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About Petrus Johannes Du Toit (Snr)
Provided by Kevin Oram:
Petrus Johannes “Piet” Du Toit (Snr), born 17 May 1836, baptised on 4 July 1836 at Graaff-Reinet. Died 3 February 1912, Hopetown, Northern Cape, Union of South Africa.
Petrus Johannes “Piet” Du Toit farmed “Doornbult” with his father and brother Johannes Petrus “Jan” Du Toit. He had initially farmed in the Graaff-Reinet District, but moved to the Hopetown area when he married.
He married at Hopetown, central Northern Cape on 3September 1855 to Anna Susanna Catharina du Plessis who was just 16 at the time. As we have seen with other branches of the family, frontier farmers often married young – such were the exigencies and independence of life on the veld. Anna was born 2 August 1839 Fauresmith District, and died 14 June 1907 at the Du Toit house in Hopetown (note not Hoopstad).
“Piet” Du Toit and Anna had ten children. Petrus Johannes Du Toit (Jnr) from whom we are descended was their seventh child and third son. The names of Petrus Johannes Du Toit (Jnr)’s siblings and their dates of birth or baptism (all at “Doornbult” farm and Hopetown) are as follows:
- Christoffel Francois (born 7 October 1858, baptised 28 November 1858);
- Johanna Christina (born 29 April 1860, baptised 27 May 1860);
- Martha Johanna (born 27 September 1862, baptised 2 November 1862);
- Jan Gabriel du Plessis Du Toit (born 25 August 1864, baptised 2 October 1864);
- Anna Susanna Catharina (born 14 February 1866, baptised 4 March 1866 – died very young at Hopetown);
- Aletta Elizabeth (born 6 May 1868, baptised 1 June 1868);
- Petrus Johannes Du Toit (Jnr) (15 April 1870 - 15 June 1959)
- a second Anna Susanna Catharina (born 12 February 1872, baptised 7 April1872);
- Elsje Susanna (born 8 February 1874, baptised 8 March 1874, also died quite young (23 June 1892 Hopetown));
- Willem Johannes Francois (born 25 December 1875, baptised 30 January 1876).
All the sons of “Piet” and Anna farmed in the Hopetown and Richmond Districts for at least some time in their lives. Christoffel farmed ‘Goedehoop”, later moving to Fauresmith District, where his mother Anna’s family farmed; Jan Gabriel farmed successfully near Hopetown and later near Smousdam, keeping a house “Radyn” in Hopetown at which he died on 14 April 1931; Willem Francois likewise farmed in the District and kept a general store in Hopetown. “Piet” continued on “Doornbult” with his father and brother “Jan” initially, later farming near Douglas, in the Herbert District about 60 miles North West of Hopetown.
Petrus Johannes “Piet” Du Toit died at his house in Hopetown on 3 February 1912.
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Petrus Johannes Du Toit (Snr)'s Timeline
| 1836 |
May 17, 1836
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Graaff Reinet District, Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, South Africa
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| 1858 |
October 7, 1858
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Hopetown, Northern Cape, South Africa
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August 25, 1864
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| 1869 |
April 15, 1869
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Douglas, Born on Doornbult Farm, Northern Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa
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February 12, 1872
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| 1912 |
February 3, 1912
Age 75
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Hopetown, Bo-Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa
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