ANGLO-BOER WAR INVOLVEMENT OF
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Rentia Landman op SAGenealogie het die volgende inligting verskaf wat sy gekry het van FAK (Cecilia Kruger,1999):

Die Britte
Die bevolking van die Verenigde Koninkryk in 1899 was 30 miljoen. 448 435 Britse troepe het aan die oorlog deelgeneem. Hiervan was 30 000 vrywilligers van oorsese Britse kolonies en 50 000 vrywilligers ut die die twee kolonies Kaap en Natal en daarby 5 000 joiners van die republieke. 'n Syfer van ongeveer 30 000 gewapende swartmense is deel van die 448 435 Britse troepe. Dit grootste getal wat op enige gegewe stadium diens gedoen het was 240 000 in Mei 1901. Ten minste 7 800 Britse soldate is agv krygsverrigtinge dood terwyl 14 658 weens siekte of ongelukke omgekom het. Die oorlog het Brittanje ongeveer 230 miljoen pond gekos. Vir repatriasie en hervestiging is 300 miljoen deur die Britse regering bewillig, maar slegs 16 miljoen is uitbetaal.

Die Boere
In 1899 was die blanke bevolking van die twee republieke ongeveer 300 000. Die republikeinse magte 50 000 na 60 000 waarvan 'n aantal staandemaglede. Tussen 1500 en 3000 buitelanders en 10 000 na 15 000 Kaapse rebelle het Boerekant geveg. Die getal swart en bruin agterryers was na raming 10 000. Daar was nooit meer as 47 000 Boere op 'n gegewe tydstip in die veld nie. 3997 gesneuwel, 150 verongeluk en 1 800 na 2 200 weens siekte omgekom.

Na die vredesverdrag het sowat 10 000 Kaapse rebelle hulle stemreg vir vyf jaar verloor.

Na raming is 30 000 plaashuise en 40 dorpe verwoes. 160 000 blankes en 130 000 swartes is in konsentrasiekampe aangehou. 28 000 blankes sterf in die kampe, waarvan 22 000 kinders onder 16 jaar (Watter persentasie van die
kinderbevolking was dit? - R) . Daar was 66 kampe vir swartmense (24 OVS, 36 Tvl en 4 Kaapkolonie) met 'n sterftesyfer van 14 000+ .

Met vredesluiting het nog sowat 2 540 families (ongeveer 10 000 vroue en kinders) in die veld rondgeswerf.

In totaal is sowat 28 000 mans en seuns krysgevangene geneem waarvan 25 630 oorsee aangehou is. Ongeveer 'n duisend het nie teruggekeer nie.

BERMUDA EILANDGROEP
Ongeveer 4 619 Boere krygsgevangenis op 8 eilande: Burt, Darrel, Hawkins, Hinson, Lang, Morgan, Port, Tucker

CEYLON (Sri Lanka)
Sowat 5 126 bannelinge. Kampe: Diytalawa, Hambantota, Mount Lavina, Ragama, Urugasmanhandiya, Nuwerara Eliya, Welikada

INDIë
Meer as 9 000 krygsgevangenes. 142 is daar begrawe.
Kampe: Ahmednaga, Amritsar, Bellary, Bhim Tal, Kaity-Nilgiris, Kakool, Satara, Shahjahanpur, Sialkot, Solon, Trichonopoly, Umballa, Upper Topa, Wellington, Abbottabad, Fort Govindagh, Daghshai.

ST HELENA
5 866 burgers. 171 daar begrawe. Kampe: Broad Bottom, Deadwood Nr 1, Deadwood Nr 2, High Knoll, Jamestown.

SUID-AFRIKA
Bellevue (Simonstad), Groenpunt (Kaapstad), Tin Town (Ladysmith), Umbilo (Durban)

Interneringskampe
700 burgers het oor die grens na Mozambiek gevlug en wapens neergelê op 18 Sept 1900. Ander het by hulle aangesluit. Teen Maart 1901 is 1 019 mans, vrouens en kinders na Portugal verskeep waar hulle gehuisves is in: Abrantes, Alcobaca, Caldas da Rainha, Peniche, St Juliao da Barra, Tomar.

Dorpe wat vernietig was:
Dullstroom http://www.goldiproductions.com/Pages/BoerWar_Museum/Boer/Boer39_rare_pictures.html&h
Ermelo, Bethal

AFRICANS
The bloodiest of these engagements presaged the essence of postwar relations particularly in instances where African peasants and laborers were pitted against their putative landlords. 23 Two incidents from the second phase of the war bore this out: In late October or early November 1900, about six months after Pretoria had fallen to British forces, a squadron of British troops discovered the bodies of nine African men near the top of the Magaliesberg mountains. The bodies were lying in a heap. A number had been mutilated. Ears, tongues [End Page 97] and genitals had been cut off. Five were identified as Africans who had been in the service of British military intelligence. The other four had been tenants or laborers on Boer farms in British occupied portions of Rustenburg and Marico and had apparently offered information about the wartime activities of their landlords to British authorities.
The nine men had been tried by a hastily convened military tribunal. B.A. Klopper, the president of the Transvaal's Volksraad or parliament, convened the tribunal. Klopper also served as its presiding magistrate. All nine were condemned to death and summary execution followed. Hendrik Schoeman, the son of a Boer general who had defected to the British, and Piet Joubert, the son of the recently deceased General Commander of the republican army, were among those who acted as escorts for the nine.

A month later, some time in December 1900, a convoy of supply wagons, which was making its way to Rustenburg from Pretoria, was waylaid by a group of Boer guerillas under the command of Willem Barnard and Jan van Rensburg. Several of the African drivers escaped, but one named Franz was captured by the guerillas and brutally murdered. After binding Franz with ropes, Barnard and van Rensburg wrapped him in bucksail, stacked bags of oats on top of his body, dowsed him with paraffin, and set him alight. 24

The African drivers who had escaped described the gruesome incident to British officials. One, who was named Musilo, managed to flee to a small kopje or hillock from which he watched the murder. Another, who called himself Williams, also watched the murder from a safe distance. Williams and Musilo identified Barnard for British authorities among a group of Boer prisoners captured near the Mampas River on 1 July 1901. Two weeks later Barnard was processed and scheduled to be sent to Tucker's Island prison camp in Bermuda. His ship left Cape Town on 17 July 1901. Barnard had his sixteenth birthday shortly before his arrival in Bermuda. 25

24. See BPP, CD 822 LXIX (1901) "Case of Burning Native Franz Alive."
25. See BPP CD 822 LXIX (1901) "Case of Burning the Native Franz Alive"; see also FHACLDS microfilm 1295430, "Boer Prisoners of War: Index (compiled by British Military Intelligence, 1905); Bermuda Archives (Hamilton, Bermuda: henceforth BA), Government Despatches, 1901-1902, "Political Aspect of Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda" (memorandum of Lieutenant Colonel M. Quayle Jones: December 1901).

POW & CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Getuienis oor die Uitenhagekamp deur Mev WL van der Merwe, (gebore Jansen van Rensburg)
Mev WL van der Merwe, gebore Jansen van Rensburg, skryf: "My ma en ons ses kinders was in 'n tentjie saamgehok op Vredefortweg. Hier is my oudste suster oorlede."

"Ons is met perde- en beestrokke met alles wat ons had (en die was maar karig) na Uitenhage vervoer."

"Die reis het drie dae geduur sonder enige geriewe. As die trein langs die pad stilhou, het vrouens en kinders die gemakshuisies of die veld ingestorm om agter 'n bossie skuiling te soek, al is hy ook nie hoër as 'n miershoop nie. Die mans ook."

In die kamp het die dogters saam met die moeders gaan hout haal en op hulle koppe aangedra. Hulle het ook kans gekry om noem-noembessies te gaan pluk. Die dogters het strykwerk gedoen en kindertjies opgepas. Hier was die lewe baie beter as in die helkampe van die Vrystaat en Transvaal. Hier was selfs bad- en kookgeriewe.
Bron: http://www.myarkpark.com/decampcourant/uitenhage.htm

Klerksdorp Concentration Camp http://www.myarkpark.com/decampcourant/klerksdorp.htm
14 September. Klerksdorp konsentrasiekamp: Mev Hester Jacobs skryf: "Dié môre is ons aangesê om die aand op die stasie te wees om saam met driehonderd vroue en kinders na Natal te vertrek. Ons het ons tante, Bettie van Rensburg, gegroet naas die bed van haar sterwende kindjie."

14 September. Klerksdorp concentration camp: Mrs. Hester Jacobs writes: "This morning we were ordered to be at the station that evening. We and 300 other women and children were to be sent to Natal. We parted company with our Aunt, Bettie van Rensburg, who was standing next to the bed of her dying little child."


http://www.lichtenburg.co.za/krygs1.htm Altesame 30 Lichtenburg-Boere oor die ouderdom van 60 jaar is krygsgevange geneem, van wie sewe in Mei 1902 gevang is en dus nie weggestuur is nie.
Petrus Johannes Jansen van Rensburg van Rietdraai (64) is die eerste "Oupa" uit ons distrik wat gevang is toe hy op 16 Mei 1900 op sy plaas gevang is. Hy is egter Mafeking toe gestuur, en nie oorsee nie.

Anglo Boer Sources regarding van Rensburgs

Oorlogsmuseum van die Boererepublieke
Type Manuskrip
Reference 4503
Description: Venter-versameling.
Starting 1899
Ending 1902
Remarks Skenker: WD Venter.
+ Aantekeningboek: van inwoners van hut 7, Diyatalawa.
+ Naamlys: van inwoners van hut 33, Diyatalawa.
+ Pas: uitgereik aan NB Swart.
+ Aantekeningboek: sterfgevalle in Diyatalawa.
+ Aantekeningboek: van NJ van Rensburg, met notule.
+ Aantekeningboek: van vergadering, Diyatalawa, 17.10.1900.

Depot Oorlogsmuseum van die Boererepublieke
Type Manuskrip
Ref 3989
Description Korrespondensie.
Starting 19010715
Ending 19010715
Remarks Skenker: TJ van der Walt, 1967.
Summary + Korrespondensie, konsentrasiekamp: brief van J van Rensburg, uit Harrismith-konsentrasiekamp

TAB
Type Foto
Ref 13044
Description Boere-krygsgevangenes te Tintown, Ladysmith, Natal, in die hospitaal. 1. sers. McCarty. 2. NPJ van Rensburg van Soutpansberg. 3. CH van Staden van Waterberg. 4. MJ Pos van Pietersburg. 5. suster Hilda Talbot. 6. suster Annie Talbot.
Starting 19011001
Ending 19011001

TAB
Type Foto
Ref 31845
Description Krygsgevangenes op St. Helena. Mnr. Jacobus Hendrik van Rensburg - 16 jaar oud.
Starting 1900
Ending 0000
Remarks L Nicholson, Kuratrise Leeudoringstad Museum. A1497.

VAB
Type Foto
Ref 1274
Description Krygsgevangenes van Ceylon besig om te eet: v.l.n.r. is D Griesel, W Eksteen, T Goosen, T Zevenster, D Hennop, G Theron, T Adams, G Rood, P Cooper, G Bosch, T Botes, GG Buys, C van Rensburg en W Human.
Remarks Geskenk deur Renier.

VAB
Type Aanwins
Reference A155/202
Description PW Van Rensburg
Starting 1900
Ending 1902
Remarks 0,02m; 2 bande.
+ Anglo-Boereoorlog: twee boeke met note vir psalms en geestelike liedere opgestel deur Van Rensburg gedurende sy krygsgevangeneskap, Diyatalawa-kamp.

TAB
Type Aanwins
Reference W242
Description JA Janse van Rensburg
Starting 1810
Ending 1900
Remarks Skenker: JAJ van Rensburg, Pretoria, 1964; 0,09m; 1 band; Inventaris.
Summary + Lewensbeskrywing van JF Janse van Rensburg, 'n Vrystaatse burger, beskrywing van krygsgevangenekampe op St. Helena (Deadwood en Broadbottom).

Johannesburg Public Library
Source JPL Strange Collection
Type Manuscript
Description Mrs. Hendrina J Janse van Rensburg.
Starting 19000300
Ending 19011200
Remarks Available to researchers and post-graduate students.
Summary + Miscellaneous letters written before and during her imprisonment at Springfontein to her husband PW van Rensburg imprisoned at Diyatalawa, Ceylon; also correspondence in connection with her death.

THE BOER WAR.
MORE BOER ROUTS.
A LONG TOM DESTROYED.
LONDON, 2nd May.
Colonel Grenfell, of the 1st Life Guards, commanding Kitchener's Fighting Scouts, who recently captured Van Rensburg's laager at Klipdam, north-east of Kimberley, has followed up the fugitive Boers to Bergplaatz, 15 miles south-east of Warrenton. The Boers were posted on the Maenertberg Range, facing eastward, and had mounted a Long Tom (Creuzot 100 pounder), which opened fire on the British as they advanced over the plain, at a range of 10,000 yards (nearly six miles). Kitcheners Scouts immediately accelerated their advance, galloping forward at top speed under the big gun's fire until, when they were within 3000 yards, the Boers bolted, after having exploded their Long Tom, leaving it wrecked. Ten of the enemy were, however, captured in the pursuit.
Other columns in the Transvaal report skirmishes with commandoes, in which ten Boers have been killed, six wounded and six captured, while 60 have voluntarily surrendered. The ammunition captured from the Boers totalled 30,000 rounds.
The British casualties in these engagements totalled killed, four; wounded, seven.
THE AGE, FRIDAY, MAY 3rd, 1901

VAN RENSBURG BOER WAR PHOTOS
VAB
Type Foto
Reference 7887
Description Artillerie-groep met kanonne: o.a. nr. 3: kaptein Goodman, nr. 2: luitenant JA van Rensburg, nr. 1: sersant Sarel (Jan?) Massyn en nr. 4: luitenant EJ Holthuizen.
Starting 1870
Ending 1870
Remarks Skenker: dr. PJ Venter.

DEPOT TAB
TYPE Foto
REFERENCE 31726
DESCRIPTION Groepfoto van Verkennerskorps (Viljoen's Scouts) gestig deur
genl. Viljoen. V.l.n.r. Eerste Luitenant J Mellema, MJ Jordaan
(sittende) en dj. Van Rensburg.
REMARKS Oorgeplaas uit Wypkemaversameling.

KAB
Source Leica Collection
Type Photo
Reference L997
Description Group of officers, Orange Free State Artillery. Back row left to right: Artillery Comdt. Van Rensburg, Wilken, Van der Heever, trumpeter Coetzee, Commissariat Master Combrinck and Pretorius. Front row left to right: J Pieterse, Lieut. Smit, Capt. G Scheepers, Lieut, Oosthuizen, Capt. Smit, Lieut. Raubenheimer, Lieut. Uys, Artillery Comdt. Nel, chief bugler Oosthuizen and Artillery Comdt. Pieterse.

NAB
Type Photo
Reference C8590
Description Inscription on the side of marble memorial, erected in memory of those persons who died in the Merebank Refugee Camp near Pinetown, during the Anglo-Boer War. Catrina M Fleetwood, Aletta S v. Laggerenberg, Martha A Zwanepoel, Johanna W Esterhuisen, Gerhardus v. Niekerk, Gertruidus v. Aswegen, Johanna H Wentzel, Johannes G du Plooy. Elizabeth J Trypman, Magdalena Botes, Esther M Roux, Johanna W Noortman, Susanna A Muller, Martina J Kok, Gertruida M Coetzee, Isabella Scabort, Frans J v. Dyk, Francina E Bierman, Anna E Kloppers, ST v. Rensburg, Gertruida J Voster, Matthys D Botha, Maria J Smitha, Stephanus F. du Preez, Jacobus D Venter, Baby Wessels, Stephanus J Schoeman, Hester M Geldenhuis, Johanna M de Lange, Christina L v. Rooyen, Diedrik J Steenkamp, Johannes I Erasmus, Catrina M Valschenk, Roedolph J v. Tonder, Susanna E Combrink, Petronella J Betfort, Susanna J Pietersen, Jacoba W Slabberts, Marthinus J. Booysen, Johanna v. Rensburg, Abraham J Jooste, Dorothe J Joubert, Marthinus S Davids, Alettha M Kruger, Christina J v.d. Berg, Martha E Grobelaar, Maria H Viljoen, Margareths A Erasmus, Hendrik J Combrinck, Johanns P Botha, Johanns M Swarts, John A Nel.
Remarks Origin: Mr. JW Cronje. Remarks: A87/788.

NAB
Type Photo
Reference C8585
Description Inscription on the side of a marble memorial in the grounds of the Merebank Refugee Camp, erected in memory of those people who died during the Anglo-Boer War and were buried there: Ellie du Preez, Johanna E Buys, Louis Swart, Martha le Roux, Maria G Nel, Baby Labuschagne, Baby Buys, Andries JV Vuuren, Jan B Roets, Nicholas J de Bruyn, Hendrina G Botha, Sarel J Roos, Willem Potgieter, Baby Jooste, Sarah M Beukes, Maria J Harmse, Petrus Harmse, Heyla L Meyer, Magrita M. Otto, Petrus Naude, Alberta J Smith, Engela Meyer, Samuel J Tante, Anna E v.d. Berg, Maria M Pelzer, Martha D Swart, Janse P v. Rensburg, Baby Meane, Daniel C Oberholzer, Jacob v. Zyl.
Remarks Origin: Mr. JW Cronje. Remarks: A87/788.

TAB
Type Foto
Reference 13759
Description Mnr. Willie Stumpf, komdt. van die Vryheid Skietvereniging en aanvoerder van die Perdekommando, verwelkom die Vryheid Rapportryers by Stilwater, vanwaar hulle deur die Kommando na die feesterrein geleide gedoen is. Die Rapportryers staande v.l.n.r. MJ Joubert, J Dryer en PJ van Rensburg.

TAB
Type Foto
Reference 5421
Description Jacobus van Rensburg.
Remarks Staatsartillerie ZAR.

TAB
Type Foto
Reference 33766
Description Jacobus van Rensburg, Z.A.R. Staatsartillerie.
Remarks Dr. De Kock-versameling.

VAN RENSBURG LETTERS AND DIARIES
Depot Oorlogsmuseum van die Boererepublieke
Type Manuskrip
Reference 6222
Description Korrespondensie.
Starting 19000624
Ending 19000624
Remarks Skenker: dr. JJ Janse van Rensburg.
Summary + Korrespondensie te velde, Boere: 'n brief van NJ Janse van Rensburg aan sy vrou.

Depot KAB
Type Copy
Reference VC536
Description Telegram re General CF Beyers.
Starting 1914
Ending 1914
Remarks Photocopy (Dutch); 1 p.
Summary + Telegram from Minister of Defence to Commandant van Rensburg regarding Mrs. Beyers's intended visit to Vaal River where General Beyers drowned.

Nooit gevang nie. Publisher Johannesburg (Posbus 8124, Johannesburg) : Voortrekkerpers, 1940. Soos deur die weduwee A.G. Janse van Rensburg, toendertyd A.G. Olivier, aan Danie Stegman vertel.

South African National Library LOUIS GERBER COLLECTION
Manuscript notes on Olive Schreiner & federation (1908), headed 'From Miss Bertie van Rensburg', MS (copy), 3 leaves.

According to Cornelius Nohtling samhic1@absamail.co.za
Verskillende syfers word aangegee vir ongevalle in die 2de ABO. Prof Andre Wessels van UOVS stel dit as volg: Minstens 7 792 Britse soldate het gesneuwel aan wonde, 14 658 is aan siektes dood of in ongelukke gesterf. Sowat 3 997 Boere en medestryders (ander volke) het gesneuwel op die slagveld, 150 het verongeluk, en terwyl tussen 1 800 en 2 200 aan siektes en wondifenksies beswyk het. Hierby is nie ingesluit die burgerlike sterftes in veral die konsentrasiekampe nie. Daar is al gepraat van 27 000 Blankes en 14 000 Swartes.

GRAVE INFORMATION FROM GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF SA - ANGLO-BOER WAR

Van Rensburg, AM - Memorial list.
Ending 19011227
Remarks Nylstroom Concentration Camp, District Waterberg, Northern Province.
Summary +????Anna M van Rensburg of Doornfontein, Waterberg. Died ?????27-12-1901 of diarrhoea. Aged 13 years.

Van Rensburg, CJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19011105
Remarks Nylstroom Concentration Camp, District Waterberg, Northern Province.
Summary +????Cornelius J van Rensburg. Died 05-11-1901 of convulsions. ?????Aged 6 months.

Van Rensburg, ESJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19011212
Remarks Nylstroom Concentration Camp, District Waterberg, Northern Province.
Summary +????Elizabeth SJ van Rensburg. Died 12-12-1901 of whooping ?????cough. Aged 6 months.

Van Rensburg, GA - Memorial list.
Ending 19020103
Remarks Nylstroom Concentration Camp, District Waterberg, Northern Province.
Summary +????Getruida Aletta (or Gertruide Maria) van Rensburg of ?????Buffelsfontein, Waterberg. Died 03-01-1902 of abscess. Aged ?????20 (or 23) years.

Van Rensburg, GC - Memorial list.
Ending 19011124
Remarks Nylstroom Concentration Camp, District Waterberg, Northern Province.
Summary +????Gerhardus C van Rensburg of Tweefontein, Waterberg. Died ?????24-11-1901. Drowned. Aged 13 years.

Van Rensburg, JA - Memorial list.
Ending 19011006
Remarks Nylstroom Concentration Camp, District Waterberg, Northern Province.
Summary +????Jacoba A van Rensburg of Rietfontein, Waterberg. Died ?????06-10-1901 of malaria. Aged 20 years.

Van Rensburg, JM - Memorial list.
Ending 19011027
Remarks Nylstroom Concentration Camp, District Waterberg, Northern Province.
Summary +????Johs. M van Rensburg. Died 27-10-1901 of cancer. Aged 5 ?????months.

Van Rensburg, ZJJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19011206
Remarks Nylstroom Concentration Camp, District Waterberg, Northern Province.
Summary +????Zacharia JJ van Rensburg of Buffelsfontein, Waterberg. Died ?????06-12-1901 of diarrhoea. Aged 4 months.

Van Rensburg, CE - Memorial list.
Ending 19020202
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Catherina E van Rensburg of Landdrift, Waterberg. Died ?????02-02-1902. Aged 4 months.

Van Rensburg, CJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19010804
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Cornelis J van Rensburg of Doornfontein, Marabastad. Died ?????04-08-1901. Aged 1 year and 7 months.

Van Rensburg, JFJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19010725
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Johannes FJ van Rensburg of Rietvlei, Spelonken. Died ?????25-07-1901. Aged 6 years.

Van Rensburg, JJJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19011028
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Josephus JJ van Rensburg of Rustfontein, Spelonken. Died ?????28-10-1901. Aged 16 years.

Van Rensburg, JPJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19010908
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Joachim PJ van Rensburg of Kleinfontein, Spelonken. Died ?????08-09-1901. Aged 3 months.

Van Rensburg, LMJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19010716
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Louisa MJ van Rensburg of Houtboschberg. Died 16-07-1901. ?????Aged 18 years.

Van Rensburg, MA - Memorial list.
Ending 19010722
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Magdalena A van Rensburg of Rustfontein, Spelonken. Died ?????22-07-1901. Aged 12 years.

Van Rensburg, PJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19010623
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Petrus J van Rensburg of Doornfontein, Marabastad. Died ?????23-06-1901. Aged 3 years.

Van Rensburg, SEJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19010725
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Sesara EJ van Rensburg of Rietvlei, Spelonken. Died ?????25-07-1901. Aged 10 years.

Van Rensburg, WJJ - Memorial list.
Ending 19010721
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Wynand JJ van Rensburg of Rietvlei, Spelonken. Died ?????21-07-1901. Aged 8 years.

Venter, MSE - Memorial list.
Ending 19011001
Remarks Pietersburg Concentration Camp, Pietersburg District, Northern Province.
Summary +????Maria SE Venter, nee Rensburg of Kleinfontein, Spelonken. ?????Died 01-10-1901. Aged 58 years.

Van Rensburg, CCSJ - Gravestone.
Ending 1899
Remarks Concentration Camp Cemetery, Volksrust, Mpumalanga.
Summary +???CCSJ van Rensburg. Died between 1899 and 1901. Aged 49 ????years.

Van Rensburg, HJ - Gravestone.
Ending 1899
Remarks Concentration Camp Cemetery, Volksrust, Mpumalanga.
Summary +???HJ van Rensburg. Died between 1899 and 1901. Aged 73 years.

Van Rensburg, HJ - Gravestone.
Starting 18910323
Ending 19010726
Remarks Driefontein Cemetery, District Cradock, Eastern Cape.
Summary +????Hendrik Johannes van Rensburg. Born 23-03-1891. Died ?????26-07-1901. Eldest son of PW and SJ van Rensburg.

Van Rensburg, JCJ - Gravestone.
Ending 18991100
Remarks DRC Boer War Memorial, Rustenburg, North West Province.
Summary +????JCJ van Rensburg. Died between November 1899 and February ?????1900 at Derdepoort and environs. Killed in action.

Van Rensburg, JG - Gravestone.
Ending 19010217
Remarks Diyatalawa Concentration Camp Cemetery, Ceylon. Compiler: LE
Schmidt. Courtesy: Natal Midlands Branch, Genealogical Society of South Africa.
Summary + Jacobus George van Rensburg of Smithfield. Died 17-02-1901. Aged 26 years.

Van Rensburg, JJJ - Gravestone.
Ending 19000309
Remarks Driefontein Cemetery, District Cradock, Eastern Cape.
Summary +????JJJ van Rensburg. Died 09-03-1900. Aged 29 years and 11 months.

Van Rensburg, NM - Gravestone.
Starting 18990604
Ending 19001029
Remarks Kromdraai, Zaaihoek, District Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal.
Summary +????Nicolaas Marthinus van Rensburg. Born 04-06-1899. Died ?????29-10-1900. Son of H and M van Rensburg.

Jans van Rensburg, WC - Gravestone.
Ending 19011009
Remarks Knollcombe Cemetery, St. Helena. Compiler: S Hasler, 1986.
Summary + William Cornelius Jans van Rensburg (sic). Died 09-10-1901 in Jamestown. Aged 33 or 34 years. Cause of death: Dysentery.

On St Helena grave no 57 was for WJC van Rensburg age 33 years http://rapidttp.com/milhist/vol031js.html

Four brothers, b4c2d11e1f7g3 Cornelis Jacobus Petrus, g4 Willem Jacobus, g5 Jacobus Petrus and g6 Barend Johannes fought under veldkornet Gert Boshoff in the battles of Ladysmith, Spioenkop and Donkerhoek. Willem was also appointed as veldkornet. They fought to the end of the war. Jacobus Petrus was caught and sent as POW to India. Cornelis JP was wounded on the trek by Botha to Melmoth. A younger brother g9 Nicolaas Jacobus who was aged 11 also took up arms was caught by the English but due to his age and since he got rid of his arms in time was not sent away as a POW. (Photos of them are also found in booklet) PFS Janse van Rensburg, Stamboom van Barend Janse van Rensburg, p 19

b4c2d11e1f9g1 Nicolaas Jacobus was a Cape rebel he participated in the battle of Stormberg on 10 Dec 1899 under General Elias Grobler. PFS Janse van Rensburg, Stamboom van Barend Janse van Rensburg, p 20

Isopingo Konsentrasie Kamp. Name van mense gesterf. Die name is op 'n Monument by die St. James Kerk Isopingo.
Jans. F.C. van Rensburg 13j 26.09.1901

Krygsgevangenis kamp by Jacobs, Durban gesterf het.
Dit Monument is door De Provinciale Administratie Opgericht ter Gedagtenis
aan hen die in Jacobs Koncentratie Kamp Durban, Gestorven zijn tijdperk van
De Zuid-Afrikaanse Oorlog 1899 - 1902
En wier namen hierop vermeld staan.
Naam Ouderdom Gestorven
Jaca J. Van Rensburg 2j 05.10.1901

DEATHS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Mafeking Concentration Camp http://members.tripod.com/~Louis_Engelbrecht/mafeking.html

Name------------------ Gender ---Age----- from where
van Rensburg Anna K. ----f------- 10 ------- Wolmaranstad

van Rensburg Anna M.J. --f ------- 1 ------- Bloemhof

van Rensburg Johannes J.J. m ----- 5 ------- Bloemhof

van Rensburg Maria E.S. --f ------- 5 ------ Wolmaranstad

van Rensburg Maria J. ----f ------- 6 ------ Wolmaranstad

van Rensburg Martha J. -- f ------- 3 ------ Wolmaranstad

van Rensburg Nicolaas P. - m ------ 5 ------ Wolmaranstad

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Park/7152/genealogy/biography/evert02.htm
f4g6 Evert Frederik POTGIETER (seun van Johannes Marthinus POTGIETER en Alida Aletta VAN DER BERG) * 24 Feb 1885, Rietfontein, Bergville, Natal,1 ~ 26 Apr 1885,1 Beroep: boer, x Frankfort, OFS,1 Margaretha Josephina VAN RENSBURG, * 3 Sep 1901, Heilbron konsentrasiekamp.

VAN RENSBURG INVOLVED IN ANGLO-BOER WAR

Van Rensburg's Killed in Anglo Boer War. Taken from http://www.lib.sun.ac.za/roh/roh.exe?
Year / Surname / Initials / Rank / Date / Unit/ Corps / Place / War

1900 VAN RENSBURG A.A. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG B. Unk Reg218 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG C. Unk Reg182 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG C.C.S.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG C.P.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG D.H. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG F.A. Unk Reg200 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG F.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG H. Clerk Reg43 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG H.C. Unk Reg52 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG H.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG H.M. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG H.N. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG I.C. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J. (or S) Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J.B.L. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J.G.F. J Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J.J.H. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J.M.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J.N. Unk Reg167 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J.P. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J.P.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG J.S. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG L.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG M.E.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG M.J.P. Unk Reg27 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG M.P.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG N.B.J. Unk Reg193 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG N.J. Unk Reg188 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG P.B.J. Unk Reg218 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG P.C.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG P.J.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG S.F.P. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG S.J. Unk Reg167 Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG S.M.J. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2
1900 VAN RENSBURG W.N. Unk Unknown Infantry South Africa ABW2

Hier volg 'n lys van Burgers wat gesneuwel het in die stryd om die Stormberge.
(Rebelle van die Stormberge deur A.V.Oosthuizen) Die dorpe aangedui is waar hulle begrawe is. Lady Grey, Van Rensburg C.J. + 12-1-1901

In "Rebelle van die Stormberge", Oosthuizen writes the following:
"Die volgende burgers is op 11 Augustus 1906 in 'n heldeakker op Lady Grey herbegrawe: Bodenstein, J. Sneuwel op 4 September 1901 tydens Smuts se inval. Van Rensburg, C.J. Sneuwel op 12 Januarie 1901 in gevegte naby Aliwal Noord.

A disproportionate number of prisoners from Rustenburg and Marico had taken up arms for a second time after the collapse of the Middelburg Peace Conference in April 1901. Some were like Johannes Janse van Rensburg, a farmer from Kafferskraal, Rustenburg. Janse van Rensburg was captured on the slopes of the Magaliesberg Mountains with a cache of British weapons, equipment and preserved enemy body parts. He escaped for a third time some months after his capture.

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The Sufferings of the War / Die Lyding van die Oorlog (oor die 200 fotos, gedokter deur Paul Alberts)
Die boek is deur Kraal-uitgewers in Engels gedruk om 'n groter gehoor te kry.
Kraal Uitgewers met samewerking van Oorlogsmuseum
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Brandfort 9400
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Krygsgevangenes Diyatalawa OM 01481 Group photo on it is W van Rensburg

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