Carl Alban Olsson - Grave

Dear old Grandfather....we know where you were buried, but not where you came from - at least, not precisely. Tell us - was it you aboard the Gascon in 1898? Or was that just a ghost. What happened after you left the Cape - were you perhaps dragged into the Boer War for a few years, and if so on whose side? Tell us, Grandfather, tell us.......

I think that our farfar was in East London
around 1901/2. In 1986 I was in the main Johannesburg library looking at bound volumes of census and voting records - these were in the reference or archival section by special request. They were hardback red bound books about A5 in size. There I saw that there was a Carl Olsson registered to a domestic address in East London around 1901 occupation given as " rigger". Then in 1913 in Johannesburg Carl Olsson was recorded along with the family in a census but I can't remember the address details - possibly the 50A Fountain Road, Fordsburg given on our father, Charles Fritchoff Olaf Olsson's baptism record?