Ds. Jacobus Van Belkum

Born: 2 Nov 1851, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Holland
Marriage (1): Anna Hermina Dekking on 15 Feb 1877 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Holland
Died: 5 Nov 1933, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa aged 82
Buried: Heidelberg, Transvaal, South Africa

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Spouses/Children:

1. Anna Hermina Dekking

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bullet Birth Notes:

VAN BELKUM, Ds. Jac. (2/11/1851-5/11/1933), ar. 1891 v. Leeuwarden, N.: 4 k.,
pred. N.H. Kerk, Heidelberg, Tv1.
http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/The%20Family%20Register%20of%20the%20South%20African%20Nation/page_01079.pdf

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http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=jacobus&gsfn_x=NIC&gsln=van+belkum&gsln_x=XO&cpxt=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=iof&cp=0&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=61279&recoff=9+10+11+35+50+51&db=wevri_NetherlandsBirth&indiv=1
Name: Jacobus [Van Belkum]
Gender: mannelijk (Male)
Birth Date: 2 nov 1851
Christening Place: Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
Father: Annee Marius Van Belkum
Mother: Catharina Van Der Werf
Citation: Burgerlijke Stand (Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland), Trouwen 1851 - 1852, Microfilm nr. 257178

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bullet Burial Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1520161

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

• Web Based Info. National Archives of South Africa

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DESCRIPTION DS. J VAN BELKUM RUSTENBURG (TIJDELIJK PRETORIA). ZENDT IN VERKLARING VAN ZIJN ZOON ANNEE AANGAANDE DE UITDRUKKINGEN, DIE HY GEBEZIGD HEEFT BETREFFENDE HET ONDERWIJS OP HET STAATS GYMNASIUM EN DE DENKBEELDEN VAN DR. BREYER, WAAROMTRENT VROEGER DOOR WAARNEMENDE INSPECTEUR MOERDIJK WERD GERAPPORTEERD.
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http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/33856409/person/18544845281

And

http://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-van-gelder-van-der-schoot/I21759.php

• General Comment. Van Belkum, Jacobus (Subscriber Content)

(*Leeuwarden, Friesland, 2.11.1851 - †Johannesburg, 4.11.1933), clergyman and a leading figure in the NH Kerk, was the son of Année Marius van Belkum and his wife, Catharina van der Werff.

Van B. was educated at the Old Burger Orphanage in Leeuwarden, the institution to which he and his brother Pieter were admitted on 8.9.1859. In 1876 he completed his theological studies at the University of Utrecht, but although he passed his doctoral examination he never had the opportunity of completing his thesis.

In the Netherlands Van B. was successively minister of the congregation of Varik (1877), Steenwijk (1882) and Zierikzee (1889), served on various provincial church committees, and was also on the synod of the Hervormde Kerk in the Netherlands. Through the envoy of the Transvaal Republic in the Netherlands, Beelaerts van Blokland,........ he received a call (November 1890) from the congregations of Rustenburg and Zeerust, and after first hesitating decided to accept it. Van B., who served these congregations from 1891 to 1903, next accepted a call from Heidelberg (Transvaal) serving there until 1927 when after fifty years of service he retired. After the unsuccessful church amalgamation of 1885 he made an important contribution towards the reorganization of members and congregations in the Western Transvaal.

During the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) Van B. visited the commandos regularly until he was sent to the concentration camp at Merebank. When the war was over he was one of the leading figures in the Eastern Transvaal helping to rebuild the church and the nation. He continued to play a leading part as church secretary of the General Assembly of the NH Kerk from 1897 to 1922, and was one of the founders of the NH Kerk's theological training, instituted in 1917 at the Transvaal University College (now the University of Pretoria). He was also one of the driving forces in the erection of the church's orphanage at Krugersdorp.

Van B. was the father of church journalism in the NH Kerk. In September 1899 he started the church monthly, De Hervormer, single-handed, but this came to an end because of the war. When hostilities ceased he started De Transvaalsche Kerkbode which did not last long either. In 1907, again single-handed, he started the Almanak voor de Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk of which he remained the editor until 1928. In 1909 he again published the church monthly, De Hervormer, which he was in charge of until 1928. Here he made a number of valuable contributions, his 'Brieven van Oom Sarel', in particular, being of great cultural-historical importance.

Van B. married Anna Hermina Dekking of Utrecht and had four sons and three daughters. There are photographs of him in the NH Kerk Archives.

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VAN BELKUM, Ds. Jac. (2/11/1851-5/11/1933), ar. 1891 v. Leeuwarden, N.: 4 k.,
pred. N.H. Kerk, Heidelberg, Tv1.

• Ancestors. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=jacobus&gsfn_x=NIC&gsln=van+belkum&gsln_x=XO&cpxt=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=iof&cp=0&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=61279&recoff=9+10+11+35+50+51&db=wevri_NetherlandsBirth&indiv=1

• Children. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/submitted/etd-10262005-141122/unrestricted/02chapter2.pdf

Van Belkum's student life came to an end when he was transferred to the Varik Community in November 1876. Before being ordained, Anna and Jac were married. Ds. J.C. Verhoeff married them in Utrecht on 15 Feb 1877. There were 4 sons and 5 daughters from the marriage.

Gerard Willem Van Belkum - 7 Dec 1878 Varik
Annee Marius Van Belkum - 15 Nov 1880 Varik
Gellius Van Belkum - 14 Mar 1882 Steenwijk
Aartje Catharina - 23 Oct 1883 Steenwijk
Catharina Aartje - 3 Sept 1885 Steenwijk
Maria Anna - 14 Jul 1888 Steenwijk - 13 Jan 1891
Jeanne - 16 May 1890 Zieriksee
Hermanus - 2 jun 1892 Rustenburg, South Africa
Anna Jacoba - 4 May 1894 Rustenburg, South Africa

Jacobus married Anna Hermina Dekking, daughter of Gerard Willem Dekking and Aartje Catharina Takke, on 15 Feb 1877 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Holland. (Anna Hermina Dekking was born on 2 Feb 1856 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Holland, died on 11 Jan 1935 in Heidelberg, Transvaal, South Africa and was buried in Heidelberg, Transvaal, South Africa.)

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

• Web Based Info. http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/33856409/person/18544845281

And

http://www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/collectie/burgerlijke-stand/utrecht/huwelijksregisters/1877/02/15

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