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From: "Edric Russell" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Death at Mayfair, JHB 1930 buried where?
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 21:35:57 +0200
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From: "Spruyt's" <>
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Subject: [ZA] Death at Mayfair, JHB 1930 buried where?


Mayfair is almost the next door neighbour to Brixton Cemetery in
Johannesburg. Brixton was main Johannesburg cemetery in use at the time and
it seems logical that he was in fact buried there. As far as I am aware
there have never been any restrictions as to where, when and how people who
die from T B can be buried.

Springkell Sanatorium was a T B hospital when I worked in Johannesburg as a
Funeral Director in the 1960's. I would guess that it has always served
that purpose. There should however, have been no problem with regard to
transporting the body to Johannesburg for burial in the Brixton Cemetery in
the 1930's.

Brixton Cemetery had various sections and there was certainly an infants
section. It is highly unlikely that any family would have purchased a
'family plot' at the time of a babies death. I think that you can take it
as read that the adult and the children are not in the same plot.

There are comprehensive records for Brixton Cemetery and you should easily
be able to access them. They were always kept at the cemetery whose number
should be in the Johannesburg book under Municipality/ Parks Department.
The only other serious possibility is Primrose cemetery in Germiston. There
are also good records for this cemetery..

E Mail me off line if you have any problem getting in touch with the
cemeteries.


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