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..."she was born in Fordsburg, Johannesburg, but they [her parents] didn't want her to grow up in this rough mining town so Mr Carl Kaden, who had been a pastry cook at a bakery in Fordsburg looked for another job nearer Mrs Kaden's home of Philipolis in the Orange Free State, and landed up in Heilbron. What job he did then we don't know but he ended up by owning three farms and a bottle store. He must have sold the first farm that he had as that was hit by Lord Kitchener's "scorched earth policy" and it was not one of the ones that John had to see to later. Mrs Kaden could remember well the British soldiers bayonetting her favourite piglet. The farmhouse and contents was burnt but Mr Kaden got compensation later from the British Government as he was a German national. The correspondence and accounts over all this is very interesting. He must have changed that by the time the 1914-18 war came as he was extremely pro-British, with photographs of King George and Queen Mary and many books on the progress
Luckily they had a house in the town of Heilbron and because Mrs Kaden was British and not Boer they were allowed to stay out of the concentration camp at Heilbron. The British had taken their house as an Officer's Mess, but I think they could stay at the back and Mrs Kaden possibly cooked for the British Mess."
Source: E-mail Mary Lundie. 23 Apr 2007.

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