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From: "Conrod Mercer" <>
Subject: Re: Genealogies of old SA
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 20:22:43 +0000


Greetings David Slee,

You wrote:

> You mention the above book. I'd be grateful if you would take a moment and
> see if the names Tesseyman, Titterton or McComb are listed at all.

Unfortunately not!

Genealogies of old South African Families consists only of Afrikaans
families or the descendants of the original Dutch, German, French and
other original settlers during the time of Dutch East India Company
(VOC) control. It takes the genealogies of the original settlers from
the time they arrived in South Africa to about 1800.

This publication in two volumes is basicly a reprint and somewhat
revised version of "Geslacht Register der oude Kaapsche Familien,"
(Genealogical Register of the old Cape families) - prepared by
Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers and published after his death in
1887.

The body of work contained in Genealogies of old South African
Families is being added to and supplemented with information on
families not contained in the original, including many English and
other families, in SA Genealogies by Heese and Lombard.

It is intended, as far as I am aware that there will ultimately be 7
volumes of this work, of which 4 have been published too date by the
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

Vol 1 contains A - C surnames
Vol 2 contains D - G surnames
Vol 3 contains H - I surnames
Vol 4 contains J - K surnames

As you can see the surnames you are interested in have not yet been
published :(

This of course does not mean that there are no records of other
settler groups in a different format.

A prime example is the 1820 Settler Handbook which gives a listing of
the 1820 British Settlers to South Africa. - Sorry your names are not
mentioned in this pubication either.

There is work going on into the British Settlers in Natal 1824 -
1857, which is also in a number of volumes, (I'm not sure how many
have been completed to date. I only have four volumes.) - Sorry no
mention of your surnames in the Index of this series).

There are also various publications about the French Huguenot
Settlers and a number of publications dealing with individual
families.

I suggest that you contact the HSRC to determine if any work has been
done on these families or if anyone is researching them here in South
Africa - The address of their home page is on my web site and the
address of that is in my signature below.

I hope that you don't mind me sending your request, together with my
answer to the list because it may be of interest to the other
subscribers on the list?

If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to contact me
again.

Regards

Conrod Mercer
28 Hosking Street, Brenthurst, Brakpan, 1541 Republic of South Africa
eMail :
http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/
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