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Early Settlers of Enkeldoorn - S

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Early Settlers of Enkeldoorn - S

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THE WHITES OF ENKELDOORN 1880 to 1980

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

POPULATION ENKELDOORN - S

... and some GUTU RELATIVES 1880 TO 1980 All family details, dates, residences and occupations as far as could be ascertained. List not complete)

SCHAAP

SCHALKWYK VAN

SCHALLER

Joe prospected in the area and located gold at Umvuma, before pegging the claims he went to Northern Rhodesia and on return found the Falcon mine already peged. He left the area. His brother Edward worked on the mine from 1916 till 1944.

In 1926 Edward bought Sable Flats at the East end of Manese along the Umyati river, adjoining Inhoek, (Kirstein) from van Tonder, where he settled in 1935. The general farming was maize, sheep and cattle but he specialised in producing apples as a crop for sale with a large orchard admired by all visitors.

  • Edward Vernon 1897 / 1972 x Margaret Gwendoline (Bullick) ? / 19-10-1960, settled on Sable flats Vernon had worked on the Falcon mine before he married. He met and later married Margaret who was from Johannesburg and visiting her sister whose husband Wally Jackson worked on the Falcon mine. They had two children Allen and Edith The children attended Umvuma junior school as boarders where their parents used to visit them, travelling the long distance by Cape Cart and horses. They finished their schooling at Chaplin High in Gwelo.
  • Edith 29-5-33 x Eugene (Bob) Edwards. 13-3-28 / 1981 4c left area XX Arnoldus Mauritius Rinke (his XX) 0c
  • Allen Schaller 13-11-38 x Barbara Ford (not local)
  • Keron Joan 24-9-66 x William David Mickelthwite 10-3-66
  • Rex Allen Vernon 26-2-68 x Laurelly Shea 10-9-74
  • Glenda Barbara 26-7-69 Educated: Keron, local junior, Girls High School and Specis College. Rex, Allan Wilson Glenda Girls High School and Eaglesvale. Allen farmed with his father Edward, then bought Sableflats 1, 1 000 acres and later also Sableflats 2 and 3, each 1 000 acres. from Rhodesdale Estate, he also bought Foresthill and Edendale called Dangerendodi meaning Manure-kraal.

SCHLEBUSCH

SCHMAHL

SCHMIDT

  • Chantelle x Neil Jacobus Smith 19-7-1977 1 child.

SCHOEMAN

  • Anna Maria Cornelia Elizabeth Schoeman x Gabriel Johannes Stoltz 2 children.

SCHOOMBE

  • Irene Mande x Alexander Page 2c

SCHOONVELDT

SCHOULTZ

SCHREIBER

  • Frederik Willem x Maria Catharina Petronella Smit
    • Cornelius Abram 1-11-38

SHANNON

  • Aletta Johanna x Hendrik Barend Josephus Strydom 5 children.

SHARP

SHEASBY

  • Adrian x Dalene Daly nee van den Berch 19-10-1955 (her 2x)

SHERWIN

SHIRLEY

SIEBERHAGEN

SKINNER

SLABBER

SMIT

SETH-SMITH Frances Olive 1876 / 1951

SMITH

SMITH

  • Craig Darren x Deborrah Anne Knowles (not local Smith family)
    • Amie
    • Keith John 29-8-94
    • Joshua James 16-11-98
    • Samuel Craig 30-8-2000

SNYDERS

SNYMAN

SPANGLER

  • Killian x Johannes Petrus Jordaan 1c

SPENCER-HIGGS

SPIES

SPRONG

  • Cecil Campbell x Josephine Betsy Botha
    • Marlene Judy 15-8-60

SPRUYT

  • Anna Wilhelmina x Abraham Johannes Viljoen 1c

STACK

  • Steve x Johanna (Jean) Kok

STADEN VAN

  • Debora Margaretha x Jan Jonathan Botha 2 children.
  • Elizabeth Catharina x Pieter Willem van der Merwe 2 children.
  • Johanna Dorothea Wilhelmina x Solomon Johannes Potgieter 1 child.

STAINES

STANDER

  • William Wede x Johanna Maria Stander
    • Hendrik Jacobus 6-7-47

STANLEY

STAPELBERG

STEELE

  • William Scobie 1872 / 24-1-1939

STEENKAMP

STEINMAN

STELLA

  • John x Charm nee ? first owners of R.E. Motors
  • Avril Elizabth x Lodewyk Johannes Bosch 28-1-55 1c

STEMMET

  • Elsie Johanna x Pieter Adriaan Schaap 1915 1c

STEWARD

  • Ronald 1908 / 1909
  • William Dykes 1897 / 1965 W.D. ?

STEYN

STEYNBERG

STOLTZ

STOPFORTH

STOREY

  • Hedley farmed on Welverdien producing tobacco very successful farmer

STRATFORD

  • Charles William x Esther Maria van Zyl
    • Susanna Cornelia 1-4-17
  • name ? x Maria (Pop) de Klerk (? 1928) They left the area.

STROEBEL

STRUCKLE

  • Josef Frank x Martha Elizabeth Coetzee 18-6-46
    • Annalien Cecilia 19-3-69
    • Deon Frank 25-1-71

STRUWIG

STRYDOM

SWANEPOEL

  • Jacobus Petrus x Alida Johanna Elizabeth Grobler
    • Walter Jack 19-10-21

SWART DE

SWART

SWARTZ

SYMINGTON

The son Jubilee James J. (1917) bought additional farms, eventually owning Kuduspoort, Sundown, Wasbank, Rietspruit and Swartfontein as well as Scotland. On his death in 1976 the farms were sold and Salomina and the family left for South Africa.

The farms were sold to Scotland/van As, Kuduspoort/van As, Sundown/Tom Ferreira (Malie) Rietspruit / Tom Ferreira, Swartfontein/Tom Ferreira, Wasbank/Japie J.L.) Smit of Felixburg.