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From: "Vic Olivier" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Pearson St Congregational Port Elizabeth
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:30:41 +0200
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Hello Tony,

There is a MILLSON buried in the Uitenhage cem...possibly two.

1) A E MILLSON, * 22/8/1869, + 10/1/1939. (Buried in DRC2 section).
1) MILLSON (no further details), buried in Ang1/20/183.5.

Best regards from the Friendly City,
Vic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony" <>


> Hello listers,
>
> I just joined this list today, but was a on the
> South-Africa-Immigrants-British list a couple of years ago. I have been
> looking for MILLSONs in South Africa for some years and am now making good
> headway, after good advice from the SAIB listers including the use of
> NAAIRS
> and from direct responses. I've made contact with two branches in RSA as
> a
> result.
>
> But only the other day I found this list with yet another piece of the
> puzzle - the record of a marriage of Robert Moffatt MILLSON in the Pearson
> St Congregational Church PE, transcribed by Becky Horne back in 2005.
>
> So my question is, does anyone have transcriptions of christenings, births
> or funerals between 1860 and 1870 in that church that may include any
> MILLSONs? Or any other databases of PE births?
>
> Two brothers, William Henry MILLSON (b 1839) and Robert Moffatt MILLSON (b
> 1843) - sons of a Congregational minister in Lancashire - went from
> England
> to the PE area around 1863-5. William had just married. I now have
> information about Robert Moffatt MILLSON's family, but William Henry still
> eludes me. His two eldest sons Herbert Harvey MILLSON and Guy Egarr
> MILLSON
> (my grandfather) were born PE in 1864 and 1865, and the family had
> returned
> to England before 1871. But I've found no PE or Grahamstown records of
> either William Henry or his sons. Guy always believed that William Henry
> was headmaster of "Grahamstown Grammar School", but enquiries to the
> Corey
> Library drew a blank on that school name and MILLSON. So I wonder if they
> lived in PE rather than Grahamstown?



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