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Collection Nicolaas Johannes Brummer (1866-1947)

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Date: 1866 [unknown]
Location: Cape Colony, South Africamap
Surnames/tags: Brummer van_Zyl
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Notes, pictures, letters collected by Prof. Nicolaas Johannes Brümmer (1866-1947). Some of the Marais photos may come from his wife, Ettie Marais.

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Menslage, Germany

Hermann Arndt Maria Elsabein Brümmer, daughter of Hermann Arndt


Stamvader Johan Wichard, family

Johan Wichard Zacharia Margarietha Putter Johannes Gerhardus & family Michiel Johann Wichard & Elisabeth Putter Jan Wighard van Wasbank Jan Wighard van Wasbank & Anna Elisabeth Jacoba van der Merwe Andries Gotlieb & Johanna Augustina Muller Margaretha Zacharia Naudé Johan Wighard (1835) and (likely) his 1nd wife Catharina Willemina Jacomina Reeder Johan Wighard (1835) and (likely) his 2nd wife Susanna Catharina Werner


Jan van Wasbank, family

Anna Elisabeth van der Merwe, with Martha Sophia and Michiel Johannes Brümmer Anna Elisabeth van der Merwe, crop Michiel Johannes Brümmer, son of Jan van Wasbank Izaak Johannes Brummer (1838) with wife Francina Labuschagne, and daughter Cornelia Elisabeth Brümmer (Betta), 1841 Anna Elizabeth Jacoba Ekron, Toeke (1844 - 1938, married John Ekron) John Ekron (1842-1915), married Toeke Jacob Abraham Brümmer, Abram (1847) Catharina Johanna Elisabeth Smit (1854-1916), wife of Jacob Abraham Brümmer Andries Godlieb Brümmer (1849) and his wife Maria Magdalena Durandt (1852) Martha Sophia Brümmer (1855), married Adrian van Jaarsveld Adrian van Jaarsveld (1838), married to Martha Sophia Brümmer (1855)

Andries Godlieb, children

Carel Theodorus Muller & Johanna Sophia Jones Willem Hendrik Michael Johann Willem Hermanus & Cecilia Helena Soekoe

Barend Jacobus Brümmer, family

Barend Jacobus Johanna, Gerbrecht Johanna Brümmer Francois Stefanus Malan, husband of Johanna, Nancy marriage Barend Jacobus & Gerbrecht Wilhelmina van Zyl Nicolaas Johannes Gerbrecht Wilhelmina van Zyl (1849), married Barend Jacobus Brümmer Family picture of Barend Jacobus Brümmer, Gerbrecht Wilhelmina van Zyl, and children Gerbrecht Wilhelmina van Zijl and daughters Johanna, Martha, Nancy, ~1896 Martha Brümmer and her husband Eddie Smith, ~1897 Irene Smith in ~1901, daughter of Martha Brümmer and Eddie Smith Barkly East School, teacher Visser and children, Barend Jacobus at the back 4 Generations: Barend Jacobus, Ben, (Barend) Victor, Barend Denis Sephton

Nicolaas Johannes van Zyl, family

Nicolaas Johannes van Zyl, son of Jacobus Albertus Nicolaas Johannes van Zyl (1836) & wife Maria Elizabeth van der Wath Jacobus Albertus van Zyl (1834), husband of Cornelia Elisabeth Brümmer (Betta) Johan Christoffel van Zyl (1838) & Sara Johanna Lodewina Cronje Elizabeth Margeretha (Betta) van Zyl who married John Charles Church Cornelius Petrus van Zyl (1842) & Johanna Cristina Symms Frederik Johannes van Zyl (1844) & likely 2nd wife Catharina Aletta Roodt Petrus Jacobus van Zyl (1846) & one of his sons Willem Jacobus van Zyl (1846) & one of his sons Betta Church and six daughters Jan Abraham Christoffel van Zyl (Abraham), born 1851, and wife Lenie Hoffman

Prof. Nicolaas Johannes Brümmer, family

Nicolaas Johannes "Nichol" Brümmer, ~1935 Eerste leden Z.Afr Akademie voor Taal, Letteren, Kunst, 1910 Stellenbosch Theological Seminary, "Kweekschool", ~1894

Prof. Johannes Izak Marais, family

Family of Joh.Izak &. Hessie Marais, appr 1914

Others, somewhere Brümmer family tree

Sophia Maria Catharina, born 1867 - who was she?

Information about the pictures

Nicolaas Johannes was born in 1866 in the Dordrecht district, at a farm, went to school at Lady Grey, a town his father helped found, and then studied at Stellenbosch. Subsequently, he studied at Edinburgh, and travelled to the Netherlands and Germany, where he also met the relatives at Menslage. Back in South Africa he became professor of philosophy. He named his house on Rowanstreet in Stellenbosch "Menslage". He left a collection of notes, letters and pictures about his genealogical research, mainly on his Brümmer and van Zyl ancestors.

Some of these pictures were rather early portraits, in the Daguerrotype of Argandtype technique, and it is interesting in that context just to see how stiff people are sitting, while early photographers quickly tried to become creative and original as well. There are also two paintings of a man and woman of which family tradition says these were Johann Wichard and his wife. Some of the pictures are not easy to identify. There is a group picture from the marriage of Barend Jacobus, where not everybody has yet been identified. There is a beautiful picture of a Daguerrotype of Hermann Arnd, who remained at the family farm at Andorf, near Menslage.

Among the letters, there are three letters sent in 1808 by the first South African Brümmer, with the help of the dominee of Graaff-Reinet, and via a friend living in the Hague, addressed to the pfarrer in Menslage with the request to find the living Brümmer family there. Three somewhat different copies were sent with different travellers to Europe. Remember that this was during the Continental Blockade of the Napoleonic wars. These three letters form a fascinating historical remnant of that moment in time. Nicolaas Johannes later exchanged letters with the relatives in Menslage, who sent him the picture if Hermann Arndt, and Maria Elsebein. He also seem to have corresponded with the Brümmers in Zaandam.

Wiki-Technical: arranging pictures in the bio

Wikitree has a template mentioned in the photo FAQ Help:Photos FAQ, and described in more detail on its template page Template:Image. Important: the "{ { Clear } }" template forces rendering previous floating images, and starts a new paragraph.

The wikitree template was built on top of a 'mediawiki' template. It is a bit more compact, and I used it here, as it seemed to give me more precise control of size (it may be that the wikitree template can do the same tricks).

An example of how the images are added on this page is, using mediawiki template,: "[ [Image:Brummer-525.jpg|100px|Hermann Arndt] ]". (Delete the blank between the brackets to make them active).





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