George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom

…The correction → And the prisoner of war is decided, in the other direction. At breakfast this archive gave the 1902 POW record — WO 108/368 , age 40, residence Wakkerstroom — to the man born in 1863, on the strength of the residence. By lunch it had withdrawn that, because he was thirty-nine. The stones close it: the other George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom was born 2 October 1861 , and was therefore exactly forty from October 1901 to October 1902 . The prisoner is the elder man. Published, withdrawn and reversed inside one day, and all three are on the corrections page, because a reader is owed the whole of that and not just the answer.…

…Feb 1826 Gerrit Jacobus Booÿsen and Isabella Frederika Coetsee 3 head born 19 Jan 1870 – Aug 1951 a record read here Married at Middelburg, 23 March 1896. Isabella Fredrika du Plessis Petrus Jacobus Booyzen 29 Dec 1904 – 7 Jun 1937 Gerhardus Jacobus Booyzen b. 15 May 1910 George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom and Martha Sophia Klopper 3 head born 29 Jul 1863 – 28 Sep 1954 a record read here The Wakkerstroom household, and it was written out in this archive's prose for weeks before any file would draw it. Married about 1885, she seventeen; their eldest was born at Wakkerstroom in 1886.…

…oho — baptised 2 Feb 1803, Westminster 1 Dec 1844, “Wurtemburg”, Colesberg George Augustus Kolbe of 1845 30 Sep 1845, baptised Colesberg 8 Mar 1846 — George Augustus Kolbe of 1914 2 Jul 1914 — George Augustus Kolbe of Bethulie 1869 — George Augustus Kolbe of Burgersdorp 2 Oct 1861, Burgersdorp 8 Nov 1934, Standerton — buried WAKKERSTROOM George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom 29 Jul 1863, baptised 11 Oct 1863 at Colesberg 28 Sep 1954, Wakkerstroom — aged 91 George Frederick Enslin — — George Kolbe — — Hester Gertina Susanna Joubert — — Ian Henry Kolbe of Linberg 1849 — James Clark — — Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849, baptised Fauresmith 9 Oct 1849 1924 Jane Day Kolbe bapt. 4 Jul 1819, ST ANNE’S SOHO — Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years 11 M…

…He is buried at WAKKERSTROOM although he died at Standerton, in the same cemetery as the other man of his name, TWO YEARS APART IN BIRTH AND TWENTY IN DEATH. AND THE BIRTH DATE DECIDES THE PRISONER: the 1902 POW record of WO 108/368 gives a George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom AGED 40, and a man born 2 October 1861 was forty from October 1901 to October 1902, where the other was thirty-nine all year. THE PRISONER IS THIS MAN. 17 SEPTEMBER 2026 — AND NOW HE HAS PARENTS. The last 214 images of the Burgersdorp baptism register, film 008039088, hold his font: BORN 2 OCTOBER 1861, BAPTISED 12 JANUARY 1862 AT BURGERSDORP, FATHER G. A.…

…Dead at twenty-five, four months before his brother Freddie. The stone at Wakkerstroom reads DAAN 1893–1918. Parents George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom 29 Jul 1863 – 28 Sep 1954 record Martha Sophia Klopper 27 May 1867 – 14 Oct 1950 — aged 83 record Daniel Jakobus Kolbe 3 May 1893 – 19 Jun 1918 Kolbe 2 siblings Maria Johanna Kolbe 26 Oct 1886 – 1 Oct 1953 Frederik Fortunatus Downing Kolbe 1891 – 2 Nov 1918 Three children, not the whole family. These are the three the archive holds documents for.…

…The reading that was published on 9 October said the image was not yet read and attributed Pretoria to the index. It is a reason the hedge is written every time. Parents George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom 29 Jul 1863 – 28 Sep 1954 record Martha Sophia Klopper 27 May 1867 – 14 Oct 1950 — aged 83 record Frederik Fortunatus Downing Kolbe 1891 – 2 Nov 1918 Kolbe married Hester Gertina Susanna Joubert record 1 child with Hester George Augustus Kolbe of 1914 b.…

…He is buried at WAKKERSTROOM although he died at Standerton, in the same cemetery as the other man of his name, TWO YEARS APART IN BIRTH AND TWENTY IN DEATH. AND THE BIRTH DATE DECIDES THE PRISONER: the 1902 POW record of WO 108/368 gives a George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom AGED 40, and a man born 2 October 1861 was forty from October 1901 to October 1902, where the other was thirty-nine all year. THE PRISONER IS THIS MAN. 17 SEPTEMBER 2026 — AND NOW HE HAS PARENTS. The last 214 images of the Burgersdorp baptism register, film 008039088, hold his font: BORN 2 OCTOBER 1861, BAPTISED 12 JANUARY 1862 AT BURGERSDORP, FATHER G. A.…

…Baptised at Colesberg in the year of his uncle Frederick Fortunatus Barry's birth. Married MARTHA SOPHIA KLOPPER, who was seventeen, about 1885; their eldest, Maria Johanna, was born at Wakkerstroom in 1886. AND HIS STONE SETTLES THE IDENTIFICATION BEYOND ARGUMENT: “VADER — GEORGE AUGUSTUS — GEB.…

…A correction here is filed against the page it changed, not against a person, so until now it could be read on the corrections register and nowhere else — least of all on the page of the person it was about. 14 Sep 2026 — The 1902 prisoner of war could not be assigned to either George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom Now it can, and the withdrawal of the morning is replaced by an answer rather than a shrug. BOTH MEN ARE BURIED IN THE SAME CEMETERY and both stones are read. The younger: “GEORGE AUGUSTUS — GEB. 29 JULIE 1863 — OORL. 28 SEPT. 1954”, which is the Colesberg font date to the day. The elder: “GEORGE AUGUSTUS KOLBE — GEB. 2 OKTOBER 1861 — OORL. 8 NOVEMBER 1934”.…

…Her 1953 estate file is the document that names the whole household: FATHER George Augustus Kolbe, MOTHER Martha Sophia Klopper, HUSBAND Charl Daniel van der Merwe. Her birthplace is entered as “Wakkerstroomn, Transvaal, Blanke Unie-burger” — the clerk's spelling, and the Union's category. Parents George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom 29 Jul 1863 – 28 Sep 1954 record Martha Sophia Klopper 27 May 1867 – 14 Oct 1950 — aged 83 record Maria Johanna Kolbe 26 Oct 1886 – 1 Oct 1953 Kolbe 2 siblings Frederik Fortunatus Downing Kolbe 1891 – 2 Nov 1918 Daniel Jakobus Kolbe 3 May 1893 – 19 Jun 1918 Three children, not the whole family. These are the three the archive holds documents for.…

…KLOPPER) — GEB. 27 MEI 1867 — OORL. 14 OKT. 1950 — Ons dank God elke maal as ons aan haar dink.” The birth is new; the death matches the civil register to the day. Married George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom AT SEVENTEEN, about 1885 — the fourth bride in this archive married before eighteen, and the third in the Kolbe line. Named as the mother on her daughter Maria Johanna's 1953 estate file, which is how this archive learnt she existed. She died four years before her husband.…

…The atlas → One correction on this site names Susanna Margaretha Swart. A correction here is filed against the page it changed, not against a person, so until now it could be read on the corrections register and nowhere else — least of all on the page of the person it was about. 14 Sep 2026 — George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom, born Colesberg 1863, was a prisoner of war in 1902 — “the fourth man of this family taken in that war” Withdrawn within the hour, and by the same record that produced it. The POW entry — WO 108/368, the master list of Boer prisoners numbers 1 to 32561 — gives RESIDENCE WAKKERSTROOM, which is what the claim was built on, and this archive stopped reading there.…

…1914 reconstructed 2 Jul 1914 no public link reconstructed by this archive George Augustus Kolbe of Bethulie reconstructed 1869 no public link reconstructed by this archive George Augustus Kolbe of Burgersdorp reconstructed 2 Oct 1861, Burgersdorp · 8 Nov 1934, Standerton — buried WAKKERSTROOM no public link reconstructed by this archive George Augustus Kolbe of Wakkerstroom reconstructed 29 Jul 1863, baptised 11 Oct 1863 at Colesberg · 28 Sep 1954, Wakkerstroom — aged 91 no public link reconstructed by this archive George Augustus Rolbe with: Anna Maria Vigoew record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 George G Kolbe Birth 1957 | Burial 5 Mar 1980 Cape Province, South Africa | Death 29 Feb 1980 record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 G…