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From: Andrew Rodger <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Info required on Albania settlers
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:50:02 +1000
In-Reply-To: <000b01c342d0$c2f25cc0$d54c27c4@chrish>


On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 08:32 AM, sharon marshall wrote (snip):

> The Anglo-Boer war was at the turn of the century and many
> 'intermarried'
> families were caught between loyalties.
> Calling David Morris/Andrew Rodgers???
>
No, my family were not affected in that way as far as I know.

My maternal grandparents were a Scot and an Afrikaans lady, and she was
caught up in the Boer War, but only in her professional capacity as a
nurse (in a neutral German Red Cross ambulance unit); they met later
when she was a missionary nurse for the Dutch Reformed Church in Zambia
and he was a Free Church of Scotland missionary sent from Livingstonia
in Malawi to found a new station at Lubwa in the Mpika District of
Zambia, and were married there (he for the second time, his first wife,
whose name I don't know, having died in childbirth along with the
child). There was only one child of the union, my mother, born in 1911
and died last year. My grandparents' names were Robert Donald MacMINN
(1870 to 1956) and Josephine Maria HAARHOFF (1880 to 1945). A first
cousin of my mother was Theodorus Johannes HAARHOFF, onetime Professor
of Classics at Wits and all-round savant, and his mother Maggie was a
daughter of an MP in the Cape Parliament named MARAIS.

I haven't really explored the HAARHOFF line on this List, but would be
happy now to hear from anyone who can help me on that. I was in touch
briefly with Professor Johannes HAARHOFF of RAU, but lost contact. (He
was running a HAARHOFF newsletter and I sent him some information for it
about TJ's Australian descendants, but heard nothing thereafter;
however, in 2001 I found myself next to a RAU student ion a plane
returning to Australia and he assured me that the professor was still
around in Johannesburg, despite my brother having tried and failed to
contact him.) There has been no trace of this chap in the SA List, but
perhaps there is someone else who can help. Another member of the
family was a fairly well-known portrait-painter.

Anyone out there?

Andrew Rodger


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