Jacobus Albertus Kriel

Kriel register persoonsnommer 3975 b9c2d5e4 Jacobus Albertus Kriel

 * 08.06.1827 
 ≈Swellendam 09.09.1827  ≈ getuies»
 Hermanus Jacobus Kriel, Carolina Frederika Pitzer, Hendrik Johannes Kriel, Johanna Wilhelmina Badenhorst.  † Rijswyk, Harrismith 08.08.1912 Ω Rijswyk, Harrismith  Ω skrif»  Ter gedachtenis aan mijn geliefde echtgenoot,  Jacobus, Albertus Kriel,  geb. 24st Nov. 1831, overleden, 8st Aug. 1912. 263 » Die huis waarin J.A. en sy eggenotes gewoon het, word tans bewoon deur Dudley en Enid Sharrat (1993). Bokant die voordeur is op die sandsteen geskryf “J.A. Kriel 1897”. Die Sharrats beweer dat die huis deur ene James Palmer, ’n Skot, gebou is. Hulle het ’n foto van Palmer wat 106 jaar oud geword het. Volgens oorlewering was hy die eienaar van Rijswijk en het dit aan die Kriels nagelaat omdat hulle tot sy dood na hom omgesien het. Sy graf is dan ook in die begraafplaas aldaar »  Here rest James Palmer, died July 20th 1909, Hymn 11, erected by D.H. † Natal 03.12.1913 M. Kriel, He was 106 years. 

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Extract from the book “ Jock of the Bushveld” by J Percy FitzPatrick.

“Within a few miles of me in Harrismith District there lives a man named Palmer, who is now in his hundred and fourth year. He came out as a boy of 15 with the 1820 Settlers. And on the next farm there lived until recently an old lady, Mrs. Truter, who was one of the two girl survivors of Dingane’s terrible massacre at Weenen in 1838. Just think how much of the history of our country is covered by the lives of these two old neighbours !”

"Unknown Newspaper - 4 September 1967 Last of the Settlers, Part II (per Becky Horne)

Sir Percy FITZPATRICK wrote to the newspapers the same year about a settler named PALMER, who lived on a farm near his own in the Harrismith district. Although he was reputed to be 102 years of age, he was still in possession of all his senses.

Death Notice Harrismith 1912: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7N4D-SKW2 At the time of his death living on Rijswyk Farm and estate worth 20 000 Sterling

Marriage Pietermaritzburg to Catharina 25 June 1860: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDCK-ZKF