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From: Janet Melville <>
Subject: RE: Lost Great Aunts
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 07:54:08 +0200


Hi

It would help if you gave the names of your two aunts to start with. Maybe
they are burieed in a cemetery somewhere and one could pick them up. The
ostrich farmers were mostly in the Oudtshoorn district while the diamond
mines were in Kimberley. Whether he actually owned one well!! maybe he was
a diamond digger. Names and dates help to do a lookup.
Janet Melville

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Subject: Lost Great Aunts

Can anyone suggest on this list what sort of books would help me to find
clues about two aunts who married prior to WW1. One to an Osterich
breeder/farmer, and the other to an individual who owned a diamond mine.

I am utterly ignorant when it comes to South African politics, immigration,
etc. The two aunts were not poverty stricken when they decided to go to
S.A., and I do not know whether they left from Germany or the US where two
brothers, and two sisters settled.

I have absolutely no other clues to these two aunts, except perhaps to read
where osterich farms were and how long they went with the economy, and
where most of the diamond minds were located. Perhaps that would be a
start.

Daryl Bulkley

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