Ds. Franz Gustav Theodore Radloff ³³

Born: 9 Apr 1842, Bethanie, Orange Free State, South Africa
Marriage (1): Maria Phillipine Louisa Zietz in 1867
Marriage (2): Johanna Jacobine Josephine Bamberger on 1 Oct 1872 in Fraserburg, Cape Province, South Africa
Marriage (3): Anna Sophia Van Ryneveld on 7 Jul 1886 in Hopetown, Orange Free State, South Africa ³³
Died: 4 Oct 1928, Sea Point, Cape Province, South Africa aged 86
Buried: Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa

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Spouses/Children:

1. Maria Phillipine Louisa Zietz

2. Johanna Jacobine Josephine Bamberger

3. Anna Sophia Van Ryneveld

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

bullet Death Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1125951

And

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Dictionary%20of%20South%20African%20Biography/page_00821.pdf

And

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/3415
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 20310
PART 1
DESCRIPTION RADLOFF, FRANS GUSTAV THEODOR. ESTATE PAPERS.
STARTING 19280000
ENDING 19280000

And

Copy of Frans Gustav Theodor Radloff's Death Notice dated 16 Oct 1928 in RAB's possession.

bullet Burial Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1125951

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

• Children. Between his three wives, he had 13 children.
http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Dictionary%20of%20South%20African%20Biography/page_00822.pdf

And

http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000009851219320
This site maintains there is a son. Ds. Carl Hendrik Radloff.
There is no mention of him in his father's death cert as a deceased child. I am unconvinced. I think the Geni Ds.Carl Hendrik Radloff was born in 1851 and died in 1924.

• General Comment. There is a detailed article about Franz Gustav Theodore Radloff at:-
http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Dictionary%20of%20South%20African%20Biography/page_00822.pdf

Radloff, Frans Gustav Theodor (Subscriber Content) (*Bethanien, O.F.S., 9.4.1842 - † Cape Town, 4.10.1928), N.G. Kerk minister, was the eldest child of the Rev. Carl Lorentz Theodor Radloff, who came to South Africa in 1837 as a missionary of the Berlin mission society, and Henriette Pehmöller, his wife. Their influence on R. was reflected in his piety, diligence and perseverance. Leaving for Europe in 1854 with the Rev. Andrew Murray, the younger, at that time a minister in Bloemfontein, R. went to school in Hamburg and then in Lubeck. He then read theology at the universities of Erlangen and Utrecht and at New college, Edinburgh.

In 1868 he returned to South Africa to become principal of Grey college in Radloff, Frans Gustav Theodor (Subscriber Content) (*Bethanien, O.F.S., 9.4.1842 - † Cape Town, 4.10.1928), N.G. Kerk minister, was the eldest child of the Rev. Carl Lorentz Theodor Radloff, who came to South Africa in 1837 as a missionary of the Berlin mission society, and Henriette Pehmoller, his wife. Their influence on R. was reflected in his piety, diligence and perseverance.

Leaving for Europe in 1854 with the Rev. Andrew Murray, the younger, at that time a minister in Bloemfontein, R. went to school in Hamburg and then in Lubeck. He then read theology at the universities of Erlangen and Utrecht and at New college, Edinburgh.

In 1868 he returned to South Africa to become principal of Grey college in Bloemfontein. While at the college, he applied for ordination to the Winburg Bloemfontein. While at the college, he applied for ordination to the Winburg presbytery of the N.G. Kerk, and in January 1871 he was inducted as the minister of the Bloemfontein parish.

During his ministry there he was largely instrumental in building the historic twin-spired church in which later presidents of the Orange Free State were inaugurated. A strict disciplinarian adhering scrupulously to his principles, he did not, on occasion, hesitate to impress upon Pres. J. H. Brand his religious obligations, when Brand's church attendance was not satisfactory. Prominent in O.F.S. church affairs, he was assessor and scriba of the synod and helped to establish an official monthly publication, De Fakkel, of which he became the editor. As treasurer of the synod's mission committee he did much to increase funds, so that it was possible for the first mission minister in the O.F.S., the Rev. G. A. Maeder, to be inducted in 1874.

R. also did much to foster education in the O.F.S. As chairman of the Grey College committee, he was instrumental in putting this school, later the University of the Orange Free State, on a sound basis.

His most cherished ideal was a school for Afrikander girls, a need felt keenly in the republic. Having put the matter to the public at a meeting in 1873, he advocated it strongly at the synod of 1874. Under his leadership a committee collected about ¢G4,500, and the Eunice institute for girls was opened in Bloemfontein in June 1876. This school did pioneer work in the republic, not only as the first school for Afrikaans-speaking girls in the O.F.S., but as a training centre for women teachers.

Because of poor health, R. in 1881 accepted a call to the smaller congregation of Hoopstad, where he worked until 1898. From then, until his retirement in 1914, he served the Krugersdorp congregation. In both towns he advocated better educational facilities and more mission work. At Krugersdorp circumstances were difficult; within a year after his induction the Second Anglo-Boer War broke out. He accompanied the Boer commandos as a field-chaplain. After the war he helped to rehabilitate many Afrikanders on the Rand, and even after retirement temporarily served several other congregations.

He married three times. In 1867 he married Maria Zietz (.1870), daughter of Pastor J. H. Zietz, originally from Lubeck, Germany; in 1872 he married Johanna Bamberger (.1883), daughter of the Rev. C. A. Bamberger of Fraserburg, and in 1886 Anna van Ryneveld, daughter of landdrost D. J. van Ryneveld, of Hoopstad. He had thirteen children.

Apart from diligence as a minister, R.'s most valuable contribution was his work on synod committees and his support for education and mission work. His significance is that he laid the foundations on which others could build.

• Occupation. Minister Ned Ger Church in Bloemfontein, Hoopstad and Krugersdorp.

And

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Dictionary%20of%20South%20African%20Biography/page_00821.pdf

And

Copy of Frans Gustav Theodor Radloff's Death Notice dated 16 Oct 1928 in RAB's possession.

• Web Based Info. http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1125951

• Estate. National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/3415
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 20310
PART 1
DESCRIPTION RADLOFF, FRANS GUSTAV THEODOR. ESTATE PAPERS.
STARTING 19280000
ENDING 19280000

• General Comment. Copy of his wife, Johanna Jacobine Josephine Radloff's, Death Notice in RAB's possession. He signed her death notice.

Franz married Maria Phillipine Louisa Zietz on 7 Jul 1886 in Hopetown, Orange Free State, South Africa. (Maria Phillipine Louisa Zietz was born on 9 Oct 1844 in Lubeck, , Germany and died on 22 Oct 1870 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa.)

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

• Web Based Info. http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Dictionary%20of%20South%20African%20Biography/page_00822.pdf

Franz next married Johanna Jacobine Josephine Bamberger, daughter of Ds. Carl Arnoldus Bamberger and Susanna Francisca Theodora D'Heil, on 7 Jul 1886 in Hopetown, Orange Free State, South Africa. (Johanna Jacobine Josephine Bamberger was born on 16 Jun 1851 in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa, died on 11 Oct 1883 in Hope Town, Orange Free State, South Africa and was buried in Hope Town, Orange Free State, South Africa.)

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

• Web Based Info. http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Dictionary%20of%20South%20African%20Biography/page_00822.pdf

And

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/33858845/person/18545087366?ssrc=&ml_rpos=1

Franz next married Anna Sophia Van Ryneveld, daughter of Daniel Johannes Van Ryneveld and Anna Wilhelmina Johanna Carolina Truter, on 7 Jul 1886 in Hopetown, Orange Free State, South Africa.³³ (Anna Sophia Van Ryneveld was born on 19 Aug 1865 in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa, died on 15 Oct 1932 in Sea Point, Cape Province, South Africa and was buried in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa.)

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

• Web Based Info. http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Dictionary%20of%20South%20African%20Biography/page_00822.pdf

And

http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C2147779654

And

http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C2147779654
Name: Radloff, Franz Gustav Theodor
Age Of Groom: 44 Years
Occupation Of Groom: Predikant
Country Of Birth Of Groom: Hoopstad
Marital Status Of Groom: widower
Date Of Marriage: 07 July 1886
Surname Of Bride: Van Reyneveld
First Name Of Bride: Anna Sophia
Age Of Bride: 21 Years
Country Of Birth Of Bride: Hoopstad
Name Of Witness 1: Genis, P
Name Of Witness 2: Nowers, S
Surname Of Minister: Winter
First Name Of Minister: PA
Name Of Church: Hoopstad
Church Denomination: Nederduits Gereformeerde
Collection Name: Free State Marriages

• General Comment. Copy of Frans Gustav Theodor Radloff's Death Notice dated 16 Oct 1928 in RAB's possession.

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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.

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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

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Ds. Franz Gustav Theodore Radloff ³³