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From: Patricia Frykberg <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] "thunder from a clear sky" by Viva Lewey
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 06:07:03 +1300
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Ellen you are wonderful!
Many thanks. AGAIN.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellen Stanton" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:22 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] "thunder from a clear sky" by Viva Lewey


> Hi Pat and Karen,
>
> Here is an index I made of an LDS film that is probably the one to which
you
> are referring:
>
> Index to LDS Microfilm #1295031
>
> Warning Label: "This film may not be sold, duplicated, extracted, or
> indexed."
>
> Item 1 Index A-Z Applications for Assisted Immigration 1893-1902
> Applications, pp. 1-200 1903
> Index A-Z of 1903 Applications
>
> Item 2 Index A-Z of Boys/Girls sent from UK
> Register of Boys/Girls sent from UK pp. 1-21 1884
>
> Item 3 Bird Papers, Passenger Lists 1845-1852
> (Typed transcription of film #1295373, Item 7)
>
> Item 4 List of Early Colonists (typed-list only)
> Alphabetic List (handwritten)
> Biographies selected individuals (handwritten), pp. 1-54
>
> Item 5 Index A-Z, Establishment Register
> Establishment Register, pp. 1-172
> Index A-Z, pp. 1-109
>
> Item 6 Natal Royal Defence Records (A-Z)
>
> Item 7 Casualty Register - Native Rising (1906)
>
> Item 8 Natal Mounted Infantry - Roll
>
> Item 9 PMB Rifle Association - Muster Roll 1890-1894
>
> Item 10 PMB Rifle Association 1901
>
> Item 11 Index D-Z, PMB Mounted Police
>
> End Roll
>
> Regards,
> Ellen Stanton
> Email:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patricia Frykberg" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [ZA] "thunder from a clear sky" by Viva Lewey
>
>
> > Yes Karen. It stands for Natal Mounted Police and your man would not be
> > mentioned in this book which is very family centred. I got most of the
NMP
> > information from the Natal Archives. I also remember reading all the
> > details
> > of records of service on an LDS film. I'm afraid I don't have a record
of
> > the film number. In those early days I was very careless about noting
that
> > sort of thing!!
> > Hope (and I feel sure you will) find your man.
> > Pat
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Martin & Karen McCarthy" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 1 December 2004 06:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ZA] "thunder from a clear sky" by Viva Lewey
> >
> >
> >> Hi Pat,
> >> I was intrigued by your e-mail. Does NMP mean a mounted police unit?
I
> >> have been searching for my g grandfather Robert Griffin Williams for
some
> >> time who was a mounted policeman in the late 1800's to early 1900's in
> >> SA.
> >> Is there any possibility that he is in this book & even if he's not how
> > can
> >> I get a copy as the book sounds like its well worth a read. Look
forward
> > to
> >> hearing from you.
> >> Cheers
> >> Karen
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Patricia Frykberg" <>
> >> To: <>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:46 PM
> >> Subject: [ZA] "thunder from a clear sky" by Viva Lewey
> >>
> >>
> >> > I have just been given this book and as there is any amount of
> > information
> >> about Tembuland and EC, I am sure that with the authors permission I
can
> > do
> >> a look up or at least put you in touch with the author Viva Lewey Nee
> >> TROW
> >> who now lives in NSW.
> >> > I can't help telling how this came into my hands.
> >> > Talk of small world.
> >> > My brother Brian Knott (no relation to the Alice Knott family
> >> > references
> >> seen frequently on this list) who lives at Gonubie read an article by
> > Colin
> >> Trow in which he described how his grandfather had been sent out on
> >> patrol
> >> from Isandhlwana only to return to find most of the Imperial forces
> > killed.
> >> My brother was intrigued as our grandfather with the NMP was also
> > withdrawn
> >> from there shortly before the disaster and lost many of his friends who
> >> remained. Brian phoned Colin Trow of Port Elizabeth and mentioned this
> > (both
> >> men can talk and talk) and that I had written about this incident too,
> >> and
> >> that I lived in Havelock North NZ. Yesterday I got a phone call from
> > Napier
> >> (20 minutes drive from here. Colin Trow and wife Thelma no less.
> >> (Marielle
> >> she has Ford ancestry), So we spent an incredible afternoon.... Hence
the
> >> book.
> >> > Pat
> >> >
> >> >
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