Pictures of Gravestones

Thanks to the very valuable contributions of its members and other generous people, who have taken given their pictures and their time in uploading and labelling, eGGSA is putting together, as part of our download library a collection of gravestones in various South African cemeteries.

Gail Röthlin in Switzerland is leading the current phase of the project, which is to caption around 25,000 images generously contributed by Kobus Snyman and others. As at the end of 2006 over 9000 of these have now been captioned and added to the gravestones available on the web site.

The process is quite straightforward, particularly for someone with a fast internet connection. Each image takes only a few minutes to index, so you do not have to devote long periods of time to the task.

If you can volunteer to help, please send an e-mail to Gail Röthlin at mgroth@mydiax.ch
 

Currently we have photographs from the following cemeteries:

Algerie (album with 8 photographs)

Badsbwyn (album with 8 photographs)

Bethal Mission (album with 9 photographs)

Croyston (album with 16 photographs)

Eastern Cape, ABERDEEN (album with 78 photographs)

Eastern Cape, ALBANY DISTRICT, Highlands, St. Cyprians Anglican Church (album with 15 photographs)

Eastern Cape, ALEXANDRIA (album with 6 photographs)

Eastern Cape, ALIWAL NORTH (album with 10 photographs)

Eastern Cape, Cathcart District, CHILTON, St. Andrews Anglican Church (album with 113 photographs)

Eastern Cape, GRAAFF-REINET, cemetery opposite the SPCA (album with 115 photographs)

Eastern Cape, GRAAFF-REINET, Cradock Street (album with 133 photographs)

Eastern Cape, GRAAFF-REINET, Donkin Street, Anglican cemetery (album with 29 photographs)

Eastern Cape, HOGSBACK area, Tweedale Farm (album with 1 photograph)

Eastern Cape, HOGSBACK, Winston farm grave yard (album with 11 photographs)

Eastern Cape, JEFFREYSBAAI, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, Muur van herrinering (album with 134 photographs)

Eastern Cape, JEFFREYSBAAI, ou begraafplaas, Keetstraat (album with 280 photographs)

Eastern Cape, JEFFREYSBAAI, ou begraafplaas, Keetstraat, Muur van Herinnering (album with 53 photographs)

Eastern Cape, JOUBERTINA (album with 77 photographs)

Eastern Cape, JOUBERTINA, NGK (album with 1 photograph)

Eastern Cape, KAREEDOUW (album with 7 photographs)

Eastern Cape, KAREEDOUW (album with 64 photographs)

Eastern Cape, KAREEDOUW, NGK (album with 4 photographs)

Eastern Cape, KARIEGA, Kariega-halte (album with 25 photographs)

Eastern Cape, KING WILLIAMS TOWN, Edward Street Cemetery (album with 71 photographs)

Eastern Cape, KING WILLIAMS TOWN, Main Cemetery (album with 11 photographs)

Eastern Cape, LADY GREY (album with 19 photographs)

Eastern Cape, MACLEANSTOWN (album with 3 photographs)

Eastern Cape, MOLTENO (album with 87 photographs)

Eastern Cape, NEW CATHCART (album with 9 photographs)

Eastern Cape, NIEU-BETHESDA (album with 118 photographs)

Eastern Cape, STEYNSBURG (album with 3 photographs)

Eastern Cape, STUTTERHEIM (album with 54 photographs)

Free State, BLOEMFONTEIN, Memoriam Cemetery (album with 2 photographs)

Free State, BETHULIE (album with 18 photographs)

Free State, BETHULIE - various small cemeteries (album with 27 photographs)

Free State, BOSHOF, begraafplaas (album with 23 photographs)

Free State, DEALESVILLE, (album with 24 photographs)

Free State, EDENBURG. (album with 16 photographs)

Free State, FAURESMITH (album with 33 photographs)

Free State, FRANKFORT (album with 4 photographs)

Free State, FRANKFORT (album with 36 photographs)

Free State, HEILBRON (album with 25 photographs)

Free State, HERTZOGVILLE (album with 12 photographs)

Free State, JAGERSFONTEIN (album with 10 photographs)

Free State, LADYBRAND (album with 27 photographs)

Free State, LUCKHOFF (album with 8 photographs)

Free State, PHILIPPOLIS (album with 38 photographs)

Free State, TWEELING (album with 32 photographs)

Free State, TWEEPOORT Farm cemetery, Senekal dist, (album with 10 photographs)

Gauteng, BENONI (album with 6 photographs)

Gauteng, BOKSBURG (album with 254 photographs)

Gauteng, BRAKPAN (album with 13 photographs)

Gauteng, BRAKPAN (album with 15 photographs)

Gauteng, BREDELL (album with 151 photographs)

Gauteng, BRONKHORSTSPRUYT (album with 632 photographs)

Gauteng, CARLETONVILLE (album with 96 photographs)

Gauteng, EDENVALE (album with 285 photographs)

Gauteng, GERMISTON (album with 404 photographs)

Gauteng, HEIDELBERG, Kloof begraafplaas (album with 49 photographs)

Gauteng, HEIDELBERG, nuwe begraafplaas (album with 44 photographs)

Gauteng, JOHANNESBURG, Braamfontein (album with 120 photographs)

Gauteng, JOHANNESBURG, Brixton (album with 220 photographs)

Gauteng, JOHANNESBURG, West Park (album with 243 photographs)

Gauteng, KEMPTON PARK, Die Dorp / The Town (album with 284 photographs)

Gauteng, KEMPTON PARK, Mooifontein (album with 216 photographs)

Gauteng, KRUGERSDORP, Sterkfontein Cemetery (album with 121 photographs)

Gauteng, MAGALIESBERG, Zandfontein (album with 13 photographs)

Gauteng, MAGALIESBURG (album with 96 photographs)

Gauteng, Midrand, LEEUKOP DCS (album with 2 photographs)

Gauteng, NIGEL, Eastern Witwatersrand. New Cemetery. (next to the Dunotter road) (album with 29 photographs)

Gauteng, NIGEL, Scarboroughstraat begraafplaas (album with 10 photographs)

Gauteng, PRETORIA, Boschkop District 01 (album with 15 photographs)

Gauteng, PRETORIA, Boschkop District 02 (album with 26 photographs)

Gauteng, PRETORIA, Centurion (album with 40 photographs)

Gauteng, PRETORIA, Church street Cemetery (album with 155 photographs)

Gauteng, PRETORIA, Rebecca Street (album with 5 photographs)

Gauteng, PRETORIA, Silverton Cemetery in Dykor Rd (album with 413 photographs)

Gauteng, PRETORIA, Zwartkop (album with 20 photographs)

Gauteng, RANDFONTEIN (album with 300 photographs)

Gauteng, RENSBURG, nuwe begraafplaas (langs ou Durbanpad) (album with 10 photographs)

Gauteng, RENSBURG, Suidstraat begraafplaas (album with 15 photographs)

Gauteng, ROODEPOORT, Old Cemetery (album with 54 photographs)

Gauteng, SPRINGS (album with 1005 photographs)

Gauteng, VANDERBIJLPARK (album with 22 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, EMPANGENI (album with 45 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, ESHOWE (album with 38 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, GINGINDLOVU (album with 16 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, HIGHFLATS (album with 98 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, NOODSBERG (album with 66 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, PINETOWN (album with 79 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, SCOTTBURGH, Lower South Coast (album with 173 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, UMKOMAAS, Lower South Coast (album with 47 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, UNDERBERG (album with 2 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, WARTBURG (album with 39 photographs)

Kwazulu-Natal, WINTERTON, All Saints Anglican Church Graveyard (album with 61 photographs)

Limpopo, NYLSTROOM (album with 75 photographs)

Limpopo, PHALABORWA (album with 10 photographs)

Limpopo, TZANEEN (album with 69 photographs)

Mpumalanga, AMERSFOORT OLD & NEW CEMETERIES (album with 62 photographs)

Mpumalanga, AMSTERDAM (album with 37 photographs)

Mpumalanga, BADPLAAS, Putt-putt baan (album with 2 photographs)

Mpumalanga, BALFOUR dist, Schaapskraal grafte, plaas van Mnr Dannhauser (album with 5 photographs)

Mpumalanga, BALFOUR, nuwe begraafplaas (album with 26 photographs)

Mpumalanga, BALFOUR, ou begraafplaas (album with 8 photographs)

Mpumalanga, BARBERTON, begraafplaas (album with 5 photographs)

Mpumalanga, BETHAL (album with 58 photographs)

Mpumalanga, CHARL CILLIERS (album with 2 photographs)

Mpumalanga, DAVEL (album with 28 photographs)

Mpumalanga, DELMAS (album with 285 photographs)

Mpumalanga, ERMELO (album with 29 photographs)

Mpumalanga, GREYLINGSTAD (album with 13 photographs)

Mpumalanga, HENDRIKS PAN (album with 22 photographs)

Mpumalanga, MARBLE HALL (album with 2 photographs)

Mpumalanga, MORGENZON, (album with 18 photographs)

Mpumalanga, NELSPRUIT (album with 124 photographs)

Mpumalanga, PELGRIMSRUS, Cemetery (album with 7 photographs)

Mpumalanga, WITBANK (album with 64 photographs)

Namibia, USAKOS (album with 2 photographs)

North West Province, COLIGNY (album with 45 photographs)

North West Province, DERBY (album with 145 photographs)

North West Province, FOCHVILLE (album with 69 photographs)

North West Province, HARTBEESFONTEIN (album with 39 photographs)

North West Province, JAN BOOMPLAAS (album with 12 photographs)

North West Province, KLERKSDORP (album with 1 photograph)

North West Province, KOSTER (album with 90 photographs)

North West Province, LICHTENBURG (album with 269 photographs)

North West Province, LICHTENBURG, Manana Cemetery (album with 74 photographs)

North West Province, MAFEKING (album with 11 photographs)

North West Province, MARIKANA (album with 115 photographs)

North West Province, RUSTENBURG (album with 784 photographs)

North West Province, RUSTENBURG Distrik, Kroondal. Arnoldistad grafte (album with 15 photographs)

North West Province, SWARTRUGGENS (album with 306 photographs)

North West Province, VENTERSDORP (album with 80 photographs)

North West Province, ZEERUST (album with 121 photographs)

Northern Cape, CALVINIA (album with 146 photographs)

Northern Cape, COLESBERG, begraafplaas langs die N1 (album with 20 photographs)

Northern Cape, COLESBERG, begraafplaas op dorp self (album with 24 photographs)

Northern Cape, KIMBERLEY (album with 4 photographs)

Northern Cape, MARYDALE (album with 276 photographs)

Northern Cape, STRYDENBURG (album with 48 photographs)

Northern Cape, VICTORIA WEST (album with 210 photographs)

Northern Cape, VOSBURG (album with 203 photographs)

Quanti Cemetery on the farm "The Mare", E.C. (album with 9 photographs)

Western Cape to the Eastern Cape, ROUTE 62 (album with 116 photographs)

Western Cape, ASHTON-G (album with 8 photographs)

Western Cape, BARRYDALE (album with 17 photographs)

Western Cape, BEAUFORT WEST, begraafplaas, by NG Kerk (album with 23 photographs)

Western Cape, BETTYSBAAI, - langs die kus (album with 1 photograph)

Western Cape, BREDASDORP, nuwe begraafplaas (album with 147 photographs)

Western Cape, BREDASDORP, old Cemetery. (album with 76 photographs)

Western Cape, CALEDON (album with 142 photographs)

Western Cape, CALEDON, grafte by Holy Trinity Kerk (album with 4 photographs)

Western Cape, CALITZDORP (album with 179 photographs)

Western Cape, CALITZDORP old cemetery (album with 1 photograph)

Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, CONSTANTIA, Church of Christ (album with 1 photograph)

Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, GLENCAIRN (album with 2 photographs)

Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, NOORDHOEK (album with 71 photographs)

Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, SIMONS TOWN Navy Cemetery (album with 3 photographs)

Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, ST JAMES, Catholic Church Cemetery (album with 22 photographs)

Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, VISHOEK / FISH HOEK (album with 9 photographs)

Western Cape, CAPE TOWN, Kraaifontein Begraafplaas (album with 58 photographs)

Western Cape, Cape Town, MAITLAND Cemetery (album with 21 photographs)

Western Cape, CAPE TOWN, Rondebosch, St Thomas Church, Memorial Wall (album with 8 photographs)

Western Cape, CEDARBERG, in the Sandrif vicinity (album with 20 photographs)

Western Cape, CITRUSDAL (album with 8 photographs)

Western Cape, DARLING (album with 92 photographs)

Western Cape, DURBANVILLE (album with 511 photographs)

Western Cape, DURBANVILLE, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (album with 100 photographs)

Western Cape, FRANSCHHOEK (album with 183 photographs)

Western Cape, FRANSCHHOEK, Simondium, St Georges Church (album with 55 photographs)

Western Cape, GENADENDAL (album with 84 photographs)

Western Cape, GEORGE, Kleinbos and Mooiveld Farms (album with 26 photographs)

Western Cape, GEORGE, museum graves (album with 13 photographs)

Western Cape, GOUDINI (album with 28 photographs)

Western Cape, GREYTON (album with 100 photographs)

Western Cape, HERMANUS (album with 2 photographs)

Western Cape, KLEINMOND (album with 3 photographs)

Western Cape, KNYSNA, begraafplaas langs die N3, op die dorp (album with 80 photographs)

Western Cape, KNYSNA, St Georges Church Graveyard (album with 37 photographs)

Western Cape, KUILSRIVIER (album with 6 photographs)

Western Cape, PAARL, begraafplaas op die heuwel (album with 21 photographs)

Western Cape, PAARL, NGK Strooidakkerk / Thatched Roof Church (album with 200 photographs)

Western Cape, PHILADELPHIA, (album with 271 photographs)

Western Cape, RIVERSDAL, begraafplaas, langs die N3 (album with 85 photographs)

Western Cape, STELLENBOSCH (album with 4 photographs)

Western Cape, STRAND, begraafplaas (album with 9 photographs)

Western Cape, STRUISBAAI, begraafplaas (album with 7 photographs)

Western Cape, UNIONDALE, at the bottom of the hill under the British fort (album with 101 photographs)

Western Cape, UNIONDALE, graveyard in the town (album with 68 photographs)

Western Cape, VILLIERSDORP (album with 163 photographs)

Western Cape, VILLIERSDORP, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk grafte (album with 13 photographs)

In addition, Marielle Ford, who has selected photographs from the following cemeteries, has kindly offered to send photographs by email on request. The photographs, except where otherwise indicated, have been taken by her. Please contact her directly on

Alicedale cemetery

Grahamstown Botanical Gardens

Grahamstown Old Cemetery

Grahamstown Waainek Cemetery

Bathurst Methodist Church

Bathurst St John's Anglican Church

Port Alfred Settler Cemetery

Tarkastad Cemetery

Shaw Park Cemetery

Kariega Baptist Church

Manley Flats Church

Rokeby Park Church

Salem Church

Clumber Methodist Church - taken by Anne HULLEY

Empangeni Cemetery Wall of Rememberance

Stellenbosch Moederkerk

Kalk Bay Holy Trinity Anglican Church