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About Jan Greyling
About Dordrecht & The Greyling family: The first white trekkers to settle in the Dordrecht distict were Arnoldus Greyling & his family, who came there in 1848.. However, Dordrecht itself was founded in 1856 by Pastor Smithdorff of the church and the place was called after its namesake in the south west of the Netherlands. Three ceramic panels on the Grey Street side of the post office depict trekkers in three ox-wagons leaving the beautiful settled Cape for the dry dusty mountainous interior of the Cape; the farmers are on horseback, the women & children in the wagons , while Africans lead the oxen. The last panel depicts the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in Dordrecht with several wagons camped in front and people waiting to attend Nag Maal & talking to one another.The church is a neo-Gothic design built in 1883 by Lang & Royce, while the architect was Sydney Stent. Both Dordrecht & this church are situated on the farm Boschrand, which originally belonged to Louis Buys. The post office was built much later in1938, and its decorative panels provide a brief pictorial history of the founding of Dordrecht. [Source: Garry Osthoff: Versierde Poskantore, Dordrecht in The South African Philatelist, June 2013.]
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Jan Greyling's Timeline
| 1831 |
November 10, 1831
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Rooiwal, Aliwal-North, Cape, South Africa
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| 1855 |
January 10, 1855
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Clanville, Drakensberg District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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| 1856 |
September 24, 1856
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Clanville, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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| 1858 |
June 21, 1858
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Abbots Ann, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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| 1862 |
August 13, 1862
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Abbots Ann, South Africa
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| 1864 |
August 6, 1864
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Abbots Ann, Clanville, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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| 1866 |
November 4, 1866
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| 1868 |
February 12, 1868
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Abbots Ann, Clanville, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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| 1873 |
November 25, 1873
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Dordrecht, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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