Stannard - Rose Family History
The information on this is the result of several years of research into the history of the following families with ties to South Africa, all of whom arrived in this country from around the turn of the 19th Century and dawn of the 20th Century.
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| Dorothy P Saunders & Robert N Stannard |
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| STANNARD: originally from Long Stratton, Norfolk, who arrived in South Africa via Victoria, Australia when Robert James STANNARD and his wife, Mary PHILLIPS, both born in Australia, immigrated here in the early 1900's; |
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| SAUNDERS: from the Salisbury area of Wiltshire, who arrived in South Africa from Wiltshire when Herbert Ethey SAUNDERS and his wife, Elizabeth INGS
immigrated here in the early 1900's. They married in Cape Town in
1893, before settling in Vryheid prior to the start of the Anglo-Boer
War; |
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Herbert E Saunders, Louis Saunders, Dorothy P Saunders,
Jack Saunders & Elizabeth Ings |
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| Ethel D Hermanson & Alfred W H Rose |
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| ROSE: from the Frome area of Somerset, who arrived in the country when Alfred William Henry ROSE immigrated to South Africa from England in search of a better life in 1925. He met and married Ethel Dorothy HERMANSON in South Africa in 1930; |
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| HERMANSON: latterly of Stockholm, Sweden, who arrived in South Africa when Walfrid Theodor HERMANSON (born Walfrid Theordor Johansson HERMANN) left his native Sweden for South Africa in 1896. He met and married Ethel Maud SELLER in South Africa in 1901. |
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| Walfrid T J Herman & Ethel M Seller |
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As the family trees for all four of the above families are being been researched, links to a number of other associated families have also been included in this family history, please check this link for the full last name index.
For fun, we have a table of the top surnames in this tree below, it will be updated periodically (last update: Jul 2023):
| Name |
Occurrences |
Date Range |
| PHILLIPS |
170 |
1600 - 1912 |
| STANNARD |
155 |
1650 - 2003 |
| CAVE |
120 |
1560 - 1968 |
| SELLER |
100 |
1796 - 1952 |
| ROSE |
81 |
1670 - 1996 |
| SAUNDERS |
77 |
1752 - 1955 |
| SADLER |
72 |
1710 - 1978 |
| SPARGO |
70 |
1510 - 1813 |
| MERCER |
67 |
1600 - 1895 |
