Helena Marincowitz, Prince Albert and the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Fransie Pienaar Museum, Prince Albert, 1999
local history · · consulted 2026-09-07
- Type
- local history
- Repository
- Fransie Pienaar Museum, Prince Albert
- Reference
- Marincowitz, Helena (1999): Prince Albert and the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Prince Albert, Fransie Pienaar Museum. 51 pp. Read in full from pp.4-51; pp.1-3 (cover, title, contents) not photographed.
- Consulted
- 2026-09-07
The citation as it was given
READ IN FULL 7 Sep 2026, from photographs of Frans's own copy. Transcription at sources/marincowitz-1999-abw/TRANSCRIPTION.md, which is a RESEARCH RECORD AND IS NOT PUBLISHED: the book is in copyright, and the transcription deliberately carries no doc_id so the build's transcription collector skips it. Facts and short quotations go on the pages, always named to the author. THIS ROW USED TO BUNDLE TWO WORKS and said 'NOT YET READ'. The other work, an undated booklet 'Klaarstroom' by the same author, is now SRC-631: a source row is one work, and the id stays with the work everything already cites, which is this one. Its 51 pages carry the war-grave material that Rose Willis's cameo (SRC-010) and the eGGSA caption (SRC-625) both cite at second hand, and this project cited at third hand for a month. WHAT IT SETTLES, and it is the whole Remhoogte question: p.13 says Johannes Kleu 'was seriously wounded and was left behind with the Du Plessis family at Remhoogte. He died and was buried on the farm. Kleu had joined Scheepers' commando at Aberdeen early in January 1901.' p.45 says the grave is 'in Wolwekloof near the present farm homestead'. p.34 carries the du Plessis family's OWN account, taken from an eyewitness in 1977 (SRC-632). THE AUTHOR IS IN THIS MODEL. Helena Marincowitz (nee Stemmet), PER-000945, 1931-2007, married Charles Patrick 'Pat' Marincowitz. A Marincowitz wrote this district's history, and two of the interviews she collected are from her own husband's family. IT IS A LOCAL HISTORY AND IT IS NOT A REGISTER. It cites the Oudtshoorn Courant, Dr P.C. Luttig's diary, Taffy Shearing and Sharrad Gilbert, and it names its informants - which is better than most works of its kind and still not a primary record. Dates taken from it are as good as its own sources. Its one visible internal contradiction: Scheepers' capture is dated 11 October 1901 on pp.28 and 33 and 1 October 1901 on p.31.
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
What rests on this source
Farms
People
- Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz 9 September 1875 – 8 October 1952
- Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen (b.1912) 28 June 1912 – 21 January 2001
- Anna Margaretha Oosthuizen 5 October 1879 – 3 December 1973
- Johannes Kleu (d. 1901, Remhoogte) about 1878 – 2 February 1901
- Helena Marincowitz (nee Stemmet) 1931 – 9 July 2007
- Roelof du Plessis (Remhoogte)
- Miemie de Wit (nee du Plessis) about 1891 – 1978
- Christiaan 'Kraffie' de Wit (Scholtzkloof)
- Lenie du Plessis (Remhoogte)