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  1. Margaret May Stansfield: Birth: 31 DEC 1899 in Somerset West, Cape Province, South Africa. Death: APR 1972 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Notes
a. Note:   N53 Begum Abdurahman, his grand-daughter recalls that he was a cousin to thefilm-star "Gracie Fields". Begum thinks her grandfather's brother wasGracie's father. At age about 8 or 9 years Begum recalls that GracieFields visited Capetown and at a reception for Gracie in Capetown she wasintroduced to Margaret May Stansfield (Begum's mother) who would havebeen a cousin to Gracie. Begum recalls that her mother said Gracie wasvery uncomfortable about the introduction and that Gracie was not happyto acknowledge the family-tie with Margaret because Margaret was as thewife of Abdullah Abdurahman who was "colored" and regard as a "black" manby Gracie Fields and her immediate family.
  Begum also recalls that she has very few memories of seeing her maternalgrandfather because his daughter Margaret had married a "black" man andso he effectively cut her out of his life. One of the few and only timesBegum recalls seeing her grandfather was "weeks" before his death whenhe visited Margaret "...to make his peace before he died."
  Edward was possibly an uncle to Gracy Fields


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