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From: mansell <>
Subject: Re: SOUTH-AFRICA-D Digest V01 #170
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:25:44 +0200



Greetings Pat:

This may be off the mark, but I have often wondered who the Dr Robertson
might be that married my maternal 2nd great grandparents Willem Jacobus
Marais & Johanna Catharina Lombard who both died in myterious circumstances.
The latter
was from Swellendam but married in Cape Town. The marriage details follow
(including the mention of Dr Robertson):

Willem Jacobus Marais (born Klein Drakenstein 28 August 1848)
married by special licence (DRC/CT) at the house of Dr Robertson, No 54
Strand Street, Cape Town 31 March 1875
(Note: the groom married as Wilhelm [sic ] Jacobus Marais)
[C.O. 4586 p. 89 (Matrimonial Court: Special Licence: Wilhelm [sic ]
Jacobus Marais & Johanna Catharina Lombard)]
Johanna Catharina Lombard
d/o Stephanus Sebastiaan Lombard & Catharina Redenira Moolman
born Swellendam 13 September 1855; baptised DRC Swellendam 8 October 1855
(witnesses: Hannes Jurgens Moolman; Jacoba Catharina Human; Hermanus
Christiaan van Zyl & Johanna Catharina Moolman).

You can read all about William Robertson (1805-1879) (from Inverurie,
Aberdeenshire) & his wife Elisabeth Henrietta Truter (1808-1865) in the
"Dictionary of South African Biography" Vol. 1. Note that his wife was the
daughter of Petrus Johannes Truter which explains the son's names.

Another son William Robertson (1842-1813) was minister at St Stephen's (Cape
Town), Tulbagh, Calvinia & Petrusburg; he died 21 January 1913. He was one
of the 1st four students to 'come out' of the Theological Seminary at
Stellenbosch (known to locals and Maties as 'the Angel Factory' and the
students as 'tokoloshes').

A look through my library-ette found me 2 portraits (William Robertson
Senior & William Robertson Junior) of this man which I did not even realise
I had until I saw your query. Thank you for awakening the ancestral dead on
one of my neglected lines ...

Best wishes
Mansell Upham


>I am looking for info on one Petrus Johannes Robertson who was born in Cape
>Town c. 1830/31 and who died on 30 November 1887 in Pretoria. His parents
>are noted on the Death Notice as being "Eerwd. Robertson". His wife was
>Hubertha Hermana Reid and she appears to have been the daughter of Hermina
>Hubertha Denys who was baptised 27 July 1817 and who married Alexander Reid
>on 16 August 1836 in Swellendam.
>
>Petrus Robertson's children noted on the Death Notice are:
>1. William;
>2. Daughter - name unknown
>
>William Robertson was, apparently, a magistrate in Kroonstad and was
>married to A. ?? and I know of one child namely, James Alfred Robinson
>(sic) who drowned in the Vaal River on 11 November 1899 aged 7.
>
>Any help in tracking down the parents of Petrus Johannes Robertson would be
>much appreciated.

>Pat Smith
>
>

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