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From: "Jill Martin" <>
Subject: Visit to Grahamstown
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 21:34:49 +0200
I have just resubscribed after a visit to Grahamstown. I spent two days in
the Cory Library and was thrilled to find the original register of Christ
Church (Anglican) in Keiskama Hoek, with my grandparents' marriage entry
(1903) and the baptisms of their first two children. Marriages were clearly
few and far between. The previous entry was in 1898 (William HOYLE and Mary
BROWN) and the next was in 1906. (My grandparents were George Henry Alfred
HICKMAN and Gertrude Jean TODD.)
Their Methodist Church holdings of some Eastern Cape towns are extensive,
but the records of the other churches are sparse. I was allowed to examine
some very fragile Methodist registers that are literally falling to pieces.
The librarian told me that these old records are not indexed, and there is
simply not enough money to do so, let alone try to restore them.
Just thought I'd pass this on.
Jill in Cape Town
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