Dreyer Tree » Sebastiaan Valentine van der Spuy g3 (1905-2001)
Personal data Sebastiaan Valentine van der Spuy g3
- He was born on November 12, 1905.
- He died on January 30, 2001, he was 95 years old.
- A child of Hendrik Jacobus van der Spuy and Harriette Eedes Cloete
Household of Sebastiaan Valentine van der Spuy g3
He is married to Eleanor Jordan.
They got married
Notes about Sebastiaan Valentine van der Spuy g3
g3) Sebastian Valentine van der Spuy (Bas). The following is an account of the tragic death of Bas, as written by Annie van der Spuy during the 1980’s):
“Our brother Bas, 16 years old went to school at Paarl Boys’ High in Paarl. He was a very good looking boy and he could play the violin well. During Easter in 1906, he and a friend, De Kock, came to our farm for the holidays. On Easter Monday, 6th April, our (eldest) brother Hennie and Bas and his friend took guns and went into the veld to shoot buck etc. Our mother, who was pregnant, recalled that Bas said to her ‘ek sal ‘n bokkie huistoe bring’.
As they were walking in the veld, Kockie (the friend) climbed through a wire fence when his gun went off. The bullet went through brother Hennie’s jacket and into Bas’ stomach. He collapsed and said ‘Kockie, wat het jy gedoen? Hennie Help!’ Then he died.
Kockie then wanted to shoot himself, but Hennie grabbed all the guns and hid them behind some bushes, and ran home, about three miles (5km). My father and our overseer (Manager) accompanied Hennie in the open cart and went to fetch the boys.
In the meantime my poor mother prepared bandages for she was told that there had been an accident. She at first thought that the youngest child (Annie) had fallen from the steps of the stoep. When the cart arrived, she was relieved to see her two sons. She had mistakenly identified Kockie as being Bas, as he was wearing Bas’ hat. When she realized that it was Bas’ body which was being carried from the cart to my father’s study, she fainted and fell on the stoep.
The death of his favourite son hit my father very badly. There was a big funeral. Kockie’s parents came from the Transvaal.
Kockie finished his schooling at Paarl and became an attorney. He later committed suicide”
(Annie was only two years old when Bas died, and her recollections would have been the result of the details being told and retold during her childhood years.)
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Historical events
Birthday November 12, 1905
- The temperature on November 12, 1905 was between 2.6 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
- May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
- May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
- June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
- September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
- October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
- November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
Day of death January 30, 2001
- The temperature on January 30, 2001 was between -2.9 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
- January 13 » An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
- June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
- July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
- August 25 » American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
- November 12 » In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
- November 12 » War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
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