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http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1333132

This is great info - thanks a lot.
Does anyone know how I can check emigration records from Germany to Southern Africa?

David Stevens

These appear to be her siblings.

1) Johanna Wilhelmine Bolte

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898

birth: 13 JUL 1870
christening: 21 Aug 1870 SANKT KILIAN EVANGELISCHE-?LUTHERISCHE,?HOEXTER,?WESTFALEN,?PRUSSIA
residence: Preußen,? Germany

parents: Friedr Bolte,? Jenni Dormann

2) Hermann Julius Bolte

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898

birth: 22 JUL 1868
christening: 23 Aug 1868 SANKT KILIAN EVANGELISCHE-?LUTHERISCHE,?HOEXTER,?WESTFALEN,?PRUSSIA
residence: Preußen,? Germany

parents: Friedrich Bolte,? Jenni Dormann

3) Heinrich Wilhelm Bolte

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898

birth: 06 SEP 1865
christening: 24 Sep 1865 SANKT KILIAN EVANGELISCHE-?LUTHERISCHE,?HOEXTER,?WESTFALEN,?PRUSSIA
residence: Preußen,? Germany

parents: Friedrich Bolte,? Jenni Dormann

4) Karoline Sophie Bolte

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898

birth: 24 NOV 1863
christening: 18 Dec 1863 SANKT KILIAN EVANGELISCHE-?LUTHERISCHE,?HOEXTER,?WESTFALEN,?PRUSSIA
residence: Preußen,? Germany

parents: Friedrich Bolte,? Jenni Dormann

5) Bertha Mathilde Bolte

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898

birth: 01 MAY 1867
christening: 29 May 1867 SANKT KILIAN EVANGELISCHE-?LUTHERISCHE,?HOEXTER,?WESTFALEN,?PRUSSIA
residence: Preußen,? Germany

parents: Friedrich Bolte,? Jenni Dormann

6) Bolte

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898

birth: 23 AUG 1872 SANKT KILIAN EVANGELISCHE-?LUTHERISCHE,?HOEXTER,?WESTFALEN,?PRUSSIA
residence: Preußen,? Germany

parents: Friedrich Bolte,? Jenni Dormann

I am now trying to find out when the Bolte family moved from Germany to eith South West Africa 9 Namibia) or South Africa.

David

Thanks very much for this. It is extremely useful and ties in with a significant number of stories which I have been told but unable to verify.

David

So was she pregnant at age 49.

There is another record for another Davies family arrived Southampton from Delagoa Mozambique 3/9/1904
Mr Davies 1863 Engineer.
Mrs Davies 1867
Master Davies 1893
Master G Davies 1897
Master D? 1899
Master H or A 1903.
Ship Durham Castle

Maryb.

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Name: Bertha Mathilde Bolte
Gender: Female
Baptism/Christening Date: 29 May 1867
Baptism/Christening Place: SANKT KILIAN EVANGELISCHE-LUTHERISCHE,HOEXTER,WESTFALEN,PRUSSIA
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: Friedrich Bolte
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Jenni Dormann
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C99552-1
System Origin: Germany-ODM
Source Film Number: 1051758
Reference Number:

I now believe that Bertha Bolt's name may have been anglicized and that she may have been of German origin and that her name may have been Bertha Mathilde Boldt/Bolte.

David

I have now been informed by a source in South Africa that Bertha Bolt's first husband, Dr Davies, was a geologist with one of the mining houses in Southern Africa. I also understand that he died under suspicious circumstances on returning with his family to South Africa from England on a trip sometime between 1905 and 1912. Apparently while he was away he was defrauded of all his money.

David Stevens

Garnet or Diamond Davies/Davis dont show on outward bound passenger list up to 1960 matching incoming details.

only one Diamond Davies born abt *1921* ships passenger to Australia *1923*.

we had a Garnet in our family - a man!!

I have her second marriage certificate for Durban, 1915.

Thanks - the very limited information I have suggests that Bertha Davies was born between 1870 - 1885.
Exactly where she was born is a mystery also.
She had died before I was born and my father never spoke much about her.
I have plenty of information about her second husband my paternal grandfather William W Stevens.
I also know that her daughter Garnet Davies married Joseph McGarr and the second daughter, Diamond Davies married Ken Bosomworth. These two marriages were also in South Africa I believe ?

David

Have you got her marriage certificate?
Thanks

Garnet and Diamond are both female children under 12 on the arrival list posted by GB.

Thanks - this is all very useful - especially the info about the Cape Colony and the boat trip :-)

There is Diamond Davis marries 1919 in Cheltenham

Olley Charles W

likewise

Marriages Jun 1914
DAVIS Garnett
Wakeman Mercy A <<doesn't sound like a male name - maybe Garnet was a bloke

Stourbridge 6c 60

Mrs Bertha Davies states married ,born in Cape Coloney,

Name: Diamond Davies
Port of Departure: Delagoa Bay, Mozambique
Arrival Date: 6 Jun 1906
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Durban
[Port Elizabeth]
[Cape Town]
Ship Name: Dunluce Castle
Search Ship Database: View the 'Dunluce Castle' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: The Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd
Official Number: 118490


Also a Mrs Bertha Davies and Garnet Davies
She is shown as married

I am trying to find out anything about my paternal grandmother, Bertha Matilda Bolt. I understand that before she married my grandfather William Warren Stevens she was married to a Dr Davies and had two daughters, Garnet and Diamond. After she married my grandfather in Durban, South Africa in August 1915 she had my father, Warren David Stevens. My grandfather was born in St Ives, Cornwall in 1878.

Does anyone have any information about this lady?

David Stevens