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From: "J A Smyth" <>
Subject: Re: Look-Up - Aided Immigration and British Residents
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 22:06:06 +1300
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Hi Eileen
Could you please look for Alfred James Jordan my greatgrandfather he went to
South- Africa from
England as a young boy and was born about 1860. His fathers name was
Edward or
Richard . Can you help me?They left England for health reasons.
Alma Smyth
----- Original Message -----
From: Eileen & Marty Russell <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 6:09 AM
Subject: Look-Up - Aided Immigration and British Residents


> Hi
> If any one wants a look up in Aided Immigration (Esmé Bull) and/or British
Residents at
> the Cape 1795-1819 (Peter Philip), send your list of names to me in the
next few days,
> and I'll do one big session at the end of the week.
>
> The main part of 'Aided Immigration' is British immigrants to the Cape
1857-67 followed by
> :
> - Irish Immigrants on the Barossa 1823
> - Children sent by the Children's Friend Society 1833-1839
> - British settlers 1848-51
> - English women married to men of the German Legion before they left
England for British
> Kaffraria 1856/7
> - Settlers on the Lady Kennaway 1857 (mostly young single Irish women and
a few English
> families)
> - Roll of Assisted Immigrants introduced under Act 8 of 1857 (1½ pages of
ships but only
> 2½ pages of immigrants under the headings Surgeon Superintendents who
elected to settle at
> the Cape 1857-1862; Qualified Schoolmasters who accompanied the ships and
remained; German
> vinedressers who arrived on Aurifera 11 19.5.1859; Immigrants from the
Continent)
> - Emigrants to New Zealand and Australia 1863-65
> - Emigrants to America 1863-66
>
> British Residents at the Cape 1795-1819, biographical records of 4 800
pioneers by Peter
> Philip, 1981, ISBN 0 908396 46 5.
>
> Eileen
> Richards Bay
>
> keith meintjes wrote:
>
> > The HSRC is still in business, and recently published the second volume
of
> > "New Dictionary of SA Biography." Look at http://www.hsrc.ac.za/ (which
is
> > painfully slow). They have a library, presumably in Pretoria.
> >
>
>
>
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