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From: "M. Scott-Williams" <>
Subject: Re: Escourt 1920's and re Tough
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:01:07 +0200


Wessel's Nek is about 4 miles north of the Sundays River, between
Elandslaagte and Wasbank, on the line between Ladysmith and Glencoe.

Mike

> On another tack I am trying to find the location of Wessel's Nek which
> features in an old family document regarding a piece of land adjacent to
> the "Central Colliery" Wessels Nek. This town is not on my Encarter CD
> World Atlas nor in any maps I have looked at. The puzzle is I have
somewhere
> found (but cannot remember where) the following reference to this town in
> Natal. Is it maybe near Dundee or Newcastle or even outside of Natal?

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