Family history and genealogy
December 23, 2025
“Sarie Marais’ is a traditional South African folk song, created during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). In 1901 or 1902, in a farmhouse near Vryheid or Utrecht, soldiers of General Louis BOTHA’s commando gathered around a piano. The piano player was Read more…
October 7, 2025
08 October 1902 – Captain John MARRIOTT, D.S.O., of the 2nd Norfolk Regiment, and Cordelia Caroline NEVERS were married at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Pretoria. At the time, John was stationed in Potchefstroom, and Cordelia was living in Pretoria. Read more…
September 3, 2025
Hester Susanna Catharina MULLER was born on 29 May 1869 in the Potchefstroom district, the daughter of Hendrik Joseph MULLER and Johanna Margaretha Dorothea VAN TONDER.She was baptised on 10 January 1870 in the NGK Rustenburg.She died on 21 November Read more…
May 12, 2025
This article was originally written in 1999. Following the Anglo-Boer War, large numbers of Boers left South Africa. They emigrated to Comodoro Rivadavia in Argentina, Mexico, German East Africa (Tanganyika) and the USA. Pieter (Piet) Arnoldus CRONJE was born on Read more…