Identificatie
referentie code
Titel
Datum(s)
- 1895 - 1961 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Archief
Omvang en medium
Records and photographs
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
Institutionele geschiedenis
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.
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Records collected and deposited by Miss Elsa Witt, who lived and nursed on Robben Island.
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
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.
Waardering, vernietiging en slectie
Aanvullingen
Ordeningstelsel
Voorwaarden voor toegang en gebruik
Voorwaarden voor raadpleging
Voorwaarden voor reproductie
Taal van het materiaal
Schrift van het materiaal
Taal en schrift aantekeningen
Fysieke eigenschappen en technische eisen
Toegangen
Verwante materialen
Bestaan en verblifplaats van originelen
The Robben Island Registers are deposited with the Government Archives (Cape Province) in Queen Victoria St., Cape Town.
Bestaan en verblijfplaats van kopieën
Related units of description
Aantekeningen
Aantekening
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.