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Person PER-000179

Charles Patrick "Pat" Marincowitz

17 March 1924 – 2020 · Marincowitz line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Rondawel (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 1) (1954).

Names

Baptismal name
Charles Patrick
Called
Pat
Given
Charles Patrick
Surname
Marincowitz

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

Photographs

Anna Margaretha Marincowitz, born Oosthuizen, with her three sons in a photographer's studio against a painted...
Anna Margaretha Marincowitz, born Oosthuizen, with her three sons in a photographer's studio against a painted garden backdrop. She holds the baby, CHARLES PATRICK "PAT", in a long white gown; TOKKIE sits on a fleece-draped chair in a sailor suit; FREDDIE stands at the right in a matching suit, holding his cap. — Family collection
The same photograph of the three Marincowitz brothers and their mother, colourised.
The same photograph of the three Marincowitz brothers and their mother, colourised. — Family collection
The three Marincowitz brothers in a photographer's studio, all in white shirts and ties. TOKKIE stands behind in...
The three Marincowitz brothers in a photographer's studio, all in white shirts and ties. TOKKIE stands behind in long trousers with a belt, a hand on the back of a carved chair; PAT sits at the left on a folding bench with bare legs and short socks; FREDDIE sits at the right in shorts and long knitted socks. A painted panel and a window flat behind them. The print is mounted on an album page and inscribed below in ink: "Pat, Tokkie & Freddie." — Family collection
The same studio portrait of the three brothers, colourised.
The same studio portrait of the three brothers, colourised. — Family collection

Three generations around this person

Nicolaas James Marincowitz 1845 Catharina Maria Oosthuizen 1846
Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz 1875
Frederik Simon Oosthuizen 1856 Martha Maria Susanna Oosthuizen 1859
Anna Margaretha Oosthuizen 1879
Charles Patrick "Pat" Marincowitz 1924 Helena Marincowitz (nee Stemmet) 1931
Anna Mare Marincowiz 1957 Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz 1959

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Immediate family

Father
Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz
Mother
Anna Margaretha Oosthuizen
Brothers and sisters
Gert Annis Oosthuizen Marincowitz, ds Freddie S Marincowitz
Married
Helena Marincowitz (nee Stemmet)
Children
Anna Mare Marincowiz, Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz

1 further child is not published, living, or not shown to be deceased. They are counted here rather than left out, so the family does not appear to stop.

A life in the record

  1. 17 March 1924 born Born
  2. 1954 land Held it, Rondawel (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 1)
  3. 1966 event Deacon Pat Marincowitz gives the Zeekoegat church a second set of communion cups
    Pat Marincowitz of Sleutelfontein, brother of Tokkie (PER-000007) and of ds Freddie Marincowitz (PER-000060), who would conduct the service when the church was declared a National Monument.
  4. 2020 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Sources

  1. Rose Willis & Doreen Atkinson, "Zeekoegat: Explorations in the Koup Karoo" (2022) Karoo Development Foundation38pp cameo

Research notes

[SRC-074] Brother of Tokkie (PER-000007) and of ds Freddie Marincowitz (PER-000060). Almost certainly the Deacon Pat Marincowitz who gave the Zeekoegat church a set of silver communion cups in 1966 (STO-0006).

[1 Aug 2026, SRC-068 Zeekoegat cameo] CONFIRMED as the Deacon Pat Marincowitz who gave the communion cups in 1966 (EVT-000235), the cameo names him and his brother Freddie in the same passage. He and Helena farmed SLEUTELFONTEIN (PAR-000098). His subject was Karoo ecology: he found a pink nerine with a whitish throat fading to brown ON VREDENDAL (PAR-000006), and it turned out to grow nowhere else on earth, a single colony of about 400 plants near the Klein Waterval river, confirmed by the Kirstenbosch Amaryllidaceae authority Dr Desire Hayman and named NERINE MARINCOWITZII for him. He was an authority on buchu (thirteen species in the Swartberg, a Khoi word and a San medicine) and on kambro, Fockea edulis, which Leipoldt called "the white watery gold of the Karoo". He claimed to have crossed the Swartberg Pass every week for sixty years, driving it himself since 1946, and joined the group that fought to save its dry walling after the floods.

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