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From: "Fred MacKay" <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Van Eden.
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:09:20 +0100
References: <000c01c6ef65$781eaf10$2a01010a@PaulineLaptop>


Hi! there Paulene,

I will reply to your message direct as I will need to send you a Family
Group Sheet for this family plus for the first marriage.

I have a researcher in SA, and I will let you have her E-Mail address when I
send you my reply.

Best wishes,

Fred.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pauline May" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: Van Eden.
> Thank you Fred,
> Do you have any details as to how I may get more information on the van
> Eeden daughter?
> I would start researching the information you have below - however, I
> would
> like to make sure that I am on the right track first.
> Regards
> Pauline.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Fred MacKay
> Sent: Saturday, 14 October 2006 5:29 p.m.
> To:
> Subject: Re: Van Eden.
> Hi! there Steve,
> In my late wife's family she has a marriage of Maria Elizabeth Johanna
> Wilson, to a Theunis van Eeden.
> This was a second marriage to Theunis van Eeden on 26 January 1961, at the
> Paarl, Cape.
> This van Eeden had a daughter who was a genealogist and spent time on his
> wife's family history, about an original ancestor named 'John Wilson' who
> was wrecked at Skipskop, near to Bredasdorp in 1848.
> He married a Euphemia Jane Finlayson on 31 March 1856, at Swellendam,
> Cape,
> and settled down at Skipskop, about 30 Kms. south of Bredasdorp.
> Best wishes,
> Fred.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Hayes" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Van Eden.
>> On 14 Oct 2006 at 0:38, Pauline May wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>> I am looking for any information on the surname van Eden.
>>> This was my Grandfathers name.
>>> I think he grew up in Aliwal North - but can find no information at all
> on
>>> this name in South Africa - I have searched on loads of websites.
>>> His full name was Willem Jacobus Johannes van Eden. D.O.B. Circa 1905.
>> A more common spelling was Van Eeden.



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