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From: "orourke-mj" <>
Subject: Death Date
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 22:10:05 +1000


My thanks again to Heather MacAlister, Doug and Pat Frykberg and Ray and Pat
Pitt for their suggestions. Church or burial records would seem to be the
way to go but I would once again request some help in this regard.
My grandmother died in Johannesburg in, I believe, 1938. She was Church of
England but married a Catholic in a civil ceremony in the Magistrate's
court. She lived in Wanderers View at the time of her death - can SKS
advise me of the nearest C of E or Catholic churches in the vicinity and
also of the nearest cemetery. I assume that most people in those days were
buried and not cremated?? A son did predecease her as a result of war
wounds and was buried in the Brixton Cemetery - is this cemetery also for
the general public (in which case can SKS please advise me of the address)
as she may have chosen to be buried near him - or is it only for the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission?

My thanks to everyone for their prompt and helpful replies.

Regards,
Merle O'Rourke
Brisbane, Australia

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