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Name: HEINE, Andrius Petrus
Nee: son of Caspar Heindrich Heine
Birth Date: 25 Apr 1897 Natal
Death Date: 1958 Meru
First Date: 1922
Profession: Farmer, Turbo
Area: Eldoret
Married: In Arusha 6 Oct 1925 Anna Elizabeth Botha b. 9 Aug 1909 Moshi, Tanganyika, d. 10 Mar 1989 Randfontein, Gauteng, S. Africa (later m. Stephanus Hendrik Steenkamp)
Children: Nicolais Sina Susanna (m. Jacobus Johannes Englebrecht) (27 Feb 1927 Eldoret-1975); Caspar Hendrik Pertus (25 Aug 1928 Farm 905 Uasin Gishu-17 May 2005 Buckingham); Anna Elizabeth Jacoba (m. Francis J. Sullivan) (6 June 1929 Eldoret-2003 S. Africa); Christina Ellena (Rudolph Philippus Botha and then Mr Korf) (1931 Kenya-2000-2003 Ermelo, Mpumalanga)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red Book 1912
General Information:
Red Book 1912 - A.G. Heine - Uasin Gishu ?
Red 25 has A.P. Heine,
Hut the same
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll expunged
Dorri Roughley(granddaughter): Some time in 1933 Andrius walked out on the family, never to return. Two years later Anna divorced him. The decreed nisi eye was granted 12 December 1935 and made absolute in June 1936. Because it was deemed that he 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.
The 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.
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