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Name: ROETS, Stoffel [?Christoffel Jacobus]
Nee: ?Christoffel married to Magdalena Adriana Dorothea Gertruida who d. 31 May 1936
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1964
Profession: Farmed near Eldoret aerodrome and was one of the best Afrikaans farmers who came here. He was perhaps the most honourable and respected man of the Plateau
Area: Eldoret
Married: Nonnie [?Susanna Lucia]
Children: Hansie (?Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus d. 30.7.1940 Nairobi War Cemetery))
Book Reference: Eldoret, Hut, Du Toit
General Information:
Eldoret - He was a very successful wheat farmer and was celebrated at the first Agricultural Show in Eldoret for driving his matched span of ngombes (with a long whip) with his tented wagon as one of the exhibits.
Son Hansie, 19, killed on Ethiopian border by land mine in WW2 - Du Toit
Stoffel played large part in Gereformeerde church. Left Kenya 1964.