BCCDBritish Concentration Camps
of the South African War
1900-1902

Personal Details
Name:Mr Nicholas Hendriks
Born in camp? No
Died in camp? No
Gender:male
Race:white
Marital status:widowed
Nationality:Free State
Registration as head of family:Yes
Notes:22/5/1901: has six small children, wife dead
Unique ID:1032
Camp History
Name:Springfontein RC
Notes:22/5/1901: Asks to go to Mafeting, Basutoland where he has friends; he is short of money having had £600 stolen by a patrol of Col White's column. Two witnesses can testify to this.
29/5/1901: Resident Commissioner at Maseru doesn't want him at Mafeteng, which is already overcrowded with refugees.
Sources
Title:SRC 07
Type:Correspondence
Location:VAB
Reference No.:07
Dates:May 1901
Notes:RC2132, Superintendent, Springfontein to CSRC and related correspondence


Acknowledgments: The project was funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is not responsible for the contents of the database. The help of the following research assistants is gratefully acknowledged: Ryna Boshoff, Murray Gorman, Janie Grobler, Marelize Grobler, Luke Humby, Clare O’Reilly Jacomina Roose, Elsa Strydom, Mary van Blerk. Thanks also go to Peter Dennis for the design of the original database and to Dr Iain Smith, co-grantholder.