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Also having difficulty finding any evidence of their marriage. Any suggstions? I suppose it's possible that they married in South Africa or elsewhere but it's curious as to how a domestic servant in the early part of the 20th century was able to meet someone like Alexander Morrison and lead such a transatlantic life.

Perhaps you could email the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa
http://www.national.archives.gov.za/contact_info.htm#top

From this page:
http://www.national.archives.gov.za/services_to_the_public.htm#research
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