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Thanks ErikaH, that looks very promising indeed - Thanks for finding it!! It shows she was single and a Nurse.

Shirley, what you say makes sense. I will endeavour to contact her brother if I can find him.......

Thanks all for your help......

The incoming record for Dorothea say the intended country to live is England so seems she came home for at least some time

Can't see her leaving again but then online travel only goes to 1960


Her brother would be the best bet ,he would or may know his sisters movements after she came home

If she went back to South Africa and passed there then unless her death was recorded at the Bristish consulate it won't show on online records

Name: Dorothea Smith
Arrival Age: 31
Birth Date: 7 Aug 1924****************************************note
Port of Departure: London, England
Arrival date: 11 Sep 1955
Port of Arrival: London, England
Ports of Voyage: London; Cape Town; East London; Durban; Lourenco Marques; Beira; Zanzibar; Dar es Salaam; Mombasa; Aden; Port Sudan; Suez and Port Said
Ship Name: Durban Castle
Shipping line: Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd
Official Number: 2657/01

Single woman. Occupation , Nursing Sister. Going to 168 Allington, Bridgeport(sic) Dorset

Matches the 1939 address

Thanks Malyon & Shirley for the extra info.

Haven't tried looking for brother yet, glad to know he still on Electoral Registers for 2018. Will look into that very soon.

Will try BT Online also.......

Thanks again......

Now !!

They were in bridport in 1939 and there's a marriage in 1952 that could be him

His wife is a Pamela and they are on the electoral rolls to 2018 still in Bridport

Try btonline phonebook to see if you can pick them up

Edit D R Smlth is on the btonline records with the same adress in Bridport as electoral rolls ,, and theres a tel nos

I would be inclined to get the mums death cert to see who the informant was

Could be either of their children who could possibly still be alive

Am going to a funeral tomorrow for a relation who was born in 1926 so some can live to a good age

If Dorothea did go to South Africa and passed there then her 1939 record would still be closed

As an example my elder brother is a closed record because he lived and died in Spain in 2001 . My elder sister died in 2002 in the uk and her record is open

Living in bridport in 1930 this must be his death


Albert R Smith
Death Age: 73
Birth Date: abt 1893
Registration Date: Sep 1966
Registration district: Bridport
Inferred County: Dorset
Volume: 7c
Page: 596


Maybe the informant was family


Possibly

Florence May White
Death Age: 80
Birth Date: 1894
Registration Date: Jun 1974
Registration district: Weymouth
Inferred County: Dorset
Volume: 23
Page: 0949

did you find her brother

Malyon, I don't know what to believe now! Obviously too young to have a child in 1938,and besides, it looks like she was still in England in 1939 Register with parents & brother that Shirley mentioned earlier.

She must be there somewhere!

another child

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Dorethia Susanna Smith
mentioned in the record of Barend Johannes Stephanus Herbst
Name: Dorethia Susanna Smith
Sex: Female
Husband: Johannes Bernardus Herbst
Child: Barend Johannes Stephanus Herbst
Other information in the record of Barend Johannes Stephanus Herbst
from South Africa, Netherdutch Reformed Church Registers (Pretoria Archive)

Name: Barend Johannes Stephanus Herbst
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 1 Dec 1940
Event Place: Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Birth Date: 10 Aug 1940
Father's Name: Johannes Bernardus Herbst
Mother's Name: Dorethia Susanna Smith
Page: 33

Thanks Shirley, not seen that. Certainly correct family!

if this is the same person as above dont think it could be your dorothea if she had a child in 1938 she would have only been 14yrs old in 1938


Dorothea Susanna Smith
mentioned in the record of Herbst
Name: Dorothea Susanna Smith
Sex: Female
Husband: Johannes Bernardus Herbst
Child: Herbst
Other information in the record of Herbst
from South Africa, Netherdutch Reformed Church Registers (Pretoria Archive)

Name: Herbst
Event Type: Baptism
Event Place: Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Birth Date: 26 Nov 1938
Father's Name: Johannes Bernardus Herbst
Mother's Name: Dorothea Susanna Smith
Page: 27

Got it, thanks !!

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Dorothea Susanna Smith Herbst
mentioned in the record of Bernardus Leopoldus Herbst
Name: Dorothea Susanna Smith Herbst
Sex: Female
Husband: Johannes Barnardus Herbst
Child: Bernardus Leopoldus Herbst
Other information in the record of Bernardus Leopoldus Herbst
from South Africa, Netherdutch Reformed Church Registers (Pretoria Archive)

Name: Bernardus Leopoldus Herbst
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 1 Dec 1946
Event Place: Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Birth Date: 1 Sep 1946
Father's Name: Johannes Barnardus Herbst
Mother's Name: Dorothea Susanna Smith Herbst
Page: 56

Malyon has your post disappeared?

Two closed records on the 1939 register which means no deaths have been picked up


Smith Household (4 People)
168 North Allington , Bridport M.B., Dorset, England
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FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB OCCUPATION
Albert R Smith 21 Jan 1894 Disabled Ex- Service Man
Florence M Smith 17 Jul 1893 Shop Keeper
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So not Salford then !!!

This make things a bit more exciting doesn't it ?

So, looks like she emigrated (?) and married a Dutchman. Her middle name of Susanna seems to fit as well.

What's more exciting - she has a son!

How would I know if she ever returned to UK or did she die out in SA?

Don't know her middle name other than it starts with 'S'.

could not find immagrations for south africa in familysearch site

Kathleen, have just seen your message. Will get birth cert at some point. As for 1939 entry, that certainly looks promising..!!!

So, between 1939 she is in Manchester, and her death in 1987 in Salford, not too far from Manchester, it looks like she stayed in the area.