I ordered your book, Children of the Mist, after it was discussed on South African TV.
It is a master piece,
covering the unfortunate life experiences of my people. Thank You. It will
be valued forever in my family!
A Few days after it arrived, a relative died, and I attended his funeral in Kokstad and had the opportunity to take photos of the graves, which needs maintenance badly.
In the second last photo clip, the Kok family graves are fenced off, but just behind these graves are some graves of my predecessors, the Lubbe family. It seems the family had some important role in the Griqua history. I have been struggling to get information on our family tree. The last story that I am trying to follow is that a ship, carrying Scottish immigrants was stranded on the Natal Wild Coast, near Port St Johns, in the late 1800’s, These Scottish intermarried with the Griquas. The following surnames are rumored to have come from the intermixing; Lubbe, Moody, Jones, Thompson, Davids,
My granny was one of these Scottish
immigrants, Thompson, who married my grandfather, Lubbe, in 1910, a mixed
Griqua.
The last clip (right) is one of my grand parents.
I had the pleasure of greeting my uncle Jan de Bruin as described in the book; Children of the Mist on page 328, and his wife, aunty Ella, at the funeral, Saturday, 26 April 2008.
I wish you could help, or point my in the right direction.
Peter Lubbe, Kokstad
May 2008
