James Clark

…Corrections → Nine years of his life that this archive did not have Published here as what the entry says , every line of it untested: Boesmanskool, 8 February 1828 Accepted by the LMS as a mission assistant and placed at the new station Boesmanskool — the present Bethulie — across the Orange, with James Clark , among the San . Boesmanskool is literally “Bushman school” , which is what John Montgomery called what he saw, in English, forty-five years afterwards. They are not the same place — Montgomery’s was at Koolskop where Colesberg now stands, and this is across the river — and this archive is not going to weld them because the words match.…

…Read it on The Kolbes → Basutoland Records (1883), p. 436. Frans Johannes Cornelis Cronje , sworn at Smithfield on 14 September 1858 : hunting in June 1831 , “We then met with the missionaries Kolbe and Klerk with some Bushmen at Bethulie.” “Klerk” is almost certainly James Clark , and the pairing is what identifies the Kolbe. Testimony taken to argue the land had been empty. Read it on The Kolbes → Moodie, Battles and Adventures (1888), p. 93. “A report from Commandant J. G. E. Kolbe to Commandant Botha, dated Platberg, 2nd Nov., 1867” — a document the Commandant wrote, summarised and not printed. The paragraph above it is the Rev.…

…8 Feb 1828 Accepted as a mission assistant and placed at the new station Boesmanskool — the present Bethulie — across the Orange, with James Clark , among the San . Nov 1828 Travels with John Melvill to the Caledon River valley , apparently as far as present-day Ladybrand : the earliest journey in the present Free State of which a written record survives — and he wrote it . Mar 1831 Transferred to the Griqua station Philippolis , with Melvill, and alone after Melvill leaves in March 1832. 25 May 1833 Ordained by T. Arbousset and E.…

…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.…

…SHE LEFT “A HUSBAND AND TWO LITTLE GIRLS”, and it is that line which lets the 1909 marriage notice call Amy a second daughter. The Werdmullers The Women James Clark Documented — — George Augustus Kolbe's colleague at the mission station Boesmanskool, the present Bethulie: the two were placed there together in 1828, and Clark's own letter of 31 December 1828 says they arrived in the beginning of May. He was named on the Bethulie page without a page of his own; this is it, and it holds only what the archive already says of him.…

…d to the Foreign Secretary.” It opens: “As I resided for NEARLY THREE YEARS among the Bushmen previous to my removal to this station …” and then says it outright — “WHEN I ARRIVED, IN APRIL, 1828, WITH MY COLLEAGUE, IN THE BUSHMAN COUNTRY.” AND HIS COLLEAGUE SAYS THE SAME THING FROM THE OTHER SIDE. The 1830 volume prints a letter from Mr James Clark, dated Bushman Station, near Caledon River, 31 December 1828 : Landdrost Stockenstrom of Graaff-Reinet and the Lieutenant-Governor asked him to begin a new station east of Philippolis near the Caledon, and “brother Kolbe and myself removed to this station, and arrived here in the beginning of MAY last.” TWO MEN, WRITING THREE YEARS APART AND NEITHER FOR THE RECORD, PUT HIM AT THE BUSHMAN STATION…

…He was named on the Bethulie page without a page of his own; this is it, and it holds only what the archive already says of him.…

…k reconstructed by this archive Jacob Dormehl reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Jacob van Staden reconstructed bef. 1902 no public link reconstructed by this archive Jacobus Frederik Borijoln Birth 1856 · with: Eilzabetta Marga Retha Christina Erasmus record ↗ South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Marriages, 1870-1931 James Clark reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive James Jonathan Keys reconstructed 18 Nov 1883 no public link reconstructed by this archive Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Jan Dirk Abram Frans van Niekerk the younger reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Jan Jacobus Lowies reconstructed — no public li…

…It dates his own arrival — “When I arrived, in April, 1828, with my colleague, in the Bushman country” — after “nearly three years among the Bushmen” , and carries his account of the people he worked among. The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle , 1830 James Clark , writing from the Bushman Station, near Caledon River, 31 December 1828 : “brother Kolbe and myself removed to this station, and arrived here in the beginning of May last.” Also the station's origin — Landdrost Stockenstrom and the Lieutenant-Governor asked for it, and farmers subscribed cattle. D. C. F.…