Arbre Dreyer » Thomas Frederick Dreyer b5c1d1e2 (1815-1889)

Données personnelles Thomas Frederick Dreyer b5c1d1e2 

• Il est né le 18 novembre 1815 dans "Bruintjieshoogte" Graaff-Reinett.
• Il a été baptisé le 3 mars 1816 dans George.
• Il est décédé le 8 juillet 1889 dans Rietfontein, Elandsrivier Swartruggens, Rustenburg, il avait 73 ans.
• Un enfant de Thomas Andreas `Andries` Dreyer et Maria Elizabeth Prinsloo

Famille de Thomas Frederick Dreyer b5c1d1e2

(1) Il est marié à Susanna Jacoba Hendrika Adriana Janse van Rensburg.

Ils se sont mariés le 31 juillet 1836 à Modderrivier, Beaufort-Wes, il avait 20 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Martha Margaretha Dreyer  1837-1886 
2. Thomas Andries Dreyer  1839-1905 
3. Petrus Johannes Dreyer  1840-1898 
4. Maria Elizabeth Dreyer  1842-????
5. Susanna Jacoba Hendrica Dreyer  1844-1934 
6. Geertruyda Petronella Dreyer  1845-???? 
7. Frederik Martinus Dreyer  1847-1898 
8. Anna Jacomina Dreyer  1849-1940 
9. Willem Hendrik Frederik Dreyer  1851-1915 
10. Susara Aletta Maria Dreyer  1853-1902
11. Thomassina Fredrika Dreyer  1853-1879
12. Johan Nicolaas Dreyer  1857-1936 
13. Christiaan Lourens "Kas" Dreyer  1859-1941 

Evénement (Death of Spouse).

(2) Il est marié à Christina Maria "Booysen" Herman.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1881, il avait 65 ans.

Notes par Thomas Frederick Dreyer b5c1d1e2

 

Dictionary of SA Biographies Vol 3

 

 

 

 

 

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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