BCCDBritish Concentration Camps
of the South African War
1900-1902

Personal Details
Name:Master Frans Smartryk Wessels
Other Names:Frans Smartrijk
Born in camp? No
Date death:01/12/1901
Place of death:Harrismith RC
Age died:1 months 18 days
Died in camp? Yes
Cause of death:diarrhoea
Gender:male
Race:white
Marital status:single
Nationality:Free State
Registration as child:Yes
Unique ID:116031
Camp History
Name:Harrismith RC
Date arrival:04/08/1901
Age departure:1 m
Date departure:01/12/1901
Reason departure:death
Farm History
Name:Greyville
District:Harrismith
Relationships
Master Frans Smartryk Wessels (Frans Smartrijk)
      is the child of Mrs Anna Wessels (Anna Maria Catharina)
Sources
Title:RS 30 ORC DL
Type:Death lists
Location:National Archives, Pretoria
Reference No.:RS 30
Origin:Goldman
Notes:p.341
Title:Government Gazette of the Orange River Colony
Location:
Notes:20/12/1901, p.742
Title:SRC 80 Harrismith CR
Type:Camp register
Location:Free State Archives Repository
Reference No.:SRC 80
Notes:p.53


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.