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South Africa / Re: Sailing ship Marianne
« on: Friday 05 March 10 15:34 GMT (UK)  »
That's right! I am in the process of writing his biography and so spend my life looking for more than the obvious or previously researched details!

Thanks for the lead into the Cape Archives. A bit far away for me at the moment as I live in Howick in KwaZulu Natal. James Archbell owned the house that I live in and that is what started me off on this particular journey.

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South Africa / Re: Sailing ship Marianne
« on: Friday 05 March 10 14:39 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your interest and reply!  I have been through all the conventional routes - Capetown Gazette etc.  I know that the family that I am researching were on board - they came out here as Methodist Missionaries. Really what I would like is some information about size, fellow passengers, sailing dates and so on.

I had not heard of the Archives of the Port Captain. Do you have any idea how to access them?

Eve

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South Africa / Sailing ship Marianne
« on: Wednesday 03 February 10 15:52 GMT (UK)  »
Good evening all
I am looking for details of the sailing ship Marianne which left Portsmouth in about November 1818 and arrived at Capetown at the end of May 1819.

Would like very much to know what date she left and something about size etc.

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Armed Forces / Re: Anglo-Boer War help please
« on: Wednesday 11 November 09 19:35 GMT (UK)  »
Frederick Haigh Archbell was the son of Joseph Haigh Archbell. Joseph William was his younger brother. From the call up papers he was indeed called up by the Boers - the file in Ancestry24 gives no more than that.

Frederick Haigh was a Bank manger in Bloemfontein and I have several original passes issued to him by the assistanr Provost Marshall of the Orange River Colony. He seems to have been quite lucky - he had two passes to the Vaudiville Theatre - one in March 1902 and another in may 1902. Another pass is a permanent Night Pass allowing him to be out until midnight "when on duty at the National Bank". The final one is printed in Dutch and overwritten in English giving him permssion to "ride on horseback within the picquets duriong daylight between sunrise and sunset." All signed by the Assistant Provost Marshall.

He served with the H.V.L.H. which I think is the Harrismith Volunteer Light Horse and there are several photographs of the troops who are wearinh khaki with domed helmets rather like a pith helmet.

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Other Countries / Re: "Wing Commander" Peter Ambrose Whittingham
« on: Thursday 05 November 09 09:18 GMT (UK)  »
I'm afraid my friend is really vague about dates but he thinks that his grandfather died in Durban about twelve years ago and that he was about 75 then. I have not been able to find any references to him on the South African sites that I normally use.  :(

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Other Countries / "Wing Commander" Peter Ambrose Whittingham
« on: Thursday 05 November 09 07:57 GMT (UK)  »
I have been asked by a friend to try and find out about Peter Ambrose Whittingham. He was born in either India or Kenya and farmed at Thika in Kenya. He married Isabel Anderson-Begg nee Watt. Any information about him or his family would be very helpful.

EveM

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