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About Julius Godlieb Ernst Christian Jeppe, Sr
The first Jeppe Migrant was Hermann Otto, born in 1819, who arrived sometime in the 1850s. In 1861, he was followed by his younger brother, Friedrich Heinrich and their sister Francina and her German officer husband, a Captain Dietrich. A third brother, Julius Jeppe arrived in 1870...
Julius Jeppe the elder, together with his two sons Carl, the older brother, Julius and business partner LP Ford, envisaged great opportunities in the Witwatersrand gold rush from the very outset. Father Julius and the two grown sons worked in ‘sleepy’ Pretoria for some years, but, like countless others, gold fever lured them to Johannesburg. Carl, a lawyer, had been articled to Ford who was for a time the Republic’s Attorney General under Shepstone during the short British annexation (1877-1881). In 1886, the partners, moved their legal and estates business to Johannesburg. They hoped to find gold on their Randjeslaagte holdings, but like all others who had leased land on the original, triangular Johannesburg site, they were disappointed. However, cannily expecting Johannesburg to expand in both easterly and westerly directions, along the line of the reef, they leased and developed land in areas which became known as Fordsburg and Jeppestown. It is believed they ran a nursery in Fordsburg from which many of the city’s trees were purchased. Julius senior died in 1893 upon which his son Julius head of the business, while Carl pursued a legal career. Julius Jeppe senior is remembered by a monolith in the Jeppestown Oval and the family is commemorated by the historic Jeppe Schools (preparatory, boys’ and girls’ high schools) the Quondam sports club and old pupils’ associations worldwide.
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Julius Godlieb Ernst Christian Jeppe, Sr's Timeline
| 1821 |
February 24, 1821
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Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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| 1858 |
March 1858
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Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duitsland (Germany)
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| 1859 |
February 12, 1859
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Potchefstroom, Southern DC, North West, South Africa
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July 1859
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Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
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| 1893 |
June 16, 1893
Age 72
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Pretoria, Transvaal
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