When Jan Sebastiaan Cilliers was born on 11 December 1870, in Cape Province, South Africa, his father, Abraham Albertus Celliers, was 24 and his mother, Rosa Hermina van Zyl, was 21. He married Sarah Jacoba Jordaan about 1901, in Cape Province, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 11 August 1948, in Cape Province, South Africa, at the age of 77, and was buried in Cape Province, South Africa.
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Introduction of pass laws to control labor force in Kimberley diamond mines.
Britain claims Walvis Bay.
Part of Zululand incorporated into British colony of Natal. King Solomon ka Dinizulu exiled.
French and English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Villiers, the name of several places in France, all named from Late Latin villare ‘(part of an) outlying farm, dependent settlement’ (see Villars ). Compare Devilliers .
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