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From: "dpratt" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] PEERS - Wynberg and Fish Hoek
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 18:45:42 +0200
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"owe a house" - never a truer word unchecked by spellcheck!

Derek

----- Original Message -----
From: "dpratt" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ZA] PEERS - Wynberg and Fish Hoek


> No, Andrew, Peers Cave is on the little hillock between Fish Hoek Valley
and
> Clovelly Golf Course. Surrounded by sand dues, it now has Fish hoek
rapidly
> creeping up on it as Fish hoek expands. I owe a house moreor less
opposite
> it - but now live in the Church rectory and let my house.
>
> The other caves are know as Kalk Bay Caves and are one of the few caves in
> the Peninsula which can be explored.
>
> Derek
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Rodger" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 3:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [ZA] PEERS - Wynberg and Fish Hoek
>
>
> > Well, well, a blast from the past! If Peers Cave is the one I think it
> > is, it is between Fish Hoek and Kalk Bay, and is one of several in that
> > range of hills. I went through one of those caves with a friend and
> > fellow-student in my UCT days, and nearly got stuck in a narrow passage
> > which turned at right angles to s straight-down direction halfway
> > through, which my friend called "Edward's Limit". The cave was partly
> > Table Mountain sandstone and partly huge granite boulders, and very
> > abrasive on the inside! But I never did hear of the person after whom
> > the cave was named.
> >
> > Andrew Rodger, also in Australia.
> >
> > On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 05:36 PM, Shelley Farr wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I am new to the list and wonder if someone can help me with
> > > information. I
> > > live in Australia.
> > > I am researching my husband's ancestors and have found that one of his
> > > relatives is Victor Stanley PEERS, born New South Wales in 1875 (son
of
> > > Lewis Arthur PEERS and Mary Ayis YOUNG), married in Tasmania in 1902
to
> > > Bella MYLES. There was a notice in a Tasmanian paper that there was a
> > > son
> > > born to them 16/6/1903 in Wynberg.
> > >
> > > I have found references on the internet regarding a Victor Stanley
PEERS
> > > discovering ancient skeletons with his son Bertie (Bertram at one
site)
> > > in a
> > > cave near Fish Hoek - later name Peers Cave. I think that this is
> > > probably
> > > the man I am looking for, but need further information to back it up.
> > > There
> > > is also mention of a rare plant of South Africa being named after him
> > > (Lachanelia peersii).
> > >
> > > Does anyone have access to BDM data and would be able to do a lookup
> > > for me
> > > on this family? I am not sure what resources are available for South
> > > Africa. Victor Stanley Peers also served in the Boer War.
> > >
> > > I would welcome any information that is available, as all I have on
this
> > > family is what I have written here.
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > > Shelley (Queensland)
> > >
> > >
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