Maitland Cemetery Index Soules – Zountendyk
Maitland Cemetery Index Soules - Zountendyk
Maitland Cemetery Index O’Gorman – Souskoug
Maitland Cemetery Index O'Gorman - Souskoug
Maitland Cemetery Index McClure – O’Flarety
Maitland Cemetery Index McClure - O'Flarety
Maitland Cemetery Index Lawrence – McClure
Maitland Cemetery Index Lawrence - McClure
Maitland Cemetery Index Isaacs – Lawrence
Maitland Cemetery Index Isaacs - Lawrence
Maitland Cemetery Index Fester – Groenewald
Maitland Cemetery Index Fester - Groenewald
Index to Birth Registers in the Cape Town Archives
Please note that although these registers are housed in the Cape Town Archives they are the property of the Home Affairs Western Cape. There is a 100 year embargo on access to these files by the public. To find out more on how these registers work, please consult the article on Birth Records in South Africa.
Birth Records in South Africa
The Department of Home Affairs, in Pretoria, holds the most comprehensive compilation of personal resources for all South Africans. Access to the registers of births is closed for a period of a 100 years, to protect individuals, as stipulated by the office of origin. The general public may only view these records prior to 1908, and these are housed in the various archival repositories.
Can you marry your cousin?
Ascendants and descendants in the direct line - father and daughter, grandfather and granddaughter, and so forth - may not marry each other.
Collaterals are prohibited from intermarrying if either of them is related to their common ancestor in the first degree of descent.
Historical Graves in South Africa
In the early days of the settlement at the Cape people of note were buried inside church buildings. Provision for a place of worship was at once made inside the Castle. Consequently the Rev. Joan (Johannes) van Arckel was laid to rest at that particular spot in the unfinished Castle in Jan. 1666. Only a fortnight earlier he himself had officiated at the laying of one of the four foundation stones of the new defence structure. A few months later the wife of Commander Zacharias Wagenaer was buried in the same ground; likewise Commander Pieter Hackius, who died on 30th November 1671.
Hidden Treasures in South Africa
Many romantic tales are current of treasures lost and found in Southern Africa during the past five centuries. Some are based on fact and others on less reliable information. It is certain that notorious 16th- and 17th-century pirates careened their ships on islands off the coasts of East Africa and Madagascar, and stories about pirate hoards hidden by these desperadoes still circulate. Many ships carrying valuable cargoes, including treasure, have been wrecked off the coast of Southern and East Africa. Records reveal that from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th century the Portuguese alone lost about 130 ships on the route to India, most of them on the treacherous African coast. High losses were also sustained by other maritime nations.
The Scots in South Africa
Authors John M. MacKenzie and Nigel R. Dalziel epitomises their version of the Rainbow Nation with the vast array of Scots men and women who made South Africa their home. Their bright and cheerful clan tartans are a clear and defined representation of one of the original colours of our Rainbow Nation.
Die Boerevrou Magazine
In 1918, Die Boerevrou, the first Afrikaans magazine for women, appeared in Pretoria. This illustrated monthly magazine for women was the first published magazine in Afrikaans. Die Boerevrouw (its title until June 1920) was the first women's magazine in Afrikaans and appeared in Pretoria from March 1919 under the editorship of the owner, Mrs. Mabel Malherbe (nee Rex), whose assistant editor from an early date was Mrs. M. E. Rothmann (M.E.R.), who published her first short stories in it.
Ancestors in Kilts
It is interesting to find that the first Scotsman in South Africa William Robbertson (sic) of Dundee former surgeon was stationed at the Castle around 1660 shortly after the arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck and that the Scots presence was found in local taverns as well as which often doubled up as brothels, of which one was called the Schotsche Tempel.
