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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 2