Lt. Alfred Harry Garnet Blamey

Born: 18 Jan 1878, Tongaat, Natal, South Africa
Marriage (1): Maud Irene Norton on 23 Apr 1902 in St. James' Church, Greytown, Natal, South Africa
Died: 1962, Umzumbe, Natal, South Africa aged 84

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bullet Birth Notes:

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT NAB
SOURCE MSCE
TYPE LEER
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 3896/1962
PART 1
DESCRIPTION BLAMEY, ALFRED HARRY GARNET. BORN IN TONGAAT, NATAL. PRSP MAUD IRENE
BLAMEY. ESTATE NO. 2596/1961. DECEASED ESTATE.
STARTING 19620000
ENDING 19640000

bullet Death Notes:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/36071269/person/18877248359

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.archive.org/stream/natalwhoswhoani00unkngoog/natalwhoswhoani00unkngoog_djvu.txt

• Web Based Info. http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/36071269/person/18877248359

• Occupation. Planter.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11835-5694-16?cc=2063749

• General Comment. BLAMEY, Alfred Harry Garnet. Lieut. N.M.R.; b. 18th Jan., 1878, at Aberfoyle, Tongaat ; 3rd s. of James Roach Blamey, of Clairmont ; m.. 1902, at Greytown. Irene, d. of late Philip Norton, of Greenwich. Riet Vlei ; 2 children. Educ. Maritzburg College and Durban High School. Hobbies : Sports generally. Add., Sugar Planter, Mount Edgecombe. Clubs: Verlam R.A., Durban K.C., Verulam Club, Mount Edgecombe C.C.. Verulam C.C. Eight months active service during Boer War; Colonial Scouts and Murray's Horse; 3 years in N.M.R.; 1 medal. Was with columns suppressing recent native rising.

http://www.archive.org/stream/natalwhoswhoani00unkngoog/natalwhoswhoani00unkngoog_djvu.txt

And

http://www.angloboerwar.com/images/pdf/natalwhoswho1906-b.pdf

• Photographs. http://www.angloboerwar.com/images/pdf/natalwhoswho1906-b.pdf

Alfred married Maud Irene Norton, daughter of The Hon. Philip Ogilvie Norton M. L. C. , J. P. and Ellen Elizabeth Otto, on 23 Apr 1902 in St. James' Church, Greytown, Natal, South Africa. (Maud Irene Norton was born in 1880 in Riet Vlei, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and died in 1961.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.archive.org/stream/natalwhoswhoani00unkngoog/natalwhoswhoani00unkngoog_djvu.txt

And

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11835-5694-16?cc=2063749
Witnesses:-
Fred C. Blamey
Otto Norton
Laura Norton

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The data is specifically for non-commercial use and my clear intention is to build family records. The data may, therefore, not be used in any way for the purposes of financial gain.

Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years