Willem Petrus ''Lang Willem'' Prinsloo, b3c3d6e7f1g3

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Willem Petrus ''Lang Willem'' Prinsloo, b3c3d6e7f1g3

Also Known As: "Lang Willem"
Birthdate:
Death: March 15, 1926 (76)
Farm "Kaalfontein", Distr Pretoria, South Africa
Place of Burial: Cullinan, Metsweding, Gauteng, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Son of Willem Petrus Prinsloo, b3c3d6e7f1 and Johanna Maria Prinsloo
Husband of Cornelia Johanna Prinsloo
Father of Willem Petrus Prinsloo; Anna Maria Johanna Prinsloo and Willem Balthazar Johannes Prinsloo
Brother of Johanna Maria Erasmus; Maria Elizabeth Erasmus, d6e7f1g1; Petronella Aletta Meyer, d6e7f1g2; Barend Jacobus Prinsloo, d6e7f1g4; Barendina Hendrika Frederika van Dyk, d6e7f1g5 and 2 others

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About Willem Petrus ''Lang Willem'' Prinsloo, b3c3d6e7f1g3

Willem Wragtig also bought the farm Kaalfontein in 1889 but never lived here. His son Lang Willem and his family lived on Kaalfontein.Lang Willem, his wife Cornelia, their daughter and two sons, Klein Lang Willem and Lang Hans, farmed on Kaalfontein.

Lang Willem, his wife Cornelia, their daughter and two sons, Klein Lang Willem and Lang Hans, farmed on Kaalfontein. The daughter died young, and in 1898 Willem Wragtig also died. Lang Willem and Willem Wragtig's other children inherited this Highveld farm as well as a Bushveld farm - Boekenhoutkloof - from their father. Anglo-Boer War In 1898 the Anglo-Boer War broke out. Lang Willem and his two sons were `bittereinders', while Cornelia, Willem's wife, was sent to the Howick concentration camp. The farm house was partly burnt down, but the family had it rebuilt after the war.
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Willem Petrus ''Lang Willem'' Prinsloo, b3c3d6e7f1g3's Timeline

1849
August 5, 1849
1881
April 24, 1881
Bapsfontein, East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa
1884
February 7, 1884
1886
September 29, 1886
Grootvlei, Pretoria. Transvaal
1926
March 15, 1926
Age 76
Farm "Kaalfontein", Distr Pretoria, South Africa
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Cullinan, Metsweding, Gauteng, South Africa