Thanks for reading Joan, I appreciate it. History fascinates me and it's cool when that history is partly my own. 🙂
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Thanks for reading Joan, I appreciate it. History fascinates me and it's cool when that history is partly my own. 🙂
History is something I have always enjoyed and followed, on my Mom's side of the family coming to South Africa with 1820 settlers from UK, Dad's side his father arrived from Britain for Boer War. Life was not easy nor handed to them on a platter like some would like to believe.
My uncle mined in Crown mines (gold) on the Witwatersrand. When we visited Johannesburg I managed to get my sons to experience first hand what it was like by taking them down on a tour. Miners underground, hard working conditions, many contracted ailments leading to death at much younger ages.
For many it was a one way trip, leaving family and friends behind with the hope of a better future, they most definitely deserve to be remembered.
Kind of makes a person proud to know how hard their ancestors had to work to make a life. It does for me anyway.