Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1895 - 1961 (Production)
Niveau de description
collection
Étendue matérielle et support
Records and photographs
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa, previously known as the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, is the province of the Anglican Communion in Southern Africa. Its primate is the Archbishop of Cape Town. The church includes dioceses in present day South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland and St. Helena.
An agreement was signed in 1937 between the Church of the Province of South Africa (CPSA) - now known as the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) - and the University of the Witwatersrand, whereby the church's central record library was places on loan with the University. The library consisted of books, pamphlets, periodicals and manuscripts. The richness of the Anglican Church's manuscript collection is due to the efforts of the provincial archivists appointed by the church to collect material and transfer it to the university. The first, 1937-1957, was Father Osmund Victor, followed by Canon Cecil Thomas Wood from 1958-1979. Mrs AR Kotze then took over from 1979-2000, until Carol Archibald was appointed as Provincial Archivist in 2001.
Histoire archivistique
Records collected and deposited by Miss Elsa Witt, who lived and nursed on Robben Island.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The records mainly relate to the Leper Colony on Robben Island. The nurses came from St. Albans in England to work in the Diocese of Cape Town at the invitation of West Jones in 1876. Their head-quarters when working among the Leper children on Robben Island was St. Michaels Home in Kloof St. There is a Jubilee Booklet of their work in the diocese 1876-1926 in folder of their correspondence.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
The Robben Island Registers are deposited with the Government Archives (Cape Province) in Queen Victoria St., Cape Town.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Note
Biographical and administrative history: There was a small Museum on the Island from which some of the exhibits in this collection come. They were preserved by Miss Witt when the Museum was disbanded in 1958 when the Royal Navy left and the Island became a Penal Settlement.