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From: MICHAEL O'CONNOR<michael.o' >
Subject: Re: O'CONNOR/CONNOR/CONNORS - PIETERMARITZBURG
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 17:30:38 +0200 (GMT)


Thanks Pat,
I know that there was an O'CONNOR living near Fox Hill/Thornville Junction
at some stage but I think that this is too early to be the same man.
Many thanks
Kind regards
Mike

>Hi Mike
>
>The reference to Thomas Connor appears in Vol.6 on page 133 in the
>biographical reference to one William FINNIS. It's quite a vague reference
>but it does indicate that at Thomas' death, he was of Van der Merwe's Bush
><<presumably S.W. van der Merwe's Vlak Hoek in the Karkloof>>. I do not
>have Vols. 3, 4 or 5 yet so do not know whether there are other references.
>
>Regards,
>
>Pat Smith
>
>Seeking information on Richard James le Rey who was apparently born on a
>ship off the Cape Coast in 1852. His mother, Marie le REY (born HUETTE)
>died shortly after his birth and, for reasons still to be established, his
>father Henri le REY handed Richard over to one Caroline SCHOLTS to be
>raised as her son.
>
>Richard James le REY was a Prosecutor in Phillipolis; an Attorney in
>Bloemfontein and, later, a Justice of the Peace and Postmaster in Hopetown
>(Hoopstad).
>
>My grandmother, Richard's daughter, was Francina le REY who died circa 1935
>and who married Dirk Cornelis UYS born ? circa 1891. Dirk Cornelis UYS was
>born at Remuneration near Boshoff and later lived at Heilbron, Standerton,
>Pretoria and Johannesburg.
>
>
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Michael O'Connor
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Researching the names O'Connor/Connor/Connors
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa

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