The Cape and the Rand

Part IV · 🇿🇦 🇦🇷

A cavalryman in Argentina, a trainer and racehorse owner at the Cape, and four further generations of jockeys and trainers. The passport, the South African archives, the estate and the papers in the house are the documents this part rests on.

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1. 1The horsesA cavalryman in Argentina, a trainer and racehorse owner at the Cape, and four further generations of jockeys and trainers.
2. 2The passportAn Argentine passport issued at Cape Town: his birthplace, his birth date, and his profession in one word.
3. 3South AfricaSixty-one Lerenas in a country far from Iberia and the Americas. That is not scatter. That is a family.
4. 4The archives answerThe South African National Archives index searched for the surname: thirteen documents, and the first real names.
5. 5The estate of Pablo Armando LerenaA death certificate, a will, a liquidation account and a son's death notice, naming the family's head, his wife and his three sons.
6. 6The papers in the houseDeath notices, a marriage register, two baptisms and an English cousin's family history, none of it opened until now.

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