Gabriel du Buis, b3c1d4e9

Anglo Boer War: Pietersburg concentration camp: De Buys family from Mara

https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Farm/17010/Buys_family/

258 members of the De Buys family in British Concentration Camps

https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/PersonsSearch/1/0/1/

• Mike de Jongh South Africa's Forgotten First People Lecture 4
• Coenraad de Buys, the First Transvaler (dissertation by A.E. Schoeman)
• Coenraad de Buys, Facebook post
• Hugenote nasate ly oor trou aan Boere Coenraad en sy seuns Machiel en Gabriël was die eerste pioniers wat hulle in die Marico-Bosveld, die Waterberg en Soutpansberg gevestig het. Toe die Voortrekkers onder Louis Trichardt in 1837 hulle in die Soutpansberg gevestig het, het die betroubare Gabriël as boodskapper opgetree en ook ruilmiddels, soos ivoor en wildsvelle, vir die Trekkers na Delagoabaai weggebring. Hy en sy broer Doors het ook aan die Hendrik Potgieter-trek allerlei dienste bewys. Hulle het onder meer met die Trekkers saamgereis om die weg na die binneland en Mosambiek te wys en hul kinders het dikwels as veewagters vir die Trekkers opgetree. Vanweë dié diens het die latere Volksraad van die Transvaalse Boererepubliek dit goedgekeur dat die Buyse die reg verkry om vuurwapens te besit. Ook is die gebied aan die westelike punt van die Soutpansberg rondom Mara, wes van Louis Trichardt, "in ewigdurende besit" aan die Buyse gegee. Hul nasate woon steeds daar op die nedersetting Buysdorp.

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" ...documents inter alia entitled Crown Grant No 80/1909 which seems to affirm that the land in question had been “ceded and transferred” to Coenraad, Jeftha and Benjamin Buys, “in their capacity as representatives of the Buys Tribe” by the Deputy Governor and Minister of Lands on behalf of His Majesty Edward the Seventh. It is also indicated that they shall “possess [this land] in perpetuity” (De Jongh 2004:89)." - https://www.emich.edu/coer/Journal_2007/de_Jongh.html

Robert Wagner gives the following birth and death dates: Coenraad De Buys 1761-1822, and his sons Gabriel (1808-55), Theodorus Comelis (1810-51?) and Michael (1812-88). https://debuys.blogspot.com/2011/02/who-was-coenraad-de-buys.html