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“Pray have mercy on my daughter”

A letter from my 4x great- Grandmonther Christina Staegemann (born 1819) to Governor Barkly (I think) of the Cape, 1874. Pleading for mercy for her daughter (my 3 x great-grandmother) Wilhelmina Rip (born Staegemann 1848, Germany) who had been in … Continue reading

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Family tree doc in progress

Insomnia? Can’t count any more sheep? I’ve just the thing. For the genealogy-freak types, here we go. Shortened version of my family tree, spanning genealogy from early South Africa, to England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Germany, France, Poland. If anything rings … Continue reading

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