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From: "Ellen Stanton" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] "thunder from a clear sky" by Viva Lewey
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:22:13 -0600
References: <003201c4d760$c66ed100$5c4861cb@computer> <000901c4d762$fe479f10$aa69fea9@MCCARTHY> <002001c4d781$90095420$0a6d65da@computer>


Hi Pat and Karen,

Here is an index I made of an LDS film that is probably the one to which you
are referring:

Index to LDS Microfilm #1295031

Warning Label: "This film may not be sold, duplicated, extracted, or
indexed."

Item 1 Index A-Z Applications for Assisted Immigration 1893-1902
Applications, pp. 1-200 1903
Index A-Z of 1903 Applications

Item 2 Index A-Z of Boys/Girls sent from UK
Register of Boys/Girls sent from UK pp. 1-21 1884

Item 3 Bird Papers, Passenger Lists 1845-1852
(Typed transcription of film #1295373, Item 7)

Item 4 List of Early Colonists (typed-list only)
Alphabetic List (handwritten)
Biographies selected individuals (handwritten), pp. 1-54

Item 5 Index A-Z, Establishment Register
Establishment Register, pp. 1-172
Index A-Z, pp. 1-109

Item 6 Natal Royal Defence Records (A-Z)

Item 7 Casualty Register - Native Rising (1906)

Item 8 Natal Mounted Infantry - Roll

Item 9 PMB Rifle Association - Muster Roll 1890-1894

Item 10 PMB Rifle Association 1901

Item 11 Index D-Z, PMB Mounted Police

End Roll

Regards,
Ellen Stanton
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia Frykberg" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] "thunder from a clear sky" by Viva Lewey


> Yes Karen. It stands for Natal Mounted Police and your man would not be
> mentioned in this book which is very family centred. I got most of the NMP
> information from the Natal Archives. I also remember reading all the
> details
> of records of service on an LDS film. I'm afraid I don't have a record of
> the film number. In those early days I was very careless about noting that
> sort of thing!!
> Hope (and I feel sure you will) find your man.
> Pat
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin & Karen McCarthy" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, 1 December 2004 06:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [ZA] "thunder from a clear sky" by Viva Lewey
>
>
>> Hi Pat,
>> I was intrigued by your e-mail. Does NMP mean a mounted police unit? I
>> have been searching for my g grandfather Robert Griffin Williams for some
>> time who was a mounted policeman in the late 1800's to early 1900's in
>> SA.
>> Is there any possibility that he is in this book & even if he's not how
> can
>> I get a copy as the book sounds like its well worth a read. Look forward
> to
>> hearing from you.
>> Cheers
>> Karen
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Patricia Frykberg" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:46 PM
>> Subject: [ZA] "thunder from a clear sky" by Viva Lewey
>>
>>
>> > I have just been given this book and as there is any amount of
> information
>> about Tembuland and EC, I am sure that with the authors permission I can
> do
>> a look up or at least put you in touch with the author Viva Lewey Nee
>> TROW
>> who now lives in NSW.
>> > I can't help telling how this came into my hands.
>> > Talk of small world.
>> > My brother Brian Knott (no relation to the Alice Knott family
>> > references
>> seen frequently on this list) who lives at Gonubie read an article by
> Colin
>> Trow in which he described how his grandfather had been sent out on
>> patrol
>> from Isandhlwana only to return to find most of the Imperial forces
> killed.
>> My brother was intrigued as our grandfather with the NMP was also
> withdrawn
>> from there shortly before the disaster and lost many of his friends who
>> remained. Brian phoned Colin Trow of Port Elizabeth and mentioned this
> (both
>> men can talk and talk) and that I had written about this incident too,
>> and
>> that I lived in Havelock North NZ. Yesterday I got a phone call from
> Napier
>> (20 minutes drive from here. Colin Trow and wife Thelma no less.
>> (Marielle
>> she has Ford ancestry), So we spent an incredible afternoon.... Hence the
>> book.
>> > Pat
>> >
>> >
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