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Mr Bronson Weir - Sarah Weir (Nelson)

Started by Mr Bronson Weir on Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Good day, I require more information on my great grandparents Emil & Sarah Werra (as per marriage certificate). They were married in 1903 when Emil Werra (French man as per archives) 34 at the time meaning he was born more or less 1869 & Sarah Nelson (mixed race) was about 20 born more or less 1883. i need information on Sarah's parents & I need Emil birth certificate.

i don't know where in France Emil was born which is making i hard for me, the surname change from Werra to Weir happened over time as they wrote cursive. If anyone can assist me please email me on Bronson.weir@icloud.com

Herman Booysen - perhaps you can assist this new member further? I’ve reached the limits of my knowledge of South African genealogy.

Erica Howton thank you for tagging me.

Mr Bronson Weir I will take a look this afternoon after work to see if I can find anything.

Thank you kindly

Mr Bronson Weir I have updated a few of these profiles' details, including Sarah and her husband's profiles, also adding sources to them. Please take a look at both profiles to see whether you agree. If I made any mistakes please correct them or, if you are unable to, let me know so that I may do so.

I have also seen some baptismal records of which I'm not completely certain, as the same father's forename(s) + surname and the same woman's forename(s) appear on the record, but since there is no maiden name for the mother on the records I cannot be certain that it is the same person. Some of these children's names are also not (yet) on these parents' family tree. Please check the following links and decide for yourself:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTWQ-RC2?i=165&cc=...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9TW7-PS4?i=33&cc=1...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTW4-RPV?i=328&cc=...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTW4-RWR?i=184&cc=...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTW4-P54?i=290&cc=...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTW7-RN8?i=393&cc=...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9TW4-RTB?i=135&cc=...

One enormous challenge in the South African Tree is that marriages, deaths, and children of indigenous or mixed race were not always officially registered for a large portion of our history (as I have discovered, being of mixed descent myself). Therefore, quite a lot of people were born, got married, and have died without as much as a birth-, marriage- or death certificate.

Something that is most helpful in the case of the Warre/Weir family, is the fact that they were baptized in the Anglican Church which never discriminated on the grounds of race or culture in its record-keeping. All that is required, therefore, is for you to ascertain whether the record applies to the person(s) in question.

Mr Bronson Weir unless there is a real urgency to add these sources to the profiles, I'd rather leave it up to you to do so once you find the time.

Just some good advice: you may want to delete your last message on this thread in order to remove your personal contact details. We have seen through experience that it's not always a good thing to allow such information to go public. If you want to share it, I strongly recommend that you do so via a personal message, which can only be read by the addressee (and, of course, Geni staff).

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