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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] BURGHERSHIP
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 07:37:16 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20040303185527.59586.qmail@web25102.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


On 3 Mar 2004 at 18:55, Adam Yamey wrote:

> I have found a reference in the website of the Nation
> Archives of South Africa, which reads as follows:
> "MEMORIALS. HENRY BERGMANN. APPLICATION FOR DEED OF
> BURGHERSHIP".
>
> It is dated 1853, and is to be found in "DEPOT KAB".
>
> What was "burghership" in that time? What does it
> imply? What benefits did it confer on the person who
> received it? Is it equivalent to citizenship of a
> town?, or of the country?

It was the equivalent of citizenship.

From burg = city and -er meaning inhabitant, skap = -ship, -ness


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