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From: "Ralph Anderson" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Fw:
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:33:29 +0200
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How amazing Jeanette to find a distant relative! This is what genealogy is all about isn't it. I am a direct descendent of that William Anderson, and my father William Wardlaw Anderson was an LMS missionary in the then Southern Rhodesia thus following in his ancestor's footsteps. Thanks for your source reference concerning which, being a very young in the game, I have not yet looked at. (Apologies for the grammar) Sometime, I would like to add at least some part of your route to mine, if I may call on you to help. Incidently I was connected businesswise with the late Professor Prentice ex UQ who was interested in his family tree which included some in South Africa. Compliments of the season.
Ralph.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeanette Hartnack
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Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] Fw:


Hello Ralph,

I was interested to read your connection to Bartholomeus Schonken &
Elizabeth Maria van Ellence (Ellewee). I'm related to you distantly being
descended from this couple too, through a brother of Johanna Maria,
Bartholomeus Hendricus Schonken. I've found them (and all the others you
mention) in the C.C. de Villiers / C. Pama volumes "Genealogies of Old South
Africa Familes" (my local reference library here in Brisbane, Australia has
a copy).

Regards,

Jeanette.
(Brisbane, Australia)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Anderson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ZA] Fw:


> Hi Viv, I too have an interest in the DU PLESSIS family. I have only very
limited information however, that one of my ancestors, JEAN DU PLESSIS
arrived in Table Bay in 1688 and married a MARIA BRUSET (BRUNET?)Then
presumambly a daughter married a JOHANNES VAN ELLENCE from Amsterdam. Then
followed in succession HENDRICK RUDOLF VAN ELLENCE m. CATHERINE ESTERHUISEN.
ELIZABETH MARIA VAN ELLENCE m. BATHOLOMEUS SCHONKEN. Then JOHANNA MARIA
SCHONKEN m. WILLIAM ANDERSON in 1806, and he and a colleague were the first
to establish a mission station at Klaarwater, later Griquatown, north of the
Orange River, I think, under the auspices of the London Missionary Society.
(See "They were South Africans" by John Bond) I hope this is of interest.
>
> Ralph Anderson.
>
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