Lucy Käden
1891 - 1966 (74 years)
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Name Lucy Käden Birth 11 Nov 1891 Fordsburg,Johannesburg,South Africa., 
Gender Female Death 19 Feb 1966 Pretoria,Transvaal,South Africa., Person ID I455 My Genealogy Last Modified 27 Apr 2026 | Edit
Father Carl Frederick Augustus Käden, b. 24 Dec 1865 d. 3 Aug 1948, Heilbron,Orange Free State,South Africa., (Age 82 years) Mother Frances Dina Crossley, b. Philipolis,Orange Free State,South Africa., d. 2 Mar 1940, Heilbron,Orange Free State,South Africa., Family ID F302713515 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Arnold Ernest Lundie, b. 28 Nov 1893, Malan Mission,Transkei,South Africa., d. 23 Jan 1982, Pretoria,Transvaal,South Africa., (Age 88 years) Marriage Aft 25 Aug 1919 Heilbron,Orange Free State,South Africa., Children 1. Carol Frances Lundie, b. 25 Dec 1920, Ithaca,,,New York State,USA. d. 9 Nov 2002, Newark,,,Delaware,USA . (Age 81 years)2. Dr. John Kaden Lundie, b. 16 Jul 1925, ,,South Africa., d. 5 Aug 2013, Pretoria,Gauteng,South Africa., (Age 88 years)Family ID F146 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Apr 2020 | Edit
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Notes - PRIVATE
- ..."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.