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From: Patricia Frykberg <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Help please! Kershaw/Kerschoff
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:41:42 +1300
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Thanks Gerda. It's a name goes back in my childhood memories. Very
interesting names.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerda Pieterse" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:46 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] Help please! Kershaw/Kerschoff


> Hi Pat,
>
> That was Kirchhoffs. They seem to have been taken over by Straathof's seed
> (Pty) Ltd. Rather interesting because both names are derived from 'yards'
as
> in small secluded gardens (Hof)
>
> Gerda Pieterse
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patricia Frykberg" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [ZA] Help please! Kershaw/Kerschoff
>
>
> > Wasn't there a well known seed merchant firm Kerschoff (spelling?) Cape
> Town
> > origin if I remember right?
> > Pat
>
>
>
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