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Persoonlijke gegevens Jacob Letterstedt 

• Hij is geboren op 15 december 1796 in Vellerstadt, Sweden.
• Hij is overleden op 18 maart 1862 in Parys, Frankryk Ile-de-France, hij was toen 65 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Johan Gabriel Lallerstedt en Gretha Christina Palmgren

Gezin van Jacob Letterstedt

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Maria Barendina Becker.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 14 augustus 1822 te Cape Town, South Africa, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Lydia Meredeth Boys.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1851 te St Martin in the Fields, hij was toen 54 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Lydia Corinna D`Oligny Letterstedt  

Notities over Jacob Letterstedt

Drie jaar later op die ouderdom van 43 jaar op 14 Augustus? /September 1822 trou Maria dus in Stellenbosch met haar voorman en derde man - die 26-jarige Jacob LETTERSTEDT. Jacob Letterstedt (15 Dec 1796 - †Paris, Fr., 18.3.1862) was ’n besonder kleurvolle figuur en daar was uiteenlopende opinies oor hom.In Josephine’s Mill staan die volgende oor hom:

“Jacob Lallerstedt was born in Vallerstad in southern Sweden on 15 December 1796. His unsuccessful distillery caused him to flee his debts in 1819 and change his name to Letterstedt. He arrived almost penniless in Table Bay on 22 March 1820 as part of the British emigration scheme.”

Jacob Lettersted word bekend as ’n vooruitstrewende man – sekerlik met behulp van sy vrou se Dreyer-erfgoed. Letterstedt was ’n gekultiveerde man. Hy word konsul vir Noorwee en Swede in Suid-Afrika. In die Cory Biblioteek in Grahamstad is daar blykbaar kopiee van die korrespondensie wat hy gevoer het met die vermaarde Sweedse naturalis, versamelaar en ontdekkingsreisiger Johan August Wahlberg (1810-1856) SA Who’s Who Ancestry24. Die opvoedkundige, wiskundige en Anglikaanse priester George Frederick Childe wat sedert 1852 vir meer as 25 jaar professor in wiskunde en natuurlike filosofie was aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Kollege was blykbaar ook ’n vriend van die Letterstedts. Die priester en sy vrou Catherine Mills vernoem dan ook hulle jonger seun Letterstedt Frederick Childe (1859 – 1915). Laasgenoemde word later hoof van die Grant Medical College in Bombaai.

In “Rondebosch down the years 1657-1957” ed F. J. Wagener (1957), in ’n besprekiing van die ou landgoedere in Rondebosch, word die volgende genoem:

“Mariendahl, formerly Questenburg and Louwvliet, was the property of the Hon. Jacob Letterstedt for many years after 1845. He established a brewery on his estate but was one of the several who sold out to the all-powerful Anders Ohlsson who established his principal factory at Mariendahl in 1900. The Western Province Cricket Club ground was opened in 1888 and the Rugby ground in 1890. The boundaries are most complicated but may be traced by following the Liesbeek, Dulwich Road, the railway, the northern fence of the cricket ground, Palmyra Road, Stegmann Road, Vineyard Road to Corwen Street and thence a line to the top of Sans Souci Road and down that road to the river.

Before concluding, mention must be made of the Albion Mill Estate which lies between the Main Road and the Liesbeek from Westerford Bridge to Schweppes’ factory. The Albion Mill was situated where the mineral water factory is now making valuable use of the clear waters of the famed Albion Spring which rises there.

Another water mill, derelict these many years, is in Boundary Road opposite the Brewery. This was Letterstedt’s or Josephine’s Mill, being named after Jacob Letterstedt’s daughter.”

Franken & Cook, in hul bespreking van Josephine Mill (Boundary Rd), korrigeer hierdie laaste bewering: Josephine Mill is vernoem na Kroonprinses Josephine van Swede, Letterstedt se geboorteland. Josephine Mill is in 1840 gebou op die Mariendahl landgoed

As ’n interessante brokkie hierby: in die Grahamstown Journal 6 Jan 1832 verskyn die volgende “domestic announcement”:

“JH SMITH begs leave to inform the inhabitants of Grahamstown and vicinity that he has taken out a wholesale spirit licence, and has at present for sale, good old Cape brandy, bottled ale and Porter, and few hogsheads ofLetterstedt's superior Pale Ale and will shortly receive foreign wines and spirits which will be sold at reduced prices.”

Maria Barendina is in 1848 (MOOC 9525) oorlede. Sy is begrawe in ’n Dreyer/Letterstedt familiegrafkelder in die Wynberg NG Kerk Begraafplaas, waar ’n kleinseun van haar vorige man, Jakob Gustaaf Lettersted Dreyer, ook begrawe is. Oor hierdie grafkelder skryf Wilma Malherbe as volg op Buiteposten oor ’n uitknipsel in haar besit: “think it was published in an issue of Capensis, but it may be Cabo”:

There is for instance, Jakob Gustav Letterstedt Dreyer, owner of Kleine Schuur who founded the congregation of Rondebosch...to the left of the group (of four vault tombs in the centre of the cemetery, arranged in a fan-like fashion) a mound of rubble overgrown with weeds completed the "fan". Close scrutiny of the building material established that this was in fact the remains of a fifth vault similar in design and dating from the same period.

It was known that Marina Barendina Bekker, the wealthy widow Dreyer who subsequently married Jacob (sic) Letterstedt, had been a member of the Wynberg congregation and had been buried in the cemetery after her death in 1848. All traces of her grave had, however,disappeared. Of the many damaged graves and illegible headstones in the cemetery, none seemed worthy of her. Furthermore the date of her death and her position in the community led one to expect her to be buried in a vault. That the ruined vault in the middle was in fact her last resting place remained mere conjecture until the discovery of an old document at the back of the safe in the Wynberg Church listing the first hundred owners of burial plots in the cemetery. Heading the list are the names of the owners of the five oldest vaults, among them J.Letterstedt. Subsequent excavation of the ruin during the process of restoration revealed the remains of more than one coffin and several handles. Bearing in mind Jacob Letterstedt died and was buried in Paris, and that Maria had no children by him the question now arises as to who was interred with her in her tomb?" Ek wil gis dat dit die dogtertjie was uit haar huwelik met Kieffer.

Na die dood van Maria Barendina trou Letterstedt in 1851 vir die tweede keer en wel met ’n Engelse dame Lydia Meredyth Boys (daar is rekord van ’n huwelik 1851 St Martin in the Fields Middlesex Engeland) Later jare het hy na Parys Frankryk uitgewyk en sterf daar in 1862 (MOOC 9559). Hulle het een dogter Lydia wat later trou met Viscount de Montmort en aan die Kaap woon. Sien “Mills of Southern Africa” vir meer info oor Letterstedt. Ook die bydrae oor Josephine’s Mill in The Best of the Cape Odessey Vol 1.

In 1849 raak Letterstedt betrokke in een van die mees berugte hofsake van sy tyd. Die saak spruit uit ’n besluit van XX om die Kaap as ’n strafkolonie te gebruik en ’n skip vol prisoniers hierheen stuur. Hoewel Lettersted ook teen hierdie plan vir die Kaap was, het hy geweier om mee te doen aan die boikot van die skip toe die in die Kaap land. Terwyl die boikotters geweier het om dit van voorrade te voorsien. Het Letterstedt dit egter wel gedoen, uit humanitere oorwegings – wat hom die intense gramskap van sy medeburgers op die hals gehaal het, in die mate dat hulle sy eiendom beskadig het en hom aangerand het. Letterstedt maak ’n saak van laster aanhangig teen mede-lede van die Anti-Convict Association George Morgan, John Fairbairn, Thomas Sutherland, John van Reenen en Olof Bergh. Sir Christoffel Joseph Brand, advokaat, joernalis en eerste Speaker van die Kaapse parlement tree vir Letterstedt op, maar die hof het Letterstedt se eis om skadevergoeding nie gunstig aangehoor nie – te midde van hewige argument tussen die drie regters.

Die hele episode het hom redelik verbitterd gelaat sodat hy meer en meer tyd in die buiteland begin deurbring het, waar hy dan ook uiteindelik in Parys oorlede is.

In the 1840s, Jacob Letterstedt, a well-connected businessman with varied interests, set up Mariendahl Brewery and Josephine’s Mill, making use of the natural spring water from Newlands Spring for the brewing of his beer. He also imported modern, updated equipment and expertise, which resulted in much better quality beer than was previously available. At the same time, there was another substantial brewing operation, Newlands Brewery, which was situated below the current Forrester’s Arms and brewed much more beer than Mariendahl Brewery.

In 1864, Anders Ohlsson came to the Cape and by 1881 had bought up a variety of commercial enterprises, one of which was a mill not far from the breweries. He had assessed that brewing had a bright future and proceeded to purchase properties in the area. In 1888, Ohlsson ended up leasing the Mariendahl Brewery and Josephine’s Mill with an option to buy all the leased properties and water rights from Newlands Spring. In this time he had also negotiated purchase of or rights to a number of other breweries in the area, namely the Martienessen Brewery, the substantial Cannon Brewery, and eventually the Newlands Brewery after the death of its owner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Op 09 Feb 2003 verskyn die volgende interessante berig in die Sunday Times:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dad's gift spawns Newlands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

reporter: Karen Van Rooyen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A wedding gift more than 100 years ago has become one of the world's most

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

popular cricket grounds. The Newlands cricket ground was once farmland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At that time Mariendal, as it was known, belonged to Swedish immigrant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacob LETTERSTEDT. He founded the Mariendal Brewery, later to become South

 

 

 

 

 

 

African Breweries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But it is thanks to a woman that Newlands was set aside for cricket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lydia Corinna was LETTERSTEDT''s daughter. He had given her a portion of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

land next to Newlands Station as a wedding gift.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1887, Lydia leased this land to the Western Province Cricket Club for

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

£50 a year. The first game - a two-day match between Mother Country and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colonial Born, was played at Newlands on 02 January 1888. South Africa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hostedEngland in its first Test match at Newlands on 25 March 1889.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1896, the cricket club bought Newlands for £3 000 and leased it to the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Western Province Cricket Association. This deal lasted until last year when

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

they sold it to the association for R33-million.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cairns, M.: The quest for the silver chalice. Familia vol. 15, no. 1, 1978, p. 10-11, 14-16. Sien Addendum XXXX

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