Pieter Gysbert Steyn

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Pieter Gysbert Steyn

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Krombeksrivier dist Swellendam, Swellendam, Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
Death: March 18, 1857 (52)
Swellendam District, Cape Colony, South Africa
Place of Burial: Register Entry : 58, Swellendam, Cape Colony, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Son of Marthinus Steyn and Maria Elisabeth du Preez, b6c6d5e3
Husband of Maria Francina Steyn
Father of Marthinus Steyn b1c8d13e3f1; Hillegard Muller Steyn, b1c8d13e3f2; Jan Gysbert Steyn; Louisa Petronella Steyn, b1c8d13e3f4; Maria Elizabeth Francina Steyn, b1c8d13e3f5 and 13 others
Brother of Jacobus Hermanus Steyn, b1c8d13e1; Johanna Susanna Steyn; Marthinus Johannes Steyn, b1c8d13e4; Susanna Salomina STEYN b1c8d13e5; Hermanus Philippus Steyn, b1c8d13e6 and 5 others

Occupation: Wagon builder and smith / Wamaker en grofsmid
DvN: b1c8d13e3
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About Pieter Gysbert Steyn

Pieter Gysbert Steyn (sy voorname het vanaf die Du Preez-familie na die Steyns gekom) was soos sy pa 'n wamaker en grofsmid. Hy het op Kliprivier, by Swellendam, gewoon. Hy het 'n groot wamakery gehad, waardeur hy een van die rykste manne van Swellendam geword het. Die vader van President Reitz het later op dieselfde plaas gewoon.

P.G. Steyn het veertien kinders gehad: 7 seuns en 7 dogters. Sy oudste seun was Marthinus, die vader van President MT Steyn.

P.G. Steyn het die ou Drostdy van Daniël de Bruyn in 1855 gekoop en hom op die dorp kom vestig. Sy nasate het tot 1939 die ou historiese gebou bewoon totat Alice Marsephine Fullard (geb. Steyn) dit aan die Unie-regering verkoop het. Die Drostdy is toe later gerestaureer na sy voormalige voorkoms en vorm - dis deesdae die kern van die Drostdy Museum-kompleks op Swellendam.

Bronne: Die families van Ou Swellendam Deel 1: Steyn en Marthinus Theunis Steyn deur N.J. van der Merwe, bladsy 7.

NG Kerk, Swellendam - Death Register Page : 58 of March 1857 - Died on 18 March 1857 Aged given as 52 years 5 months and 5 days

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Pieter Gysbert Steyn's Timeline

1804
October 13, 1804
Krombeksrivier dist Swellendam, Swellendam, Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
November 28, 1804
Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa
November 28, 1804
Swellendam
1827
April 19, 1827
Swellendam, Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
1828
September 19, 1828
Swellendam, Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
1830
August 1, 1830
Swellendam, Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
1831
July 6, 1831
1832
June 20, 1832
1834
January 6, 1834