Henshaw

Good day

i do hope anyone can help me, or have some info to guide me in the correct direction.

Unfortuantly the older family generation kept alot of info a secret, and i dont have much to go on. I am looking for the paternal Father of my grandfather.

My great grandmother met a man during the fist world war. She got pregnant and had a son in 1927. i dont know if my great grandmother was in Ireland at the time for some reason, or if they met in her home country South Africa. She did however say that my grandfather's father was an Irish man.

My grandfather's father died in a motorbike accident when my grandfather was still very young.

As far as i know my great grandmother and great grandfather was never married. (I could be wrong)

My great grandfather must have had a relationship of some sort with my grandfather, because my grandfather was English speaking, although he grew up in a Afrikaans speaking house.

My grandfather was babtised at the age of 13 as Jacobus Remerus Henshaw. But family members confirmed he was John Robert Henshaw, and that my great grandmother changed his names at a young age. My grandfather died at the age of 43 and up until his death he always said his real name is John Robert and his father was from Ireland. We dont know if the names John Robert was maybe the same name his father had?

Does anyone have a family member they could never trace or know of a Greatgrandfather who had a child with an South African lady?

 

Regards

Claudia Henshaw