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Name: ENGELBRECHT, Jochemus Johannes

Death Date: 13 Dec 1913 Bethel District, S. Africa

First Date: 1910

Last Date: 1918

Area: Eldoret

Married: Maria Jacoba Du Plessis

Children: Hermanus 'Manie' (1904); Anna Dorothea (Smit) (1906); Lourens Stephanus (27 Nov 1911)

Book Reference: Rensburgsrus

General Information:

Rensburgrus church baptisms - Rensburgsrust - born 27/11/1910 - Lourens Stephanus Engelbrecht, son of Jochemus Johannes Engelbrecht and Maria Jacoba Engelbrecht née Du Plessis
cf. Englebrecht, Joachim
Gazette - 23/1/1918 - Probate of Will of Jochemus Johannes Engelbrecht, late of Farm 140, Uasin Gishu was granted to Maria Jacoba van Dyk, the executrix named. Died at Bethel District, South Africa 13 Dec 1913.
Gazette 23/1/1918 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Jochemus Johannes Engelbrecht, late of Farm 140, Uasin Gishu. Probate granted to Maria Jacoba van Dyk, Executrix.
Habari 2009 - Through passage of time some trekker families, like those of Piet du Plooy, Jan and Andries Nel and Jochemus Engelbrecht (son of Hermanus Engelbrecht) left the Plateau to settle elsewhere. Jochemus, his wife Maria Jacoba (neé du Plessis) and their 3 children Hermanus (Manie, b. 1904), Anna Dorothea (Annatjie, b. 1906 - later Smit) and Lourens Stephanus (Faantjie, b. 1910) returned to Bethal in 1912 where Jochemus died of malaria contracted en route. Shortly afterwards, Maria and her 3 children returned to BEA where she remarried Willem van Dyk. Out of this union 2 more children, Gerhardus Cornelius (Baas, b. 8 Nov 1915) and Johanna Petronella (Babe, b. 22 Dec 1920 - later Van der Westhuizen), were born.
Hut has J. Englebrecht Junr 1909 Lukenia

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