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From: "Graham & Jennifer" <>
Subject: Re: Visit to Grahamstown
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:43:29 +0200
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Looks like the makings of another project. Lets wait until Adelbert's CDNI
is complete and then I really think that, a concerted effort, on a voluntary
basis, must me done to ensure that this kind of record is preserved for
posterity.

We can make it happen

Jennifer

----- Original Message -----
From: Jill Martin <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:34 PM
Subject: Visit to Grahamstown


> 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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