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From: "Vaughan Holmes" <>
Subject: LODER/HARDING
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 06:33:05 +0200


Hi Cliff,

I am pleased you responded to my LODER request. The fact that you are
missing a JAMES HARDING and that I have found one that fits into your
picture is certainly promising. JAMES and AGNES HARDING are buried in
Qumbu, not Umtata, and his date of death is given as 1876. He died on 5
February 1952. Perhaps someone could tell me how I can establish who LODER
CRESCENT in Port Elizabeth is named after because there are LODER's living
there who are related to the Transkei LODERs and it would give me a new
lead. I spoke to a HARDING in Durban who told me that he was born in
Queenstown and he has a family tree but there is no AGNES HARDING on it.

I have a few leads to pursue, someone who knew them and some other odds and
ends. Perhaps a subscriber might know someone who lived in Qumbu or Tsolo
as a child? I suspect, for two reasons, that some of the descendants of
JAMES and AGNES may have married Xhosas. Firstly, a large number of AGNES'
cousins who were living in the same area did so. For example, THOMAS
CALVERLEY from Nqeleni had twenty-two coloured children from three wives,
two of whom were coloured and the other a Xhosa. The second reason is that
according the little information I have, the entire LODER kin moved to
Durban in the 1920s and a cursory glance at the Durban telephone
directory revealed that a great many of the listed HARDINGS live in
historically coloured areas. I also seem to remember a HARDING from Qumbu
who was a coloured.

I have a friend named HARVARD I could speak to if you like.

Regards,

Vaughan



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