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Personal data Thomas Frederick Dreyer b5c1d1e2 


Household of Thomas Frederick Dreyer b5c1d1e2

(1) He is married to Susanna Jacoba Hendrika Adriana Janse van Rensburg.

They got married on July 31, 1836 at Modderrivier, Beaufort-Wes, he was 20 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Thomas Andries Dreyer  1839-1905 
  3. Petrus Johannes Dreyer  1840-1898 
  8. Anna Jacomina Dreyer  1849-1940 
  12. Johan Nicolaas Dreyer  1857-1936 

Event (Death of Spouse).


(2) He is married to Christina Maria "Booysen" Herman.

They got married in the year 1881, he was 65 years old.


Notes about Thomas Frederick Dreyer b5c1d1e2

 


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Dreyer, Thomas Frederik (b3c2d1e2f7g3)


 


 


(*Bruintjieshoogte, Graaff-Reinet dist., C.C., 18.11.1815 - †Rietfontein 1927, Elands River ward, Rustenburg (now Swartruggens) dist., 5.7.1889), pioneer in the T.R., was the eldest son of Thomas Andries Dreyer and his wife, Maria Elisabeth Prinsloo. D. grew up in a family where anti-British feeling was uppermost; this was coupled with strong opposition to racial equality after the Slagtersnek Rebellion of 1814. As a young man he took part in the Great Trek, later (from 1850) serving on the military council headed by J.A. Enslin, commandant of Marico, and (1852) on the military council of Rustenburg under M.W. Pretorius. In church and political matters he co-operated closely with Field-Cornet S.J.P. Kruger and Commandant P.J.W. Schutte. He was also involved in the movement which sought an orderly, constitutional solution to such questions as the relationship to the British colonies, the demand for an independent, republican church, the acquisition of a constitution, and proper executive, political authority for the Transvaal. When the Rev. D. van der Hoff arrived in May 1853, D. declared that he was strongly opposed to any bond with the Cape Synod and did his utmost to bring about the establishment of the N.H. Kerk in the Transvaal.


 


 


In 1856 D. was even more prominently in the public eye when he travelled all over the Transvaal with M.W. Pretorius and, at public meetings, tested opinion on the relationship of the N.H. Kerk to the Cape Synod of the N.G. Kerk and the desirability of a constitution for the Transvaal, in which provision would be made for a proper executive authority. When M.W. Pretorius was sworn in as State President on 6.1.1857 the Executive Council appointed D. Acting Commandant-General on 13.3.1857, since Commandant-General S. Schoeman of Soutpansberg would not recognize the constitution of 1857. D. behaved with remarkable restraint in the difficulties and tensions which arose at this time. He led the Transvaal Commando against that of the Orange Free State when the policy of Pretorius, which attempted to unite the two republics, led to an armed confrontation at Renoster River. D. was consequently one of the signatories of the peace treaty concluded on an island in the Vaal River on 1.6.1857.


 


 


During President J.N. Boshoff's term of office, D. leda Transvaal commando which went to the aid of the Free State in the war against the Basuto in 1858. He represented his district in the Volksraad of the Transvaal Republic from 1871 to 1874 and encouraged the Rev. N.J.R. Swart to stand as Secretary of State in 1871. After T. Shepstone's annexation of the Transvaal in 1877, D., Kruger and P.J. Joubert addressed public meetings in 1878 to convince fiery burghers, who wanted to fight to regain their independence, that calm, purposeful and constitutional procedure was wisest.


 


 


On 10.2.1859 D. and his wife joined the Geref. Kerk in Rustenburg as founder-membersunder the guidance of the Rev. D. Postma (10.1.1818-28.12.1890). In 1866 D. became an elder of the congregation and as such played a prominent part on the church council until his death. From 1876 to1888 he regularly represented the congregation at the Synods of the Geref. Kerk in South Africa, and played an important role in formulating decisions. He strongly supported the principle that ministers of White and Non-White congregations should perform their duties separately and promulgated this point of view in the church magazine De Maandbode. He also served on occasion as curator of the Theological School of the Geref. Kerk, which was a signal distinction for an ordinary farmer like himself.


 


 


D. was a naturally gifted pioneer who, without any formal schooling, took a leading part in the political and ecclesiastical consolidation of the Transvaal. A balanced person with firm convictions, he had considerable influence on his countrymen and enjoyed their confidence.


 


 


In 1834, during the Great Trek, he married Susanna Jacoba Hendrika Adriana Janse vanRensburg (*July, 1820) and they had thirteen children. She died in 1881, in which year he married Christina Maria Herman(n) (1832-11.9.1895), widow of J.J. Booysen, a well-known elder of the Geref. Kerk in Pretoria. They had no children.

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    Birthday November 18, 1815

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      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
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    Christening day March 3, 1816

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    Day of marriage July 31, 1836

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    Day of death July 8, 1889

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