Charles James Laurens

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  • From: Grant Christison [mailto:grantchristison@hotmail.com]
    Sent: 10 August 2010 11:21 AM
    To: royharris@greytown.co.za
    Subject: RE: [GenoPro] - New Email (Martens)
    
    
    
    Hello, Roy
    
    Thank you for your reply.
    
    I am the great-great-grandson of Hendrik Jacobus van der Merwe Martens (1848/49 - 1919). His eldest daughter, Anna Catharina Elizabeth is my graet-grandmother. She married Charles James Laurens, who was born on the island of Jersey. Their daughter, Anna Maria Isabella, married my grandpa, Robert Walter Christison (born 1890). I never knew her, but I was about ten when grandpa died.
    
    I am writing a collection of little 'vignettes' about my extended family. The Martenses are just one of branches that interest me. This may be for family members, but it may also be for publication. It is not a family history; just a series of musings, with historical anecdotes as departure points.
    
    For this reason, I am looking for (true) stories, rather than genealogical details, of which there are a wealth available on the Net.
    
    If you know anything that illustrates the personalities of the Martenses, or times in which they lived, I'd be really pleased to hear about it.
    
    Thank you very much, again.
    
    With warm greetings
    
    
    
    Grant Christison
    
    P. O. Box 24093
    
    Sherwood
    
    6034 SOUTH AFRICA
    
    grantchristison@hotmail.com
    
    Telephone: +27 41 360 1554
    
    
    
    

Details of Charles' family with Anna Catharina Elizabeth Martens