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From: "Gerda" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Correction JOHANSEN
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:19:06 +0200
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My apologies for conflicting information

Of course the poor man died only once.... on 31 May 1931. His wife and
children moved back to Denmark in 1935.

Gerda


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerda" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 7:59 PM
Subject: [ZA] Re: family history


> Dear Listers,
>
> A Danish correspondent of mine, Margit Olsen, is eager to know more about
> her family's stay in South Africa, but does not 'have' enough English to
> correspond with the list.
>
> Her grandfather's name was Johannes Daniel JOHANSEN (born Denmark 22
january
> 1846 - died in Johannesburg 31 May 1931) He was a builder in and around
Cape
> town during the years 1877 and 1884, and again during the years
1892 -1926.
> He died in Johannesburg in 1936. In 1926 there was a case against him by
the
> trustees of the St George Orphanage, I am assuming in Cape town.
>
> Her father, Johannes Andreas JOHANSEN, was born on 2 july 1897 and
baptised
> on 11 October 1894 at Clifton Hill Church in Cape Town. In 1935 he was a
> member of the Union Club in Johannesburg and she has a letter given to him
> when he returned to Denmark in 1935.
>
> The questions are as follows:
>
> Is st George's orphanage still in existence?
> Does anybody live in, or know of any buildings built by J D Johansen in
Cape
> Town?
> What was the Union Club, Johannesburg, and is it still in existence?
>
> Most of all I guess she would dearly love to know if anybody would be
kind
> enough to do a couple of lookups for her at the KAB archives. Most
documents
> are mortgages, as he seemed to have speculated with properties, but these
> would give her an idea of the properties developed by him. And then, of
> course, the court case mentioned above.
>
> Margit's address is
>
> Kind regards
>
> Gerda
>
>
>
>
>
>
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