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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Johannesburg Transvaal Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms 1883
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:48:00 +0200
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On 6 Dec 2004 at 10:21, Andrew Rodger wrote:

> Nobody has replied to the question of distance below, so here goes:
> about 100 km in a straight line, but the actual distance would depend
> on where the villages were and the terrain.
>
> I note from another of the entries in this film that a baptism was
> carried out at the Potchefstroon Meeting House, which means that, at
> least at that point, the Johanbesburg Methodist Church had a preaching
> station in that town. Kroonstad is rather further from Johannesburg
> than Potchefstroom, on the main road to Bloemfontein and the Cape, and
> was of course in a different Republic, so it probably did not have one
> there.

It was the other way round. The Methodist Church in the ZAR was based in
Potchefstroom. Johannesburg did not exist in 1883. The Methodist Church at
Potchefstroom had a preaching point at Kroonstad and one at Rustenburg. There
may have been a minister in Pretoria.

BUT THERE WAS NO JOHANNESBURG UNTIL 1886!

The road distance between Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp today is about 125km.

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