Joseph Johannes Corrie

ID Number: 339/708136

If born 25/02/1863 (as per Lichtenburg Member's Register) he would have been:

Born in Grahamstown 25 February 1863

Raised in Port Elizabeth (1863-1879)

16 years: Moved to Orange Free State with parents (1879)

17 years, 9 months: First Boer War (16/12/1880 until 23/03/1881)

22 years, 9 months: Marriage of Joseph to Clarisse Corrie according to Noordwester article (05/12/1885)

22 years, 11 months: Marriage of Joseph to Clarisse Corrie in Kroonstad, OFS (15/02/1886)

23 years, 8 month: Birth of 1. Anna Petronella Corrie (17/11/1886)

25 years, 1 month: Birth of 2. Joseph Johannes Corrie (15/04/1888)

26 years, 8 months: Birth of 3. Mary Sophia Corrie (12/10/1889)

28 years, 6 months: Birth of 4. Clarissa Gertruida Corrie (08/09/1891)

30 years, 3 months: Birth of 5. Elizabeth Corrie (01/06/1893)

32 years, 2 months: Birth of 6. Ernest Lodewyk Corrie (12/05/1895)

33 years, 11 months: Birth of 7. Willem Jacobus Corrie (29/01/1897)

35 years, 8 months: Birth of 8. Judith Merina Corrie (31/10/1898)

36 years, 7 months: Second Boer War (11/10/1899 until 31/05/1902)

45 years, 2 months: Birth of 9. Claressa Gertruida Corrie (10/05/1908)

51 years, 5 months: Great War (28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918)

76 years, 6 months: Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945)

• Listed as living at 17 Fourth Street, Greymont (on his son Ernest Lodewyk Corrie's Death Notice) in September/October 1935.
• Listed as living in Lichtenburg, Transvaal (on his son Joseph Johannes Corrie's Death Notice) in August 1956.

98 years, 2 months: Died 3rd May 1961.

Buried in Plot 639, Dutch Reformed Section, West Park Cemetery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

The family story is that he arrived with his father sometime in the late 1870s and that the family lived in Kaboesie / Stutterheim / Komgha. His father may have been in the employ of the Cape Government Railway company and the family's movement over the years certainly lends some credibility to that idea i.e. from Stutterheim to East London, Kroonstad to Johannesburg etc

Second version of the story above (courtesy Sarel Johannes Corrie) is that Joseph Johannes Corrie was born in South Africa (Kaboesie/Stutterheim). That it was his father that had arrived from Ireland as a young boy of 14. Further that it was Joseph Johannes Corrie himself who was in the employ of Cape Government Railways as a Driver. He may have lived in Oudtshoorn (during the Boer War). He later became a transport rider.

Third version of the story from Noordwester article states that Joseph Johannes Corrie was born in Grahamstown, South Africa. That he moved to Kroonstad with his parents in 1877/1879. That he fought under General Prinsloo and Commandant Nel during Boer War. That he moved to Transvaal in 1910. His wife passed away in 1944 and he moved to Lichtenburg 1946 to live with his daughter Dolly and son-in-law Andries Redelinghuys. He passed away 1962.