Varsche Fontein - the single grave in the veld

1 graves recorded · Varsche Fontein

The 1874 G F Beukes stone stands on its own, away from the cemetery proper. Recorded as its own ground because it is one.

No coordinate is recorded for this ground, so it is not drawn on the map. A reading taken at the graves would put it there.

Who lies here

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.

How this ground connects to the others

• Botma burial ground, Vredendal / Gatsplaas (Spreeufontein Ptn 1): these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
• Botterkraal: these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
• Botterkraal farm cemetery, Jansenskraal 104: these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
• Kommetjieskraal (Venterskraal): these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
• Leeu Gamka, Main cemetery: these families married: Beukes + Freysen
• Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery: the same family lies in both
• Prince Albert, Denneboom Erf cemetery: these families married: Beukes + Freysen, Beukes + Swanepoel
• Prince Albert, burial ground not identified: these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
• Varsche Fontein farm cemetery: the same family lies in both
• Vliegekraal: these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
• Weltevrede 150_1 farm cemetery: these families married: Beukes + Swanepoel
• 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

Written up

• The aardvark's hole and the Gatsplaas gold rush, 1871-1892
• On 15 April 1841 loan ground becomes property
• Rondawel's history: from a widow's mark to today's Marincowitz farm
• The men who drew the boundary lines
• Eight stone graves on Varsche Fontein, 1848-1922
• Vredendal and its people
• The van der Merwes of the Hantam
• Four grandparents, four countries, from 1684
• The van Rensburgs