Welcome, Guest. Please login or register for free.
Did you miss your activation email?
Friday 21 November 08 05:53 GMT (UK)
Welcome Home Help Shop Search Calendar Login Register
Search Images Online
 
  First Name(s)
Last Name
 
News: Ad: Click here to search Ancestry.co.uk Parish and Probate records

+  RootsChat.Com
|-+  General
| |-+  Emigrants from Britain
| | |-+  Emigrants to South Africa (Moderator: rutti tutti)
| | | |-+  A deeper & deeper hole
« previous next »
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: A deeper & deeper hole  (Read 221 times)
BevL
RootsChat Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 227


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
A deeper & deeper hole
« on: Sunday 25 March 07 07:02 BST (UK) »
Could someone please help me, as the subject heading says it all!
I was told one of my family went to South Africa to live.  He was was born in 1866 in Western Australia and served in the Boer War, so I took notice of things that had been written for other people and called up NASA.
I put the name Godfrey Moore and got the following:
Ref 4762/57
part 1
Description     JACOBS, MARIA PETRONELLA. BORN VORSTER.
                       FORMERLY MOORE
starting
Logged
Moore (Cranbrook) & French (Sussex) 1750-1850 and onwards.
Roper (1810 onwards)  & Trotter (1700's onwards)(Northern Ireland & Scotland).
Flaherty (Ireland) 1791/2 onwards
Carroll (Ireland)
Fidler (Denton, Lancashire)
Cooper (Southwark, London)
All to the lucky country.
BevL
RootsChat Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 227


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Re: A deeper & deeper hole
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 25 March 07 07:06 BST (UK) »
and the hole gets deeper....
Continuing
starting 19570000
ending   19570000
remarks   SURVIVING SPOUSE PETRUS JOHANNES FRANCOIS
                JACOBS. PREDECEASED SPOUSE GODFREY        MOORE.

What I would like to find out is where, when and the date Godfrey married her and where, when and the date he died, but as I said I am getting myself more and mopre mixed up.
Bev
Logged
Moore (Cranbrook) & French (Sussex) 1750-1850 and onwards.
Roper (1810 onwards)  & Trotter (1700's onwards)(Northern Ireland & Scotland).
Flaherty (Ireland) 1791/2 onwards
Carroll (Ireland)
Fidler (Denton, Lancashire)
Cooper (Southwark, London)
All to the lucky country.
EmPea
RootsChat Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 205
Re: A deeper & deeper hole
« Reply #2 on: Monday 26 March 07 18:49 BST (UK) »
Hi Bev

The reference you found is the estate file for his wife, Maria Petronella JACOBS, formerley MOORE born VORSTER.  She married the Jacobs chap after Godfrey died.

The only way to see if the information you are looking for, which may or may not be on her Death Notice depending on how accurately it was completed, is to actually get your hands on the document.   With any luck, the date Godfrey died will be recorded as well as any children they may have had.  I doubt very much that the date they married will be on the Death Notice as it is not a question that is asked.

There is a very comprehensive Vorster website - www.vorster.net - but there is no Godfrey MOORE in the name list.  I do see a Maria Petronella MOORE which may well be their daughter although she is not linked to any parent.

Was Godfrey you man's full name?  If not, the only other reference on NAAIRS which may be of use is for Arthur Godfrey MOORE who died in 1900.  If this is the case then the "daughter" above is not theirs as she was born in 1925!

I suggest you order the Death Notice and see what is on it.

Regards
Moira
Logged
South Africa - Wessels/Vorster
South Africa - Behr/Toerien
South Africa - Pnematicatos/Chimato
Cornwall, England & South Africa - Hicks/Breach
Yorkshire & Durham, England & South Africa - Kenney/Hucks
BevL
RootsChat Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 227


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Re: A deeper & deeper hole
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 27 March 07 04:13 BST (UK) »
Thanks Moira,
I will look through all the information you gave me and perhaps something will jump out at me!  He's an elusive little beggar isn't he?
Kind regards
Bev
Logged
Moore (Cranbrook) & French (Sussex) 1750-1850 and onwards.
Roper (1810 onwards)  & Trotter (1700's onwards)(Northern Ireland & Scotland).
Flaherty (Ireland) 1791/2 onwards
Carroll (Ireland)
Fidler (Denton, Lancashire)
Cooper (Southwark, London)
All to the lucky country.
Pages: [1] Print 
« previous next »


[Copyright] [Free RootsChat Webspace] [Your Surname Interests] [Shrink Link] [About Us] [Terms of Use]
All Census Lookups are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only
RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. Inline images in messages are the copyright of the respective linked sites.
RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT
0.866:23