Jewish Family - South Africa

[Ginger71]

Can anyone help us please?  We are trying to tie up some loose ends with a branch of the family who went out to South Africa.  John Isidore Zane can be found on the passenger records travelling to S Africa in 1940 and we are told he married in Moira Rosenberg in 1943.  We can find evidence of Moira's parents but nothing about his marriage.  We have a photo showing the marriage which we believe is outside the synagogue in Johannesburg.  We know that they returned to the UK in the early 1960's.  John Isidore and Moira had 3 son's Clive, David and Jeffrey.  we have evidence of John Isidore's parents going out to visit them in 1947 and 1950.

Any help about where to look to complete picture with marriage records and birth records would be gratefully received.  We have tried family search and this is where we have found the info re Moira's family and the can see there are some court documents in the south African archives but don't know how to go about asking for any further info.

Regards

Claire

[TreeSpirit]

The Transvaal marriage records for those years have barely been indexed, but if you are willing to page through 1000's of images, you can find them here:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/832262?availability=Family%20History%20Library.
e.g. for the 1943 films for Johannesburg would be #8161374, #8161404 and #8161403.

At least it is the start of the weekend ....:-)
   

[Ginger71]

Thank you for that information.  we have had a look through the files using the information that we have but to no avail.  Looking at the records it would appear some are damaged and maybe others are missing. 

We will keep on looking but thank you once again for your help.

Claire

[pampoen]

Your best bet would be to contact a Jewish Shul in Johannesburg as John Isidore Zane might have had a Jewish name when he got married. Try contacting https://www.sydshul.co.za/