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Hello Elizabeth,
The FB page to which MarieCeleste is referring is Genealogy Research Assistance. :-)
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regarding SA archives, the records quoted above say DEPOT SAB and DEPOT TAB
This is the info for contacting those archives
http://www.national.archives.gov.za/aboutnasa.html
click on
Contact information and acronyms of all national, provincial and other archives repositories
SAB:
National Archives Repository (Public Records of Central Government since 1910)
Postal address: Private Bag X236, PRETORIA 0001
Street address: 24 Hamilton Street, Arcadia, PRETORIA.
Tel: (012) 441 3200. Fax: (012) 323 5287.
Email: [email protected]
TAB:
National Archives Repository (Records of the former Transvaal Province and its predecessors as well as of magistrates and local authorities)
Postal address: Private Bag X236, PRETORIA 0001.
Street address: 24 Hamilton Street, Arcadia, PRETORIA.
Tel: (012) 441 3200. Fax: (012) 323 5287
Email: [email protected]
You can email to ask how to obtain a copy of the record.
in the past I had limited experience with requesting SA records and found one archive extremely helpful and one less so :-)
(One asked why I had not provided my postal address so it could mail me photocopies, free of charge, which it then did, and the other suggested that I hire a researcher to obtain copies for me.)
also to search the archives yourself start here
http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl
and click
All Archives Repositories and National Registers of non-public records
Was there more than one generation of Percy George Armstrongs??
These seem to be
- one who died in 1947, married to first to Mabel Lucy Games and then to (her sister?) Agnes Belina Lena Games
- one who died in 1970 survived by wife Joanna Philip Armstrong
was the older one the father of the brothers you listed maybe?
DEPOT TAB
SOURCE MHG
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 1172/48
PART 1
DESCRIPTION ARMSTRONG, PERCY GEORGE.
>> STARTING 19470000
ENDING 19470000
REMARKS
SURVIVING SPOUSE AGNES BELINA LENA ARMSTRONG (BORN GAMES)
PREDECEASED SPOUSE MABEL LUCY ARMSTRONG (BORN GAMES).
DEPOT TAB
SOURCE MHG
TYPE LEER
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 401/70
PART 1
DESCRIPTION ARMSTRONG, PERCY GEORGE.
>> STARTING 19700000
ENDING 19700000
REMARKS
SURVIVING SPOUSE JOHANNA PHILIP ARMSTRONG.
this may explain the older one:
DEPOT Genealogical Society of SA
DESCRIPTION Armstrong, ABJ - Gravestone.
STARTING 0000
>> ENDING 19030203
REMARKS St. Peter's Church Cemetery, Cradock, Eastern Cape.
SUMMARY +
Agnes Bedelia Josephine Armstrong, nee Games.
Died 03-02-1903 in Cradock, Eastern Cape.
Aged 27 years.
Wife of Percy George Armstrong.
this could also be relevant to the Sr Percy
DEPOT TAB
SOURCE SAC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE A2019
PART 1
DESCRIPTION
RECORD OF CONDUCT AND SERVICE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTABULARY.
>> PERCY ARMSTRONG.
STARTING 1901
ENDING 1902
(although there was a Percy Albert Armstrong in the Imperial Yeomanry in the Anglo-Boer War who is perhaps a more likely candidate, as it was not uncommon for men to join the constabulary from the British military)
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to Marie Celeste
hello, are you the one who told me you are on FB and research there if so can you please give me the info again
Thank you
Elizabeth
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Thank you so much for your help we are a lot further on than we were before. I live in Australia and my friend in england
Elizabeth
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http://www.eggsa.org/
(Newspaper extracts have been useful in past, if anything comes up!)
Chris :)
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Part of a pm from Elizabeth:
"We looked at the archives, but do you know where we can actually see the details and print it. My friend would really like to find his fathers parents"
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Elizabeth, the NASA site is not very user-friendly and South African research is a lot more difficult than most other countries - records aren't easily available.
From the NASA site there are a number of contacts, I'd suggest trying this one and asking for further information:
National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Head Office
The National Archivist
Postal address: Private Bag X236, PRETORIA 0001
Street address: 24 Hamilton Street, Arcadia, PRETORIA
Tel: (012) 441 3200 Fax: (012) 323 5287
Fax to e-mail: 086 529 6416
E-mail: [email protected]
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Ah, think the brothers might be "Charlie Derek Armstrong" and "Douglas Haig Armstrong"
DEPOT TAB
SOURCE TPD
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 2245/1970
PART 1
DESCRIPTION ILLIQUID CASE. BETALING. MARIA CORNELIA VAN DER SPUY VERSUS DOUGLAS HAIG ARMSTRONG.
STARTING 19700000
ENDING 19700000
A divorce for the brother?
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From NASA http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/
DEPOT SAB
SOURCE URU
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 3794
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 1035
PART 1
DESCRIPTION GRANT OF LAND TO PERCY GEORGE ARMSTRONG AND JOHANNA PHILLIP ARMSTRONG (BORN PAPENFUS) SAR + H.
STARTING 1958
ENDING 1958
So was Johanna Phillip Papenfus his wife?
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Hello Elizabeth, could you clarify whether you're looking for information about him going back over or forwards (or both)? How have you connected to him?
You say "he had two brothers Charlie Derek also Douglas Haig" - I guess Charlie and Derek were the brothers, but where does Douglas Haig fit in?
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It may help to add South Africa to your thread title so anyone with access to those records will pick up your enquiry
:-)
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He was born in natal South Africa in 1905 and died 1st January 1970 in Pretoria
he had two brothers Charlie Derek also Douglas Haig
can anyone help find any information about him we shall be very grateful
Elizabeth
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