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From: "Gerda Pieterse" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] A real problem, HELP !!!
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:34:09 +0200
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Hi Pam,

From the time we arrived in SA in 1958 up to 1994 surname changes and the
reason why a person wanted to have a surname changed had to be advertised
for three successive weeks in at least two main two local newspapers. One in
each language. These ads usually appeared on Fridays. Of course I don't know
if this was already the case as early on as 1908, but it's worth a try.

NAAIRS might also yield some information.

regards

Gerda Pieterse
Richards Bay

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Subject: [ZA] A real problem, HELP !!!


>
> Hoping some-one can steer me in the correct direction.
>
> In 1908 my Father, Charles Frederick RENNEY, who was living at
Germiston,
> Old Transvaaal, after going to South Africa from England, with the South
> African Constabulary, and his wife, Margaret GLOVER ROSS, who was born
near
> Pietermaritzburg, [spelling ?] and over 8 months pregnant at the time,
> travelled to England to visit his family for 6 weeks? On the trip over
she
> gave birth to twin boys on the ship. Do not know the name of the ship.
> While in the UK they stayed at Middlesbrough, N. Yorks. where the twins
> births were registered, which seemed odd to me as his family was at
> Stranton,West Hartlepool, although these two places are not far apart I
> wonder why he stayed there.
> Also, when they left to return to South Africa , they took a little boy
> with them, am told that after they arrived at their home at Germiston, the
> boy lived with them as one of the family and my Father had the child's
> surname changed to RENNEY. Am trying to discover who this boy was, his
> surname after it was changed was Arthur RENNEY, but have no idea what it
was
> before. Arthur RENNEY lived the rest of his life in South Africa, married,
> raised a family, and died there.
> My Father's first wife in the UK had died at age 19years, [she was from
> Middlesbrough,N. Yorks], before he joined the South African Constabulary.
Had
> originally thought the boy may have been a child he had with her and she
had
> died in childbirth, but now have discovered she died of TB. 5 months after
> their marriage.
> What I am asking is, are there any records in South Africa that would
show
> the previous surname of a child whose surname had been changed to RENNEY.
> It seems the purpose of the trip was to pick up the child, which must
have
> been important, otherwise why would he take a woman who was ready to
deliver
> on such a trip.
> Have racked my brain over this, but the people who could give me
answers
> are all dead. Hoping there may be some type of record in South Africa re.
> the name change. Feel he may have been a half-brother to me.
>
> Any help gratefully received, Pam [RENNEY] McKinley in Arizona.
>
>
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