Selected Families and Individuals

Notes

Frederick Button YORK

SOURCE: 1. Correspondence with Rosa Rosenfels. (15 Feb 1991)
2. Correspondence with Rosa Rosenfels. (2 Apr 1991)
1.
Baptised - Parish of Dutoitspan. Fathers abode Dutoitspan. His
father's profession is stated as Manager Caledonian Diamond Mining Company

Grandfather of Noel E. York.

Baptism certificate of F. B. York
kept in the Diocesan Office Kimberley.

2.
Place of birth not known. He was christened at DuToitspan which is near
Kimberley.

Elizabeth Ruby BAIN

SOURCE: 1. Correspondence with Rosa Rosenfels (1991)
2. Correspondence with Rosa Roesenfels (2nd April 1991)

1.
Grandmother of Noel E. York. Daughter of Walter Bain, a Rhodesian pioneer,
and Lucy Hulley.

2.
Birth certificate issued at Dortrecht which is situated on the border of
Basutoland S.A. Lived in Fixburg Basutuland where her father was a trader and
farmer. He and his family emigrated to Rhodesia in 1894 and are Pioneers. Ruby
then a young girl went with the family.

William YORK

SOURCE: 1. Coresspondence with Rosa Rosenfels (15 Feb 1991)
2. Coressepndance with Rosa Rosenfels (2 Apr 1991)
3. Correspondence: Rosa York June 1992
4. Correspondence: Dudley Shone 8/13/92

s-1 Son of York of the county of Northamptonshire, England married Elizabeth
Roberts

s-2 Due to wife's chest complaint William York moved North to the Kimberley
area where he set up an establishment along the lines of an English country
gentleman. His son Federick Button was christened on the farm Dutoitspan.

He was the manager of the Caladonian Diamond Mining Company.

3.

Career: Farmer

Reference: MOOC 6/9/359-2939
Died intestate. Did not own any immovable property.

See relics for more information about him and his children.

Elizabeth ROBERTS

SOURCE: 1.Correspondence: Rosa Rosenfels
2.Correspondence: Dudley Shone 8/13/92

She was the daughter of a merchants family trading in leather goods -- boots &
shoes -- of Liverpool, England. Date of arrival in South Africa unknown. Lived
in Ladysmith, Natal then moved to Kimberley and set up an establishment on the
lines of a English country gentleman - received a quartlerly income from
England.

Walter Carden BAIN

SOURCE: Correspondence with Rosa Rosenfels ( 2nd April 1991)

Father of Elizabeth Ruby Bain.(RIN 610) His wife was Sarah Lucy Hully (RIN
623)

Sarah Lucy HULLY

SOURCE: 1. Correspondence with Rosa Rosenfels (2nd April 1991)

1.
Wife of Walter Carden Bain. (RIN 622) They had seven children.

It took them six months to travel from Queenstown to Bulawayo by ox waggon.
They arrived on 12th December 1894.

Bain and Rosenfels family were in Bulawayo Laager in 1896. Rosa's father "BOET"
was born there.