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From: "Lynn MacLeod" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] EASTERN PROVINCE HERALD 16.10.1944
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:35:36 +1300
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Hi Edric
I would say Queenstown too - Sunelia took a picture of their grave.. and
there are other BERRY family members there too.
http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1226337
Take care
Lynn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edric Russell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] EASTERN PROVINCE HERALD 16.10.1944


>
> 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.

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