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- A Chemist. He designed the sewage works at Modderfontein, Transvaal, South Africa.
The «b»1901 Scotland Census«/b» shows a 12-yr old brother, Marshall living at 8 Spottiswoode St, in the district of Newington, Edinburgh Robertson Memorial parish where he is registered as a scholar. Living with him is his 20-year old brotherFrank Lundie, 17-yr old sister, Mary Tasker Lundie, and 7-yr old brother Arnold. The household does not include any domestic help. Frank's parents were in Darwen, Lancashire, England, staying with his mother's sister and her husband, James and Mary Johnston "Aunt Polly", on the night the census was taken. [This record was difficult to find as the names were recorded as "John and Rebecca Lunder".]
Matriculated at Butterworth High School, obtained a BA in Biochemistry at SACS (South African College School, the precurser to the University of Cape Town) in Cape Town, where he was in the varsity rugby team - the first to tour S Rhodesia in 1913 - and held the mile record for over 30 years. In later years he represented SA as a golfer.
After graduating he lectured in Soil Chemistry at Grootfontain (1913) and Cedara Agricultural Colleges, and then joined the Pretoria Municipality as a Civil Engineer. He worked in the water department and is reputed to have organized the entire sewage system for Pretoria.
28 Feb 1917 GBT Diary entry about him attested as a Sgt in the SA military. GBT suggested he work in the Medical Lab in Roberts Heights.
He married Elizabeth de Klerk, daughter of a big sheep farmer on the Karoo, who was schooled in Bath (UK) and studied singing at the Royal Academy in London.
In 1936 Marshall become a partner in a firm of Consulting Engineers, specialists on the purification of sewage and industrial wastes in the Transvaal. Among the projects he was involved in was the sewage works at Modderfontein, near Johannesburg.
He bought the farm at Zebediela in about 1942 and his son David farmed it for the first couple of years, thereafter together with his father. Lily lived there from 1942.
In about 1952 they sold the Zebediela farm and bought two adjoining farms between Margate and Ramsgate on the South Coast of Natal. Marshall, Lily, David and his family farmed there for 3 years.
They sold the Natal farms in 1955 or early 1956 and returned to the (then) Transvaal.
He had secured a job with the Krugersdorp Municipality to look after their sewerage disposal process. They had bought a house there. (Their daughter, "Bubbles" and her family lived in Krugersdorp at the time).
Just before starting this job, he and Lily visited their son David, who had bought a farm near Pietersburg, and here Marshall died very suddenly in June 1956.
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1889 - 1956 (66 years)
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