Louisa Elizabeth Engels, SM

Membership : "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6XY3-Q5D?cc=1478678&wc... : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Cape Town > Memberships 1757-1832 > image 120 of 160; State Archives, Cape Province.

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Death Notice : "South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-MSNR-C?cc=2517051... : 12 September 2017), 007844937 > image 531 of 2283; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa.

• DEPOT KAB
• SOURCE MOOC
• TYPE LEER
• VOLUME_NO 6/9/43
• SYSTEM 00
• REFERENCE 9104
• PART 1
• DESCRIPTION ENGELS, LOUISA ELISABETH. (NEE REYNOLDS). DEATH NOTICE.
• STARTING 1847
• ENDING 1847

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INDIA - Reynolds - help PLEASE! « on: Saturday 04 July 09 18:53 BST (UK) »

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I live in South Africa and is virtually 100% dependant on the internet for my research.

I have a great (6x) grandfather, called George Alexander Reynolds, who was baptized in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in 1757. He arrived in Cape Town in 1806 and had with him his 4 year old daughter Louisa Elizabeth. The South African records indicate that his first wife was a Ms Bonnefoi (no firstname).

I have subsequently established that Louisa Elizabeth was born in Madras in 1802 and that her mother was called 'Eliza'. Through the kind help of the staff of the British India Records Section of the British Library I have found out that George was a shopkeeper in Madras and was listed as living there already in 1786.

I would so much like to know more about him. It seems entirely possible that he was previously married (before Ms Bonnefoi) as Louisa was born when her father was already 45. Does her perhaps have other children that we do not even know about?

Shortly after his arrival in Cape Town (about a year later) he married a Carolina von Bratt and had three children with her. He was quite a well-to-do citizen of the Cape and owned many farms and businesses. He died in 1819.

Any information about George, his wife(s) and Louisa would be greatly appreciated.

Adri Winckler

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