Varsche Fontein farm cemetery
7 graves recorded · 4 identified in this project · Varsche Fontein · 1848–1914
Eight inscribed stones plus several unmarked stone rectangles. Coordinate from the photographs' geotag; five exposures agree to within 2 m.
Where it is: -32.94608, 22.10828 · GGSA cemetery 6614 · Show it on the map
Who lies here
| Name | Born | Died | In this project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacobus Johannes Beukes (infant) | · | March 1913 buried | Jacobus Johannes Beukes (infant) |
| Aletta Sophia Jacoba Opperman, born Beukes | · | January 1922 buried | Aletta Sophia Jacoba Opperman (born Beukes) FS |
| M.J. Beukes, or a child of M.J. Beukes | · | 3 August 1907 buried | — |
| Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes | 1838 | 1914 | Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes FS |
| Maria Elizabeth Freysen | · | June 1902 buried | Maria Elizabeth Freysen (infant) FS |
| B. Storm | · | 1848 buried | — |
| M. Storm | · | 1849 buried | — |
A name links to its own photograph on the eGGSA site, which holds the picture of the stone. Names and dates in this table are eGGSA transcriptions except where a stone was read here.
Photographed here, not yet read
2 photographs of this ground carry a caption on eGGSA that nothing in this project has yet matched to a person. The words are eGGSA's transcription of the stone, kept exactly as written; nobody here has read the photograph. Each one links to its own page on their site.
How this ground connects to the others
- Botma burial ground, Vredendal / Gatsplaas (Spreeufontein Ptn 1) — these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel, Niehaus + Storm
- Botterkraal — these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
- Botterkraal farm cemetery, Jansenskraal 104 — these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
- Floriskraal 140_1, Botterkraal farm cemetery — these families married: Botes + Storm
- Kleinfontein farm cemetery, Bokfontein 94 — these families married: Niehaus + Storm
- Klipfontein 93 farm cemetery — these families married: Botes + Storm
- Kommetjieskraal (Venterskraal) — these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
- Kuierfontein farm cemetery, Veldmans River 9 — these families married: Koker + Storm, Botes + Storm
- Kweekkraal 92 farm cemetery — these families married: Botes + Storm
- Prince Albert Anglican cemetery, De Beer Street — these families married: Botes + Storm
- Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery — the same family lies in both
- Prince Albert NG Kerk memorial wall — these families married: Potgieter + Storm, Niehaus + Storm, Botes + Storm
- Prince Albert, Denneboom Erf cemetery — these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel, Niehaus + Storm, Botes + Storm
- Prince Albert, Stockenstrom Street (Lotz de Beer) cemetery — these families married: Potgieter + Storm, Botes + Storm
- Prince Albert, burial ground not identified — these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
- Rietvalley 91_1, Leeukraal farm cemetery — these families married: Botes + Storm
- Saairivier farm cemetery, Blaauw Draay 3 (second ground) — these families married: Botes + Storm
- Varsche Fontein - the single grave in the veld — the same family lies in both
- Vliegekraal — these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
- Weltevrede 150_1 farm cemetery — these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel, Botes + Storm
- Weltevrede 150_2, Vredehof farm cemetery — these families married: Botes + Storm
- Woltemade, Cape Town — these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
Drawn from this project's own parentage and marriages, never from a shared surname on its own.
The families buried here
Beukes · Freysen · Opperman · Storm
The album
See every photograph of this ground on eGGSA
The photographs are eGGSA's and stay on their site; this project links to them and does not copy them. Their albums are expressly incomplete, so a name missing here is not evidence that person is not buried here.
Written up
- The fifteenth of April, 1841
- Vredendal: three surnames on the stones, one family in the house
- Eight stones on Varsche Fontein
- Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
- The Prince Albert gold rush
- Four grandparents, four countries
- The van Rensburgs of the dry north
- The van der Merwes of the Hantam
- The men who drew the lines