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From: "Edric Russell" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] EASTERN PROVINCE HERALD 16.10.1944
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:53:16 +0200
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Can anyone tell me whether 1 Cambridge Road was in Port Elizabeth, or in
Queenstown. Also, if anyone has some kind of city directory, is there any
way to tell who resided at that address?


>
> EASTERN PROVINCE HERALD
>
> Port Elizabeth, Monday, October 16, 1944
>
> DEATHS.
>
> BERRY. – Passed peacefully away at 1 Cambridge Road, on the 13th October,
> 1944, Elizabeth BERRY, widow of the late Stephen J. BERRY, of Queenstown,
> and beloved mother of Alma, Freda and Percy. Funeral at Queenstown.


There is a Cambridge Road in Queenstown.

There was hardly any embalming or refrigeration in in 1944 so it is a
pretty good bet that if a person died in Queenstown or Port Elizabeth in
October they were buried promptly due to the heat at that time of the year.
A road trip from Queenstown to Port Elizabeth was 7 hours in those days and
a train journey much longer. Obviously, it follows that the chances are
pretty good that if she was being buried in Queenstown, she died here too.

Monday is a public holiday in Queenstown so I will not be able to examine
the cemetery records. I will give it my best shot on Tuesday and contact
you with any info that I am able to find. In the mean time, Happy new year
to you and your family.

Edric


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