1882 -
Birth |
Ireland |
Died |
Ireland |
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Family |
Ellen McMillen |
Children |
| 1. Hugh Caldwell, b. 1880, Ireland |
+ | 2. John Jacob Caldwell, b. 10 May 1882, William Street, Derry, Ireland |
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Family |
Hugh Caldwell, b. Ireland |
Children |
| 1. Hugh Caldwell, b. 1880, Ireland |
+ | 2. John Jacob Caldwell, b. 10 May 1882, William Street, Derry, Ireland |
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1887 - 1953 (66 years)
Birth |
1887 |
Died |
Dec 1953 |
Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa |
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Family |
John Jacob Caldwell, b. 10 May 1882, William Street, Derry, Ireland [1] |
Married |
23 May 1911 |
Thaba 'Nchu, Free State, South Africa |
Children |
| 1. John Caldwell, b. 1914 |
+ | 2. Dorothy Aileen Caldwell, b. 31 Jul 1912, Cullinan, Transvaal, South Africa |
+ | 3. Thomas Henry Caldwell, b. 16 May 1918, Eastleigh, Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa |
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1914 -
Birth |
1914 |
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Father |
John Jacob Caldwell, b. 10 May 1882, William Street, Derry, Ireland |
Mother |
Hester Foley, b. 1887 |
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1912 - 1968 (56 years)
Birth |
31 Jul 1912 |
Cullinan, Transvaal, South Africa |
Died |
10 Dec 1968 |
Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa |
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Father |
John Jacob Caldwell, b. 10 May 1882, William Street, Derry, Ireland |
Mother |
Hester Foley, b. 1887 |
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Family |
Ronald Edgerton Bodley |
Married |
18 Sep 1936 |
Children |
| 1. Richard John Robert Bodley, b. 4 Mar 1939, Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
+ | 2. Penelope Anne Bodley |
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1918 - 1963 (45 years)
Birth |
16 May 1918 |
Eastleigh, Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa |
Died |
17 Nov 1963 |
Springs, Gauteng, South Africa |
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Father |
John Jacob Caldwell, b. 10 May 1882, William Street, Derry, Ireland |
Mother |
Hester Foley, b. 1887 |
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Family |
Sylvia Mavis Brett, b. 15 Oct 1920, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
Married |
5 Feb 1944 |
St Peter's Church, Brakpan, Transvaal, South Africa |
Children |
+ | 1. Jack Arthur Caldwell |
| 2. Rusleen Sylvia Caldwell |
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Name |
John Jacob Caldwell [1] |
Birth |
10 May 1882 |
William Street, Derry, Ireland [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa [1] |
Burial |
Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa [1] |
Person ID |
I164393 |
master |
Last Modified |
4 Apr 2019 |
Family |
Hester Foley, b. 1887 d. Dec 1953, Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa (Age 66 years) |
Marriage |
23 May 1911 |
Thaba 'Nchu, Free State, South Africa [1] |
Children |
| 1. John Caldwell, b. 1914 |
+ | 2. Dorothy Aileen Caldwell, b. 31 Jul 1912, Cullinan, Transvaal, South Africa d. 10 Dec 1968, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa (Age 56 years) |
+ | 3. Thomas Henry Caldwell, b. 16 May 1918, Eastleigh, Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa d. 17 Nov 1963, Springs, Gauteng, South Africa (Age 45 years) |
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Family ID |
F57986 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Last Modified |
4 Apr 2019 |
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Event Map |
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| Death - - Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa |
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| Burial - - Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa |
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| Marriage - 23 May 1911 - Thaba 'Nchu, Free State, South Africa |
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Notes |
- He was the son of bakers in Londonderry. He left home as did many Irish patriots to go to South Africa to fight the British; they hoped that defeat there would lead to freedom for Ireland. It was a family joke that he landed in Cape Town the day peace was declared and so decided to go to the Transvaal to seek his fortune and en route in Thaba Nchu he met my grandmother. How they communicated I do not know; maybe it was a much more complex love story than they ever told their two children.
He was killed in a mine accident.
On 23rd May 1911 when John Jacob was 29, he married Hester Foley, F, in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State, Union of South Africa. Born in 1887 in Unknown. Hester died in Brakpan Transvaal, Union of South Africa in Dec 1953, she was 66. Buried in 1953 in Grave 4397 English, Brakpan, Transvaal, Union of South Africa. Occupation: House Wife. Education: Unknown. Religion: Methodist.
Jack Caldwell had this to say about his grandmother:
"Hester Foley was my grandmother. English was not her language. She spoke only Afrikaans, saying that English was the language of the oppressor. Apparently her parents were farmers in the Transvaal at the start of the Boer war. Her father fled into the hills as did many Boer men. She and her mother were placed in the concentration camp in Taba Nchu by the British, or at least this is how she told us it occurred. She would speak English to the grandchildren on rare occasions. As my father told it, when his father died, she started a plant nursery. My father and Dorothy would go to the rubbish dumps (now called landfills) and would scrounge the tin cans, bringing them home to be cleaned and used as potting pots for the new plants which she would raise and sell to make money." [1]
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Sources |
- [S1404] Stefan Hrabar, Hrabar, Stefan, (stefanzh@iafrica.com) (Reliability: 2).
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