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de Jongh; Philippolis; Otterspoort; Concentration camps Collaboration is welcome! This project is designed to share information I have discovered & collated to assist others, as well as potentially verifying genealogical information I am hunting for. During my quest to locate my fathers paternal ancestry (de Jongh family) I discovered a potential link to a tiny little town in the OFS: Philipol...
From "Children of the Mist" by Scott Balson: It was in 1613 that a British East Indiaman, the Hector, anchored at Table Bay and took two unwilling hostages including the young local Chief Coree. They were taken back to London where they were shown English ways and taught the English language. The next year Coree was returned to the Cape after his companion died through the cold of the Engli...