Griquatown Andersons Anderson-Davel Family Tree Zimbabwe Griquatown History South Africa 1820 Settlers

Anderson-Davel Family

1970 click to enlarge photo

GriquatownAndersons.com is the family tree of

William Anderson of Griquatown / Griekwastad, South Africa Klaarwater Mission

and the Anderson-Davel extended family of Zimbabwe

Blyth • De Jager • Du Plessis • Edmeades • Forsyth • Helm • Jackson • Melville • Pretorius • Weeber

Zimbabwe + South Africa + Scotland + England + Holland + Germany + Canada + United States + Australia

GriquatownAndersons.com is the family tree for 4401 individuals linked to Anderson of Griquatown [William Anderson 1769-1852] and the Anderson-Davel family. Anderson landed at the Cape, South Africa in 1800 and the following year founded Griquatown - an isolated place far north that became the main route for explorers, and also the centre of British Colony "Griqualand West" 1873-1880 with its own flag, coins, stamps and the Kimberly diamonds. William Anderson came from England but his ancestors traced to Thomas Anderson 1635-1710 Aberdeen Scotland. Anderson of Griquatown married Johanna Maria Schonken whose direct ancestors landed in 1723 from Holland. Johann Christiaan Davel of the Anderson-Davel's of Zimbabwe landed in South Africa in 1734 from Germany. On the maternal side of this family, John Balfour Blyth landed in 1856 from Scotland and Johannes Pretorius before 1680 from Holland.

the Anderson-Davel family is one of the earliest arrivals in Southern Africa

- arriving only a few decades after the first 197 people landed April 6, 1652 led by Jan van Riebeeck and long before the 3,800 "1820 settlers" or explorer David Livingston who arrived 1841.

INDIVIDUAL SEARCH INSTRUCTIONS: If you are related to Anderson-Davel click on Individual Search at left. Other core family members try Navigate Family. Go to the names index. You can view the trees in two formats: Ancestor back in time or Descendent forward in time. Or try searching the whole site -

Anderson-Davel Extended Family Tree

The parents of our Anderson-Davel family [photo on left] arrived in Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] probably after 1897 [when the railway from Cape Town reached Bulawayo]: William Wardlaw Anderson likely 1915 and Willem Marthinus Davel before 1914, entered Rhodesia and settled near Bulawayo and Gwelo respectively. If you can pinpoint the actual date of arrival of either ancestor please email us! Examples of information on this website are given by clicking on the buttons or arrows in the following Anderson-Davel family table. Ralph Blyth Anderson [tree author] is five generations removed from Anderson of Griquatown -

ANDERSON - DAVEL Ancestor Format	Parents	Ancestor Format	Descendent Format	Anderson-Blyth Marriage 1915 Beaufort West, South Africa click to enlarge photo
	William Wardlaw Anderson 1888-1978	7	8
Ralph Blyth Anderson 4
	Sheila Blyth 1890-1976	7	8
1916-
	Willem Marthinus Davel 1886-1922	7	8
Helena Elizabeth Davel 4
	Helena Elizabeth Pretorius 1896-1974	7	8
1918-1996

Douglas William Anderson please contact your daughter Elaine Anderson [born December 31, 1987 in Zimbabwe] now living in South Africa. Douglas William Anderson was married to Gwen Anderson born Cape Town July 5, 1963. Douglas Anderson worked at a mine in Bindura, Zimbabwe. His father died before Elaine Anderson was born and at that time his mother returned to Scotland. If you can help Elaine find her father please write to her at

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