Fanny Sophia Holmes Hyde

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Fanny Sophia Holmes Hyde (Cawood)

Also Known As: "Frances Sophia Holmes"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bathurst, Cape, South Africa
Death: circa 02, 1896 (42-50)
Braamfontein, Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa (It is thought that she was killed in the Braamfontein Mine Explosion in 1896)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Joseph Cawood, b9 and Frances Cawood
Wife of Alexander Weir Hyde
Mother of Fanny Mabel Hyde; Alexander Charles Hyde; Jessie Kate Hyde; Maud May Hyde; Alice Bertha Hyde and 1 other
Sister of Sarah Jane Richards; Emily Smith Hellet; Charlotte Martha Hurndall; Jessie Usher Kelbrick; David Joseph Barrett Cawood and 10 others

Managed by: Private User
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About Fanny Sophia Holmes Hyde

"South Africa, Methodist Parish Registers, 1822-1996," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12377-548-91?cc=146364... : accessed 19 May 2015), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Grahamstown > Baptisms 1844-1876 > image 34 of 163; Methodist Church of Southern Africa, Grahamstown.


GEDCOM Note

!NAME:FamilySearch Family Tree (https://www.familysearch.org), "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (https://www.familysearch.org), accessed 1 Jun 2022), entry for Fanny Sophia Holmes Cawood, person ID MHQ1-1TB.

!BIRTH:FamilySearch Family Tree (https://www.familysearch.org), "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, \i FamilySearch\i0 �, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (https://www.familysearch.org), accessed 1 Jun 2022), entry for Fanny Sophia Holmes Cawood, person ID MHQ1-1TB.

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Fanny Sophia Holmes Hyde's Timeline

1849
December 5, 1849
Bathurst, Cape, South Africa
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1896
2, 1896
Age 46
Braamfontein, Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa

I am told by my family that Fanny left Alexander Weir and went off to Johannesburg with her musician lover. Fanny herself was an outstanding pianist and had run away, leaving her husband and children. It is thought that she was killed in the Braamfontein Mine Explosion in 1896.