Grace Geraldine Girdlestone

Born: 4 Mar 1860, London, Middlesex, England
Marriage (1): William Alfred Herbert Holland on 20 Jun 1890 in St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Port Eliabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died: 20 Dec 1927, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia aged 67

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. William Alfred Herbert Holland

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH/2004-06/1086556830

And

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=horationelson&id=I665

And

Letter from Granpa Holland (Lionel Herbert L'Estrange Holland [676]) in RAB's possesion dd 31/1/1980.
In this letter it clearly states Grace Geraldine Girdleston was born in 1865 in Jersey in the Channel Islands.
This is absolutely at odds with the FreeBMD records and the census records in the UK for 1861 and 1871. It also is inconsistent with the birth records of their daughter Cecile L'Estrange in the Albany District at
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH/2004-06/1086556830
Which gives her age in 1895 as 35.

And

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=wJRR4TpAgnhbvuHEMS2D7w&scan=1

bullet Death Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14683-36273-31?cc=1837900&wc=7118350

And

http://genforum.genealogy.com/southafrica/messages/6121.htmll

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

• General Comment. Grace Geraldine Girdlestone, third daughter of Nelson Girdlestone, wife of William A.H. Holland, died in 1928; her records are in the Cape Town Archives:

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/3360
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 19191
PART 1
DESCRIPTION HOLLAND, GRACE GERALDINE. NEE GIRDLESTONE. ESTATE PAPERS.
STARTING 19280000

And

Letter from Granpa Holland (Lionel Herbert L'Estrange Holland [676]) in RAB's possesion dd 31/1/1980.

• Web Based Info. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH/2004-06/1086556830

And

http://genforum.genealogy.com/southafrica/messages/6122.htmll

• Census: UK, 1861. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8767&iid=MDXRG9_5_7-0089&fn=Grace+G&ln=Girdlestone&st=r&ssrc=&pid=259752

• Census: UK, 1871. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1871&h=13322216&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=8767

Grace married William Alfred Herbert Holland, son of Frederick Holland and Jessie Mary Scott Thompson, on 30 Apr 1879 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. (William Alfred Herbert Holland was born on 8 Mar 1853 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, christened on 31 Jan 1854 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, died on 24 Aug 1912 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa and was buried in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.)

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

• Web Based Info. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH/2004-06/1086556830

And

http://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/south-african-magazine/286-domestic-announcements-1891-3-july-september.htmll

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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