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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: [ZA] Change of surname
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:59:25 +0200
In-Reply-To: <00e701c2f8a3$4acb7280$9deeef9b@gerda>


On 2 Apr 2003 at 1:06, Gerda Pieterse wrote:

> Pam,
>
> I tried the keywords Change and Surname for the years 1907 through to 1920 but
> no luck there either. In later years there are many, but the entries contain
> no detail. It would be impossible to go through them all if you don't have an
> exact date.
>
> Newspapers sometimes published passenger lists of people arriving in port, and
> I have had some luck with the documents 'Permission to leave the Colony" that
> are also held at the archives. This case was almost a hundred years earlier,
> and I don't know whether it was still in use in 1908.

I had one in my records.

SAB Source: URU Volume: Reference: 1363
Application for change of surname, Koch to Sparg

Seen: 16 MAY 02

The URU group were one of the secret ones until 1994, after which they were
opened.

But application to change a surname was only required by the Aliens Act of, I
think, 1938.

Before that, it was not necessary to go through any legal procedure.

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Steve Hayes
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