Overberg origins: The English-speaking Swellendam families by Edmund H Burrows

Publisher:    Private (Swellendam Trust)

Privately Printed with the Co-Operation of the Swellendam Trust, Swellendam, 1988. First Edition.
The text is amplified by 25 illustrations, genealogical charts, portraits and lineage diagrams. Pictorial paper covered boards.

"This book ... aims to record the stramvaders and descendants of those families [immigrants from the British Isles] in this old town who were not included by C.C. de Villiers in his genealogical classic, Geslacht-register der Oude Kaapsche Familien. ... The text concentrates on the stramvader and first three or four generations as well as the Swellendam connection of each family, while also attempting to trace descendants to the present day -- or, at least, to within living memory."--Author's preface, p. v.
The book consists exclusively of brief family histories followed by extensive genealogical data and descent charts for each of the following families: Barry, Burrows, Cairncross, Devenish, Emett, Hodgson, Hopley, Kennedy, Moodie, Reid, Reitz, Robertson, Schreiner, Sutton, Tilney, and Whyte.
"This book records the pedigrees of some of the families from the British Isles who settled in Swellendam more than a hundred years ago from before 1820. By the middle of the 19th century these families had created, through intermarriages among themselves and their Cape Dutch neighbours, a web which spread out as South Africa expanded northwards and eventually covered the whole country.

Overberg Origins is the genealogical sequence to Overberg Outspan.

A fine unread copy in the original pictorial glazed boards as issued. Scarce.

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