David Arnold AndrewsAge: 85 years1880–1965
- Name
- David Arnold Andrews
- Given names
- David Arnold
- Surname
- Andrews
| Birth | January 25, 1880 Publication: Hugenote Genealogiereeks no. 2, Hugenote-Vereniging van Suid-Afrika, Franschhoek, 2009 Citation details: Deel 2, p438, b4c7d9e2f7g1. |
| War | from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (Age 10 months) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Boer_War Note: First Boer War
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| Economic Event | 1881 (Age 11 months) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barberton,_Mpumalanga#Gold Note: In 1881 gold in the Barberton area was discovered by Tom McLachlan who found alluvial gold at Jamestown. However due to the location (the hot lowveld region was rife with malaria) no-one wanted to go there until Auguste Roberts (French Bob) discovered gold in Concession Creek in 20 June 1883. This discovery resulted in a gold rush to the area
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| Economic Event | 1886 (Age 5 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_South_Africa Note: Discovery of the Main Reef in Witwatersrand. Gold rushes to Pilgrim's Rest and Barberton were precursors to the biggest discovery of all, the Main Reef/Main Reef Leader on Gerhardus Oosthuizen's farm Langlaagte, Portion C, in 1886, the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the subsequent rapid development of the gold field there, the biggest of them all.
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| Epidemic | February 1, 1901 (Age 21 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_South_Africa Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town
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| War | from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (Age 19 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War Note: Second Boer War
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| Historical Event | from 1852 to 1902 Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Republic Note: The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often referred to as the Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal, was an independent and internationally recognised country in Southern Africa from 1852 to 1902.
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| Historical Event | from 1854 to 1902 Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Free_State Note: The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje-Vrijstaat, Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province
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| Epidemic | February 1904 (Age 24 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_in_South_Africa Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg
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| Epidemic | 1906 (Age 25 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_in_South_Africa Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa
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| Marriage | Maria Margaretha Theron — View this family April 22, 1907 (Age 27 years) Publication: Hugenote Genealogiereeks no. 2, Hugenote-Vereniging van Suid-Afrika, Franschhoek, 2009 Citation details: Deel 2, p438, b4c7d9e2f7g1. |
| Historical Event | May 31, 1910 (Age 30 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa Note: Union of South Africa established
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| Epidemic | 1912 (Age 31 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_in_South_Africa Note: Smallpox outbreaks: The outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg and cases of smallpox are discovered in Durban
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| War | from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (Age 34 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I Note: World War I
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| Epidemic | 1918 (Age 37 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_in_South_Africa Note: Spanish flu: An estimated 500,000 people die from the Spanish flu epidemic in South Africa, the fifth hardest hit country in the world
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| Economic Event | October 1929 (Age 49 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://goo.gl/MgHbRM Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century
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| War | from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (Age 59 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II Note: World War II
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| Death of a wife | Maria Margaretha Theron January 16, 1953 (Age 72 years) Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library Citation details: Gravestone: Maria Margaretha THERON (1953) and David Arnold ANDREWS (1965), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1299330 : accessed 6 ct 2018 |
| Historical Event | February 14, 1961 (Age 81 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_South_Africa Note: Decimalisation of currency replaces the South African pound with the South African rand
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| Historical Event | May 31, 1961 (Age 81 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_South_Africa Note: South Africa becomes a republic
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| Death | April 12, 1965 (Age 85 years) Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library Citation details: Gravestone: Maria Margaretha THERON (1953) and David Arnold ANDREWS (1965), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1299330 : accessed 6 ct 2018 |
| Burial | Address: Main cemetery,
Kirkwood Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library Citation details: Gravestone: Maria Margaretha THERON (1953) and David Arnold ANDREWS (1965), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1299330 : accessed 6 ct 2018 |
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David Arnold Andrews was born on January 25, 1880 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape and died on April 12, 1965 at the age of 85. He marriedMaria Margaretha Theron , daughter ofPieter Willem Theron andJacoba Alida Weideman , on April 22, 1907 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. She was born on February 26, 1880 in Aberdeen, Eastern Cape and died on January 16, 1953 at the age of 72.