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From: Lehmkuhl <>
Subject: Re: Cullen, Henry a/k/a Archie
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:57:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200406110000.i5B00SkK007941@lists2.rootsweb.com>


>Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:19:26 -0500
>From: "Roberts" <>
>I am going by some notes of my grandfather. He said his brother Henry
>Cullen a/k/a Archie Cullen passed away in the Boer War in the town of
>Ladysmith. However, I seem to be hitting a brick wall and it hurts : P
>
>I wonder if he was a deserter and settled in South Africa. After 1891
>Census Henry cannot be found.
>
>SKS gave me the following and I'm wondering if this could be him. I
>sure don't want anyone go on a wild goose chase. Below it appears to be
>some kind of divorce from 1902??? Can hardly understand the listing.
>Does anyone have easy access to this??
>
>Where can a person go to see if someone signed up to be in the
>military.
>
> DEPOT KAB
> SOURCE CSC
> TYPE LEER
> VOLUME_NO 2/1/1/4177
> SYSTEM 01
> REFERENCE 2839
> PART 1
> DESCRIPTION ILLIQUID CASE. RESTITUTION OF CONJUGAL RIGHTS.
>WANDA
>MARIA CULLEN
> (FORMERLY WILSON, BORN LUBELSKI) VERSUS HENRY CULLEN.
> STARTING 19730000
> ENDING 19730000
>
> DEPOT TAB
> SOURCE RAD
> TYPE LEER
> VOLUME_NO 23
> SYSTEM 01
> REFERENCE 0427
> PART 1
> DESCRIPTION CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION (WITWATERSRAND AREA)
>HENRY
>CULLEN.
> STARTING 1902
> ENDING 1902
>
>Thanks for everyone's help.
>Dee Roberts : ))
>Memphis, TN
>John 3:16
>P.S. I still need to know what was earliest age for someone to enlist
>and also in 1900 how were family members notified of someone's death.
>Thanks.

Dear Dee
On 25 May, I sent you this reply in response to your first posting:

>Do you know if Archie's initials were E.A.?
>
>There was a Trooper E.A. CULLEN
>Regt. no. 1072, South African Light Horse
>Killed in action at De Beers Pass on 13 March 1900
>His name is on a metal cross at the site, as well as being noted at All
>Saints' Church in Ladysmith
>His name might have been spelt as A. CULLUM
>
>There is no other CULLEN listed as died or wounded, with the initial E, A,
>or H.
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Anne Lehmkuhl
Ottawa, Canada
South African genealogy without borders: http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/



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