Extracts from the Eastern Province Herald for January - March 1868 can now be viewed at https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/eph/2020-eastern-province-herald-1868-1-january-to-march Sue

Extracts from The Friend of the Free State for January-June 1872, transcribed by Lynn Couperthwaite, can now be viewed at https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/the-friend/2019-the-friend-of-the-f

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Hi All I am looking for ANY info on Sidney Wainer who married Zelda (I have their marriage certificate) Their daughter Cherry Wainer was born in east london in 1935. Cherry was a music dance prodigy a

An index of BMDs from the Natal Mercury for 1857-1859, compiled by Michael Scogings, can now be viewed at https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/natal-mercury/2016-natal-mercury-1857-1859-bmds Sue

Extracts from the Eastern Province Herald for April-June 1867 can now be viewed at https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/eph/2015-eastern-province-herald-1867-2-april-to-june Sue

Extracts from the Eastern Province Herald for January-March 1867 can now be viewed at https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/eph/2014-eastern-province-herald-1867-1-january-to-march Sue

Having transcribed The Reminiscences of John MONTGOMERY from The Friend, I was naturally curious to find out more about his family, some of whom he mentions in his reminiscences. I found his Death Not

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART FIFTEEN Friend of the Free State 14 July 1870 My Trip to Grahamstown to attend the British Settlers’ Jubilee [By Mr. John MONTGOMERY, Founder of Burghersdor

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART FOURTEEN Friend of the Free State 24 March 1870 WHY I LEFT HOME [By Mr. John MONTGOMERY, Founder of Burghersdorp, Cape Colony] I went up from Dublin to Balt

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART THIRTEEN Friend of the Free State, 3 March 1870 BLOEMFONTEIN BOARD OF EXECUTORS & TRUST CO. Sale of Valuable House Property in Bloemfontein In the insolvent

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART TWELVE Friend of the Free State 27 January 1870 FIFTY YEARS AGO A Few Episodes in the Lives of the British Settlers of 1820 [By Mr. John MONTGOMERY, Founder

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART SEVEN REVISED Thanks to Dale Baker sending me photographs of illegible sections, the list of Grahamstown names at the end is now complete Friend of the Free

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART EIGHT REVISED Many thanks to Dale Baker, who sent me photographs of the illegible sections [Transcriber’s note: His reminiscences of the Great Trek were ser

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART ELEVEN Friend of the Free State 20 January 1870 FIFTY YEARS AGO A Few Episodes in the Lives of the British Settlers of 1820 [By Mr. John MONTGOMERY, Founder

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART TEN Friend of the Free State 30 December 1869 FORTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO How I entered Graaff-Reinet on Shanks’ nag in 1821 – How I subsisted upon one cup of cof

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART NINE Friend of the Free State 25 November 1869 How I arrived in Cradock in January 1822, and narrowly escaped incarceration. – How I learnt the use of tools

THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN MONTGOMERY – PART EIGHT [Transcriber’s note: His reminiscences of the Great Trek were serialised in the next four editions of The Friend. Sadly large chunks are illegible due

Extracts from the Eastern Province Herald for October - December 1866 can now be viewed at https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/eph/2013-eastern-province-herald-1866-4-october-to-december Sue