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Lorenzo Boyes

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Birthplace: Grahamstown, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: June 02, 1918 (82)
Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Son of Captain Robert Nairne Boyes, SV PROG and Maria Catherine Boyes, b1 SM
Husband of Ellen Elizabeth Boyes and Caroline Arnicia/Amicia Boyes
Father of Olivia Maria Catherine Bannatyne; Mabel Boyes; Lorenzo William Nairne Boyes; Private; Charles Boyes and 1 other
Brother of Maj. James Fichat Boyes; Robert Charles Rutledge Boyes; William Grayson Boyes; John St George Boyes; Maria Louise Elizabeth Bernard and 4 others

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About Lorenzo Boyes

Percy Lorenzo (Lorenzo) Boyes – Magistrate at Colesburg and Ceres. He has the distinction of recording the first diamond discovered in South Africa in 1867. - The Eureka Diamond

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Marriage : "South Africa, Free State Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1848-1956," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QG-R711?cc=1910846&w... : 4 November 2016), Free State > Philippolis > Marriages 1863-1923 > image 4 of 883; Dutch Reformed Church Synod Centre, Bloemfontein.

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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-C9BT-YNP9?cc=2517051&w... : 20 February 2018), 007730946 > image 156 of 735; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa.

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Lorenzo Boyes's Timeline

1836
March 15, 1836
Grahamstown, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1864
1864
Colesburg, South Africa
1870
November 11, 1870
Springbok, South Africa
1918
June 2, 1918
Age 82
Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa
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