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Looking for ex-Nazareth House children 1948-1958 Cape Town

Looking for ex-Nazareth House children 1948-1958 Cape Town

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 11:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 26 Aug 2006 4:10AM GMT
I am an ex-pupil from the Orphanage, Nazareth House Cape Town, South Africa and I am looking to contact anyone who was with me during the years 1948-1958. If anyone knows of someone who was there during this time, please, please contact me. I am trying to write a book about my time whilst in care and I would like to catch up with anyone who was there.

Thanks, Sharon

Re: Looking for ex-Nazareth House children 1948-1958 Cape Town

Posted: 31 Aug 2006 2:40AM GMT
Classification: Query
If you run a search at Google.com using the search term

"Nazareth House" +Cape

Google says it has 12,500 hits. If only I had the time . . .

Reg Niles

Re: Looking for ex-Nazareth House children 1948-1958 Cape Town

Sharon (View posts)
Posted: 31 Aug 2006 7:12AM GMT
Classification: Query
Reg, thank you so much. I have already done that umpteen times and just about every message that's been posted on lots of sites, are my messages. The only other things are all about the "new" Nazareth House and the work they do for the AIDS/HIV children. There is absolutely nothing from anyone else "searching" for others and no history at all either. That's another thing I am trying to find - some history - I know the nuns started it in the 1800's but there is absolutely nothing out there. If there is I have yet to find it. I guess my book will eventually put it on the map, so to speak, or the internet ......

Thanks for taking the time to even read my message Reg and your reply.

Take care
Sharon

Re: Looking for ex-Nazareth House children 1948-1958 Cape Town

Posted: 1 Sep 2006 2:18AM GMT
Classification: Query
If you need some bibliography to fill the last page of your future book, here is some which I have culled from the 105 entries in "South Africa Bibliography of Adoption and Child Welfare," which is on my computer as part of the data base of the Adoption Bibliography Center.

A Cape Town Directory of Social Welfare. [Cape Town]: Board of Sociological Research, Univ. of Cape Town, 1959. 142 p., tables. Cape Town was then in the Union of South Africa; after 1961 in the Republic of South Africa. (Charities--South Africa--Cape Town--Directories) (Public welfare--South Africa--Cape Town--Directories). (Public welfare--Directories) (Helm, Brunhilde [A.]) (LC 63027358)

Child Welfare Conference, 1st, Cape Town, 1917. Report of the Proceedings of the First Annual Conference Held on March 27th, 28th, 29th and 39th [sic] 1917 . . . Cape Town. Cape Town: W. Thornley and Co., 1917. xii, 202 p. At head of title: "Child Welfare Conference, under the auspices of the Society for the Protection of Child Life, Cape Town, and the Children's Aid Society [of] Johannesburg." A collection of proceedings, for the 1st-6th conferences, is in the U.S. Dept. of Labor Library.

De KOCK, Chris Paul. Buite-egtelikheid by kleurlinge in die Kaapse Skiereiland / C.P. de Kock. Pretoria, South Africa: Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing, Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut vir Sosiologiese, Demografiese en Kriminologiese Navorsing, 1980. iv, 94 p. Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 87-93. (Illegitimate children--South Africa--Cape Town) (Colored people {South Africa}--South Africa--Cape Town) (LC 81139103)

KNOX, Catherine. The Buxton Babies, 1917-1987: The Story of the Struben Memorial and Lady Buxton Homes. Cape Town, South Africa: M. Venter, c1988. 95 p. : illus. (Buxton, Mildred, Countess of, d. 1955) (Lady Buxton Home--History) (Harry and Mary Struben Memorial Home--History) (Child welfare--South Africa--Cape Town--History) (Orphanages--South Africa--Cape Town--History) (LC 90214448)

THERON, Erika (ed.) Inrigtingsversorging. Stellenbosch: Universiteitsuitgewers en -Boekhandelaars, 1948. 263 p. (Series: Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope. University. Sosiologiese en maatskaplike werk-reeks). Cape of Good Hope (Cape Province) was then in the Union of South Africa. In 1994 it was split into three new provinces. (Children--Institutional care) (Children--Institutional care--Africa, South) (LC 52028063)

Reg Niles
founder of the A.B.C.

Re: Looking for ex-Nazareth House children 1948-1958 Cape Town

Sharon (View posts)
Posted: 1 Sep 2006 3:08AM GMT
Classification: Query
Reg, thank you so very much for all that information. How incredible. This has made me so excited.

If I type in the wording that you have given me, will I be able to find this information on the internet, or would I have to purchase the books?

I am not computer literate but I keep learning all the time. Just takes me forever and half a day. Teehee.

I cannot thank you enough - what a mine of information you are. I will probably thank you in my book though. Founder of the A.B.C. too - wow.

Can't wait to go "surfing" the net now and do some more reading. Excitement plus !!! Will let you know how I get on. Will be away for the weekend though.

Thanks and regards,
Sharon

Re: Looking for ex-Nazareth House children 1948-1958 Cape Town

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 6:31PM GMT
Classification: Query
Not sure if anyone will look at this again but I was at the Lady Buxton Home in about 1962 with my sister. I was only three or four and only remember a few things. The babies in cots on the lawn. Swimming in a stone pool although funny enough I cannot swim and lying on the drain board of a large sink to have my hair washed. When ever I have thought of it I just remember playing and running and being very happy and care free.
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