CONTENT
BOOK 1:
THE ANDERSON FAMILY 1600 – 1945 .......................................................................... 5
PART 1: THE FOUNDERS OF THE ANDERSSON FAMILY .............................................................................................. 6
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................ 6
CHAPTER 1:
THE GENEALOGY ................................................................................................................................... 7
CHAPTER 2:
THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF CARL GUSTAV STARTING WITH HIS PARENTS: .............................................. 8
CHAPTER 3:
CARL GUSTAV’S FATHER’S ANCESTRY: ................................................................................................ 11
PART 2: THE ARRIVAL OF OUR PATRIARCH IN SOUTH AFRICA ................................................................................. 15
CHAPTER 1:
CARL GUSTAV IS SHIPWRECKED AT PORT ALFRED .............................................................................. 15
CHAPTER 2:
CARL GUSTAV AND CATHERINE SMITH ARE MARRIED ........................................................................ 18
PART 3: THE SECOND GENERATION: JACK AND IDA ................................................................................................ 22
CHAPTER 1:
JOHN JOSEPH ANDERSSON (25 June 1885 – 8 November 1949, aged 64) ........................................ 22
CHAPTER 2:
THE STORY OF IDA BEATRICE WATERS: (3 October 1884 to 1 February 1978, aged 95).................... 23
CHAPTER 2:
AS RUBY SAW THE STORY OF HER PARENTS: JACK AND IDA ............................................................... 29
PART 4: THE ANDERSONS IN PIETERMARITZBURG (1915 to 1945) ......................................................................... 35
CHAPTER 1:
THE ANDERSONS ON THE MOVE ......................................................................................................... 35
ANDERSONS IN SOUTH AFRICA: FAMILY TREE ........................................................................................................... 42
BOOK 2
THE HODGKISS FAMILY (FROM 1825) ........................................................................ 45
PART 1: THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE HODGKISS FAMILY ........................................................................................ 45
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................................... 45
CHAPTER 1:
AS FAR BACK AS WE COULD GO .......................................................................................................... 45
CHAPTER 2:
THE OTHER BRANCH OF THE FAMILY: ................................................................................................. 46
CHAPTER 3:
JOHN AND REBECCA HODGKISS .......................................................................................................... 52
CHAPTER 4:
THE RISE, FALL & RECOVERY OF THE FAMILY ...................................................................................... 53
CHAPTER 5:
THE OFFSPRING OF REBECCA AND JOCK ............................................................................................. 57
PART 2: LESLIE HODGKISS (1908 – 1985) & RUBY ANDERSON (1908 – 2003) ........................................................... 64
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................................... 64
CHAPTER 1:
A MARRIAGE ON THE 14th JULY 1934: ................................................................................................ 64
CHAPTER 2:
EARLY MARRIED LIFE ........................................................................................................................... 65
CHAPTER 3:
SAVED BY EMPANGENI! ...................................................................................................................... 67
CHAPTER 4:
BACK TO PIETERMARITZBURG ............................................................................................................. 68
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