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From: MICHAEL O'CONNOR<michael.o' >
Subject: Re: Unidentified subject!
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 20:49:36 +0200 (GMT)


Ken,
Have you ever got anybody (preferably somebody in Cape Town) to call up the
name on the computer for you? This might just list if there is a photograph
of him and where it is housed. Then of course there is a Huegenot Museum at
Franschhoek near Cape Town which might just have a portrait of him.
Sorry I cannot help you as I am too far away from Huegenot country.
Regards
Mike O'Connor

>
>PREVIOUS REQUEST :
>
>In my Pierre Joubert research I have often asked about whether there are any
>pictures of the grand old man. So far I have drawn a blank. It seems amazing
>that a refugee from France (sheep farmers in Provence) who had been so
>successful in RSA that he has been called the "most successful farmer in the
>Cape" and owned so many vinyards eventually, should not have had his
>portrait painted in his later years. I wrote to the lady who had written
>the history of one of the estates in South Africa for which he had been one
>ofthe owners over time; and she also was not aware of a picture. Any help
>anyone ?
>
>(1) ANY MUSEUM OR ART GALLERY WHICH MIGHT CONTACT.
>(2) Checked already with Huguenot Society - without any success.
>(3) Archives of some sort - most likely ?
>(4) Local History book of some kind - or community ?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Ken from Canada.
>Kenneth van der Berg Joubert, C-11, Site I-2, RR 2, NANAIMO, BC. Canada
>V9R 5K2. Telephone (250) 722-3185 (Fax (250) 722-7197 : Residential =
>1492 Fiddick Crescent, Cedar-by-the-Sea, Vancouver Island, British
>Columbia,
>Canada (off the West Coast of Canada in the Pacific Ocean.)
>
>
Michael O'Connor
Orchid Grower and Genealogist
Researching the names O'Connor/Connor/Connors
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa

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