Stephanus Jacobus Meintjies

Born: 19 Feb 1819, Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province, South Africa
Marriage (1): Elizabeth Catharina Johanna Magdalena Schmidtz on 25 Feb 1839 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province, South Africa
Died: 1887 aged 68

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Elizabeth Catharina Johanna Magdalena Schmidtz

Cecilia Meintjies+

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

http://www.geni.com/people/Stephanus-Jacobus-Meintjies/4046314226790120559?through=4046324519070128202

And

Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/Meintjes/BookV10.pdf

bullet Death Notes:

http://www.geni.com/people/Stephanus-Jacobus-Meintjies/4046314226790120559?through=4046324519070128202

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.geni.com/people/Cecilia-Meintjies/4046324519070128202

• General Comment. Meintjieskop is a hill in Pretoria on which the Union Buildings (die Uniegebou(e) in Afrikaans) were constructed.

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, later to become first president of the Transvaal Republic, was the original owner of the farm 'Elandsfontein' on which Meintjieskop stands. In 1856 Andries Francois du Toit (1813\endash 1883), in exchange for a Basuto pony, acquired part of the farm, which he named 'Arcadia'.[1] He was also Pretoria's first magistrate and was responsible for planning the layout of the city. During this period he sold his land for £1200 to Stephanus Jacobus Meintjies (1819\endash 1887), and by 1870 it bore the name Meintjieskop.

Meintjieskop is part of the Witwatersberg Ridge, which runs east-west through Pretoria. Geologically it forms part of the Pretoria Group of the Transvaal sequence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meintjieskop

• Occupation. http://www.e-family.co.za/Meintjes/BookV10.pdf
Attorney and later an advocate of the supreme court.

Stephanus married Elizabeth Catharina Johanna Magdalena Schmidtz on 25 Feb 1839 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province, South Africa. (Elizabeth Catharina Johanna Magdalena Schmidtz was born about 1819.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.familiebande.co.za/tng/getperson.php?personID=I1004&tree=tree1

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There will inevitably be errors and omissions and the whole purpose of creating this online record, is to invite feedback and corrections.
The data is specifically for non-commercial use and my clear intention is to build family records. The data may, therefore, not be used in any way for the purposes of financial gain.

Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years