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About Jan (Lusites) Latsky, SV/PROG
Jan Latsky (Lacki) might have found himself in the ranks of the British 60th Regiment of Foot at the same time with Kolesky and Kitshoff (roughly 1810) and, like the remaining soldiers of this regiment, came to the Cape Town in September 1811. Poles, who served in the rows of the British army, did not do this entirely out of free will. They had most often been previously the soldiers of the armies of the Napoleonic coalition, fighting in various parts of Europe and the World. Jan Latsky originated from Lithuania, which had been for centuries associated through a union with Poland, and had been inhabited by many Poles. He was born in 1792, as a son to Michael (Michał) and Anna. The legend, repeated in the family, says that he participated in 1812 in the Russian campaign of Napoleon’s and that he saw burning Moscow. He supposedly fought against the Napoleon’s army in the Cossack detachment (Żukowski, 1994). Later on he was to fight under Waterloo, as a soldier of the Prussian army, commanded by general Blücher (van Rensburg, 1999; van Rensburg, South African Stamouers). The family tale probably magnifies excessively the Napoleonic episode of his life, since in 1810 he was already the soldier of the 60th Regiment of Foot (WO/2/6878), and starting with September 1811 he was already in South Africa. In 1817 (on January 13th) he obtained the right to settle in the Colony (Philips, 1979). Initially he did not fare well. In 1821 he got without any means to Cape Town. Luckily, he found a job in Paarl as a groom with a local physician. On June 2nd, 1826, he married in Worcester Lucya Gloudina Buys, being mentioned then as a citizen of the town of Beaufort. The couple had three daughters and two sons. In 1827 Latsky purchased 14,000 acres of land in Karoo and established the farm “Celeryfontein” in the vicinity of today’s Carnevon, becoming one of the pioneers of the European settling in High Karoo. He died on December 18th, 1866, on his farm (Pama, 1983; van Rensburg, 1999). Numerous descendants of Jan live in South Africa until now, bearing the family name of Latsky.
Source: Kowalski M., 2009, Polish soldier-immigrants to South Africa in the period of French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars (1789–1815), Familia, 46, 3, pp. 147–164.
Michael en Anna Latsky het in latoue,(Letaue) Pole gewoon. Hulle seun Jan Latsky(ook gespel Lasetes) gebore 17-07-1766. Hy veg teen Napoleon se leer. Na die oorlog sluit hy aan by die Britse leer en word lid van die 60ste regliment en word na die Kaap gestuur. Op 13-01-1817 ontavng hy ontslag uit die leer en kry verlof om in die Kaap aan te bly. Hy word n handelaar en onderneem handelstogte na die binneland. In 1827 word hy eienaar van die plaas Celderyfontein in die Groot Karoo. Hy is in Worcester met Lucia Claudina Buys getroud op 04-06-1827. Hy word 100 jr 5 m en 11 dae en sterf op die plaas van sy seun Stefanus Latsky (Hierdie inligting is verskaf deur Rina Greeff in Namibia +264813381833 dit stryk nie heeltemal met die van Heese en Lombaard maar ek plaas dit tog tot latere verifikasie van korrektheid want hy sou nie eers op 51 jarige ouderdom ontslag uit die leer gekry het en dan op 61 plaas gekoop en toe eers kinders gekry het nie.)
Jan LATSKY arrived at the Cape between 1817 and 1819. He was born in 1792. He married Lacya Gloudina BUYS at Worcester, her parents were Stephanus Johannes Buys and Anna Catharina Jachemina Du Buisson. It has been stated that he was of very large stature. He must have had a very adventurist spirit, since he served in the Cossack regiment against Napoleon. He saw Moscow burning. He received a bullet wound and had a scar on the forehead from a sword slash. He also fought at Waterloo. At first he served a doctor grooming his horses. He moved to the arid part of the Karoo and he obtained the farm Celeryfontein in 1827. He built a house with loopholes for defence. There are very old graves on the farm, with flat stones stacked on top of one another but the graves are not marked. CHILDREN b1 Anna Catharina Jacomina = 11 Jan 1828, X 9 Dec 1844 Stephanus Johannes Heyman b2 Magadalena Alida Petronella = 16 Aug 1829, X 5 Jul 1847 Mattheus Willem Johannes Kuhn b3 Stephanus Johannes = 3 Mar 1833, X 28 Mar 1853 Neeltje Visser, XX 30 Jul 1866 Christina Johanna Paulsen Jan died on 18 December 1866 on his farm Celeryfontein not far from Carnarvon in the Cape. Sources: AM van Rensburg, "Jan Latsky a Centurion" Familia, 1999, vol 36, no 4 Heese and Lombard LG Green, Karoo
Another polish reference: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Latsky
Jan Latsky (Lacki) (b. 1792 in Lithuania, d. 1866 Cape Colony) - Polish and British soldier, farmer, a pioneer development of the High Karoo. Son of Michael and Anna. Around 1810, serving in Western Europe in Napoleon's army entered the British captivity, where he was recruited into the British army. Drafted into the 1st Battalion 60th Infantry Regiment, stationed since September 1811 in South Africa, where he arrived with his division of the ship "Lion". After his release from the service received (in January 1817). Permission to settle in the Cape Colony. He lived in Cape Town, Paarl and Beaufort, leaseback with various activities. In 1826 he married the Boer woman, Lucia Gloudiną Buys, of which spawned two sons and three daughters. In 1827 bought 11 thousand. acres of farm land and founded the "Celeryfontein" in the area of present Carnarvon (Northern Cape), becoming a pioneer of European settlement in the High Karoo.
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Jan (Lusites) Latsky, SV/PROG's Timeline
| 1792 |
July 17, 1792
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Litaue, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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| 1828 |
January 11, 1828
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Celerijfontein, South Africa
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| 1829 |
July 24, 1829
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Celerijfontein, South Africa
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| 1833 |
January 1, 1833
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Celerijfontein, Northern Cape
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| 1841 |
May 18, 1841
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Celerijfontein, South Africa
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| 1845 |
December 9, 1845
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Victoria West, Cape Province, South Africa
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| 1866 |
December 18, 1866
Age 74
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Celderyfontein, Carnavon, South Africa
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