HARRISONS AT THE CAPE

[Barcus]

Hello,

I'm looking for information - address and occupation of a family of Harrisons living at the Cape of Good Hope. The time period I'm interested in is the 1830 - 1840 period. I already have quite a bit of info from NAAIRS. The sort of info I need may be found in a old directory.

The names of key male family members at are Henry and James Harrison or Fortescue Harrison, although any Harrison names at the Cape between 1830 and 1840 are of interest.

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[lanshaw]

Hi,

Just thought you might want to try web sit www.familyseach.org . International Genealogical Index / Africa The Harrisons ae listed there

Hope it helps.

[Barcus]

Thanks for the suggestion - have already looked in all the obvious/starting out places such as the IGI. What I'm after is someone with access to a Cape Town directory/almanac for the 1830-1840 time period. I'm looking for Harrison names, addresses, and business occupations.

[Leanne68]

Hi,
The 1849 Cape almanac lists two Henry HARRISONS.

Henry Jnr. of 31 Burg St. and his occupation is listed as Dyer & Sourer
Henry Snr. of 39 Plein St. is a Dyer of Silk and Scourer

cheers
Leanne

[Barcus]

 

Thanks so much for this very useful snippet, which looks like the family I'm interested in. I know from his will that a John F F Harrison was a Dyer and Scourer. His father was Henry and he had a brother Henry too so maybe they worked together as a family firm. That's a great lead for me to follow up.

Still looking for other Harrisons, particularly a J Harrison (first name unknown) who (I think) worked in Customs and Excise.

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