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From: "bgbrown" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] BEET & BURCHELL
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:47:10 +0200
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Hello Tammy

With regard to your query re George Beet a good place to try for info
would be the Kimberley Africana Library .
George Beet was one of the pioneers of Kimberley and was a very well
known citizen as was his son Arthur J. Beet I have an a signed copy of
'The Grand Old Days of the Diamond Fields', a book he wrote on the early
days of Kimberley in which he tells of the journey from Kingwilliamstown
to Dutoitspan in 1870 on a oxwagen which took 43 days. It goes to
describe life on the diggings and of the famous people he encountered
there. The book is dedicated to his late wife 'Margaret Louisa Beet nee
Hanley a descendant of the British Settlers of 1820 and one of the Early
Pioneers of the Diamond Fields.' It was published in 1930 by Maskew
Miller.

In 1902 Kimberley Directory he is listed as a Law Agent and he lived at
130 Dutoitspan Road

Son Arthur Beet was a co author of 'Kimberley Under Siege' This was
published in 1949 at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Siege.

Basil Brown

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Subject: [ZA-EC] BEET & BURCHELL

Hi all
I wonder if anyone out there can help me? I have just got some info back
from the archives and was wondering if anyone has the following people
in their tree - or if they can tell me where is the best place to look
for this information in England.

George Michael Dennis BEET b. abt 1853 Canterbury, Kent d.18.10.1935
Kimberley South Africa m. Margaret Louisa MANLEY b. abt 1854 Cawoods
Post, Grahamstown d.09.09.1925 Kimberley
Parents: Solomon Eyre BEET and Mary Catherine BEET

Henry Taylor BURCHELL b. abt 1885 25 Fleet Street, Southampton
d.26.09.1930 Flagstaff, South Africa - he was a policeman. m. Ada
Thomson FOXCROFT
Parents: Thomas BURCHELL of 31 Bramble Road, Southsea, Portsmouth and
Emma BURCHELL

Thanks
Tammy




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