Author: Slater, L
Title: The Story of Sidbury. 1820-1920.
Description: Self. Port Elizabeth 1982. Printed wraps. 76pp illustrated b/w photos, drawings, maps. 8vo No inscription. creased rear wrap lower corner else a nice clean VG copy. ISBN: 0620059583 No.245 of a limited edition of 600 copies. An account of the events and way of life in and near Sidbury during its first 100 years. A local and personal account not concerned with the wider issues of South African history. Useful appendices including memorials and tombstones at St. Peter's & the Methodist church. Also notes on the Sidbury Mounted Rangers raised in 1877 with a list of 32 medals awarded for the Gaika / Gcaleka War 1877-1879.

Keywords: eastern cape genealogy 1820 eighteen twenty settlers umlanjeni 9th ninth kaffir frontier war zuurveld zoetmelkfontein south southern africa african sidbury mounted rangers


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