f.2. Fredrika Elizabeth Margaretha VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 10/09/1819, ged. 24/05/1820
Fredrika Elizabeth Margaretha was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Johanna Catharina Kruger.
DG: Albertus Adriaan van Wyk; Elizabeth Margaretha Kruger; Hendrik Lourens van der Westhuizen; Anna Maria Kruger; Hendrik van der Westhuizen Wzn; Wietsche van der Westhuizen.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
Kinders:
g.1. Cornelis Johannes SMIT, geb. 11/03/1843, ged. 02/10/1843, Beaufort Wes. SK:
g.2. Johanna Catharina SMIT, geb. 18/12/1844, ged. 07/07/1845, Victoira-Wes
g.3. Jacomina Elizabeth Margaretha SMIT, geb. 14/03/1847, ged. 05/04/1847, Victoria Wes x Andries Jacobus Keyser.
g.4. Johannes SMIT, geb. 16/04/1849, ged. 09/07/1849, Tulbach, oorl. 26/09/1897, Carnarvon x Louisa Helena Olivier.
g.5. Susanna Margaretha Magdalena SMIT, geb. 22/02/1851, ged. 06/10/1851, Victoria Wes
g.6. Frederika Elizabeth Margaretha SMIT, geb. 28/08/1853, ged. 29/01/1854, Victoria Wes.
g.7. Albert Johannes SMIT, geb. 20/09/1854, ged. 21/01/1855, Victoria Wes
g.8. Gert Johannes Nicolaas SMIT, geb. 15/12/1856, ged. 08/02/1857, Victoria Wes.
g.9. Susara Margaretha Magdalena SMIT, geb. 22/02/1857, ged. 06/10/1857, Victoria Wes
g.10. Wietsche SMIT, geb. 08/02/1859, ged. 03/07/1859
g.11. Nicolaas Hendrik SMIT, geb. 25/08/1861, ged. 25/12/1861.
f.3. Johanna Catharina VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 04/11/1821, ged. 20/09/1822
Johanna Catharina was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Johanna Catharina Kruger.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
f.4. Wietsche VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 25/04/1829, ged. 17/05/1829
Wietsche was die seun van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Sy naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
Nadat die Kaap vir die 2de keer deur Engeland geannekseer is in 1806 onder aanvoering van Sir David Baird ('n neef van John Baird), het John Baird aanvanklik as 'n vaandrig in die Kaapse regiment diens gedoen tot die korps in 1818 kleiner gemaak is. Daarna is hy aangestel as assistent vir dr. Robert Hart om Somerset Farm te bestuur. Die plaas is deur Lord Somerset aangeskaf om voedsel aan die soldate op die Oosgrens te verskaf. Hier het John se administratiewe talente na vore gekom en is hy kort daarna aangestel as adjunk-landdros van Beaufort-Wes. Hy het later as volle landdros diens gedoen. Beaufort het voorheen bekend gestaan as "Hooyvlakte", die plaas van Abraham de Clercq. John het in Desember 1818 die plaaswoning wat deur Abraham de Clercq se vader gebou is betrek, na die plaas deur die Britse regering opgekoop is. John het op 18 November 1822 op Beaufort met Anna Susanna de Klerk, 'n jong dogter uit die distrik in die huwelik getree en ook lidmaat geword van die NG Kerk. (https://www.geni.com/people/John-Baird-SV-PROG/6000000008496376669)
f.5. Anna Catharina VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, ged. 20/02/1831
Anna Catharina was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
f.6. Susara Margaretha Magdalena VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 14/02/1833, ged. 03/03/1833
Susara Margaretha Magdalena was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
Kinders:
g.1. Johannes VAN HEERDEN, geb. 02/12/1858, Maanhaarspoort, Victoria-Wes.
g.2. Elsie Wilhelmina VAN HEERDEN, geb. 1860, Maanhaarspoort, Victoria-Wes.
g.3. Susara Margaretha Magdalena VAN HEERDEN, geb. 1860, Maanhaarspoort, Victoria-Wes.
g.4. Susara Margaretha Magdalena VAN HEERDEN, geb. 1862, Maanhaarspoort, Victoria-Wes.
g.5. Isaac Petrus VAN HEERDEN, geb. 1869, Maanhaarspoort, Victoria-Wes.
g.6. Barend Jacobus Johannes VAN HEERDEN, geb. 1869, Maanhaarspoort, Victoria-Wes.
g.7. Carel Jacobus VAN HEERDEN, geb. 08/01/1880, Maanhaarspoort, Victoria-Wes, oorl. 14/07/1927, Varkfontein, Richmond, begr. Victoria-Wes x 11/06/1902, Victoria-Wes met Gertruida Wilhelmina Snyman, geb. 05/10/1882, ged. 12/11/1882, Victoria-Wes, oorl. 30/07/1948, Victoria-Wes.
g.8. Anna Catharina VAN HEERDEN, geb. Maanhaarspoort, Victoria-Wes.
f.7. Jacoba Elizabeth Engena VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 10/10/1834, ged. 29/03/1835
Jacoba Elizabeth Engena was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
g.1. Susanna Margaretha Magdalena VAN ZYL, geb. 12/11/1858, Victoria-Wes, oorl. 25/06/1935, Boesmanspan, Prieska x 19/08/1879, Victoria-Wes met Willem Hendrik van Zyl, geb. 1853, Victoria-Wes, oorl. 27/10/1923, Victoria-Wes, s.v Hendrik Gideon van Zyl en Hester Sophia Britz.
g.2. Hendrik Gideon VAN ZYL, geb. 01/10/1860, ged. 28/10/1860, Victoria-Wes, oorl. 13/03/1920, Vosburg, Victoria-Wes x 30/06/1883, Victoria-Wes met Anna Sophia Snyman, geb. 04/06/1863, ged. 05/07/1863, Victoria-Wes, d.v. Christoffel Frans Snyman en Elizabeth Wilhelmina Barnard.
g.3. Jan VAN ZYL
g.4. Elizabeth Huibrecht VAN ZYL, geb. 29/12/1863, oorl. 19/09/1930, Wolmaransstad, Tvl. x Jan F. van der Merwe
g.5. Willem Hendrik VAN ZYL, geb. 04/03/1867, Victoria-Wes, oorl. 25/01/1917, Tulbagh x Aletta Johanna Gertruida NN.
g.6. Jacobus Arnoldus LOUW
g.7. Susanna Jacoba LOUW
g.8. Nicolaas Jacobus LOUW
f.8. Hilletje VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, ged. 18/05/1836
Hilletje was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
Kinders:
g.1. Sara Margaretha Magdalena VAN HEERDEN, geb. 1859, oorl. 16/10/1881, Victoria-Wes x Daniel Eliza Krynauw, geb. 21/04/1853, oorl. 26/02/1917.
f.9. Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 17/01/1838, ged. 14/05/1838
Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus was die seun van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Sy naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
f.10. Nicolaas Jacobus VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 17/10/1839, ged. 26/12/1839
Nicolaas Jacobus was die seun van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Sy naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
f.11. Maria Christina Magdalena VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 25/08/1841, ged. 28/03/1842
Maria Christina Magdalena was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
f.13. Hendrik Lourens VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, ged. 19/05/1845, ged. 07/07/1845
Hendrik Lourens was die seun van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Sy naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
f.12. Elizabeth Catharina Johanna VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 11/07/1843
Elizabeth Catharina Johanna was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
g.1. Jacobus Abraham DE KLERK
g.2. Catharina Jacomina DE KLERK
g.3. Magdalena Catharina DE KLERK
g.4. Susara Margaritha DE KLERK
f.14. Magdalena Jacomina Petronella VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, ged. 09/05/1847
Magdalena Jacomina Petronella was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
g.1. Jacobus Abraham DE KLERK
g.2. Johannes Jacob DE KLERK
g.3. Sara Margaretha Magdalena DE KLERK x van Heerden
g.4. Magdalena Catharina Petronella DE KLERK x Johannes Erasmus du Toit
g.5. Margaretha Johanna DE KLERK x Johannes Hendrik van Heerden
g.7. Jacoba Elizabeth DE KLERK
f.15. Rensche Susanna VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 31/03/1849, ged. 15/04/1849
Rensche Susanna was die dogter van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
Kinders:
f.16. Christiaan Roets VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, ged. 06/02/1853, ged. 20/02/1853
Christiaan Roets was die seun van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Sara Margaretha Magdalena Roets.
Sy naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1853.
e.1. Johannes VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 17/09/1795, ged. 13/12/1795
Johannes was die seun van Wietske van der Westhuizen en Rensche Olivier.
DG: Johannes van der Westhuizen; Hilletje Botes; Petrus van der Westhuizen; Johanna Olivier; Rensche van der Walt, Roggeveld.
Sy naam kom voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1850.
Met huwelik JCK = hy van Roggeveld en sy van die Coup.
e.2. Hendrik VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 20/05/1797, ged. 12/09/1797
Hendrik was die seun van Wietske van der Westhuizen en Rensche Olivier.
Sy naam kom voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1850.
e.4. Gerrit Andries VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 10/06/1800, ged. 08/03/1801
Gerrit Andries was die seun van Wietske van der Westhuizen en Rensche Olivier.
Sy naam kom voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1850.
e.5. Nicolaas Hendrik VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 07/09/1802, ged. 23/01/1803
Sy naam kom voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1850.
e.6. Petrus VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 17/05/1808, ged. 15/09/1808
Petrus was die seun van Wietske van der Westhuizen en Rensche Olivier.
Sy naam kom nie voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1850 nie.
e.7. Rensche VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 25/11/1809, ged. 17/11/1810
Rensche was die dogter van Wietske van der Westhuizen en Rensche Olivier.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1850.
f.1. Nicolaas Jacobus ROETS, geb. 20/08/1828, ged. 21/09/1828, Beaufort-Wes.
f.2. Wietsche ROETS, geb. 12/11/1830, ged. 24/12/1830, Beaufort-Wes.
f.3. Johannes Jacobus Jacob ROETS, geb. 25/02/1833, ged. 08/07/1833, Beaufort-Wes.
f.4. Christiaan Rudolf ROETS, geb. 15/05/1835, ged. 05/10/1835, Beaufort-Wes, oorl 28/06/1901, Zaaiplaats dist. Heilbron x Maria Christina Magdalena Gertruida Erasmus.
e.8. Hilletje VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 07/01/1812, ged. 30/08/1812
Hilletje was die dogter van Wietske van der Westhuizen en Rensche Olivier.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1850.
e.9. Maria Magdalena VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 01/04/1814, ged. 23/11/1815
Maria Magdalena was die dogter van Wietske van der Westhuizen en Rensche Olivier.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1850.
g.1. Jasper VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 01/06/1853
Jasper was die seun van Jasper van der Westhuizen en Anna Maria Loots.
g.3. Johannes Willem VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 05/03/1857, ged. 27/05/1857
Johannes Willem was die seun van Jasper van der Westhuizen en Anna Maria Loots
g.2. Pieter Johannes Jacobus VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, geb. 28/03/1855, ged. 09/02/1855
Pieter Johannes Jacobus was die seun van Jasper van der Westhuizen en Anna Maria Loots.
Cape Rebels
Surname
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VAN
DER WESTHUISEN
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Name
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PIETER JOHANNES JACOBUS
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Occupation
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Trial Date
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AUGUSTUS 1902
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Address
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GRIQUATOWN
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District
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HAY
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Commando
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Resources
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Where Sentenced
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Sentence
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Ref ID
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10507
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Kimberley camp was located in the Cape Colony on the Cape-ORC border but formed part of the ORC system. As one of the besieged towns, Kimberley had suffered severely from the war and there was little sympathy in the town for the camp inmates, especially the families of the Cape rebels who were housed there. Kimberley was a flat, hot town, always short of water and notoriously unhealthy. The camp itself, located on de Beers property in Newton, on the outskirts of the town, was inches deep in loose, sandy soil. (https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Kimberley/)
Some kind of camp probably came into being in the early stages of the war for relief had to be found for destitute Boers from Griqualand West as early as December 1899. The formal camp, however, was set up by the town commandant on 4 January 1901 and run by Major Wright and the men of the Kimberley Regiment. (https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Kimberley/)
Emily Hobhouse was contemptuous of Wright, a colonial volunteer rather than a regular soldier, whom she described as a ‘coarse, lazy, indifferent old man’ who did no work and left his son to run the camp. The result was a dirty, smelly camp where whooping cough and measles were rife and there was almost no medical attention. ‘Undesirable’ Cape rebel families, who were ‘not refugees in the true acceptance of the term’, were mixed with people from the Free State, the Transvaal and Bechuanaland. Under military management disorder prevailed in Kimberley. In the beginning the Free State families were rationed differently from the Cape rebels and appear to have been subject to different regulations. A weak superintendent usually meant arbitrary treatment of the people with the result that the Kimberley women were amongst the most bitter that Emily Hobhouse encountered. By February 1901, when the civilian camp administration was formed in the ORC, it was clear that all was not well in Kimberley. (https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Kimberley/)
At first the authorities considered moving the Free State families to a new camp on the Modder River but, in the end, Kimberley was incorporated into the ORC system. At this stage, the camp was not large, consisting of a total of between 717 and 762 people at the beginning of April 1901. The camp grew quite rapidly, however, as scattered groups from Warrenton and other places were brought in. Some families continued to live in Kimberley, having been certified as medically unfit for tent life. By June, as more people poured in, Kimberley was suffering from the chronic lack of tents that all the camps endured, and consequent overcrowding. By July Kimberley camp had nearly 4,000 whites and over 1,000 blacks and the authorities felt they could take no more. Plans were made to establish an extension at Orange River Station. (https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Kimberley/)
When Dr Kendal Franks visited the camp in December 1901, he described this complicated place in some detail. The families of the Cape rebels were kept in an enclosed area, surrounded by a barbed wire fence and guarded by sentries. The rest of the camp was unenclosed and divided into regional sections such as the Boshof, Fauresmith, Petrusburg and Hoopstad sections for the ORC, and a separate Transvaal section. (https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Kimberley/)
This sense, that Kimberley was a discontented camp, prevailed right through the war. The mortality was one reason. Like Bloemfontein and Irene, measles struck early and deaths increased rapidly in the early months of 1901, exacerbated by the cold winter and the poor quality of the overcrowded tents. A severe shortage of medical staff made it difficult to take effective action and, for a time, Kimberley was reliant on unqualified people. Hospital accommodation, in the usual marquees, was also unsatisfactory. The fact that the measles epidemic peaked as early as July 1901 is not surprising for Kimberley was one of the first towns to house a camp on the route of the march of the British troops to the north. While the troops themselves did not suffer from measles, we know that some of the Boers at nearby Paardeberg suffered from measles and the troops brought the kind of confusion in their wake, which encouraged the spread of disease. Conditions began to improve a little when new medical staff came in.(https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Kimberley/)
A second reason why Kimberley seemed a discontented camp was related to the unwillingness of the men to do any work, as they did in most other camps. Viner Johnson complained ‘They are largely graziers, of nomadic instinct and are totally averse to work, and owe and practice obedience to no man’. By October 1901 the men’s failure to work continued to be an issue. The problem hinged partly on the fact that the men could obtain paid work in the town and were reluctant, consequently, to do unpaid work in the camp. The Ladies Committee also noted the freedom people had to go into the town, although there was a store in the camp. They only had to obtain passes if they wanted to go to the theatre or a party. People continued to work in the town, the young women as domestic servants and the boys on the debris heaps of the diamond mines and such people often lived in the town but continued to receive some rations. This was not a situation that the camp authorities liked and they usually refused to feed town refugees. They were often a nuisance for they tended to return to the camps as their money ran out, making extra work for the camp staff. (https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Kimberley/)
A third critical problem in Kimberley camp related to the presence of the Cape rebel families. The military regarded them as prisoners and treated them accordingly. The superintendent found it impossible to run a camp in which some of the inmates were treated more harshly than others and was constantly at odds with the local commandant over the matter. (https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Kimberley/)
To the last, however, Kimberley remained an unhappy camp. As late as May 1902, when Dr Parry Edwards inspected the camp, he considered it ‘backward’. Repatriation took a long time from Kimberley camp, perhaps because the camp population was so diverse, although the majority of the Transvalers had been sent away earlier in 1902. One difficulty was that there was no Repatriation Board in the district and many of the families had to make their own arrangements to return home. Others, with nowhere to go, refused to leave. By the end of December 1902 there were still more than 200 people in the camp, mainly Boshof people. The camp was eventually closed on 9 January 1903. (https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Kimberley/)
Personal Details
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Name:
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Mrs Elzie Helena van der Westhuizen
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Born in
camp?
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No
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Died in
camp?
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No
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Gender:
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female
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Race:
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white
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Marital
status:
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married
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Nationality:
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Cape Colony
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Occupation:
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tradesman
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Registration
as head of family:
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Yes
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Unique
ID:
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78505
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Camp History
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Name:
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Kimberley
RC
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Age
arrival:
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44
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Date
arrival:
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22/10/1901
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Date
departure:
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16/08/1902
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Reason
departure:
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discharged
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Stock
into camp:
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no
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Stock
out of camp:
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no
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Tent
number:
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4486
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Farm History
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Name:
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van der
Westhuizen family
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Town:
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Griquatown
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Status of Husband
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Type:
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whereabouts unknown
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Notes:
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Pieter Jacobus
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Relationships
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Mrs Elzie Helena van der Westhuizen
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is the mother of Master
Schalk Jacobus van der Westhuizen
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Sources
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Title:
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SRC 83
Kimberley CR
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Type:
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Camp register
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Location:
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Free State Archives Repository
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Reference
No.:
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SRC 83
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Notes:
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p.314a
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