BCCDBritish Concentration Camps
of the South African War
1900-1902

Personal Details
Name:Miss Annie Katrina Jacoba van der Merwe
Born in camp? No
Died in camp? No
Gender:female
Race:white
Marital status:single
Nationality:Free State
Notes:12/6/1901: About 5 ft 10 ins, brown hair, had a blackish dress on; superintendent believes the reason she decamped was because she did not get on with her parents on account of their being pro-British.
Unique ID:1783
Camp History
Name:Bethulie RC
Age departure:21
Date departure:26/06/1901
Date departure:26/6/1901
Reason departure:escaped
Farm History
Name:Weltevrede / Weltevreden
District:Smithfield
Sources
Title:SRC 08
Type:Correspondence
Location:VAB
Reference No.:08
Dates:June 1901
Notes:RC2651, 12/6/1901, Superintendent, Bethulie to CSRC


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.