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Brown plaque № 12057

Knysna, South Africa

Circa 1894 Father Henry McNamara This home stands on Lot 31 of the original naval village of Melville, which was granted by Governor Sir Philip Wodehouse to Hendrik Carolus Stroebel in 1864. Stroebel subdivided the property and sold the lower half to Rev. William Breach in 1894. The upper half, know

n as Erf 448 was sold to Timothy Thomas Hill, who later sold it in 1904 to Father Henry Michael McNamara of the Catholic Church. The property was bought by Maria Schoonees in 1911 and later in 1920 by

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