Year: 2014
Two anecdotes from the early days
Through ‘contact us’ I received two anecdotes from the early days of the Morkel family. Thanks so much to those who passed them on. They do much to bring the history of the family alive. They …
Saving wildlife from poachers in Central Africa.
I have changed the Morgenster Morkel series to include the family of Francis Sievewright Morkel. One of his sons is Pete Morkel, a vet who is active with wildlife preservation in Central Africa – elephant …
The Morkel Rhoda connection
The research by Ebrahim Rhoda about the Muslim branch of the Rhoda family has been on our website for some time, under “Morkel Family Stories”. This has now become Part 1 of a series, …
DNA connection to the US – cousin Art Morrical
I recently updated the Deep Ancestry posting to include the STR markers (short tandem repeats) for my y-DNA test. y-DNA is handed down father to son and all male Morkels, including back to stamvader …
Correcting a few errors in the Morkel Genealogy
I combined the two main Morkel Genealogies (PW Morkel and GISA) into a Family Tree Maker software package, as well as new items collected over the years. While the more than 1,600 names is fairly …
Rhodesia Beginning to End – Arthur, Cliff and Ron Morkel
Ron Morkel who now lives in North Carolina is the grandson of Arthur Loreth Rubidge Morkel who in 1891 made the arduous six month journey to Salisbury at a time that Cecil John Rhodes and …
The Wreck of the Schonenberg.
I finally updated our story about the Wreck of the Schonenberg. Stamvader Philip Morkel and his brother Willem hosted 80 shipwrecked crew on his farm Onverwacht in 1722. An epic poem, Liefdekrans, was composed and …