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From: "Don.MacLeod" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Burkigt, Benn - for Lynn Macloed
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:12:56 +1300
References: <009201c2caf9$36b51620$ed94ef9b@co.za>


Hi Gerold
Many thanks for this information. I am trying to follow one Flora Millicent
Benn who married
a Pike and have got nowhere, so this is in the big picture.
Thanks too for the site - brought back many good memories of our last trip
back to SA many
years ago. I took my NZ hubby down the garden route (smirk) and one stop
was Knysna -
really beautiful. I even managed to part with a few dollars and bought a
couple of carved
crested guineafowl (just love them) from Feathers Gallery.
Thanks again,
Kind regards
Lynn MacLeod
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Whittaker <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:25 AM
Subject: RE: [ZA] Burkigt, Benn - for Lynn Macloed


> Hi Lynn,
>
> Seeing as your BENN's are connected to Knysna I thought there must be a
> connection to the boat on the Knysna Lagoon known as the John Benn. The
boat
> is used to ferry tourists between Knysna and the "Featherbed" Nature
> Reserve. The boat sometimes sails out to the Knysna Heads, not venturing
out
> to sea. We did the trip in about 1992 and I still remember the joy on my
> parent's faces as they had never done anything like it before. The trip to
> the Heads is quite exhilarating as the waves come crashing through the
> narrow gap churning the mouth of the lagoon into white water.
>
> You can read more about the John Benn on the Featherbed Tourist website
at:
>
> http://www.featherbed.co.za/
>
> Follow the link entitled "Luxury Lagoon Cruises".
>
> Regards,
> Gerold Whittaker,
> Mosselbay.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: V Kymdell [mailto:]
> Sent: 30 January 2003 07:59
> To:
> Subject: [ZA] Burkigt, Benn - for Lynn Macloed
>
> Hi there Lynn,
>
> There is very little about Burkigt in SAG:
>
> August BURKIGT x Maria LEVEN
> b1 Henriëtte Emily Louisa *14.11.1862 ~Peddie 12.8.1863.
>
> All the E-Cape genies is there anything else on Burkigt out there?
>
> As far as the Benn family goes SAG shows a number of Benns [order of
entries
> changed] who are not linked to one another. I would hazard a guess and
say
> that John Benn *1814 and William Benn * c1817 were brothers and that
> Benjamin Benn was a son of one of the brothers, and Antonet a daughter,
also
> that John and William married Smith sisters or cousins, but it is still
just
> speculation.
>
> John BENN * 1814, cabinet maker x Swellendam 17.1.1842 Anne SMITH *1821
> b1 Anne *5.5.1843 ~Swellendam 3.7.1834 x Knysna 27.2.1868 John Henry
BAILIE
> b2 Elizabeth Charlotte *24.8.1844 ~Swellendam 20.10.1844 +2.1.1907 x
David
> William BECKETT
> b3 Jessie Smith x Knysna 13.8.1873 Andrew Christopher SASS
> b4 Donald *12.2.1851 ~Mossel Bay 22.6.1851
>
> William BENN * c1817, shopowner at Zuurbrak xSwellendam 24.3.1845 Mary
> Frances SMITH *c1828
> b1 John Adrian Bernardus *13.9.1846 ~Swellendam 29.11.1846
> b2 Elizabeth Sarah ~Swellendam 27.12.1846 [check this out, she may be the
> eldest just chr later than her brother, John Adrian Bernardus. He was
born
> 13.9.1846, she was chr 27.12.1846, so she was either his twin, or
stillborn
> not full term, or born before him, or SAG error.]
> b3 William x Susanna Jacoba GERBER
> c? Gertrude Mary *14.7.1894 ~Knysna 3.9.1894
>
> Antonet Francina BENN x Riversdal 6.11.1854 Willem SNYMAN
>
> Benjamin BENN *c1849 x Oudtshoorn 16.3.1880 Elsie Catharina HOFFMAN *1869
> b1 Henry William *1.2.1881 Oudtshoorn 3.3.1881
> b2 Annie Frances Christine *16.1.1882 Õudtshoorn 30.4.1882
>
> Wiliiam Henry BENN *Deptford, Kent, England c 1832, shopowner at
> Kruisrivier, Oudtshoorn, +Oudtshoorn 20.3.1862 x Oudtshoorn 1.11.1858
Elsje
> Catharina SWART *1841
> b1 Henry Johan Gert *13.11.1860 ~George 27.11.1860 x Oudtshoorn 1.6.1886
> Catharina Elizabeth BEKKER, widow of Jan Diederik BENEKE
> b2 Wilhelmina Hendrina *18.9.1862 ~George 23.11.1862
> [Don't discount the fact that William Henry may also be a son of one of
the
> two brothers, whose wife may have gone to England to visit and had the
baby
> there, again just guesswork.]
>
> Arthur John BENN, shopowner at Knysna * 1870 x Knysna 25.2.1896 Jacomina
> Geertruida VAN ROOYEN * 1876.
> [Could be son of one of the b's]
>
> The only references I could find on Benn and Burkigt were in SAG.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Viv Kymdell
>
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