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The Camerons of Fassifern
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 1877 - 1941 (64 years)
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| Name |
Harry Norman Venn |
| Born |
10 Mar 1877 |
Kingston, Southern Australia, AUSTRALIA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
24 May 1941 |
Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA |
| Person ID |
I61 |
Fassifern Direct |
| Last Modified |
1 Apr 2012 |
| Father |
Robert Edward Venn, b. 11 Jul 1840, Port Adelaide, South Australia , d. 21 Oct 1896, Kingston , SA, Australia (Age 56 years) |
| Mother |
Helen Aitken Jamieson, b. 29 Jul 1843, d. Jul 1919, North Adelaide, AUSTRALIA (Age 75 years) |
| Married |
19 Aug 1865 |
Yatala House, Port Adelaide, Australia |
| Family ID |
F207 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Enid Rita Aveling (Dolly) Cameron, b. 1893, d. 1974 (Age 81 years) |
| Married |
1910 |
Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA |
| Children |
| + | 1. Robert Dorrien Venn, b. 4 Dec 1914, Gauteng, SOUTH AFRICA , d. 21 Apr 1991, Broward, Florida, USA (Age 76 years) |
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| Last Modified |
17 Sep 2010 |
| Family ID |
F17 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- Came to South Africa with Western Australian Bushmen, June 1900; returned to Australia 1901 and back to S.A. December 1901
Accountant, Colonial Secretary's Dept., Pretoria
Was born at Cook Street Kingston March 10 1877.
He also went to Western Australia at the behest of his Uncle Henry Whittall but he did not get along with either his Aunt Hattie (Charlotte) nor his uncle Harry.
Harry finally had a bust-up with his aunt and uncle and left WA as amember of the WA's Bushmans' Contingent to the Boer War. He married in South Africa and after firstly being a member of General Smith Dorrian's staff he became private secretary to the General, later Field-Marshall Smuts.
Harry returned to Australia at least twice to visit his mother and he died in Pretoria in 1946(3). Edith May Brown's birthday book, notes "Capt. Harry N. Venn. Spring Street, Melbourne
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