The information here has been mainly gathered together since 2017 by 3 of the descendants of Joseph Ferdinand de Raedt and Susannah Hogan, with help from many people along the way. Several people in the genealogy community in South Africa who have been so generous with their time and skills deserve special mention.
Johannes began this process of bringing the family’s story together through his letter to The Shields Gazette .
Deon and Lindsay contacted him in October 2017. Deon had already done a great deal of research on the family and shared his family tree. Since then, as a team effort, a lot of information about the family has been found and many parts of the puzzle have been put together. More remains to be gathered and we hope that by publishing this website, we’ll get input from other descendants of Joseph and Susannah – please get in touch with me if you can help us with more information.
This website is an attempt to record the story for anyone who is interested in this family now and in the future.
Lindsay
January 2021