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From: Patricia Frykberg <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Gold Diggers in Natal
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 04:14:36 +1200
References: <0B7FF31621E39946B461603C1010E3E30D5C07@bulldc.bull.co.za>


Well there you go.!
that's interesting. Carl Mauch was there as early as 1875 I think.
There merest hint of a query on this list and it expands into the most
enlightening thread.
thanks Jack.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack WRIGHT" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, 10 July 2004 02:09 AM
Subject: RE: [ZA] Gold Diggers in Natal


>
> 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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