CAPE TOWN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

CAPE TOWN ARCHIVES REPOSITORY

The following information was supplied, and will be up-dated from time to time, by the Cape Town Archives. It is a synopsis of genealogical resources available in the Roland Street facility.

Should you be researching any aspect of your family’s genealogical history and require any assistance, we recommend that you visit the facility - you will find the staff very helpful and are often able to direct along channels of information previously unthought-of .

Basic sources

Estate papers such as death notices [MOOC 7/1/-]

Wills [MOOC 7/1/-]

Publications: De Villiers / Pama and
SA Genealogies

Specific publications: Hoge [German]
Huguenots [French]

Progenitors / Stamvaders

VC Monsterrole: Officials
Vryburgers / Freeburgers

Wills [MOOC 7/1/-]

Council of Policy [c] published and on www.tanap.net

Colonial Office [CO]: English progenitors

Public Works Department [PWD] immigrants [1870’s]

Principal Immigration Officer [PIO]:
Jewish & Indian
Specific websites: e.g. Van Rensburg, etc

Connection history & geography

Atlases

Cape calendars, almanacs, directories and Mr. Hart’s street name books

Area / district histories

Farms: Leeningsplaats / loan farms
Eiendomsplaats / owner farms

Various other sources: RLR [Receiver of Revenue]
QRR [Quitrent registers]
LBD [Land Boards]
Magistrate archives [1/STB, etc]

Town properties: various sources: archives and
Publications


Specialised connections

Medical / genetic disease: Articles in professional literature /
Society bulletins [available directly from the Cape Town archives Repository Library]

Cultural history” How your forebears lived, what they
ate, modes of transport, development of language]

Military: Magistrates archives [1/STB –
Stellenbosch], 1/WOR [Worcestor] and before 1828 [called Landdrostsand Heemrade]

Various other archives and publications for all aspects of military campaigns, personalities, technicalities [development of rifle etc]

Education: Archives of Superintendent of
Education, other archives and publications

Slave connections

Various archives [SO Slave Office] and publications


Jaco van der Merwe