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About Anna Catharina Dorothea Van Wyk
General Smuts and his Boer commando camped on and around the tennis court at my great grandfather’s farm at VanRhynsdorp (formerly his farm, Troe Troe which was named after the Nama name for the small stream that runs through it) in November 1901 she was a young woman of 22. Her sister, Marianne Evelina (“Janie”) was 19 and Petrusa (“Pietie”) 20. Janie later married the 26 year old Boer general, Ben Bouwer who accompanied Smuts to VanRhynsdorp.
I was fascinated by the stories she told me about that time and inter alia how her grandfather, the Hon Petrus Benjamin (“Pieter Ben”) van Rhyn, a member of the Cape Parliament was subsequently tried (and acquitted) for “colluding with the enemy” (ie providing Smuts and his commando with shelter). It was at this time, too, that her brother, Ernst got his nickname “Tommy” who, then aged 13, used to wander about the British camp which had been set up in and around the main house’s tennis court.
The Rood brood were brought up with tennis coaches, music masters and private tutors until they were old enough to go to boarding school in Cape Town (Mauritz, the eldest, went to Bishops and the other five went to SACS. Most, if not all the girls went to the Good Hope Seminary.
"The most moving story was how she watched the Boers then in Namaqualand being told from the stoep of her father’s house (“Roodia”) on 21 April 1902 that the war was over and that the British had won. “There they sat on their horses, these exhausted, bearded men, heads downcast and weeping. The war had been in vain and all they could look forward to was a long journey back to their badly neglected and, in some cases, totally destroyed farms.” "Told to grandson Francois Marais.
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Anna Catharina Dorothea Van Wyk's Timeline
| 1879 |
September 8, 1879
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Vanrhynsdorp, West Coast DC, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1911 |
November 30, 1911
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Vanrhynsdorp, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1913 |
June 15, 1913
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Vanrhynsdorp, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1915 |
February 6, 1915
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Vanrhynsdorp, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1916 |
December 29, 1916
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| 1919 |
January 1, 1919
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South Africa
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| 1983 |
March 27, 1983
Age 103
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Strand, Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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