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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Braided lives
Cape Dutch family, late 1700s.
In 1707 my seventh great-grandfather Hermanus Lambertus Bosman survived a terrifying journey on the high seas and sought refuge in the Cape colony (see Rough Crossing). In response to his pleas, the Du...
Rough Crossing
Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship in Table Bay, 1769. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
My paternal grandmother Joey was a direct descendent of Hermanus Bosman (1682-1769), progenitor of the South African Bosman family. But the...
Invisible Ancestors
Huguenot monument, Franschhoek. Photo Lesley Lawson, March 2026.
Not so long ago I discovered the name of my mystery paternal grandmother, and through her, my Cape Dutch ancestry. Johanna Petronella Bosman (aka Joey) was a direct des...
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...
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