Kabwe (Broken Hill) Old Cemetery Register

My Great Grandmother is buried there - Alletta Hester Nash (van Eyk) born Swart

Private User was your great grandmother Nash Mrs, 3 , 37, 11/11/1946? if so I can send you a copy of the section from the actual register. I suspect some of the earlier entries in the register were copied from elsewhere as the dates in the register are out of order in some places and unfortunately the first page is missing, approximately 30 entries. I have sorted the list alphabetically to make it more easy to read.

Married women tended to be recorded as Mrs {married name} and no initials but I should think in Broken Hill everybody would have known the married women as Mrs {married name} and the person entering in the register would have known exactly who they were. I think Balloch G Mrs (No2) , 4 , 178, 01/04/1957 was Mr Balloch's second wife

She was my G Grandmother, thank you, I would love a copy from the register

Aletta Hester Catrina van Eyk/Nash (Swart)

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What a huge job you did! Thank you very much. There must be more of these type of registers floating around in Africa. Perhaps we should all keep our eyes peeled for something similar.
Rina

Hi. I found my rest uncle WM Radloff buried there. Thank you fir this information. Excess my grandfathers brother who went to Northern Rhodesia as a young man.
Thanks Erene Schwarz

Oop. Should read ‘ he was my grandfathers brother’

The old houses are still there, if you go off the main road and into the old suburbs, but in poor state. With a bit of an imagination you can picture what Broken Hill was in it's hey day.

David, thank you so much for this history of Broken Hill - much appreciated

Fantastic thank you. We have a Broken hill site in Facebook all old colonial kids who went to school or lived there . Much appreciated

Private User, a book you may be interested in is Remnants of Empire by Pam Shurmer-Smith, available on Kindle. It is a book about the Northern Rhodesia diaspora, and contains recollections of people who lived there and the reasons for leaving and how it affected the kids in particular, a recurring theme is the memory of the smell of the first rains and running around barefoot, who hasn't had to buy shoes half a size bigger to fit the width of their feet. Pam's son, who is a musician, wrote a song about living in Broken Hill, link below, as Pam grew up there, although now living in UK.

https://remnantsofempire.com/

The Broken Hill Hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pijaq5w3HD0

You have done an amazing job. Even if I could not find any family members there I must congratulate you.

Thank you so much,

My great grandfather Francis (Frank )Jeffries and my Dad John (Ian) McCready are listed. I see a few other people I knew too.

Again thank you,
Charmane

Thanks David . I actually bought a copy of the book years ago as soon as Pam told me it was published .
I saw someone mention Balloch from Broken hill I am still in contact with Anona Balloch, both her and her sister Janet were at school me in BH.
Regards
Lynne

The link below provides a little Broken Hill history for those that may be interested, particularly the account of Spanish 'flu in Broken Hill considering the current pandemic. My grandfather used to tell of skeletons and abandoned villages he came across in the bush on hunting trips in the early '30s, the story was this was as a result of the Spanish 'flu.

http://www.nrzam.org.uk/NRJ/V5N6/V5N6.htm. Down the left of the page that opens is an index, scroll down to the section "Broken Hill: Some Reminiscences" and click on the numbered links, these are the page numbers in Volume V- No. 6 - 1964 of the Northern Rhodesia Journal

Sharon Doubell I have added the project to the index as well as CWGC https://www.geni.com/projects/Ndola-Kansenshi-Cemetery-Zambia/3990902, a number of SA servicemen buried here, and https://www.geni.com/projects/The-Aylmer-May-Cemetery-Lusaka-Zambia..., which will also be of interest to some SA families.