Barend Petrus Pretorius

Brief Life History of Barend Petrus

When Barend Petrus Pretorius was born on 11 September 1840, in Natal, South Africa, his father, Willem Jurgen Pretorius, was 31 and his mother, Johanna Catharina De Beer, was 28.

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Willem Jurgen Pretorius
1808–1889
Johanna Catharina De Beer
1812–1882
Hendrina Cecilia Susanna Pretorius
1831–
Johanna Catharina Pretorius
1834–1885
Gesina Johanna Helena Susanna Pretorius
1836–1912
Johannes Andries Pretorius
1838–
Barend Petrus Pretorius
1840–
Willem Petrus Pretorius
1842–1919
Jan Cornelius Pretorius
1845–1910
Catharina Maria Pretorius
1848–1891
Barend Petrus Pretorius
1850–1922
Johannes Hendrik Sebastian Pretorius
1856–1927

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    World Events (8)

    1852

    Sand River Convention. Britain recognizes Transvaal as the independent Afrikaner South African Republic.

    1856

    Xhosa cattle sacrifices lead to famine.

    1872

    Introduction of pass laws to control labor force in Kimberley diamond mines.

    Name Meaning

    Dutch and German: humanistic name derived from Latin praetor, the title of various officials in Republican and Imperial Rome, sometimes adopted as the Latinized form of Dutch De Preter, an occupational name for a supervisor, commissioner or curator, or of any of various German surnames meaning ‘leader’ or ‘headman’ (see Prator ). The surname Pretorius is by far most common in South Africa; in the Netherlands and Germany it is very rare. In North America, it is also an altered form of the more common German variant Prätorius.

    History: The progenitor of the South African bearers of the surname Pretorius was Johannes Pretorius, one of the earliest Dutch settlers in the Dutch Cape Colony. He was born in 1642 in Ouddorp in the Dutch province of South Holland to Wessel Schulte, known also as Wessel(ius) Pretorius. Johannes Pretorius settled in the Dutch Cape Colony in 1669, where he died in 1694. The city of Pretoria, executive capital of South Africa, is named after one of the most prominent of his descendants, Andries Pretorius (1798–1853), a leader of the Boers.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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