Arbre Dreyer » Joseph Adriaan de Kock f6 (1859-1901)

Données personnelles Joseph Adriaan de Kock f6 

• Il est né en l'an 1859 dans Wolwedans", dist Malmesbury.
• Il est décédé le 25 août 1901 dans "Erith Vista", dist Plumstead, Kaapstad, il avait 42 ans.
• Un enfant de Marthinus Wilhelmus de Kock et Margaretha Jacoba de Kock

Famille de Joseph Adriaan de Kock f6

Il est marié à Louisa Frederika Osmond.

Ils se sont mariés.

Notes par Joseph Adriaan de Kock f6

MEN OF THE TIMES: Joseph A. DE KOCK.
(Contributed by Carol Beneke) 

Mr. Joseph A. de Kock was born in 1859 in the Malmesbury District, at Kolberg. He is the second son of the late Mr. M.W. de Kock, the well-known wine farmer, and is descended from the oldest Huguenot stock, the famous French novelist, Paul de Kock, in all probability being a member of this illustrious family. Mr. J.A. de Kock was educated privately at Wynberg, and afterwards assisted in the management of his father’s estate, “Wettevrede”, Constantia, which heinherited on his death. The advancement and study of the Cape wine farming industry has been his life’s work, having been employed actively in agricultural pursuits until the year 1891, when hedecided to settle in the beautiful Cape suburb of Wynberg. 

Mr. de Kock has been a J.P., and also Veld Cornet for twelve years, being one of the favoured three individuals who were allowed to act in the combined capacity in the Colony. A prominent member of the Dutch Reform Church, Mr. de Kock is a man of high culture, owning all sympathies and despising none, having travelled extensively in Egypt and Palestine, and resided for three years in various parts of the Continent, including the countries of Russia, Turkey and Greece.

Mr. de Kock is full of interesting reminiscences of his travels, being a raconteur of exceptional ability, and able to draw with abundant fertility of anecdote on his wide range of knowledge, and a man whose noble ideals and great natural gifts render him peculiarly fitted to hold the responsible position in life of a large landed proprietor, owning, as he does, in Wynberg alone a great amount of property. His chief recreation now is the study of literature in the highest sense of the word. He is married, and the proud father of six children, residing now in his secluded home in Plumstead.

His forefathers were driven from France by the Edict of Nantes in 1692, from which times he directly descends.

Source: Old Colonists of the Cape Colony and Orange River Colony. - page 112
Printed by – Eyre and Spottiswood His Majesty’s Printers in 1906.

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