Missing pieces
Lesley LawsonAn investigation into my family history tells the story of white South Africa and the story of me.
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Ancestor portraits
Mum’s living room, Durban 1983.
There were three water colour paintings in my childhood home, said to be of our ancestors. They hung together in the dining room, two portraits on either side of an enormous yellow mansion. I loved th...
Grandad Lazarus
Little is known about Grandad Lazarus and his family after their arrival in South Africa, but I have caught glimpses of them in the South African archives. It seems that they settled in Boksburg, a small town east of Johannesburg with a gro...
Crossing oceans
Mealtime on a steamship, circa 1890.
The disappearance of my paternal grandfather from our childhood went without a mention, and it was only when my brother began investigating my father’s family line in 2009 that I learned more abo...
Wedding album
May 5, 1943: just married! My parents’ wedding album shows them posing proudly in a lush Durban garden—dad and his best man in their starched army uniforms, mum and bridesmaid resplendent in their white net gowns. But beneath the glamour, t...
Dad's war
Mum said never to ask Dad about the war. My brother and I once found some medals in a dusty old box but we never mentioned it. There was also a battered album with postcards of crumbling African cities and faded photographs, taken in the de...
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South African storyteller living in London
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