South African estate records
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DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/23521
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 94/55
PART 1
DESCRIPTION BRUNETTE, JUDITH ELIZABETH FREDRIKA.
NEE SMIT. ESTATE PAPERS.
STARTING 19550000
ENDING 19550000
I have not found a death notice for Judith Brunette.
a) Would the death notice be in the file above?
b) How likely is it that she died in the 1950s?
Steve Hayes
>I have found in http://www.national.archives.gov.za/naairs_content.htm
> DEPOT KAB
>
> SOURCE MOOC
>
> TYPE LEER
>
> VOLUME_NO 6/9/23521
>
> SYSTEM 01
>
> REFERENCE 94/55
>
> PART 1
>
> DESCRIPTION BRUNETTE, JUDITH ELIZABETH FREDRIKA.
> NEE SMIT. ESTATE PAPERS.
> STARTING 19550000
>
> ENDING 19550000
>
>I have not found a death notice for Judith Brunette.
>
>a) Would the death notice be in the file above?
Yes.
>b) How likely is it that she died in the 1950s?
Very.
It indicates that her death was reported in 1955 and that her estate was wound
up in the same year, so that the file was closed.
There is thus a high probability that she died in 1955, or possibly late 1954.
There are cases where someone's death was only reported years later, but they
are quite rare. In one case it was because the family discovered that someone
who had died owned some land that they hadn't known about.
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Steve Hayes
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>> NEE SMIT. ESTATE PAPERS.
>> STARTING 19550000 [...]
>[...] It indicates that her death was reported in 1955
> up in the same year, so that the file was closed.
>There is thus a high probability that
> she died in 1955, or possibly late 1954.
>There are cases where someone's death
> was only reported years later, but they
Thank you. Now to find out whether her granddaughter kept in touch
after she was taken to England as a child 30 years earlier.