

Extracted from Publication -
A history of the families of european descent who settled in the area of Enkeldoorn (renamed Chivu) Rhodesia. now Zimbabwe.
Author -- Sarel Van der Walt
Completed in approximately the year 2001
... and some GUTU RELATIVES 1880 TO 1980 All family details, dates, residences and occupations as far as could be ascertained. List not complete)
BAARD
BADENHORST
BAILEY
BAIRD
BALNE
BARCLAY
BARKHUIZEN
BARNARD
Barnard '
BARNES
BERRY
BARTLET_TORR
BARTLEY
BARWISE
BASSON
BEAN
BECKETT
BEER DE
BEETGE
BEKKER Hendrik was a transport rider and by 1890 he was well acquainted with the roads to the North and had contacts in Fort Salisbury. His wife accompanied him on all his trips. In 1891 while in Salisbury lung sickness killed most of his cattle and he started a timber cutting and sawing business on the Hunyani river. With two hundred pounds from the proceeds he bought a wagon and team of oxen. He accepted an offer of a free farm by Rhodes and having for some time, had a desire to settle in a particular area he pegged the farm of his choice. There was a prominent lone camelthorn tree and he called his farm Enkeldoorn. (Singlethorn)
Before taking up the offer he returned to the Transvaal to persuade some friends to move with him to Mashonaland. Only two families, Kotze and Visagie joined him. Circumstances, particularly Malaria caused them to stay together. They became seriuosly ill and returned to Transvaal to recover.
Early in 1893, Bekker and his family were on their way back to Enkeldoorn when, at Fort Victoria they met Mr. Pretorious and his sons who persuaded them to change their plans and instead to try Gazaland. The farm Enkeldoorn was forfeited and some years later taken over by Hendrik Ferreira.
Hendrik x Christina Gertruida Pienaar. Children (did not live in Enkeldoorn). Jacobus Christoffel (Koot), Soon, Joshua, David, Piet, Jan, Pop (?Pap), Marie, Lourens, Krissie, Nellie (Cornelia) .
BEKKER Jozua owned Manese Poort farm (1935) and Mansi. Mrs Alida Bekker and baby Joey were on Sterkstroom when the Mashona attacked the group. (Joey was the baby hidden by a servant girl when the group was attacked.) Jozua and family moved to Umtali leaving Hendrik O'Neill to manage Manzi. Joey inherited the farm and returned to live on and manage the farm till her death. She did not marry. Other children included a daughter x Boonsaaier, (his xx) and son Hendrik x Maria Coetzee 29-3-25 NOTE: Hendrik Bekker is the grandson of the pioneer, Hendrik Bekker and Christina Gertruida Pienaar. Johanna Cecilia Beukes 7-7-1884 / 8-4-1923 x Gert Marthinus Badenhorst 2 children.
BELMORE
BENADE
BENNETT Jack Councillor for Charter Estate later Chairman Featherstone Road Council
BERG VAN DEN
BERGH VAN DEN
BERKOWITZ Isaac born in Poland 10-6-1876 / 1944 arrived in S.A. in 1882 aged 6 years, with his father. They lived at Wolmansstad C.P. Before moving to Rhodesia Isaac x widow Martha Sophia Magdalena Bosman 19-9-1873 / 29-11-1947. She had a small son Petrus Bosman (step son of Berkowitz) Isaac Berkowitz and family arrived at Enkeldoorn in 1917. bought and settled on Elminie Farm. Children included
BESTER
BESWICK
BEUKES
BEYERS
BEZUIDENHOUT
GROUP 1 (?) Family arrived before 1895, they included Pieter Hendrik (Piet), Hermanus single, Wynand single, Johannes Wilhelmus (Jan) (19 Nov.1900 - 3 Dec.1945) and Anna Sophia (13 April 1909).
GROUP 2 (?)
BIGGS
BILJON VAN
BISCO Renee Cathrine 25-12-60 x Cedric George Kok 19-1-58 2c
BISHOP Daisy Philippina x Hendrik Johannes Petzer 1c
BLANK Ephriam x ? General dealer, miller and Town Board Chairman Active in Gymkhana in late 1940 period
BLANKENBERG Bank manager
BLIGNAUT Jan married the second time in 1905 before coming to Enkeldoorn, with Maria Rinke, born 1885. The five families Jan and Maria, three married sons and Maria's sister Lettie Rinke and her husband Dirk van Rooyen , with children, travelled in a convoy of seven donkey-wagons with Jan Blignaut as leader, they left Vryburg, South Africa for Enkeldoorn in 1922 and settled on their portion of Swartfontein. On arrival at Swartfontein Maria , tired after the long journey, declared that they had gone far enough, "Dit is vergenoeg" and so, without intending to, named the family farm Vergenoeg.
For details of the trek see Jan Hendrik Blignaut trek. from the first marriage.
BLOEM Murray x ?? (garage owner)
BOBEER Johannes 2-2-1891 / 18-12-193?
BONDISIO Andries Johannes Paulus x Anna Catharina Eagar
BOONZAAIER
BOOYSEN
BOSCH
BOSHOFF
BOSMAN
BOTHA
GROUP 1
GROUP 2
BOTHMA
BOUWER
BRAKSPEAR A.N. Town
BRANHER
BRANDT
BRAY
BREDA VAN
BRIEDENHANN
BREEDT
BROUGHTON
BRIEL
BRINK
BRITS
BROCKLEHURST David x Susanna Benade 11-2-51. David was born Johnson, the grandson of Marie Brocklehurst, He changed his name to Brocklehurst and farmed on Belvoir Spinney, after his Step-grandfather Peter Orme Brocklehurst died. He served for many years on the Peter Brocklehurst Foundation, Management Committee. He was an active member of the local Gymkhana Club. They left the area.
BRODERYK
BROLI
BRONKHORST
BROUGHTON
BROWN
BRUCE
BRUIN DE
BRYDEN
BRYTENBACH
BUITENDAG
BULCRAIG
BUTLER
BUTTERY
BURBRIDGE
BURGER
BURNS
BURTON
BUSHNEY
BUYS