Capt. Frederik Jacobus Kriel Van Ryneveld ^1,2

  Birth Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/97CP-T4V

And

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Genealogies%20of%20old%20South%20African%20Families/page_02861.pdf

And

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C953-39SY-R?i=26&cc=1910846

  Christening Notes:

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C953-39SY-R?i=26&cc=1910846

  Death Notes:

He was shot and killed with a poison arrow by a bushman.

Served under General Enslin in German East Africa: was a Captain. Appointed a Magistrate in Gobabis, South West Africa. Went after a Bushman who had committed a murder and was shot and killed by the Bushman with a bow and poisoned arrow.
Extract from Deneys Reitz : "No Outspan"
The Bushmen are a yellow skinned pigmy race standing about 4 ft. 6 in, and they have tremendously developed hind quarters which serve them like a camel's hump from which to draw on in lean periods
……the policeman said that he had been present when Mr. van Ryneveld, the Magistrate, had been killed the year before. They saw a Bushman running through the trees, and Mr. van Ryneveld, wishing to interrogate him, galloped forward to head him off. When brought to bay, he pulled out one of the tiny bows they carry and shot his captor with a poisoned dart at a range of a few feet. The Magistrate died in great agony in less than an hour, and by the next morning the body was so decomposed that it fell to pieces when they tried to handle it.
These little bows are about 2 inches long, beautifully fashioned from what appears to be rhino horn. The arrows are the size of a safety match, of heavy wood, the joints covered with a deadly poison brewed from some vegetable toxin or from putrid caterpillars, - no-one seems to know which. The arrows are carried in a tiny leather quiver and each has its point sheathed in grass to prevent accidental contact. The Bushman also carries his hunting bow and uses the little one much as a gangster might use his automatic.


https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/97CP-T4V

And

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Genealogies%20of%20old%20South%20African%20Families/page_02861.pdf

And

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/10361515/person/-349714011

And

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=788095

And

http://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/78.html
A San group under the leadership of the group leader Zameko fights the police near Gobabis (farm Alexeck of Mrs Bullik). The Gobabis magistrate, Frederick Jacobus Kriel van Ryneveld, is killed in the skirmish. Following this there are persistent reports linking a general rising to the eastern frontier and including the San among the rebels. Even the exiled Ovaherero leader, Samuel Maharero, is reportedly involved.

  Burial Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=788095

  Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=100300216231&lds=1®ion=0®ionfriendly=&juris1=&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=®ionfriendly=&juris1friendly=&juris2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly=

And

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/10361515/person/-349714011

• Occupation. Magistrate of Gobabis.
http://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/78.html

• General Comment. ² Served under General Enslin in German East Africa: was a Captain. Appointed a Magistrate in Gobabis, South West Africa. Went after a Bushman who had committed a murder and was shot and killed by the Bushman with a bow and poisoned arrow.
Extract from Deneys Reitz : "No Outspan"
The Bushmen are a yellow skinned pigmy race standing about 4 ft. 6 in, and they have tremendously developed hind quarters which serve them like a camel's hump from which to draw on in lean periods
……the policeman said that he had been present when Mr. van Ryneveld, the Magistrate, had been killed the year before. They saw a Bushman running through the trees, and Mr. van Ryneveld, wishing to interrogate him, galloped forward to head him off. When brought to bay, he pulled out one of the tiny bows they carry and shot his captor with a poisoned dart at a range of a few feet. The Magistrate died in great agony in less than an hour, and by the next morning the body was so decomposed that it fell to pieces when they tried to handle it.
These little bows are about 2 inches long, beautifully fashioned from what appears to be rhino horn. The arrows are the size of a safety match, of heavy wood, the joints covered with a deadly poison brewed from some vegetable toxin or from putrid caterpillars, - no-one seems to know which. The arrows are carried in a tiny leather quiver and each has its point sheathed in grass to prevent accidental contact. The Bushman also carries his hunting bow and uses the little one much as a gangster might use his automatic.

• General Comment. Copy of his father - Daniel Johannes Van Ryneveld's Death Notice # R756 undated in RAB's possession. He is recorded as a minor.

Frederik married Dorathea Magdalene Fraser, daughter of Alexander Fraser and Magdalena Mary Van Der Merwe, in 1912 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. (Dorathea Magdalene Fraser was born on 25 Oct 1896 in Tarkastad, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on 24 Feb 1974 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.)

  Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/10361515/person/-349714011

• General Comment. Copy of Dora Magdalena Van Ryneveld nee Fraser's Death Notice dd 1 Mar 1974 in RAB's possession.