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Pioniers van die Paarl Die wêreld verander so vinning dat dit soms maklik is om te

vergeet van die pionierswerk wat Paarliete oor die jare gedoen het. Johann Claassen kyk na drie bekendes.

’n Pionier, so sê die Taal handleidings vir ons, is iemand wat nuwe paaie oopmaak, nuwe ondernemings begin, baanbrekerswerk gedoen het op ’n spesifieke gebied, ensovoorts. Daarvan het die Paarl nogal baie gehad oor die eeue. Ek het besluit om ’n wyle stil te staan by diegene wat in die 19de- en 20ste eeu baanbrekers op hul gebied was. Dit was taamlik moeilik om ’n keuse te maak tussen die vele baanbrekers en wat hierna volg, moenie vertolk word as sou ek hulle beskou as die belangrikste baanbrekers nie. Hulle inligting is bloot geredelik beskikbaar en beskik die Heemkring ook oor unieke beeld materiaal van sommige van die persone.

Abraham Izak Perold

Abraham is op 20.10.1880 in die Paarl gebore. Sy laerskool opleiding voltooi hy aan die Hugenote Gedenkskool in Daljosafat en daarna aan die Boys’ High School in Wellington waar hy ook dan in 1898 matrikuleer.

Aan die Victoria Kollege (later Universiteit Stellenbosch) neem hy die leiding met die stigting van die eerste wetenskaplike vereniging en word hy ook verkies tot die raad van die Studente-unie. Sy BA graad met hoofvakke wiskunde, fisika en skeikunde, verwerf hy in 1901 aan die Universiteit van die Kaap van Goeie Hoop (later Unisa). In

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Pioniers van die Paarl 1

History and botany 4

Dressing up 5

Ons boeke-versameling 7

Greening Paarl 8

Diamonds and gold 9

St Stephen’s Church 11

Nuwe publikasie 12

Nuut op ons webwerf 12

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1902 vertrek hy na Duitsland waar hy aan die Universiteit van Halle studeer met met behulp van ’n beurs en aan die einde van 1904 sy doktorsgraad verwerf.

Sy deeglike kennis van Afrikaans, Nederlands, Engels en Duits is nie genoeg nie en om te voldoen aan sy vader se wens dat hy ook Frans magtig moet wees, studeer hy in Parys, Frankryk en enkele jare daarna was hy ook ’n kenner van hierdie taal. Hy het ook ’n lewendige belangstelling in Spaans, Portugees en Italiaans gehad en dit alles het hom in staat gestel om vreemde literatuur te bestudeer. Terug in Suid-Afrika, word hy ’n lektor en later waarnemende hoogleraar in die Skeikunde aan die South African College.

Hy presteer op baie gebiede maar hy sal veral onthou word vir sy baanbrekerswerk op die gebied van die wynkunde en enologie. Die skep van nuwe tafel- en wyndruif variëteite lê hom na aan die hart en uiteindelik slaag hy daarin om ’n eerste vir Suid-Afrika , die Pinotage-wyndruif, aan die wynliefhebbers bekend te stel. Dit het hy reggekry deur die kultivars, Pinot Noir en Hermitage te kruis. Perold se betrokkenheid by die KWV het tot gevolg dat een van Suid-Afrika se beste uitvoerprodukte in daardie stadium, naamlik brandewyn, etlike toekennings verwerf het in die jare daarna.

Publikasies oor die wynbou, die geskiedenis van wyn en veral die bekende Handboek oor Wynbou wat ook in Engels vertaal is, het uit sy pen verskyn. Laasgenoemde is ook as handboek in Australië en Kalifornië gebruik.

Abraham was eers met Elizabeth Müller van Halle en daarna met Martha Winzer getroud. Hy sterf skielik op 11.12.1941 terwyl hy nog in diens van die KWV was.

Harry Ernest Victor Pickstone

Harry Pickstone is op 4.7.1865 in Engeland gebore en nadat hy in Kalifornië deeglike kennis opgedoen het van die vrugtebedryf, het hy in 1892 na die Kaap gekom. Met ’n lening van £100.00 wat hy met Cecil John Rhodes aangegaan het, begin hy in vennootskap met Sebastiaan van Reenen, ’n vrugtekwekery op Nooitgedacht in die Stellenbosch distrik. Na die beëindiging van hierdie vennootskap ontwikkel hy sy eie kwekery op die plaas Welvanpas van Dan Retief. Spoedig volg uitbreidings met takke te Hexrivier en Constantia.

In 1896 koop Harry die plase Meerlust, Delta en Lekkerwijn in die Groot-Drakenstein aan en brei hy sy kwekery-besigheid ook uit op hierdie plase. In hierdie stadium is Harry se metodes, meerdere kennis van die vrugtebedryf en sy entoesiasme reeds wyd bekend onder die Wes-Kaapse vrugteboere en word veral die Drakenstein gebied die toonaangewende vrugte produserende omgewing in die land. Hy word ook deur die Kaapse regering in diens geneem en gebruik om die boere met deskundige raad te voorsien.

Harry oorreed vir Rhodes om te belê in die vrugte bedryf en in 1898 stig hy (Harry) die Rhodes Fruit Farms met homself aan die hoof daarvan. Plaasbestuurders, wat veral hul kennis in Kalifornië opgedoen het, word aangestel en kort voor lank is dié onderneming die grootste


Abraham Persold en sy vrou Martel se graf in die Parys begraafplaas, Paarl. Foto: Alta Griffiths


enkele vrugte onderneming in die land! Behalwe ’n groter wordende binnelandse mark het uitvoer na veral Brittanje geweldig uitgebrei.

In 1901 publiseer hy die gesaghebbende publikasie, Hints on Fruit Growing, oor vrugteverbouing en daarna sou ook ander publikasies oor hierdie vakgebied volg. In 1913 stig Harry die firma HEV Pickstone en Broer (Edms.) Beperk met homself en sy broer as direkteure. Die kwekery word later verskuif na die plase Welgevonden en Watervliet in Simondium. Harry was ook die eienaar van ander plase in verskeie dele van die land maar het steeds tyd gevind om as voorsitter van verskeie landbou-organisasies waar te neem.

Hy was getroud met Louisa Hooff May en een seun is uit die huwelik gebore. Hy sterf op 1.11.1939 op sy plaas, Lekkerwijn.

Harry Pickstone word nie verniet die Vader van die Kaapse Vrugtebedryf genoem nie.

Leah Wilhelmina Goetham

Leah Wilhelmina Goetham, ook bekend as aunty Lu, aunty Lily of Miss Goetham. Sy was die sewende kind van Daniel Goetham en Lea Kasinga van die Ou Tuin, Paarl. Sy besluit reeds vroeg in haar lewe om ’n onderwyser te word en ná die voltooiing van haar skoolloopbaan gaan sy na die Lovedale Kollege in Alice, Oos-Kaap. Hierdie baie bekende kollege het in 1824 ontstaan as ’n Sendingstasie onder aanvoering van die sendelinge John Bennie en dr. John Love.

Leah se loopbaan begin aan die Mission High School, ’n drie-man skooltjie in Templierstraat, Paarl waar haar mede leerkragte mnr. Stephen Jephthah en juffrou Rosina Benjamin is. Onderwysers van kleur is destyds in hierdie skool opgelei ter verwerwing van die P.T3 sertifikaat. Met die opening van die Athlone Instituut, Noorder-Paarl in 1926, word sy en mnr. Jephthah daarheen oorgeplaas waar sy met groot sukses die vak, Huishoudkunde, doseer.

Sy word onthou as ’n streng, dog simpatieke, onderwyser wat haar leerders met groot respek behandel het ongeag die omstandighede waaruit hulle gekom het.

Sy leef en sterf in haar netjiese huisie in van der Lingen straat wat destyds deel was van die Ou Tuin.

Johann Claassen 


Harry Pickstone. Foto: Gribble Versameling, Drakenstein Heemkring

Bronne • Standard Encyclopedia of south Africa

(SESA) • Suid-Afrikaanse Biografiese Woordeboek

• Arendse, Ivan, Onse Mense. 2012 • Van der Walt, Koos, Die Paarl Vallei – 159

lewens 1687-2007. 2007 • Drakenstein Heemkring


History from a botanical perspective People have always been drawn to unusual plants, often collecting specimens to transplant in their own homes, or giving cuttings or seeds to other gardeners. These plants often hold keys to interesting botanical journeys.

The Melaleuca leucodendron tree is a good example of such a journey. It is also known as the Cajeput Tree - a name derived from the Malay word kayu putih meaning white wood. Melaleuca leucodendron is indigenous to Burma, the East Indies, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and eastern Australia. It can grow to a height of 20m and produces white bottle-brush like flowers.

Its leaves and twigs are used to make cajeput oil, an oil used in aromatherapy and to make decongestants and topical treaments for pain and inflammation. Tea tree oil - a similar product - is made from the leaves of M. alternifolia.

On a trip to Paarl October 1772 Anders Sparrman while standing at the door of the Koster’s house, noticed a Cataputia plant (possibly the Melaleuca leucodendron) growing nearby.

This prompted Sparrman to ask the owner if he made use of the seeds. “No, certainly not,” the Koster replied, but said that he did give them away to his friends.

It is interesting to note that at the time cajeput oil was being exported to Holland in copper flasks. The oil was described as pungent with a smell similar to that of camphor. The copper flasks in which the oil was exported gave the otherwise clear oil a distinctive green colour. In the early 19th century cajeput oil was seen as an effective remedy against cholera.

Source:

• McCulloch, JR. Dictionary of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (Vol.1), published by Thomas Wardle, Philadelphia, 1840

• Sparrman, A. Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope 1771-1776 (Vol.1). Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town

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Melaleuca leucodendron flowers (top) and characteristic paper-like bark - Wikimedia Commons

Anders Sparrman (1748-1820)

Sparrman was a Swedish botanist and zoologist who visited the Cape a number of times. The first was in 1765-1767 when employed by the Swedish East India Company.

In 1772 he joined Captain James Cook on an expedition to circumnavigate the globe. This was Cook’s second voyage to the Antarctic and South Seas. Cook’s two ships - the Resolution and Adventure - visited the Cape in 1772 and again in 1775. During the last visit Sparrman remained at the Cape and undertook pioneering journeys into the interior. He returned to Europe in May 1776.


Dressing up! Johann Claassen takes a brief look at tailors,

dressmakers and clothing shops

Today most of us visit a shop and buy new clothes. After trying on a few items, we leave with a well-fitting garment or outfit of our choice. A century ago this was less common, especially for women’s clothes, and travelling further back in time most of our ancestors’ garments were custom made, no matter their status.

Many of our Georgian forebears ordered bespoke clothing from professional garment makers, especially their outer wear, which required an experienced hand to achieve a good fit.

Men’s jackets, coats, waistcoats and breeches of sturdy cloth were usually made by skilled tailors, or a specialist breeches-maker.

Traditionally women also used male tailors for their gowns and cloaks, but during the 1700’s, female dressmakers known as mantua-makers gradually challenged male supremacy in garment making. Initially they were few in number and mainly served the wealthy.

By the mid to late 18th century even remote areas of the Southern Cape had its tailors like Daniel Kuhn from Swellendam. The Cape Colony had 18 tailors in the mid and late 1600’s, including a milliner. The French Huguenot Isaacq Taillefert (owner of the Paarl farms La Brie and Picardie), was the Cape’s first known milliner.

Some tailors and mantua-makers were also shopkeepers and stocked a range of fabrics and notions (haberdashery), even perhaps a

few made-up items – or they worked with customers’ own materials, bought elsewhere.

Sometimes clients visited the artisan’s premises, but it wasn’t uncommon for tailors and mantua-makers to execute the work in the customer’s own home. There were also travelling tailors who, with their journeymen, might visit a household once or twice annually, to make new clothes for the family, and complete the garment repairs and alterations that were a major aspect of a

tailor’s trade.

Entries in surviving household account books and other contemporary records, like those of DJ van Niekerk of Pontac , Paarl indicate that even ancestors on a modest income preferred an expert garment-maker to cut and style their precious material and

had some, if not all, of their principal garments made by professionals.

By contrast, inner garments and simple accessories were often assembled at home. Most of our female ancestors learned basic cutting and sewing skills and would generally make all or most of the household linen and small articles of dress, cutting out, stitching, altering and

mending shirts, shifts, aprons, handkerchiefs, caps, children’s frocks and under-petticoats for their own families.

Making shirts was regarded as a basic female duty, wives, mothers and sisters sewing shirts for their husbands, sons and brothers while they lived at home. If the women of a family were unable, for some reason, to make basic linen garments, then other women were hired to carry out the work. Women who undertook light sewing for a living were probably defined as a seamstresses, as



opposed to professional dressmakers. Such was the case with the Malan family of Riebeek-West who took in a seamstress by the name of Anna Johanna Schreuder. She was very good at her job and the Malan family rewarded her with a very valuable set of serviettes when she retired.

For the men who wanted to try their luck on the Goldfields up north, there was a special department in Henry Green’s shop in Paarl. Here you would find men’s ulsters and waterproofs, bags and blankets for the cold and rain.

Although off-the-peg clothing was readily available by the 1930’s, women often

preferred to make their own outfits. During the depression years many had no choice.

And then came the 50’s with the ducktails and their blue jeans and leather jackets. Their girls wore aggressive sweater-girl bras under tight tops; full skirts with yards of starched nylon net petticoats; wide belts, flat shoes and ankle socks. The scene was set for the next decade!

The late sixties brought the mini and started a public war driven by a Reverend Sexby. One Sunday morning he ordered five girls with mini-skirts out of his church. His fellow campaigner, Gert Yssel, who was a member of the National Association for Public Morality and Welfare, claimed that “Until the shameful parts of women are covered, I am convinced God will not fill the Vaal dam!”

Sources:

• Joyce, P ed. South Africa’s Yesterdays, Cape Town, 1981

• South African Genealogies, GISA, Stellenbosch, 2011

• Drakenstein Heemkring, Paarl • De Wet, GC, Die Vryliede en Vryswartes in

die Kaapse Nedersetting 1657-1707, Historiese Publikasie Vereniging. 1981.

• Wikipedia, www.wikipedia.com Johann Claassen 


Het Paarl District Advertentieblad, 30 May 1888

Het Paarl District Advertentieblad, 9 May 1888

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Die Heemkring se groeiende boeke-versameling Ons boekery bestaan uit ’n versameling boeke oor ’n wye spektrum van onderwerpe, maar uiteraard versamel ons hoofsaaklik publikasies wat handel oor Drakenstein, ons geskiedenis, families, opvoedkundige instellings en nywerhede. Omdat menige Hugenote hier gevestig is, sluit dit dus heelparty boeke in oor die Huguenote-families, hulle herkoms, plase, wonings en argitektuur.

In ons genealogiese afdeling probeer ons dus sodanige publikasies aanskaf en so het ons onlangs die gesaghebbende familieregister van die Viljoens in 4 dele, deur HC Viljoen verkry. Ander onlangse toevoegings is ook die van die Bruwer familie deur Vincent Bruwer en die Cillié’s van Rhebokskloof.

Die geskiedenis van Drakenstein se skole en kolleges is goed verteenwoordig op ons rakke, asook die van ons verskeie kerke. Ons het geskrifte van bekende kerkleiers soos ds. Andrew Murry. Die geskiedenis en persone van die Afrikaanse Taalbewegings word natuurlik ook goed verteenwoordig, onder andere verskeie publikasies van SJ du Toit.

Ons het boeke i.v.m. bekende nywerhede van die verlede, soos wamakery en verwante

bedrywe, ook ou-Kaapse meubels. Pragboeke oor argitektuur en artefakte sluit onder andere Victorian Buildings in South Africa deur Desirée Picton-Seymour en William Fehr se Skatte in die Kasteel de Goede Hoop in. Wat landbou betref het ons heelwat publikasies oor druiwe, wyn en brandewyn.

Op ons rakke het ons ook verskeie boeke oor die Groot Trek en die karakters wat in

hierdie geskiedenis groot rolle gespreel het. Daar is ook biografieë van onder andere Piet Retief en Sarel Cilliers.

Boeke oor die Anglo Boere-oorlog sluit beskrywings van veldslae en persoonlikhede in. Ons het ons D’Arbez se boek oor Paul Kruger - Van Schaapwagter tot President (1916), bekom. Ons besit ook biografieë van Koos de la Rey, Genl. Ben Bouwer, Jopie Fourie en andere. Uit dieselfde tyd word ook ’n biografie van Siener van Rensburg gevind. Hier is selfs boeke oor die musiek van die Boere in die

oorlogtyd, asook boerespyse: resepte van die krygers te

velde.

Ons boekery het onlangs ’n hupstoot gekry toe ons ’n groot versameling verkry het, waarin daar ’n heel paar gesogte titels is. Daaronder is verskye biografieë van onder andere NP van Wyk Louw, CJ Langenhoven, DJ Operman en CL Leipoldt.

’n Interessante en bruikbare werk vir leerders is FG Brownell se Nasionale en Provinsiale Simbole en flora- en fauna-embleme vir die Republiek van Suid-Afrika.

Christi Els 


Karel Schoeman het ons onlangs ’n kopie van sy boek geskenk.


The greening of Main Road, Paarl

The Drakenstein Heritage Foundation (DHF) is currently working on a project to replant Paarl’s Main Street. This letter by Dr Ivan Deacon was sent to all heritage practitioners in May 2014.

Drakenstein Heritage Foundation has pleasure in announcing that we have secured the support of Drakenstein Municipality in our quest to plant traditional English oak trees along Main road.

In practice it is difficult to execute such a plan due to unavoidable restrictions, such as a 2,5m wide sidewalk, 10m away from intersections, and underground cables and pipes.

A public-private approach should make a useful contribution.

The Parks, Sport and Recreational Section of the municipality will consequently donate a yearly budgeted number of trees to residents and businesses, to plant on their property, facing the street.

We estimate an average of two trees donated per suitable applicant. However, if there are participants with exceptional circumstances and suitable space, you may approach the Parks section for a few more.

The trees are two years old and the head of the parks section, Mr Albert van der Merwe, recommends digging a hole of one m by one m by one m, and filling it with an adequate compost in the soil mix.

Recipients will be asked to sign an undertaking to water the trees regularly and to take good care of them.

In the second leg of this initiative the municipal parks section will be active in filling gaps, plant replacement trees where stem rot threatens old trees, and utilising all available space on the public pavements along Main street.

For logistics and particulars, please phone: Anneline Louw at the Municipality, phone

021 807 4500 or cell 082 062 6536.

We should be mindful that Drakenstein Municipality covers an area of 1 538 km² with a population of 251 000 per Census

2011.

It is truly a huge task to protect our environment against urban degradation, a burden we all should gladly share.

Dr Ivan Deacon !


Zeederberg Square’s transformation in 1885

Today we tend to think of public gardens as municipal initiatives, but many of Paarl’s early gardens were developed by civic minded individuals. Zeederburg Square for instance used to be something of a dust bowl before Paarl’s magistrate decided to transform it into a garden. In September 1885 a team of workers were instructed to lay out paths and create lawns and flower beds. The magistrate also gifted a fountain and some goldfish.

P Wessels and B du Plessis bought pipes to channel their homes’ grey water into the furrow in the Main Street.

Paarl District Advertiser, 9 September 1885


Diamonds and gold, and the collapse of the Paarl Bank, 1890 The Drakenstein Heemkring has over the years collected a fair number of personal letters and artefacts. Recently, while sorting out the Marais file, we came across two letters written by Abraham Marais to his children. Marais was a director of the Paarl Bank, and the letters were written during one of the most dramatic periods in South African banking history. Here are two extracts:

18 Des. 1890 … Gy zult wel uit het Advertentieblad vernomen hebben van de ramp die ons getroffen heeft door de sluiting van de Paarlsche Bank, Den panischen schrik onder de menschen met den val van de Union en Cape of Good Hope Banken was zoo vreeselyk groot, dat de vaste deposita houders van Oost en West hun geld by ons en de WP Bank hier kwamen afgeven. Zoo dat van 1 July tot 1 Dec over de £40 000 over de toonbank aan goud moesten uitbetalen … Verleden Zondag 14 Dec hebben volgens besluit van de Synode een biddag in den namiddag waren de hede kerken alhier propvol -

22 Jan. 1891 …Al de zaken des tyds draaijen om een spil, de goudvelden en goud aandeelen.

Boom and bust Wild speculation in first diamond shares, and later gold shares, greed and an unregulated banking environment created the financial crisis which led to the collapse of one of the Cape’s oldest bank - the Cape of Good Hope Bank, as well as a number of small private banks. It all started with Kimberley’s diamond rush.

People flooded the northern Cape town and took enormous financial risks to ride the wave of good fortune. Between 1878 and 1891 the Cape exported more than £4m worth of diamands. With so much money to be made, banks provided start-up capital without asking for any security.

In 1881 Paarl’s Westelijke Provincie Bank - situated where Roodeberg Pharmacy is today -held £16,000 in cash deposits as security against loans of £339,000.

The early warning signs of rising debt among diamond speculators were quickly overshadowed by the frenzied rush to own gold shares. By 1888 there were 19 Transvaal gold companies trading on the London Stock Exchange. In 1889 telegraph lines between Johannesburg and Cape Town were said to be so overloaded, the exchange had a backlog of more than 7,000 messages.


Paarl District Advertiser: front page, Mei 1890


A bank inspector had this to say about the situation in 1889: :It is a matter for regret that so large a portion of bank business has to do with gold script speculation, and so small a proportion with commerce and trade.”

The bubble finally did burst in a rash of insolvencies and bankruptcies.

The shock waves culminated in the closure of the Union Bank in August 1890, followed by the Cape of Good Hope Bank. By December 1890, Paarl Bank had also closed its doors. By the end of 1892 there were only four banks left in the Cape Colony: the Standard Bank, the Bank of Africa, the African banking Corporation and the Stellenbosche Distriks Bank.

The situation in Paarl In 1890 the Westelijke Provincie Bank was Paarl’s largest bank, and supported by many of the town’s wagon industries and prominent wine farmers. The bank was however not immune to the banking crisis, and in 1891 it was taken over by the African Banking Corporation.

In 1891 the Bank of Africa also opened a branch in Paarl.

Standard Bank’s Paarl branch opened in 1878, and had among its clients the founder members of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners. When the Paarl Bank was liquidated, Standard Bank bought the former’s premises on Main Street (adjacent to the Heemkring).

So by the end of the 19th century, Paarl only had three banks left: the Standard Bank, the African Banking Corporation and the Bank of Africa.

Paarl Bank The Paarl Bank was founded in September 1853, and was liquidated in March 1891. The directors at the time were JA Bernhardi (chairman), PC le Roux, SV van Niekerk, PB de Ville, J Blignaut, AJ Marais (Jzn), G Joubert (Wzn), GJ Malherbe and FJ Hugo (Pzn).

On the 31 January 1891 the Paarl District Advertiser ran the following advertisement: De Paarlsche Bank in liquidatie - buitengewone belangrijke publieke verkoping van zeer kosbare vaste en losse goederen aan de Paarl op Maandag 9 Februarie.

Earlier that month the liquidators’ report attributed the bank’s collapse to “ernstige fouten van oordeel”.

Marguerite Lombard 


Gold syndicates in Paarl

The Paarl District Advertiser ran front page advertisements for gold syndicates throughout the period leading to the crash.

Then in February 1891 the shareholders of the Tweefontein Syndicaat held a meeting in Paarl to discuss its liquidation; and the Paarl Pretoria Goudmijn & Exploratie Maatschapij amalgamated with Centraal Langlaagte Goudmijn.

The Paarl Golden Calf Syndicaat also held a shareholders meeting in February 1891.


Getting to know our buildings

St Stephen’s Church, Paarl

The St Stephen’s parish was founded by Fr James Inglish, a priest in the Anglican Church, who started to work among residents of Noorde Paarl - or Lower Paarl as it was then called - in 1850. The parish school - St Stephens School - was founded four years later. The church building depicted in the photograph was consecrated on 7 August 1877 with Fr Arthur Fraenkel Jeffery as its minister.

When the Group Areas Act of 1961 was enforced in Paarl, Noorde Paarl was initially declared a "Coloured" area. "White" residents campaigned vigorously against this classification, and the area was subsequently reclassified as a "White" area. The Community Development Board subsequently bought the St Stephen's Church on 18 October 1979 for R50 000 and paid an additional R110 000 for its church hall, school, rectory, caretaker's cottage and graveyard in School Street. The government then sold the building to the Paarlberg Dutch Reformed Church for R20 000.

In 1998 the St Stephen’s congregation approached the Commission of Land Restitution in order to have the building returned to them. The church was finally returned to the St Stephens Congregation in 2003.

References: • Arendse, IHG - Ons Mense • Paarl Post, 24 April 2003 - Historic occasion as church is returned • Paarl Post, 30 April 2003 - End of ‘exile' !


St Stephens Church, Main Street, Noorde Paarl


Nuwe publikasie Ou koerante is ’n wonderlike bron van inligting vir mense wat besig is met hulle familie-navorsing.

By die Heemkring het ons onlangs begin om deur koerante soos De Paarl en die Paarl District Advertentieblad te werk om van hierdie inligting bymekaar te maak.

In die 19de eeu moes besighede en wynboere jaarliks aansoek doen vir lisensies om handel te dryf of om wyn te distilleer. Hierdie lyste gee nie net aansoekers se name nie, maar ook sy beroep, en in die geval van wynplase, die plase se name.

Uit hierdie aansoeke weet ons byvoorbeeld dat Paarl se bakkers was: JH Boddenryk, L Dornbrack, H van Heerden, A Fortuin, J Krige, J Arnold, Mev Herbert, FH Skead, JF de Villiers, LB Siebrits, Mev E Hauptfleisch en B Greef.

Die indeks (24 bladsye) is teen R30 beskikbaar, en kan van die Heemkring se webwerf bestel word.

Ons webwerf - Oude Woning Die volgende artikels is op ons webwerf, Oude Woning, gepubliseer en word gelys vir die wat enkeles miskien misgeloop het:

• Famous Hungarian violinist visits Paarl. In 1888 het die bekende Hongaarse violis, Ede Reményi ’n opvoering in die Paarl se stadsaal gegee. Hy was ’n tydgenoot en vriend van die komponis Johannes Brahms. [30 Junie, 2014]

• Drank lisensies wat in die Paarl uitgegee is - ’n voorsmaak van ons indeks van handels-lisensies wat in 1885 uitgegee is [2 Julie, 2014]

• Who can still recall these old car number plates? [5 Julie, 2014]

• Famous Fillis Circus visits Paarl in 1888 [8 Julie, 2014]

• Die geskiedenis van Paarl se Royal Baking Powder fabriek in Jan van Riebeekweg [8 Julie, 2014]

• ’n Brief aan die redakteur van die Paarl Post oor die toestand van die dorp se polisie se perde in 1931 [17 Julie, 2014]

• Diamant in Agter Paarl, a portrait of a farm in 1885 [17 Julie, 2014]

• HMS Drummond Castle almost claims the life of composer Rocco de Villiers [19 Julie, 2014]


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VOETNOTAS - Drakenstein Heemkring · 2014. 8. 6. · die eeue. Ek het besluit om ’n wyle stil te staan by diegene wat in die 19de- en 20ste eeu baanbrekers op hul gebied was. Dit