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Local Publications:
 
 Children of Hope / Sandra Rowoldt Shell
 Nottinghamshire: Settlers and Locations in the Eastern Cape of Good Hope / Rob Smith
 1820 Settlers and other early British Settlers to the Cape Colony / edited by John Wilmot
 Cock tales on the Kowie / Sue Laburn Gordon in association with Ed Cock

Highlights

  • “An eminently readable and meticulously researched book” on the Honourable William Cock who ‘moved’ the Kowie River to form the port of Port Alfred and built his 1840 home, ‘The Castle.’ The second and subsequent generations of Cocks witnessed many of the conflicts and important events of 19th and early 20th century South Africa

  • In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell traces the lives of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late-nineteenth century, liberated by the British navy, and sent to Lovedale Institution, a Free Church of Scotland mission in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, for their safety

  • An anthology of ancestral research by members of the Eastern Cape Branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa. Support this project by payment of R650 to secure your copy of this 612-page book on the 1820 Settlers. This will ensure that this anthology of their ancestral research gets published

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“An eminently readable and meticulously researched book” (publisher Frank Nunan) on the Honourable William Cock who ‘moved’ the Kowie River to form the port of Port Alfred and built his 1840 home, ‘The Castle.’ The second and subsequent generations of Cocks witnessed many of the conflicts and important events of 19th and early 20th century South Africa. In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell traces the lives of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late-nineteenth century, liberated by the British navy, and sent to Lovedale Institution, a Free Church of Scotland mission in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, for their safety.

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