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Trying to find Duncan

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Alistair

Alistair Report 28 Mar 2003 09:12

Trying to find descendants of John Duncan, aka John Moore Duncan, born August 1871 in Ayrshire Scotland, occupation miner. Son of Alexander Duncan and Jeanie Moore, emigrated to Natal South Africa from Paisley Renfrewshire between 1894 - 1897. Eldest of nine children, he was my great uncle. He married Mary Jane Elliott (born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1877) in South Africa in 1897. He died, it is believed in a coal mining accident, in 1916. Mary Jane Elliott died about 1953. He had six children: Jeanie Moore Duncan, b 1898 Alexander Elliott Duncan, 1902 - abt 1976, m Minnie Dorothy Field, d bef 1976 Annie Elliott Duncan, b 1904 Jessie Edwina Duncan, b 1906 William John Duncan, b 1911 Mary Irene Duncan, 1913 - abt 1975, m Sydney William Thompson d bef 1975