Ian Henry Kolbe of Linberg

…On 21 September it was searched in the civil and church registers directly, and it turns out to be larger than the thing this archive was arguing about.…

…4 Jul 1819, ST ANNE’S SOHO — Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years 11 Mar 1906, Smithfield, Orange River Colony Johan Gottlieb Kolbe c.…

…Identified, unread, in Bloemfontein. The prisoners The Kolbes Nuno Fernando Lerena Documented 1924 1971 Her husband, married 15 Jan 1949 at St Joseph's, Mayfair. The Line Johannesburg Ian Henry Kolbe of Linberg also written JAN HENDRIK — this index renders Jan as “Ian”, systematically Documented 1849 — Taken prisoner in 1900, aged 51, at Linberg in the Bloemfontein district. TNA WO 108/368 folio 294. Sent to Cape Town. HIS NAME IS THE WARNING LABEL ON THIS WHOLE SET: it writes Jan as Ian, Willem as Williem and Petrus as Pietrus, so a search for JAN returns nothing at all.…

…AND ON 2 AUGUST 1869 HE AND HIS BROTHER TOOK CHURCH MEMBERSHIP AT BLOEMFONTEIN ON THE SAME DAY — “John Henry Kolbe” and “Willem Johannes Kolbe”, both entered that date in the Free State registers, which was Willem Johannes's twenty-second birthday and fifteen months after their father died. JOHN HENRY IS JAN HENDRIK ANGLICISED , and under that spelling the registers give him five children by Rose Maria McCabe: JOHN GERSON ELIEZER — the Commandant's name entire — Elizabeth Magdalena, Ada Francis, Anna Jacoba and Rosa Euphemia. A man names his eldest son after his own father, and this one did.…

…TNA WO 108/368 folio 294. Sent to Cape Town. HIS NAME IS THE WARNING LABEL ON THIS WHOLE SET: it writes Jan as Ian, Willem as Williem and Petrus as Pietrus, so a search for JAN returns nothing at all. Ian Henry Kolbe of Linberg b. 1849 Kolbe No household in this archive names this person, as a child or as a parent.…

…That is a statement about the sources, not about the person. Every record naming them → The record Name Ian Henry Kolbe of Linberg Also written JAN HENDRIK — this index renders Jan as “Ian”, systematically Born 1849 Died — Line Kolbe Confidence Documented What the archive holds Taken prisoner in 1900, aged 51, at Linberg in the Bloemfontein district. TNA WO 108/368 folio 294. Sent to Cape Town. HIS NAME IS THE WARNING LABEL ON THIS WHOLE SET: it writes Jan as Ian, Willem as Williem and Petrus as Pietrus, so a search for JAN returns nothing at all.…

…AND ON 2 AUGUST 1869 HE AND HIS BROTHER TOOK CHURCH MEMBERSHIP AT BLOEMFONTEIN ON THE SAME DAY — “John Henry Kolbe” and “Willem Johannes Kolbe”, both entered that date in the Free State registers, which was Willem Johannes's twenty-second birthday and fifteen months after their father died. JOHN HENRY IS JAN HENDRIK ANGLICISED , and under that spelling the registers give him five children by Rose Maria McCabe: JOHN GERSON ELIEZER — the Commandant's name entire — Elizabeth Magdalena, Ada Francis, Anna Jacoba and Rosa Euphemia. A man names his eldest son after his own father, and this one did.…

…A Geni profile for FREDERIK FORTUNATUS KOLBE, born 22 October 1857 at Bloemfontein and dead there 18 December 1930, gives him as SON OF COMMANDANT.GEN. JOHN GHERSON ELIEZER KOLBE AND ANNA JACOBA, and lists as his siblings CATHARINA WILHELMINA MAGDALENA PIENAAR ANDERSON, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, GENERAL WILLEM JOHANNES, JAN HENDRIK and PETRUS JACOBUS “and 6 others” — which is twelve. THIS IS FROM A USER TREE, NOT FROM A DOCUMENT, and none of the twelve is adopted here on it — it is a lead and not a witness.…

…That is a statement about the sources, not about the person. Every record naming them → The record Name John Henry Kolbe Also written married Matilda Ford, 1819 — and not the JOHN HENRY KOLBE of the Bloemfontein registers, who is JAN HENDRIK, born 1849 Born bapt. 29 Jul 1800, St James, Westminster Died 13 Apr 1832, buried 22 Apr 1832, German Lutheran Church Line Kolbe Confidence Documented From a tree not documented That Mary Ann Maria Ford Kolbe is his daughter. It rests on the forename Ford and nothing else; the certificate has not been ordered.…

…She married JAN HENDRIK KOLBE at Bloemfontein on 4 JUNE 1872, entered as seventeen and born about 1855 — and FRANCIS McCABE, whom the tree gives as her father, had died on the Modder River road on 23 FEBRUARY 1872, fifteen weeks before. A FIFTH BRIDE IN THIS ARCHIVE MARRIED BEFORE EIGHTEEN.…

…Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Herculas Hendrik Kolbe Probate Transvaal, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1961 Hester Gertina Susanna Kolbe Probate Transvaal, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1961 Ian Henry Kolbe of Linberg reconstructed 1849 no public link reconstructed by this archive Irene Pauline Kolbe Birth 1886 | Death 16 Aug 1959 Maitland, Cape Province, South Africa | Burial 18 Aug 1959 record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 Isabela Kolbe Death 2 Jun 1974 Maitland, Cape Province, South Africa | Birth 1910 | Burial 5 Jun 1974 record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 Isabella…