Hi Don,
I went looking for Janet Hovelt on the net after the last time you mentioned her.
Found some mentions of Hovelts in the Electoral Rolls from years ago, but nothing else.
Our free digitised newspapers online only go up to (mostly) 1956. I found that Hovelt is a Dutch name but that's about it.
The Victorian BDM's have four listings up to 1980, and all were born in South Africa as BROWN-HOVELT. So it seems Victoria is where they settled.
We have to presume Janet married into the HOVELT family.
Ah, another search just now shows an Ancestry Electoral Roll mention for a JANET LORAINNE BROWN-HOVELT and a JANETTE ANNE BROWN-HOVELT in Victoria. But that was back in 1980.
I can't look at the entry as I don't belong. Hoping to get to the library today, so will look there, but the address will be old.
We also have to take in the sad fact that she may no longer be with us.
My cousin wrote to a Michael Barry MANY years ago, whose mother was a daughter of a later Patrick Cantillon. He gave a few anecdotes but NO dates or tree, and he mentioned "a woman in Australia" who had also written to him.- and when she found there was no CASTLE or STATUS associated with the immediate family, never wrote again. Wonder if that was her?
Have just come back onto this site after many years away.
Posted all my family names to both the general list and the parishes.
Had a couple of answers to my GLEESON family which I answered, but they haven't written back further.
And you are the only one to answer my Cantillon query.
Cheers,
Wynnette in Queensland, Aus.