When John Andrew Truter was born in 1889, in Western Cape, South Africa, his father, Christian Michiel Lund Truter, was 38 and his mother, Susanna Wilhelmina Truter, was 32. He married Amy Oakes on 10 July 1915, in Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 8 July 1958, at the age of 69.
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Part of Zululand incorporated into British colony of Natal. King Solomon ka Dinizulu exiled.
British troops gather on the Transvaal border and ignore an ultimatum to disperse. The second Anglo-Boer War begins.
British Parliament enacts the South Africa Act, proposed constitution of Union of South Africa.
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Wilhelm.
German: variant of Prüter (see Prueter ).
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