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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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Ancestors (and descendant) of Sebastiaan Valentine van der Spuy

Melt van der Spuy
1812-1871
Maria Magaretha Blignaut
1812-1879
Sebastian Valentyn Cloete
1825-????
Harriette Eedes
1831-1865

Sebastiaan Valentine van der Spuy
1905-2001


Eleanor Jordan
1911-2000


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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.
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      • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
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    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.
      • April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
      • June 21 » A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
      • September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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