i have been unlucky with Cotlands...their records were destroyed by fire in 1969. No luck with Mercy either. The address listed on his birth certificate is 22 Sharp St, Bellevue East, Johannesburg.
I have emailed the Museum...I await their reply.
I also have the following information for anyone out ther who could help me please..
- Mr Delport is looking for his birth mother, Catharina Susannah Petronella Delport. (This is the spelling on the birth certificate but there could be variations with any of the names.)
- Mr Delport first contacted ISS-AUS in 1994 seeking help to find his birth mother in South Africa. ISS referred the case to a correspondent in South Africa. The correspondent in South Africa was able to obtain Mr Delport’s birth certificate from Department of Home Affairs. As a small boy Mr Delport was placed in foster care and no records were kept on foster children.
- Mr Delport remembers going to collect money from the Department of Child Welfare Society, Fox St Johannesburg. He collected the money for his foster mother, Louise Scheepers who passed away when Mr Delport was 12-years-old.
- Mr Delport was then left in the care of Ms Scheepers daughter, Maud George who has also passed away.
- Mr Delport migrated to Australia in 1979 with his family.
- Mr Delport remembers being identified as a coloured and being given an identity card, with the number 33144129 C (for coloured). Mr Delport states that this number came from the “Births and Deaths” Registrar in Pretoria.
- A search for Ms Delport was conducted in South Africa but no results were found.
- A correspondent in South Africa at that time notified ISS-AUS that poll registers in South Africa were updated when a birth, marriage or death occurs.
- As stated before it is believed Ms Delport was born in Bechuanaland. Another search was conducted in Botswana where no results were found. Queries on the correct spelling for Ms Delport name were raised, to whether her name was spelt Catharina or Katharina. (Mrs Bertrand queried the spelling of all her names. Also are we sure we have the correct spelling for Scheepers.)
- A search for Ms Delport’s birth certificate in Botswana produced no results.