Judith's Paarl is a suburb of

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. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), tucked between the suburbs of Lorentzville and

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, with Troyeville and Kensington to the south. It is located in Region F of the

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History

The suburb was founded on one of the original farms on the Witwatersrand, after a strip of land was sold from the farm ''Doornfontein''. It originates around 1896. The suburb is possibly named after a daughter of the Lorentz family. Other sources are Judith Cornelia Estresia, wife of the original farmer owner F.C. Bezuidenhout. It had a terminus for the Johannesburg tramway network on the corner of Ascot Road and First Street.

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