The WikiTree Challenge 2023 Challenge 10

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WikiTree Challenge 10

Organization: Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA)

Starting Profiles

Please don't start working on the profiles until Thursday, June 8th after 12p EDT (4p UTC). Thanks!!

Notable South African genealogists:

1. Johannes August Heese (1907-1990)

J.A. Heese is the primary author of the first few volumes of South African Genealogies" aka Heese & Lombard.

2. Roelof Theunis Johannes Lombard (1931-2011)

R.T.J. Lombard is the lead editor of the first few volumes of South African Genealogies" aka Heese & Lombard.

3. Edward John Morse Jones (1889-1969)

E. Morse Jones published Roll of the British Settlers in South Africa in 1969 and numerous extracts from contemporary accounts as the Albany Chronicles.

4. Colin Graham Botha (1883-1973)

C. Graham Botha was head of the Cape Archives for 32 years, and published The French Refugees on the Huguenot families in 1919.

5. Margaret Constance (Twentyman-Jones) Cairns (1912- 2009)

Margaret Cairns published widely on the social history of the Cape community

6. Floris Albertus van Jaarsveld (1922-1995)

F.A. van Jaarsveld was an influential historian, educator and genealogist, and published numerous books and school texts.

7. Marjorie Diane "Dee" (Murray) Nash (1928-2010)

M.D. Nash published the authoritative The Settler Handbook: A New List of the 1820 Settlers in 1987.

Needs Work

1. Need Parents: There are already 731 challenge profiles that need parents. Click the blue "Get profiles" button on the left once you open open the link to see the report.
2. Need Spouses: If someone is looking for a place to work, there are 14,197 challenge profiles with no spouses. Click on the blue "Get profiles" button to see the report.
3. England, needs profiles: The children of Sarah Ann Brown (1853-1933). They're listed in the attached census and on FS, GRO records in her research notes (Murray CC6) The children of Sarah Ann Brown were added 9 June 2023, Steen-1128
4. I have asked a question in G2G re: Paul Shaw and Ellen (O'Regan) Shaw: I was hoping someone with access to other sites may be able to help with finding travel records for this IRISH couple who are grandparents of one of the starting profiles for the current WikiTree Challenge #10. Paul Shaw and Ellen (O'Regan) Shaw seem to have emigrated to the United States in about 1870. Their first three children were all born in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1871 and 1874.Their birth records show that Paul was working as a carpenter. However, Paul and Ellen returned to Ireland before the birth of a son in 1876. No marriage record has yet been found in Ireland either, so it is possible that they met and married in the USA - in which case there would be two arriving passenger lists circa 1865-1870. Any help finding passenger records for this couple would be great! On their return trip to Ireland they would have been three: Paul, Ellen and a baby girl named Ellen Mary.
5. Louise Adriana (Louw) Hofmeyr (1845-1883) has a Death Notice in Afrikaans or German, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLJ-D41C, with several children, for someone who can read the document.
6. Florence Hermine (Watson) McDonald (1870-1940) has a Death Notice listing 5 children, with one who does not appear to belong. Donald Mcdonald (abt.1894-) is an orphan with no sources who is not on the Death Notice. (Comment by Maria Castro - he does appear on his father's death notice, already deceased (in 1927) and leaving no issue.)

Photographs

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FamilySearch Image Look-ups

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1. Record look up needed: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5VW-V6N See image here (It says "Twenty")
   • I believe the name of groom is a transcription error and should be Twentyman. There is an alternate record for the same marriage, dated two days earlier in Carlisle.:
2. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NFN1-LVQ (Image Unavailable)
   • Perhaps this one was for a license? It may help us narrow down where the groom and/or bride were actually from.
   • Thanks - Castro-1251
3. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K7P-SGPQ for image please (Image Unavailable)
   • The baptism date is only a year and the name should be Machteld in stead of Wachteld
   • Louis Heyman 2023-06-10
4. Ellen Crowley, Ireland, is this the Ellen Crowley who married Michael Shaw? Ancestors for Twentyman-Jones-1. (Image Unavailable)
   • My ID is Alexander-6895
   • https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FT77-GP6?treeref=M75G-8Z9&cid=fs_copy

Tell Us What You Found!!

I've added death notice, parents and other info for Alexander Archibald (Mcdonald) McDonald (abt.1846-1927) Don't know how to update list of profiles needing work.

Locations

Please list any additional countries you research for

1. Australia
   1. New South Wales
   2. Queensland
   3. Victoria
2. Canada
   1. Montreal, Quebec
   2. Novia Scotia
3. England.
   1. C. Morse Jones' first wife is a first cousin born in London and appears with her parents in the 1911 England census. Keith Meintjes
   2. Margaret Constance (Twentyman-Jones) Cairns' great-grand uncle Ralph Henry Arderne has on his grave marker that he's "of Tarporley, Cheshire". I found a lot of Margaret's CC7 relatives there. Ralph Henry was even called back there from Claremont to administer his uncle's Will. Mary Brawley 02:52, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
4. Germany Daniel Friedrich Siegfried Heese (1833-1905) death notice mentions Lessenthin Pommern Germany in about October 1833. Gordon Mac Rae
5. France
6. India
7. New Zealand. Close relatives in Margaret Cairns' mother's family (Twentyman) end up in New Zealand in the late 1800s. See John Holme Twentyman. Keith Meintjes
8. Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
   1. C. Morse Jones' daughter Gwendolyn Violet Jones x Johannesburg 30 Nov 1946 Bryan Arthur Kearns, and they later show up as registered voters in Rhodesia. Keith Meintjes
   2. Wilfred Brian Fitch was a Farmer and later a Civil Servant there.
9. Scotland
10. Ireland Thomas Given Wilson was a Clergyman born in Ireland
11. South Africa
12. Wales. According to C. Morse Jones' first marriage certificate, he was born in Wales. Keith Meintjes. However, the civil registration of his birth appears to be in England.
13. United States
    1. Michigan
    2. Pennsylvania
    3. Utah
    4. California
    5. Alaska
14. Barbados
15. Argentina
16. Fiji

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest at the end of the week

1. MD Nash is a gg-granddaughter of Andrew Murray https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Murray-2231, who is a very notable figure in South African cultural history. He was a Scot who became the minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Graaff-Reinet in the 1820s. Keith Meintjes
2. The parents of Johannes' wife Magdalena Elizabeth (du Toit) Heese (Born 19 Dec 1908), Lourens Erasmus Du Toit was a prisoner of war during the Boer War and Cornelia Margaretha (le Roux) Du Toit was imprisoned was a refugee. Three of Cornelia's children died in the refugee camp, one of dysentery and two of measles. Lourens was a Member of the Winburg Commando in 1901- He was captured on 7 August 1901 at Sand River. Steve Lake
3. Johannes August Heese was a founding member of GSSA (Genealogical Society of South Africa) on 17 June 1964 in Cape Town eGSSA Verwysing deur Louis Heyman 2023-06-09
4. Herbert Trevor Fitch - was a catcher of spies! He worked for Scotland Yard and one of his tasks during WWI was catching German spies in Britain. He is 1st cousin once removed from Eileen Muriel Given-Wilson (2nd Wife of Edward John Morse Jones) Heather Jenkinson
5. Cecil Edwin Fitch (1870-) was knighted on 1 January 1920 For services in connection with [wartime] recruiting. He is 1st cousin once removed from Eileen Muriel Given-Wilson (1900-1976) (2nd Wife of Edward John Morse Jones) Heather Jenkinson
6. Downton Abbey is real! The family of Alfred Charles Twentyman (1832-1908) and his brother Lawrence Burrell Twentyman (1826-1902) had 5-6 domestic servants in their households in every census year, including: a butler, a cook, a lady's maid, house maids, kitchen maids, and a nurse (in old age). Apparently the export trade with South Africa was very lucrative! Eric Bain
7. Reginald and Marjorie Diane Murray and first cousins twice removed. Alfred Reginald Sothern Holland (1876-1948) was Trade Commissioner to South Africa from 1908 to 1914 and Director-General of Inspection of Munitions in 1916. He was given a title when the Holland Baronetcy of Westwell Manor was created on February 17 1917 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The title was also given to his two sons and then it expired with the death of the 2nd son Guy in 1997. Carol-Lynn Finch Harke
8. Harold Melvyn Given-Wilson married rather well, he married Stella Agnes Drummond Two of her Uncles were Baronets Sir William Augustus Annesley "10th Baronet Stewart of Ramelton" Stewart and Sir Harry Jocelyn Urquhart "11th Baronet Stewart of Ramelton" Stewart. Heather Jenkinson
9. Patrick Francis Given-Wilson was a POW during WWII for three and a half years. Heather Jenkinson
10. Constance Clairmonte 7 degrees of Marjorie Nash, married the Harold william Addington, third son of Viscount Sidmouth in India Liz
11. Adolphus Julian Clairmount father of the above Constance also 7 degrees, was born in Barbados, married in South Africa, had children in South Africa and London, England and later moved to Halifix in Nova Scotia where he died. Liz
12. I connected Margaret Constance (Twentyman-Jones) Cairns to her paternal great-grand uncle Ralph Henry Arderne (1802-1885) whose profile had already been created. He was the founder of the Arderne Gardens in Claremont, Capetown, a South African Provincial Heritage Site. Someone had added the Wikipedia article describing the interesting history of the gardens and how the park intertwines with Margaret's family history. Mary Brawley 17:06, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
13. Colin Botha's Sister-in-law Alta V Blood her Father George Blood was shot and killed by her Mother. Heather Jenkinson
14. A few unusual Professions in this challenge William Gillingwater was a perfumer , Alfred Withers was a Pawnbroker and Jeweller, Anthony Young was a Club Billiard Marker at one point and one of his sons and son-in-law had the occupation of Lapidary. Heather Jenkinson
15. 2nd wife of Edward John Morse Jones Eileen Muriel Given-Wilson and Admiral Aubrey Wray Fitch both share a common ancestor in George Fitch - one line comes down son Frederick and the other son Alfred. Heather Jenkinson
16. Margaret Josephine (Shaw) Twentyman-Jones (1881-1936), mother of a starting profile, was born in the City of Cork in Ireland. At age 16, she travelled (alone) from London, England, on the ship Johannesburg to Cape Town, South Africa. Earlier in the century, at least four of her father’s siblings had emigrated to Cape Colony, so she may have been travelling to join her relatives. However, only her aunt Frances Katherine (Shaw) Burrowes was still alive in 1897 and she would pass away nine months after Margaret arrived. Margaret's mother died in 1900, her father passed away in 1903 and four of her siblings emigrated to Montreal, Canada, after their parents' deaths. Margaret stayed in South Africa. I think Margaret was courageous!
17. A grandson of Alexander Archibald McDonald wrote a memoir of his grandfather, based mostly on Alexander's own diaries and other writings. It is posted online at Electric Scotland and makes for fascinating reading. https://electricscotland.com/webclans/minibios/mc/mcdonald_alexander.htm Maria Castro
18. Emma Sarah Fitch was in her mid Sixties when she married for the first name her husband was James Bryant Douglas he was also in his Sixties and marrying for the first time Heather Jenkinson
19. Ellen Fitch and Charlotte Fitch ran a boarding School in Chelmsford in Essex Heather Jenkinson
20. Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg (6 degrees from Floris van Jaarsveld), was elected 2nd president of the South African Republic in 1862. But the supporters of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, the first president (and 8 degrees from Floris van Jaarsveld), did not support the results of the election and what amounted to the Transvaal Civil War broke out. When the fighting came to a halt in January 1864, another presidential election was held and Pretorius was re-elected; he was sworn in on 9 May 1864. Janse van Rensburg subsequently returned to his farm near Rustenburg, where he died and was buried shortly afterwards. The South African capital Pretoria was named after Pretorius. (added by Albasini-30)

Free Space Pages

List of Free Space Pages created for or linked to members of this family.

Military Profiles

• Francis Herbert Laurence Wicksteed (abt.1871-1902) - Lieutenant, Gorringe's Flying Column
• Alexander Henry Eustace (1863-1939) - Major General and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• Cecil Alexander Gordon Fitch (1899-1918) 2nd Lieutenant, son of Sir Cecil and Lady Fitch died of wounds 19 Sep 1918 in France
• Cecil Edwin Fitch (1870-1940) father of the soldier above
• Cecil James Byron Wood (1913-1941) Able Seaman NZ Anzacs died at sea 1941
• Gerald Lionel Sothern Holland (1869-1947) South Africa - Second Boer War with Struben's Scouts
• Lionel Herbert L'Estrange Holland (bef.1899-1987) World War One with the Rhodesia Native Regiment
• Maurice Bonaventure Shaw (1879-1926), Anglo Boer War (1899-1902), He had enlisted in 1899 and was discharged at his own request in October 1902. Since he had not completed his full 12 years of service (seven years in Army Service and five years in Army Reserve), Maurice had to pay £18 to break his service. £18 from 1902 would be the equivalent of £1995 today (2023)!!

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Specific Country Resources

South Africa

• Keith Meintjes You can private message him with questions
• 4,000 South Africa names GriquatownAndersons.com is the family tree of Anderson of Griquatown / Griekwastad, South Africa and the Anderson-Davel extended family of Zimbabwe
• Beginners Guide An insightful blog post on how to start researching South African ancestors
• NAAIRS - How to use it This is an online PDF that teaches you how to search in the National Automated Archive Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS) for records.
• South Africa Country Naming This lists the current standards for location names
• South Africa Roots Project Resources This has a wealth of resource links!
• Templates and Categories Get your stickers here

• Add the {{South African Roots Sticker}} for any persons born in South Africa
  

  ... ... ... is genealogies verbind aan Suid Afrika /is genealogically connected to South Africa
• https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/ - The British Concentration Camps Database is also an interesting source about the South African War for the years 1900-1902, specially if you research people living in the two Boer republics. You can search by people, camp or even farm.
• eGSSA has gravestones at https://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=43
• The Genealogy Center has a collection of South Africa records online that might be useful: https://genealogycenter.info/southafrica/
• For South African sources, two links that I think are invaluable: **https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:South_African_Quick_Links and **https://southafrica.mypeoplepuzzle.net/GEN_Links.html