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Full name: Christiaan Johannes Jacobus Joubert Lifespan: 1834 Swartberg, Beaufort, Cape Colony - 1911 Pretoria [77] Occupation: Politician, farmer Joubert was a prominent South African statesman and official in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), widely recognized as one of the co-namers of the city of Johannesburg. Christiaan Joubert⁶ Timeline Short biography At the age of 3 (c.1837), his family trekked from the Cape Colony, seeking to distance themselves from British Rule. Joubert's father, Petrus Jacobus Joubert (bef. 1786 - 1843) established a missionary station at Zoar, and was one of the religious leaders at the Slag van Bloedrivier (Battle of Blood River). Christiaan married Johanna Magdalena Cornelia Vermaak (1836 Cape - 1908 Pretoria) in c.1855. They had nine children. He was only 31 years old (c.1865) when he was elected to the Volksraad as a member for Pretoria. As a member of important public commissions, he quickly drew attention and became a member of the Uitvo...

Lifespan:  1838 England - 1908 Johannesburg [70] Occupation:  Bookbinder (England), waste paper dealer (England), adventurer, trader, prospector, politician. John Thorburn (seated).¹ Timeline Some dates are estimates. Early life John Thorburn was born into a family of bookbinders in Westminster, England. At the age of about 16, he traveled to Newfoundland before settling in the American South during the 1860s, where he worked as a planter and slave merchant prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. When the American Civil War broke out, he served as a soldier and apparently witnessed the historic naval battle between the world's first modern ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimac . Photo by A. Debenham (n.d.) The global rush for wealth eventually drew him to the Eastern Transvaal in c.1869, where he tried his luck at both the Wet and Dry Diamond Diggings. He made a small fortune on the Kimberley diamond diggings in the eighteen-seventies (by 1876 he was located there). Then in ...

Full name:  Marié (or Marius) Joseph Goddefroy Lifespan:  1848 Belgium - 1920 Pretoria [71] Occupation: NH Kerk minister Unidentified photographer, n.d. Timeline Biography Family His first marriage was to Anna Antonia Hogerzeil (1855 Netherlands - 1896 Pretoria [41]) in 1876 in the Netherlands. They had three children: Joseph Louis Simon Chretien Goddefroy (1877 Netherlands - 1900 Waterberg) Anton Francois Christiaan Goddefroy (1879 Netherlands - 1947 Potgietersrus [68]) became a farmer. Marius Theodore Goddefroy (c.1881 Netherlands - 1901 St Helena) Edmond Abraham Goddefroy (1884 Netherlands - 1918 Paarl [34]) became a sheep farmer. Elisabeth Louisa Antonia 'Betsy' de Moor (1886 Netherlands - 1965 SA [79]) became a women's and children's doctor in SA. In 1916 she was living at 418 Church Street, Pretoria.¹⁷ Christiaan Deodatus Goddefroy (1887 Waterberg - 1949 Warmbaths [62]). He was in charge of a Children’s Home. Theodore Goddefroy (1893 - 1963 [70]) In 1898, he marr...

Full name:  Heinrich Julius Friedrich Christiaan Ernest Ueckermann Lifespan:  1827 Germany - July 1883 Heidelberg (Gauteng) Occupation: Trader, cooper, politician Wife: Married Elizabeth Mason (1831 England - 1910 Pretoria) in 1850 in Pietermaritzburg. They had 13 children. Heinrich Ueckermann Timeline Biography Ueckermann arrived in South Africa in 1849. He disembarked in Durban and set up business in Pietermaritzburg , where he initially worked as a cooper and later ran a store. After the birth of their first son (1852), the family began extensive ox-wagon treks into the interior (as far as the Soutpansberg), during which at least one daughter was born (1854). The inland did not meet their expectations, so they returned to Pietermaritzburg. After the birth of their second son (in 1856) , they moved inland again.³ Ueckermann met Jacob Maré on the farm Eendracht (on the northern slope of the Suikerbosrand). While staying there, he walked the Suikerbosrand hills hun...