Marius Toger Flemmer

Ancestry Information for Flemmer, Marius T

Who's who First Names: Marius T Surname: Flemmer Maiden Name: Date Of Birth: 1877 Place Of Birth: Middelburg, Cape Father: Hans Christian Flemmer Mother: Name of Spouse: Kathleen Neylan Source: South African Who's Who (Social and business) 1916 Pages: 100 Year Published: 1916

"South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23580-42141-99?cc=146... : accessed 13 December 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Grahamstown, Burgersdorp, Christ Church > Baptisms 1858-1977 > image 19 of 132; William Cullen Library, Wits University, Johannesburg.

Marius Toger - MT as he was universally known - was my grandfather and a great character.

Smoked like a chimney, as most people did in those days, and like his brandy too (with just a wave of the water jug across the top). He taught us all to fish in the Nahoon River and an abiding memory is of old Gramp sitting in the boat, cigarette in his chops, with the ash falling onto his rotund tummy, telling me how to play the grunter I had just hooked.

Another, later, memory was going with him to the market in East London. He found an area where he thought he coukd park, but it seemed a bit close to the corner - you had to be at least six feet away from a corner then. Since I had shot up in height and was about 6 foot tall, he made me lie down on the pavement to meausure the distance!!