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Barkley West - Help Needed!!
« on: Saturday 24 February 07 09:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi there,

I'm trying to find one of my family who emigrated from New Zealand to South Africa and who ended up dying while in Barkley West (is it Barkley or Barkly??).

Walter Hellebore Jackson was born in 1878 in New Zealand.  His father was George Albert Jackson and his mother was Mary Ann (Minna) Julia Leach.  At some point in his life Walter decided it would be a good thing to emigrate from NZ to South Africa to do some diamond prospecting.  Family story has it that he was a mining engineer and a diamond prospector and that he was prospecting when he was killed in 1921.

I don't know how he was killed or exactly when in 1921.  I also don't know when he emigrated from NZ or when/where he arrived in Africa.

Has anyone access to cemetery transcriptions for Barkley West that might be able to locate maybe a headstone or death/burial entry for Walter?? 

Or anything, for that matter?  Apologies for being so vague but that's all the info I have on him.  I'll happily try to answer any questions anyone may have.

Thank you so much

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Re: Barkley West - Help Needed!!
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 24 February 07 11:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi there,
Why dont you apply for a death notice from the archives - this would give details of his death - see notes at the top of the board about death notices and lookups.
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