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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: September 2006 Posts: 3 Send Message	Douglas	Report	11 Jun 2007 14:25
Member Since: September 2006 Posts: 3 Send Message	I have recently learned that my gGrandfather, JOSEPH NEWEY (b. 1846 in Dudley) 'may perhaps' have been knighted in 1899-1900 by Queen Victoria. I do not know where I can find verification. None of the surviving family in South Africa know anything of this. He was a pioneer bridge builder out her in the early days of the Cape Colony and rose to head up the Works Department of the Colony. He arrived in the Cape in about 1874 and died on his sheep farm in British Kaffraria (Cape Colony) in 1907.

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