son.

HILTON - On March 1, at Cape Town, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Hilton, a daughter.

LAMSLEY - On February 28, at Kimberley, the wife of A. C. Lamsley, a son.

MORGAN - On February 27, at Kimberley, to Mr. and Mrs. John Morgan, of Jeppestown, Johannesburg, a daughter.

POTT - On March 26, at Bournemouth, the wife of William Pott, of Johannesburg, a son.

RIDGE - On March 2, at Rondebosch, to Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Ridge, a daughter.

TOWNSHEND - On February 23, at Klerksdorp, the wife of Cecil Wray Townshend, a son.

WETHERELL - On March 26, at Cerro Muriano, Cordoba, Spain, the wife of Charles William Seymour Wetherell, a son.

MARRIAGES

CASHMORE - GODFREY - On March 31, at 118, Sutherland Avenue, W., Edward S. Cashmore, second son of John Cashmore, of 1, Warwick Crescent, Maida Hill, W., to Josephine, youngest daughter of the late Mrs. Henry Godfrey, of Johannesburg.

DENHOLM - DICKSON - On March 2, at Edendale, Natal, Alexander, eldest son of the late James Denholm, Liberton, to Ophelia Ann, second daughter of Thomas Dickson, Leith.

GRAY - FRASER - On March 30, at Dundee, Natal, Andrew Gray, third son of the late John Gray, of Lovedale, Cape Colony, to Lucy Louise, youngest daughter of the late William Fowler Fraser, and of Mrs. Fraser, of Dundee, Natal, formerly of Bath, Somerset.

MOGINIE - RIDLEY - On March 1, at Cape Town, Frederick Campbell, youngest son of Campbell Pendock Moginie, of London, to Ellen Leddell, eldest daughter of the late R. W. Ridley, of Maritzburg, Natal

WADDELL - HARVEY - On March 2, at Cape Town, Sidney Toke Waddell, of Cape Town, son of T. F. Waddell, Mersham, Kent, to Margaret Fortune, eldest daughter of S. A. Harvey, Cape Town.

DEATHS

ABBOTT - On March 26, at Upper Norwood, S.E., Henry Abbott, of 66, Queen Street, Cannon Street, London, E.C., aged 72 years.

AITKEN - On March 24, in London, William, youngest son of the late Robert Aitken, of Kelso.

CLARKE - On the 1st inst., at The Lodge, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, suddenly, of pneumonia, Sir Marshal James Clarke, K.C.M.G., aged 68.

LEISHMAN - On February 28, at Uitenhage, Stuart Southey, only child of Oswald Stuart Leishman, Cape Mounted Police.

LIDDLE - On March 8, at New Modderfontein, Transvaal, Nurse Janet Liddle, aged 24, daughter of Alexander Liddle, and beloved sister of Mrs. Forrest Snow, late of Corstorphine.

SLADE - On March 2, at Wynberg, Hester Wilhelmina Slade (nee BOOYENS), in her 50th year.

SWIFT - On March 26, at Bedford, Ellen Plumer, widow of the late Rev. T. W. Swift, M. A. Oxon., of St. John's, Wynberg, Cape Town, and daughter of the late Rev. H. G. Stedman, M. A. Cantab., of Sandycroft, Great Budworth, Cheshire, aged 62.

TOWNSEND - On March 4, at Cape Town, Sarah Payne Townsend, widow of the late George Seaborne Townsend, of Namaqualand, aged 72 years.

TWEEDDALE - On March 13, after a long illness, William Alexander, last surviving son of James Tweeddale, M.D., Surgeon, R.N., and Margaret Dunbar Tweeddale, in his 85th year.

WEBB - On March 27, at 8, Lansdowne Place, Hove, Joseph Webb, F.R.C.S., third son of the late Thomas Webb, of Ledbury, banker, J.P., D.L., aged 92.

WEIR - On March 6, at Rhodesia, of acute malarial fever, Archibald Scott Weir, second son of the late William Weir, of Mount Pleasant, Gibraltar.

IN MEMORIAM

MCGUIRE - In loving memory of John Brown McGuire, aged 29 years, who died at Durban on March 31, 1903.

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

Some earthquake shocks have been reported from Namaqualand.

MRS. KOCH, SEN., a very old resident of Malmesury, widow of the late Christoffel Koch and mother of Mr. A. C. Koch, of the firm of Smuts and Koch, died recently at the age of 77 years.

MR. J. BRINK, of Verloren Vlei district, Ceres, recently handed to the police at Ceres a draft for 500 lire (L20) on an Italian bank, a passage ticket on a Union-Castle steamship; and a L5 deposit receipt, covering the immigration regulations into England. These were left with him about the time of the disappearance of an Italian named Gioacchino Toschani. The articles were sent to the Cape Town Police.

THE REV. F. J. ECCLESTONE has accepted the Congregational pastorate at Burghersdorp.

Regards

Ellen Stanton

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