Research Notes

"Tits-Bits" [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
A Blink in History [245 KB] [13/12/2008]
A Blink in History: the Visit of Joseph Chamberlain to Bloemfontein, February 1903
Abraham, Louis and Max Frenkel [10364 KB] [11/07/2010]
Acrostic [14 KB] [29/12/2009]
Adams, London & Co. [26 KB] [29/12/2009]
Allatina Bros. [11 KB] [29/12/2009]
Arndt and Cohn [14 KB] [29/12/2009]
Arthur William Goose [25 KB] [29/12/2009]
Bank of Africa Limited [8 KB] [29/12/2009]
Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) [7 KB] [29/12/2009]
Benjamin Webster Warhurst Esq. [28 KB] [29/12/2009]
Bright & Son, Strand [24 KB] [29/12/2009]
CE Barker [14 KB] [11/07/2010]
Cochrane, Flora Cecil [293 KB] [16/03/2010]
Col. Michael Foster Ward [261 KB] [29/12/2009]
Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft [8 KB] [29/12/2009]
Discovering and Recording History [75 KB] [13/12/2008]
Discovering and Recording History: the story behind re-discovering the possessions of Peter Stuart, Chief Military Constable of Mafeking during the siege
Doornbult at Oranjerivierstasie [350 KB] [13/12/2008]
Doornbult at Oranjerivierstasie, the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) Concentration Camp, Hopetown, South Africa
Dr Alfred Jasper Anderson [503 KB] [13/12/2008]
Alfred Jasper Anderson Medical Officer of Health for Cape Town, 1901 - 1923
Dr Francois Daubenton [1265 KB] [29/12/2009]
Dr George Herklots Vos [17 KB] [29/08/2010]
Dr George Lichtenberg [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
Dr Henry George Hawkins Monk [11 KB] [29/08/2010]
Dr Johannes Andreas Roux [139 KB] [29/12/2009]
Dr John Edwin Blackburn [91 KB] [29/12/2009]
Dr Spencer Wicks [26 KB] [29/08/2010]
Dr Wilbraham Tollemache Arthur Edwards [38 KB] [07/01/2010]
Duffus Bros. of Cape Town and Johannesburg [318 KB] [13/12/2008]
This is a documenting of the extraordinary photographic artistry of two brothers, John and William Duffus (Duffus Bros), who, at the turn of the twentieth century, were responsible for recording the images of many prominent South Africans.
Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth [10 KB] [16/03/2010]
Edward Lund Esq. [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
Edward Wakefield Esq. [7 KB] [29/12/2009]
Flora Cecil Cochrane [298 KB] [29/12/2009]
Francis Arnold Winder [12 KB] [29/12/2009]
Frau Emy Fierz [64 KB] [29/12/2009]
Frau Otto Kaupe [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
Frederick I'ons [144 KB] [14/12/2008]
From Magic Carpet to the Internet [22 KB] [13/12/2008]
From Magic Carpet to the Internet: a tribute to the extraordinary innovation that is the world wide web
Garden City of Pinelands, South Africa [177 KB] [29/12/2009]
The Garden City of Pinelands, The First Garden Village in South Africa
George Rowley Hadaway [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
George Walker Treble [1830 KB] [29/12/2009]
Glen Deep Limited [10 KB] [29/12/2009]
Harrods Limited [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
Heeren Freund & Milkuschütz [809 KB] [29/12/2009]
Herr August Marbes [8 KB] [29/12/2009]
Hilda Mary Pemberton [844 KB] [13/12/2008]
Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals [31 KB] [14/12/2008]
John Barre de Winton Molony [16 KB] [29/12/2009]
John Harrison Barrow Esq. [11 KB] [29/12/2009]
Kelvinside Electricity Co. [7 KB] [29/12/2009]
Knockaloe Aliens Camp [1097 KB] [29/12/2009]
Lancelot Parker Booth [113 KB] [13/12/2008]
Booth, Lancelot Parker, Very Reverend, medical officer to Indian Ambulance Corp, Second Anglo-Boer War; Vicar and Sub-Dean of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town; Rector of St. Barnabas', Cape Town; friend of Mahatma Ghandi. Genealogy of Booth, Stott, Grimes
Mafeking Siege Slips, Lady Sarah Wilson and Mr. Ludwig Neumann [27 KB] [13/12/2008]
Sarah Wilson, Ludwig Neumannn, Mafeking Siege Slips, Crocodile Pools, Second Anglo-Boer War
Major-General Thomas Martin Corker [18 KB] [29/12/2009]
Messes B(ernard) Saphra & Co [12 KB] [29/08/2010]
Messrs B Hyam & Son [19 KB] [29/12/2009]
Messrs J G Zöeth & Sohne [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
Messrs Morand & Co. [11 KB] [29/12/2009]
Messrs Nordmann & Half [8 KB] [29/12/2009]
Messrs Otto Boessneck & Co. [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
Messrs Puissant [34 KB] [29/12/2009]
Messrs W E Bale & Mortimer [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
Messrs Whitfield King [24 KB] [29/12/2009]
Messrs. Bright & Son, Bournemouth [15 KB] [29/12/2009]
Miss Blackburne [13 KB] [29/12/2009]
National Bank of South Africa [7 KB] [29/12/2009]
Orange River Station [208 KB] [13/12/2008]
Orange River Station: rediscovering a lost post-office and its historical associations
Orange River Station Post-office revisited: a letter to Mrs George A Moore [402 KB] [13/12/2008]
Orange River Station revisited: a letter to George A Moore and her story
Peter Stuart Memorabilia: Mafeking Police Constabulary [121 KB] [13/12/2008]
Peter Stuart of the Mafeking Police Constabulary: memorabilia from his estate
Peter Stuart: former Chief Constable of Mafeking [235 KB] [29/12/2009]
Sgt. Peter Stuart, former Chief Constable of Mafeking, a biography of him and his family, including a family tree
Reuben Shapley Randall: research notes [185 KB] [13/12/2008]
Unravelling the story behind one piece of ships mail, in the background the Napoleonic Wars, the second British Occupation of the Cape of Good Hope, American and Danish Privateers and Merchantmen
Rev. Charles Pettmann [40 KB] [29/12/2009]
Richard Foreman Pettman [18 KB] [29/12/2009]
Rijk Tulbagh [35 KB] [14/12/2008]
Ruhleben Prisoner of War Camp and Walter ("Wolly") Robert Neizel [335 KB] [29/12/2009]
Rushen Internment Camp [729 KB] [29/12/2009]
Septimus Smith Esq. [8 KB] [29/12/2009]
South African Pathfinder Movement and Baron H Von Rapacki-Warnia of Bloemfontein [353 KB] [14/12/2008]
The Mafeking Mail Special Siege Slips [864 KB] [13/12/2008]
The Mafeking Mail Special Siege Slips, their publication history researched
The Nottingham and Notts Banking Company [9 KB] [29/12/2009]
The Queen's Chocolate [31 KB] [13/12/2008]
The Queen's Chocolate, Second Anglo-Boer War
The Transvaal Leader [95 KB] [13/12/2008]
"Transvaal Leader": a brief history of the newspaper
The story of E. Burmester of Cape Town [3107 KB] [29/12/2009]
It is a story of entrepreneurship, involving time-pieces of quality, elements of early photography in southern Africa (with particular reference to Arthur Green and the CSS Alabama), extensive property ownership and even early asbestos mining in South Africa.
Thebus Kop [84 KB] [13/12/2008]
Thebus Kop, a recounting of climbing a Steynsburg “koppie”: Author Roelof Scholtz
Thomas Bateman [9 KB] [16/03/2010]
Thomas Fox Simpson Esq. [25 KB] [29/12/2009]
Verein für Geographie und Statistik; and William Topley [15 KB] [29/12/2009]
William Ellerton Fry: research notes [142 KB] [13/12/2008]
Documenting the publications of the former Secretary and Computer of the Royal Observatory, Cape Town; and Lieutenant-Intelligence Officer of the British South Africa Company's Expeditionary Force
William James Duncan Esq. [10 KB] [29/12/2009]
William Moresley Tate [28 KB] [16/03/2010]
Yokohama Specie Bank [7 KB] [29/12/2009]