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From: Patricia Frykberg <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Help please! Kershaw/Kerschoff
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:50:16 +1300
References: <20050125100048.937ADE0001EC@ranger.systems.pipex.net>


Wasn't there a well known seed merchant firm Kerschoff (spelling?) Cape Town
origin if I remember right?
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lindy Kershaw" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:01 PM
Subject: [ZA] Help please!


> Hi Listers,
>
> My son has asked me to help him trace his late father Kenneth's family. We
> left SA in the early 80's, and my son now lives in Canada.
>
> There are two problems with this, most of the immediate family are
deceased,
> or have left SA. And the only records I have are my late husband's birth
> certificate, and some family lore!
>
> There is also some discrepancy with his father's 'Alfred George Kershaw',
> place of birth. About (1899). On Kenneth's birth certificate it says his
> father was born in the Cape Province...but from the SA archive of his
death
> it says he was born in the Transvaal.
>
> Now my other question is, his mother was Dorothy Charlotte O'Neill, and
was
> born in the Transvaal. (I have the dates) She was in an orphanage, as was
> her brother James, although they did not know about each other until they
> were both adults.
>
> Would there be a list of orphanages? (She talked about nuns in the home)
Are
> there records that could help point to where I could get information on
both
> the O'Neill and the Kershaw family.
>
> The other problem with tracing the Kershaws is that they apparently
changed
> their name from Kircshoff/Kerschoff, and were originally from Germany.
>
> Am I fighting a losing battle here in trying to trace the family?
>
> Can someone point me in the best direction to go with all this.
>
> Thank you
>
> Lindy
>
>
>
>
>
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