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From: "Jack WRIGHT" <>
Subject: RE: [ZA] Gold Diggers in Natal
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:09:59 +0200



For what it's worth, I have a print by Thomas BAINES titled "Goldfields
expedition leaving Pietermaritzburg for Matabeleland" dated 1870. I
would guess that these potential gold diggers arrived in Durban and set
forth via Pietermaritzburg... not to the eastern parts of the Transvaal
Republic, but to Rhodesia / Matabeleland.

Jack WRIGHT


-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia Frykberg [mailto:]
Sent: 09 July 2004 02:30
To:
Subject: Re: [ZA] Gold Diggers in Natal

For what it's worth my grandfather went from Natal to Barberton via
Delagoa Bay. So did a cousin of his. They certainly went for the
Barberton gold that way. So maybe these guys jumped off in Durban and
took (probably a slow
boat) to Delagoa bay then trekked inland to Barberton.
My boys did have 'passports' of a sort to give them entry to the
Mozambique.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Warr" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, 9 July 2004 05:43 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] Gold Diggers in Natal


> Hi Keith
> Thanks for the info - the ship definitely called only at Cape Town
> from Melbourne and was on its way to England.
> Wonder what they were going to dig in Natal then.
> Regards
> Sharon Warr
>
> View 1800s SOUTH AFRICAN PASSENGER LISTS at
> http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/DataArchive.htm
> SCRIBES PUBLISHING for Colonial Books on CD - visit
> http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/Scribes.htm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Meintjes" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 5:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [ZA] Gold Diggers in Natal
>
>
> > Sharon,
> >
> > The ship likely called at Durban (Port Natal) before Cape Town.
> >
> > The main Witwatersrand reef was not discovered until 1886. Gold was
found
> in
> > the eastern Transvaal (Lydenburg - Pilgrim's Rest) by 1870. Later
> discoveries
> > were at Barberton (1882).
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > =================================
> >
> > "Sharon Warr" <> wrote:
> >
> > Hi to All on the List
> > I came across a passenger list from the SS Northumberland which
> > brought
> many
> > 'gold diggers' to Cape Town from Melbourne Australia in June 1880.
> > They
> were
> > headed for Natal. Can anyone please shed any light on these people.
The
> list
> > is at http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/Ships%20&%20Passengers.htm
> > Thanks
> > Sharon Warr
> >
> > View 1800s SOUTH AFRICAN PASSENGER LISTS at
> > http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/DataArchive.htm
> > SCRIBES PUBLISHING for Colonial Books on CD - visit
> > http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/Scribes.htm
> >
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