Commemorating St Helena Event: 3 April 2014

St Helena Connections?

Attend a commemorative event ...

Where? Woodburn Stadium, Pietermaritzburg.
When? 10h00  3 April 2014

For more information contact:

Lee du Preez 

072 739 3519

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THE SENTINEL

www.sams.sh/L2_sentinel.html

Free to download: The Sentinel newspaper published on St Helena every Thursday.

See p14 of 20 March 2014 edition of The Sentinel for more on tracing St Helena forebears and the KZN Natal Friends of St Helena Society Group who recently visited the island.

St Helena 1792 - 1840 the latter days of slavery

Friends of St Helena: on May 21, 2011 Colin Fox presented a talk on the Origin of St Helena's slaves and their Emancipation.  This was a path strewn with difficulties for both slaves and their owners. The presentation includes an analysis of their origin, skills and numbers/value by age.

The 33 min talk is accessible to members of the Friends of St Helena; become a member for full access to this and other material including videos.
http://www.sthelena.uk.net/videos.php

There is an informative though shortened version of Colin Fox’s talk - accessible to non-members - in the public domain of the site at
http://www.sthelena.uk.net/index2.php?id=27&StHelena=1

Entitled How St Helena Slaves Gained Their Freedom, this article includes a full list of slaves in 1827, together with the names of slave owners. Further details about individual slaves can be accessed by members of Friends of St Helena.

Enjoy a slideshow of views of the island, its historic buildings and scenic beauties:  http://www.sthelena.uk.net/index.php?id=1&StHelena=1

Also see Descendants of the Saints: St Helena Heritage on this blog at 
http://molegenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/07/descendants-of-saints-st-helena.html

St Helena Resources

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/st-helena-genealogy/

The above link takes you to St Helena Institute's Forum for Family History. It is intended for anyone interested in St Helena family history and genealogy (incl. Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha).

As the forum is both a Message Board and a Mailing List, your message will be accessible online to future members and visitors to the site. Posts to the group should feature one of the names being researched in the subject line, if applicable.

Basic resources relating to St Helena family history can be found on the Institute's homepage at http://www.st-helena.org.

Explore the Family History Library Catalogue at familysearch.org for filmed military records relating to St Helena. Bear in mind that St Helena was a trading colony from the mid-17th c and had close connections with India: the island was occupied by troops of the East India Company between 1659 and 1836. In 1836, company troops were replaced by regular British troops. Muster and pension rolls for 1789-1859 include the name, rank, company, regiment, date of arrival, date of discharge and other information for soldiers serving on St Helena. The films include some partial indexes. The original records are in the India Office Military Department collection no. L/MIL/13/1-15, held at the British Library.

Passengers passed through St Helena on their way to England from far-flung outposts in India and China.

For further information and links visit the FIBIS (Families in British India Society) site
http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=St._Helena

http://sthelena.uk.net/newsitems.php  news of the imminent publication, by the Friends of St Helena, of the book St Helena Britannica.

St Helenian Heritage Lecture 8/9 March 2013

For further information contact:
Brett Botha
brettb@eils.net
Tel 081 0460541