Western Cape, CAPE TOWN, Maitland, Woltemade Cemetery

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Western Cape, CAPE TOWN, Maitland, Woltemade Cemetery

Cemetery information:-

This cemetery was opened in around 1886. Some of the memorials and gravestones from the closed & later demolished Somerset Road cemetery were taken to Maitland from around 1907 to the 1920's. About forty memorials/stones are known to have been moved to Maitland.

Have a look at these examples - James ADAMSON and his wife from the 1870's, the earliest minister of the Scottish church in Cape Town; John & Elizabeth FAIRBURN from the 1840's, the latter being daughter to Dr John PHILIPS the missionary and Christian HOHNE who died 1820, director of the Slave Lodge. (Source: https://www.ancestors.co.za/somerset-road-cemetery-lost-inscriptions/)

Album incomplete, we do not have photos of all the headstones.

Photographs by Arnoldus Bestbier, Philip Botha, Stuart Gray, Garrett de Villiers, Anne Clarkson, Alta Griffiths, Tanite Smart, Glenda Thorpe, Tombi Peck, Ann Tiran, Michelle de Jager, Betsy Jane Scot, John Schwartz, Cheryl Stoner, Merle Loubser, Heather MacAlister, Guy Barker, Erica Liebenberg & Tienie Ras.

eGGSA captions done by: Esmé van der Westhuizen, Lorraine Beechey, Heleen Nel, Heather Gane, Andrié Labuschagne, Ann Tiran, Angela de Klerk, Alta Griffiths, Eleanor Garvie, Nico Hamman, Alex van Niekerk, Eileen de Jager, Celeste Rachmann, Annatjie Erasmus, Betsy Jane Scott, Deirdré Eygelaar, Wilna Eygelaar, Riana le Roux, Catherine du Toit, James Anderson, Mariette van Zyl, Terry Terblanche, Andries Holtzhausen, Sue van der Berg, Elmari Keyser, Annette Meyer, Charmaine Carstens, Magda Alberts, Rob Jones & Fern Swales

Information also available on the GGSA Cemetery DVD:-
Cemetery ID: 1344
Names in cemetery: 4531

Google Earth Project Information:-
GPSID: 1336
GPS: -33 54.849, 18 32.350

Date: 23 May 2008

Contributed by: eGGSA

Size: 35 items (25894 items total)

01. Overview pictures of Maitland Date: 10 Jul 2009 Size: 19 items (37 items total) Views: 3822	02. Maitland Crematorium, shelters and memorial walls Date: 28 Aug 2008 Size: 32 items (4502 items total) Views: 7950	03. Anglo Boer War Memorials / Anglo Boere Oorlog Date: 23 May 2008 Size: 6 items (15 items total) Views: 2221	04. Catholic Section All the stones were photographed in this section Date: 29 Aug 2008 Size: 10 items (213 items total) Views: 3207
05. Maitland plague hospital victims 1901 Date: 07 Jun 2008 Size: 5 items Views: 2151	06. Military graves Date: 21 Jul 2008 Size: 39 items (1012 items total) Views: 3786	07. Jewish section inscriptions listed A to Z - also refer to the Maitland Crematorium Date: 21 Jul 2008 Size: 25 items (518 items total) Views: 3338	08. Memorial to soldiers who died 1939-1945 Date: 28 Aug 2008 Size: 3 items Views: 1243
09. Memorial: Spanish ship 'Carlos de Eizaguirre' May 1917 Date: 22 Mar 2019 Size: 3 items Views: 431	? Unknown & Illegible Graves Date: 23 May 2008 Size: 68 items (71 items total) Views: 4312	A - Surnames :: Vanne - A Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 19 items (512 items total) Views: 2872	B - Vanne :: Surnames - B Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 9 items (2096 items total) Views: 4669
C - Surnames :: Vanne - C Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 8 items (1108 items total) Views: 3339	D - Vanne :: Surnames - D Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 8 items (728 items total) Views: 2940	E - Surnames :: Vanne - E Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 17 items (388 items total) Views: 2134	F - Vanne :: Surnames - F Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 8 items (715 items total) Views: 2933
G - Surnames :: Vanne - G Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 9 items (914 items total) Views: 3474	H - Vanne :: Surnames - H Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 6 items (1444 items total) Views: 3396	I - Surnames :: Vanne - I Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 68 items (104 items total) Views: 2092	J - Vanne :: Surnames - J Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 4 items (530 items total) Views: 2288
K - Surnames :: Vanne - K Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 10 items (768 items total) Views: 2810	L - Vanne :: Surnames - L Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 7 items (1060 items total) Views: 3385	M - Surnames :: Vanne - M Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 7 items (1696 items total) Views: 3768	N - Vanne :: Surnames - N Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 6 items (351 items total) Views: 2071
O - Surnames :: Vanne - O Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 189 items (254 items total) Views: 2563	P - Vanne :: Surnames - P Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 11 items (869 items total) Views: 2918	Q - Surnames :: Vanne - Q Date: 23 May 2008 Size: 11 items (17 items total) Views: 932	R - Vanne :: Surnames - R Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 7 items (1170 items total) Views: 3010
S - Surnames :: Vanne - S Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 17 items (2063 items total) Views: 4947	T - Vanne :: Surnames - T Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 9 items (756 items total) Views: 2170	U - Surnames :: Vanne - U Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 33 items (38 items total) Views: 2369	V - Vanne :: Surnames - V Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 8 items (529 items total) Views: 2423
W - Surnames :: Vanne - W Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 8 items (1204 items total) Views: 3249	Y - Surnames :: Vanne - Y Date: 10 Jun 2008 Size: 39 items (61 items total) Views: 1733	Z - Vanne :: Surnames - Z Date: 03 Jun 2008 Size: 96 items (105 items total) Views: 2467

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