Historical records matching Johannis Verhage
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About Johannis Verhage
- Served a smithing apprenticeship (Netherlands: Smidsknecht) under his father
- Qualified as a hoofsmith (Hoefsmid) & worked in his father's shop
- Opened his own own smithing shop (Grof -, Hoef - en Kaggelsmederij) in Haamstede
- Got married and had two daughters (Janna Johanna & Johanna Jacoba) in the Netherlands
- Started his own smithing shop & sold it [a "lucrative" (Netherlands: florissante) business, according to a surviving advertisement] in 1889
- Emigrated from the Netherlands to the South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek - ZAR) in 1889, when he was 26 with his youngest brother Jacobus (known as Co), who was 18. Despite industrial development, described (according to a publication by Fred Hoek) as "being in the direct position below the smoke of Rotterdam", which slowed down emigration from Schouwen-Duiveland, the Emigration Register (Landverhuizerregister) for 1839 - 1900 indicates "a quest for amelioration of existence" as the reason for their emigration (Zucht naar bestaansverbetering)
- Worked for the Netherland-South African Railway Company (Nederlands-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorwegmaatschappij - NZASM) in Middelburg in the Rail, Work and Material (Weg & Werken en de Materieel) Departement to complete the Eastern Line (De Oosterlijn) from Delagoa Bay (now Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE) to Pretoria (ZAR, now the Republic of South Africa), which were completed in 1894 and oficially opened in 1995
- After the completion of the Eastern Line he worked on the line between Pretoria and Volksrus (now Mpumalanga)
- In 1895 he resigned from the NZASM and started a a hoofsmith shop in Pretoria
- He set up a shop in Pretorius Street (between van der Walt & Prinsloo Streets), Pretoria (which later became the Medical Centre and now the Medpret Building 917 -919 Pretorius Street). The shop and the dwelling occupied the same premises
- He moved the shop to premises in Van Der Walt Street (between Vermeulen and Proes Streets) under a giant Wild Fig tree. In Fred Hoek's publication is a photograph of staff standing in front of the shop
- Became a coach builder to inter alia ZAR State President S J P Kruger up to the time the latter left Pretoria in 1899 to travel respectively to Middelburg, Waterval-Onder and Delagoa Bay on his way to the Netherlands
- He was inter alia the hoofsmith responsible for the American Consul in Pretoria's horse after the britich forces occupied Pretoria in 1902 (according to Fred Hoek's publication)
- Started a funeral undertaking business
- Built three houses in Church Street (c/o Hamilton), lived and in the middle one
- After his death his wife sold the blacksmith shop and the funeral undertakers business. In 1951 the blacksmith shop was still operating and was only demolished when building on Munitoria was started in the 1960s. The funeral undertakers was bought by and operated as William Rogers and Sons (Pty) Ltd and are still operating in Pretoria
- Plagued by Chronic Bronchitis in Middelburg and Pretoria, with its cool nights and warm days. He eventually succumbed to it (however, Asthma,may be more likely)
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Johannis Verhage's Timeline
| 1863 |
August 11, 1863
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Haamstede, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Kingdom of the Netherlands (Netherlands)
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| 1887 |
December 2, 1887
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Haamstede, Zeeland , Holland
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| 1889 |
April 12, 1889
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Haamstede, Zeeland , Holland
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| 1891 |
November 10, 1891
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Pretoria
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| 1893 |
November 10, 1893
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Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC (ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK - ZAR (now Gauteng, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA)
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| 1895 |
October 4, 1895
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PRETORIA, South Africa
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| 1897 |
November 8, 1897
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PRETORIA, South Africa
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| 1902 |
May 10, 1902
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PRETORIA, South Africa
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| 1904 |
January 31, 1904
Age 40
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Pretoria, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, GP, South Africa
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