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- Woon 950 Kroghstraat, Volksrust.
Died: 60 years 11 months
g5?
15 jun 1855 doop?
24.6.1855 gebore = Jordaan-boek?
Janet Melville don't give her as daughter.
About "Smithfield":
The town lies 132-km southeast of Bloemfontein on the national road to Port Elizabeth. Smithfield has a small population of approximately 4000. It is a prosperous wool-growing district with a large number of cattle as well.
Smithfield is the third oldest town in the Free State. Waterval farm was the original site chosen for the township. However, when plots were offered for sale, there were no takers. Farmers were dissatisfied with the site (24 km west of present-day Smithfield). They preferred Rietpoort, where there was abundant water. The new town was named New Smithfield (the New soon fell away), after Sir Harry Smith, Governor of the Cape at the time.
The Caledon River bound Smithfield on the east and south. The district is drained by various tributaries of the Caledon River, the Vinkel Spruit and Wilgeboom Spruit being the largest. As the town lies 13 km west of the Caledon River, water has to be obtained from boreholes around the town dam.
SOURCE: http://www.encounter.co.za/article/67.html
Died
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91X-2X4G?i=748&cc=2721608
Civil registration (deaths), Natal, 1863-1923
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