Petrus Johannes Marx

Petrus Johannes Marx
Birthdate:	January 23, 1866
Birthplace:	Somerset East, Western District, EC, South Africa
Death:	November 16, 1914 (48) Witsand, Kuruman, John Taolo Gaetsewe, NC, South Africa
Place of Burial:	Makwassie, Southern DC, NW, South Africa
Immediate Family:	Son of Frans Engelbertus Marx, b4c6d1e2 and Elizabeth Maria De Meillon Husband of Cornelia Susanna Marx Father of Pieter Ernst Scholtz Marx; Elizabeth Margaretha Marx; Susanna Elizabeth van Wyk; Maryna Maria Petronella Francina Marx; Frans Engelbert Marx and 4 others Brother of Susannah Elizabeth Maria Ochse and William Henry Marx Half brother of Elizabeth Maria Blignaut; Henry Clifford De Meillon; Frederick (Fred) Albertus De Meillon; Copernicus Kepler de Meillon; Eugene Lucien de Meillon and 2 others

Managed by:	An-Mari Basson
Last Updated:	May 4, 2022

Birthdate:

January 23, 1866

Birthplace:

Somerset East, Western District, EC, South Africa

Death:

November 16, 1914 (48)
Witsand, Kuruman, John Taolo Gaetsewe, NC, South Africa

Place of Burial:

Makwassie, Southern DC, NW, South Africa

Immediate Family:

Son of Frans Engelbertus Marx, b4c6d1e2 and Elizabeth Maria De Meillon
Husband of Cornelia Susanna Marx
Father of Pieter Ernst Scholtz Marx; Elizabeth Margaretha Marx; Susanna Elizabeth van Wyk; Maryna Maria Petronella Francina Marx; Frans Engelbert Marx and 4 others
Brother of Susannah Elizabeth Maria Ochse and William Henry Marx
Half brother of Elizabeth Maria Blignaut; Henry Clifford De Meillon; Frederick (Fred) Albertus De Meillon; Copernicus Kepler de Meillon; Eugene Lucien de Meillon and 2 others

Managed by:

An-Mari Basson

Last Updated:

May 4, 2022

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Biography

Category:Diyatalawa_Camp,_Ceylon
Petrus was born about 1887. He was a farmer near Hoopstad/Kommandodrif in the Orange Free State.
He fought in the Anglo Boer war. After being wounded he was captured and banned to Ceylon where he became a prisoner of war in the Diyatalawa camp. When the peace treaty was signed in May 1902 he returned to his farm, impoverished by the war. The farm had been burnt down and of the 1000sheep he had before the war, only 90 were left. He was a "bittereinder" who refused to sign the pledge of allegiance to the British Crown.

In 1911 he and his family moved to Basoetoekraal, Schweizer-Reneke. He took part in the 1914 Rebellion and was a veldkornet (field cornet)under General Kemp. He was killed in action during a skirmish at Witsand, Northern Cape on16 Novmeber 1914, where he was buried.

His family exhumed his body an unknown period after his death and reburied him in Makwassie.

Sources

<references />"South Africa, Free State Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1848-1956", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q2HG-MY48 : 6 August 2017), Cornelia Susanna Scholtz in entry for Maryna Maria Petronella Francina, 1909.

Source: Marx Family History as handed down by Piet Marx.

GEDCOM Note

1866	January 23, 1866	Birth of Petrus Johannes Marx Somerset East, Western District, EC, South Africa
	May 27, 1866	Baptism of Petrus Johannes Marx Greykerk, Balfour, Amatole, EC, South Africa
1892	September 2, 1892	Birth of Cornelia Susanna Homan
1894	February 22, 1894	Birth of Frans Engelbert Marx
1895	August 30, 1895	Birth of Pieter Ernst Scholtz Marx
1897	September 4, 1897	Birth of Petrus Johannes Marx
1899	May 3, 1899	Birth of Jan Adrian Marx
1903	September 12, 1903	Birth of Elizabeth Margaretha Marx
1906	November 27, 1906	Birth of Willem Hermanus Marx
1909	May 30, 1909	Birth of Maryna Maria Petronella Francina Marx

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