Lucas Cornelis Bronkhorst, d4

• Baptism 1795 Graaff Reinet

The Bronkhorst family were the first owners of the farms in the district where Pretoria would later be founded. Lucas Cornelius Bronkhorst (1795-1875) joined the Potgieter migration during the Great Trek with his family and his brother, Johannes Gerhardus Stephanus Bronkhorst (1798-1848). Before the British annexed Natal in 1842, they moved back over the Drakensberg Mountains and settled in the region of the Apies River. Lucas then established the farm ‘Groenkloof’ in 1841 which had a rich water supply. The two brothers also established the farm ‘Elandsfontein’in 1842, where the first hartbees houses (reed huts) were built.

Two years after Field Cornet Andries P.J. van der Walt (1814-1861) settled on the left bank of the Apies River after the battle of Boomplaats (1848), Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius (1798-1853) established a farm next to the Magaliesberg Mountain. New settlers accompanied him from the Free State, Natal and Ohrigstad, like the Smit, Fourie, Minnaar, Vermeulen, Van Rensburg, Pretorius and Prinsloo families. They lived next to the Apies Rivier on the farms ‘Koedoespoort’, ‘Elandspoort’ and ‘Daspoort’.

References

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