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From: "Dennis Pretorius" <>
Subject: Re: Death Date
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:31:48 +0200
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Hallo Merle

If your grandmother died in Wanderer's View in Johannesburg during 1938 it
is very likely that she is buried in the Brixton Cemetery - it is an "open"
cemetery with sections for war graves and various denominations. The
registers are kept at Braamfontein Cemetery - I am not aware that they do
telephonic searches.

I drive past the Braamfontein Cemetery every Wednesday on my way to the LDS
Library and then on to the National Archives in Pretoria - I will check the
registers then and let you know.

Please send me as much detail as possible before Tuesday PM .

Regards


Dennis Pretorius
S A Genealogy On-Line
Krugersdorp, South Africa
Tel +27-11-769-2400
Cel +27-83-324-2238
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----- Original Message -----
From: orourke-mj <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Death Date


> My thanks again to Heather MacAlister, Doug and Pat Frykberg and Ray and
Pat
> Pitt for their suggestions. Church or burial records would seem to be the
> way to go but I would once again request some help in this regard.
> My grandmother died in Johannesburg in, I believe, 1938. She was Church
of
> England but married a Catholic in a civil ceremony in the Magistrate's
> court. She lived in Wanderers View at the time of her death - can SKS
> advise me of the nearest C of E or Catholic churches in the vicinity and
> also of the nearest cemetery. I assume that most people in those days
were
> buried and not cremated?? A son did predecease her as a result of war
> wounds and was buried in the Brixton Cemetery - is this cemetery also for
> the general public (in which case can SKS please advise me of the address)
> as she may have chosen to be buried near him - or is it only for the
> Commonwealth War Graves Commission?
>
> My thanks to everyone for their prompt and helpful replies.
>
> Regards,
> Merle O'Rourke
> Brisbane, Australia
>
>
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