Johannes Francois Marais, b2c2d1e3f4g10h2i2 - My Great Grandfather
Birth: February 25, 1867 Cape Province, South Africa
Death: March 05, 1950 (83) Tzaneen
Immediate Family:
Son of Johannes Francois Marais, b2c2d1e3f4g10h2 and Sophia Cecilia Marais, b2c2d1e2f4g5h9
Husband of Aletta Susanna Marais (born Bekker) 1873 - 1893
Birth of daughter: Johanna Katrina Botha (born Marais) Middelburg, Transvaal Apr 2 1891
Birth of daughter: Aletta Susanna van Der Zee (born Marais) Aug 19 1893
Husband of Elizabeth Heubrecht Marais (born Stapleberg) Great-grandmother 1877 - 1901
Birth of son: Johannes Francois Marais Tzaneen Jan 9 1897
Birth of son: Master Marais - Birth: Pietersburg Burgher Concentration Camp May 13 1901 (Died May 15 1901)
The Anglo Boer War (1899 - 1902)
In May 1901 Johannes and Elizabeth lived on the Farm Woodbush in Magoebaskloof, Northern Transvaal South Africa, they were captured by the British and all the Woman and children were sent to the British Concentration Camp in Pietersburg.
Johannes Francois was sent to India as a POW where most of the Boers who were captured were sent.
Elizabeth was heavily pregnant at the time and gave birth to a son on the 13th of May, 1901 she died on the 14th of May and the cause of death was entered as parturition and exhaustion.
Her Son who was unnamed died the following day 15th of May 1901 Cause: congenital debility.
Elizabeth's father who signed her death certificate, Hendrik Johannes Bekker died a few days later on the 18th of May 1901.
Husband of Helena Dorothea Petronella Marais (born Stapelberg)
Birth of Son: Andries
Birth of Son: Unknown
Brother of
Pieter Schalk Marais, b2c2d1e3f4g10h2i1;
Jan Gabriel Gabriël Marais, b2c2d1e3f4g10h2i3
Engela Helena Elizabeth Marais
Death Notice of Johannes Francois Marais - 1950 signed by his Daughter Johanna Botha (Marais)
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