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From: Dafanie Goldsmith <>
Subject: Re: WERNER;MINNEMA;LANGE
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 07:20:46 +1300


Hi Erica

I have found Grant Nurden very professional and most helpful with my SA
research. He is closed until the 12th January.


Good Luck

Dafanie
At 17:50 4/01/00 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>It's a long while since I posted my research names. I am very ignorant
>when it comes to how to go about research in South Africa so would
>appreciate any advice and I am quite willing to pay for someone's time
>and/or costs.
>
>My German speaking great grandparents WERNER (he was a violinist - probably
>among other things) migrated to South Africa in the 1870's from Latvia with
>several children including Christian and Rosalia. Rosalia was a small
>child. There were others (possibly born in the Cape) but I have not
>discovered their names. Two females eventually married brothers named
>LANGE (?spelling). The family was based in Cape Town.
>
>My grandmother Rosalia WERNER married (about 1894) Jan MINNEMA who moved
>to South Africa from Friesland around 1890. They had four children -
>Anna, William, Regina (?born Kimberley 1900) and Jack.
>
>I am keen to discover more about my WERNER grandparents whose given names I
>don't know, along with their other children. I believe that they
>belonged to the Lutheran Church in Cape Town. Is there any chance that
>records from there survive ?
>
>Happy New Year to all.............. Erica Hills, Perth, Western Australia
>-
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>
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(Goldsmith neé Bennett)
New Zealand
Researching - Bennett, Ball, Goldsmith, Hullett, Pinker, Musgrave and Hardy

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