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Looking for information on Isidore van der Wath
My great-grandmother was a Boer woman held at the Aliwal North concentration camp during the Anglo-Boer war in early 1900.
Graham Acheson. Steytlerville, Eastern Cape
We have just lately in the last few years learnt that she gave birth to a son called Isidore after being released. We have reason to believe that the father was the owner of The Bridge Hotel or a shopkeeper in Aliwal North.
None of the family were ever told about the father as she was sent back to her family in Thabanchu in disgrace.
The boy was called Isidore van der Wath (maiden surname of great-granny) and at one stage he was secretary to South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts.
We are just assuming that she named her son after the father as Isidore is rather an unusual Afrikaans name.
Finding out anything about my great-grandfather would be for family tree purposes only.
Wade Williams
April 18, 2018 at 4:21 pm
‘I’m looking for the Graham Acheson who lost a spleen in a soccer games in themid 1960’s -Is that you sir?
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