This site is in Loving memory of our Mother & Father, Carol and Cynthia Siedle (Cynthia Marie Quested)
FOREWORD
In preparing these notes recourse was made to many different sources of information both in this country and overseas.
Among others, my thanks are due to the following for the assistance they have given me in my quest :-
The Government Archives Depot, Pietermaritzburg
The Natal Society Library, Pietermaritzburg.
The Office of the Master of the Supreme Court, Pietermaritzburg
The Deeds Office, Pietermaritzburg
The Killie Campbell Africana Library, Durban.
The City Hall Library, Durban.
The Local History Museum, Durban.
The Old House Museum, Durban.
The South African Library, Cape Town.
The Ladysmith Historical Society, Ladysmith.
The Department of the Interior, Pretoria.
The National Archives of Rhodesia, Salisbury.
The Public Record Office, London.
The Scots Ancestry Research Society, Edinburgh.
I am grateful also to the various local and overseas church authorities who allowed me to examine their parish registers or who provided me with extracts and to the very large number of individuals who gave me information verbally or by correspondence from official and private sources.
Acknowledgement is made to the authors and/or editors of the many publications I have consulted, shown in the list attached as an appendix to these notes.
(Signed) CCW Johnn Pietermaritzburg 1986.
This history was reprinted by me (Carol Siedle) as a memorial to my wife Cynthia (Quested {050} 1925 to 2004). With thanks for the additional input and photographs from members of the Bates, Boden, Gurney, Lloyd, McIntyre, and Quested families, which added to Cynthia's collection makes the story more interesting.
The original research was done in the 1970's and more was added in the 1980's to make up this present story possible.
Carol. (Late) 2004
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