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From: "Angela Gerber" <>
Subject: Re: FW: Title Research
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 15:47:12 EDT

Hi

Could CAVANA have been changed to CAVANAUGH?

Regards
Angela

>From: Conrod Mercer <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: FW: Title Research
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:10:09 +0200
>
>Hi All,
>
>Can anyone help by rechecking telephone directories, particularly those not
>mentioned in the list below. I don't conduct research so can't quote and in
>the spirit of the list, would like to help as far as possible.
>
>Any assistance greatly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Conrod Mercer
>-------------------------------------------------
>28 Hosking Street, Brenthurst, Brakpan, 1541, RSA
>email:
>Home Page: http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/
>South-Africa-L and South-Africa-D listowner
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:Helen Taylor [SMTP:]
>Sent:Wednesday, April 28, 1999 10:48 AM
>To:''
>Subject:Title Research
>
>Dear Mr Mercer
>
>I work for a firm of Probate Genealogists in London, England, who look for
>missing beneficiaries to estates.
>
>I understand that you are the Chairman of a Genealogical Society and you
>have been recommended to me by Mr Leon Endemann.
>I have a difficult case with only limited information and I would like to
>know if you could help in any way.
>
>I am looking for two people (or their descendants) whose last known details
>are as follows:
>Ronald Cavana born 1944 in Scotland - moved to South Africa when a small
>child - worked as an apprentice for the Electricity Supply Commission in
>1966.
>Juanita Cavana born 1942 in Scotland - moved to SA when a small child -
>married and lived at the following address in 1966
>7 Simmerfon
>Married Quarters
>Germiston
>Transvall
>
>I have looked for the name Cavana in all of the main SA telephone
>Directories (Jo'burg, Pretoria, East and West Rand, Durban, Cape Town) and
>didn't find any! I also contacted ESCOM's personnel department to locate
>any records of Mr Cavana but they couldn't find his details.
>Obviously I could not search for Juanita because I do not know her married
>surname.
>
>Please could you send me a quote on whether you could resolve this case
>and,
>if so, how much time it would take and how much it would cost.
>Thank you very much for your kind assistance.
>
>Helen Taylor
>Case handler - Title Research
>email : helen.taylor @title-research.co.uk
><mailto:>
>web : www.title-research.com <http://www.title-research.com/>;
>
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