Red Book 1912 - S. Steenkamp - Uasin Gishu

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll has Stephanus Hendrik, farmer. Eldoret

Kenya Regiment 2955 

Dorri Roughley: Because it was deemed that Anna's first husband had deserted the family and he did not attend the divorce court Anna was granted the farm. All contact between my grandmother and her in-laws ceased. My father, Casper Hendrik Petrus, never saw him again and was unaware that his second cousins were Peter Heine, the South African cricketer and his sister Esther Annie Laurie Miller who played international tennis and was S. Africa's top tennis player in the 1920s and 1930s. Anna then married Stephanus Hendrik Steenkamp, son of Pieter Stephanus Albertus Steenkamp and Susanna Catharina Sophia Janse Van Rensburg. They had a stillborn son but no other children.

Anna's son Caspar Hendrik had an unconventional, dysfunctional upbringing. From an early age he would have been expected to help out on the farm, his main chore being to hand milk the cows. He was eight when his parents divorced and he did not see his father again. His relationship with his not very pleasant mother deteriorated, resulting in him running away from home and being taken in by a neighbouring English farmer, who managed to tame the rebel and put a bit of polish on his manners. Around this time he stopped all communication with his mother who knew where he was but did not force him to come home. He then attended the government school in Nakuru. As he did not enjoy farming he took on various jobs including working with an earth moving company and desert locust control. He became a technical superintendent for East African Tobacco Company which took him to Uganda, back to Kenya and then to Tangaynika. There is evidence that he married about 1949 and had a daughter but the marriage did not last very long and by July 1952 he was divorced. On 11 December 1954 in Kampala Caspar married Dorienne Matthews, daughter of George John James Matthews and Dorothy Charlotte Mallinson. Dorienne was born on 10 July 1915 in Chipping Ongar, Essex and died on 19 April 2009 in Buckingham. She was a trained nurse and served with the Queen Alexandra's Nursing Corps during World War Two where she travelled to India, Burma and Singapore. She was working at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London when an opportunity came up to be one of the first Great Orlmond Street representatives at Mulago Hospital in Kampala. She was one of the sisters on the children's ward and she met my father. Dorienne and Caspar had one child, Dorienne Rose Heine, born 1958 at Nairobi. In 1964 the family moved to England.

Anna and Stefanus both owned a farm and they farmed both for many years. They rented out one of them and then in the early 1960s the second farm was also rented out. One of the farms was mortgaged and eventually the bank foreclosed on the debt; the other farm was sold in the early 1970s. Probably in the mid to latee 1950s Anna and Stefanus' marriage broke up and he left the family home. They divorced in 1967 and in the early 1960s Anna moved to South Africa.