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South Africa / Re: Doyle/Sheppard/Massyn
« on: Thursday 24 March 11 02:27 GMT (UK) »
Thanks so much for the info and lovely picture. It's great to find someone researching the same family. My sister has a box of my mom's old papers and am waiting for her to check through them to see if there's any more info, or any photos - I am in UK and she is in SA, so it may take a while before she does it. I have a photocopy of a photo of young Louisa but it is too dark to scan, so am waiting to see if my sister unearths the original.
Violet (called Vicky, b.15/6/1901, Natal) was my grandmother - married John Edgar Doyle 11/6/1921 and had Joan Cynthia, Melville John and Colin Malcolm. I remember your g/gran from when I was young - when she and Vicky and Olive got together they would have such a ball, laughing and gossiping and thoroughly enjoying themselves.
My mother gave me a book called "Sunrise to Evening Star" by Marina King - her life in SA (1856 to abt 1930) Cape to Natal and Tvl by ox-wagon, Zulu troubles, Boer war, gold rush etc. My mom said some of the people MK wrote about were our relatives, so I read it from cover to cover but couldn't find any surnames I recognised. Will you ask your gran whether she knows the book and who the relatives were?
Violet (called Vicky, b.15/6/1901, Natal) was my grandmother - married John Edgar Doyle 11/6/1921 and had Joan Cynthia, Melville John and Colin Malcolm. I remember your g/gran from when I was young - when she and Vicky and Olive got together they would have such a ball, laughing and gossiping and thoroughly enjoying themselves.
My mother gave me a book called "Sunrise to Evening Star" by Marina King - her life in SA (1856 to abt 1930) Cape to Natal and Tvl by ox-wagon, Zulu troubles, Boer war, gold rush etc. My mom said some of the people MK wrote about were our relatives, so I read it from cover to cover but couldn't find any surnames I recognised. Will you ask your gran whether she knows the book and who the relatives were?
This is vague, it could have been one of his children’s children.