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From: "Charles, Jennifer and Michael Bell" <>
Subject: Re: Nourse
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 21:45:01 -0400

Steve,
It is my understanding that there are two, unrelated NOURSE families in
South Africa. There is my family that immigrated to the Cape about 1820, and
another Nourse family that produced the cricketer, Dave Nourse. I think the
cricket family came over later. We have not made a connection between the
two families, but I bet if you go back to16th century England, we'd find a
close relationship between the two! I had an uncle who was nicknamed Dave
after the famous cricketer, but they weren't related.
Regards,
Jennifer Bell (nee Nourse)
Quantico, VA, USA

>Well I'm interested in NOURSE as well, though it may not be the same
family,
>and the connection is only an indirect one.
>
>My great aunt, Gladys VAUSE, married a guy called Wilkinson, and lived at
>Ottawa, near Verulam. They had two daughters, one of whom married a KYLE,
and
>the other a GAZZARD.
>
>Then she left him, and ran off with Dave NOURSE, a cricketer, whose son
>(presumably by another marriage) Dudley NOURSE, was also a cricketer.
>
>I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to find a record of her death, which I
>believe was around 1961, possibly in the Eastern Cape, but haven't so far,
and
>wondered if any NOURSE researchers might have come across it, as her death
>would probably have been recorded under NOURSE.
>
>Keep well,
>
>Steve Hayes
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> (if the above doesn't work)
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>
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>
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