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South Africa / Re: Clack at Komga, Eastern Cape
« on: Wednesday 22 February 23 08:27 GMT (UK)  »
I am working on both ends of this family...I have added many branches of the family in South Africa and am following some new surname links back in Berkshire, that I discovered had also sailed for the Cape and married into the family.
Just having a fresh set of eyes look at a problem, starts the cogs of the brain working more efficiently?
 ;D :-* ;D

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South Africa / Re: Clack at Komga, Eastern Cape
« on: Monday 20 February 23 02:54 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for the help...I have found a link up between my Clack and King families.
Doris Eileen Clack m. Sydney Joseph George King 20 Oct 1927.
Now I will track this King family  back to to the Berkshire area, to see where Sydney King fits into the clan. ;D ;D ;D

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South Africa / Re: Clack at Komga, Eastern Cape
« on: Sunday 19 February 23 15:04 GMT (UK)  »
I see online that St Pauls Anglican is a National Heritage site at Komga.
I knew very little about its history but see that it was founded as a farming centre in 1877, just 2 years before my granny was born!
Many thanks for helping me to learn more about her early life. ;D

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South Africa / Re: Clack at Komga, Eastern Cape
« on: Sunday 19 February 23 14:42 GMT (UK)  »
You are a star! ;D ;D ;D

So, do I understand correctly...the christening took place at Grahamstown, but listed as resident at Komga? If so, I can look for King=Clack marriages.
I have a King=Whitehorn marriage that took place in Berkshire before the left, so l can look back  there too.
I would think a 2-3 DNA cousin to be the generation that left England and married at Cape or were married before they left? I might be quite wrong!/!  ;D

Why this is so important to me, is this big gap in my life where my grandfather ought to be, but I know so little about him. I am already retired, so time is running out, so to speak, and my siblings are all older than I am. ???

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South Africa / Re: Clack at Komga, Eastern Cape
« on: Sunday 19 February 23 08:52 GMT (UK)  »
I have oodles of Clack records (and relatives) collected and entered on my Ancestry tree.
After having a DNA test done, one discovers a number of close matches, but can't see how you are connected to them?
You then start spreading the net, adding branches to your tree, hoping to find how you are related?
Two people who share DNA on my mother's paternal side have mentioned a link to a Clack who married a lady with the surname King?
This is why I wish to access Komga parish records...I know my granny was christened there and there was a King family on a nearby farm?
Sadly, I was too young to ask questions about her husband and his family in England.
My mother was also young when her father died, so she only remembers he was raised by an aunt in Croydon, who knitted him prickly woolen socks, which she sent to him each Christmas. ;D

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South Africa / Clack at Komga, Eastern Cape
« on: Sunday 19 February 23 03:39 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for a c. record...I saw it in the days of IGI batch numbers, but now cannot find it!

My grandmother, Amy Maud Maria CLACK was born at Komga, Eastern Cape in abt 1879.
I didn't think to search for any other family records at the time, not realizing their neighbours from Berkshire also went to South Africa!
Many years later, I now learn that another family, surname King, also sailed for South Africa about the same time. This was the surname of the family living on a neighbouring farm in Komga! :o
I would dearly love to learn if there are anymore Clack, King or Whitehorn recoords at Komga?

Living in hope...
Patricia.

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Wiltshire / Re: Mary Ann FORD,
« on: Wednesday 13 July 22 10:08 BST (UK)  »
I was checking for info on a Mary Ann Ford and came across this post.
I have just "met" your Mary Ann in the 1881 census, working as a servant at Streatham.
She is listed as being from Catford, Wiltshire....more likely Clatford??
 ;D

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Devon Apprenticeship papers for Thomas Kingwell?
« on: Tuesday 06 April 21 17:30 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for taking the time to cast fresh eyes over my Thomas Kingwell and his family!
One gets so caught up in what one doesn't know, that one forgets all the things we do know?  ;D

I realized that it took money to apprentice all his boys in different trades, but I need to go back and look at the images and records and see what I have forgotten...
I think I did check the index of wills....on microfiche at the Family Record Centre in London about 20 years ago. Those were the days! ;)
 So many people who moved to London gave inaccurate info on where they came from or said they were from where they were now living. In the country of their birth, things were likely different.
Also...it hadn't occurred to me to question the age listed at Thomas's death.  ;D

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Devon Lookup Requests / Devon Apprenticeship papers for Thomas Kingwell?
« on: Tuesday 06 April 21 09:07 BST (UK)  »
Earnestly seeking Thomas Kingwell.... 1784-1848  ::)

We first meet Thomas at his wedding in Helston in 1811, then again in 1841 census there.
Sadly we find a death certificate before 1851, so no mention of where he was from, or who his parents were.  :'(
I thought it was time to see if more documents have become available, since I last tried to find this important person....

Thomas was a tailor, so as most trails lead me to Devon, I wondered  where he did his apprenticeship? Are there online records available for these?

Last year I had my Ancestry DNA test done and have found a 3-4th cousin who also has not found where our Thomas came from.
My feeling is that they may have been Non-Conformists, as 2nd names like Eve and Abraham are listed?

Any assistance would be very welcome, as I have been searching for him for abt 20 years, when we spent hours at Family Record Centres spinning through films and microfiche records!
 :-* ;D ???





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