Anderson, Elizabeth Anna 1 2 3 4
According to her Grave-stone, she was born in 1819 and died on 24 February1893 at the age of 73 years.
• Alt. Death: Coflicting dates, 24 Feb 1893, Murraysburg, Cape Colony, Southern Africa. 3 5 • Alt Birth: Conflicting Dates, 1819, Griquatown South Africa. 6 Also that she was born in Cape Town • Historical, Mar 1838, Pacaltsdorp South Africa. 7 8 Sir George Napier, Governor (of the Cape?) and his Military Secretary Major Chartries, visited the Infant School being run by Elizabeth, an attractive 22 year old brunette, who on being complimented on her excellent work said that it was her elder sister, Johanna, who had laid the foundations and they both owed a lot to the training they had received under Miss Lyndale in Cape Town. • Alt. Burial. 9 This source has conflicting information in that she was burried with her husband in Missionaries Acre, Zuurbraak. • Alt Death, 1892. 10 This source gives alternate date of death as 24 Feb 1892
Elizabeth married William Frederick Helm, son of Rev. Heinrich Carl Jacob Helm and Johanna Charlotte White, on 8 Feb 1841 in Pacaltsdorp, District George, Cape Colony, Southern Africa.1 2 3 (William Frederick Helm was born on 19 Aug 1819 in Griquastad, Cape Colony, Southern Africa,3 11 died on 23 Dec 1869 in Zuurbraak, District Swellendam, Western Cape , South Africa 3 and was buried in Missionaries Acre, Zuurbraak 9.)
• Marriage, 1841. 12 Her father, William of Griquatown,(Klaarwater) officiated at their marriage |
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