BCCDBritish Concentration Camps
of the South African War
1900-1902

Personal Details
Name:Mrs Cornelia Booysen
Other Names:Booijsen, Cornelia Dorothea
Born in camp? No
Age died:
Died in camp? No
Gender:female
Race:white
Marital status:widowed
Nationality:Transvaal
Unique ID:87883
Camp History
Name:Middelburg RC
Age arrival:23
Date arrival:01/03/1902
Tent number:2045/Block C
Name:Jacobs Siding RC
Age arrival:26
Date arrival:20/03/1902
Date departure:21/05/1902
Reason departure:left to join mother at
Destination:Merebank
Tent number:638 / 2373
Name:Merebank RC
Age arrival:26
Date arrival:21/05/1901
Date departure:30/08/1902
Reason departure:to
Destination:Balmoral
Tent number:2346 / 8889
Farm History
Name:Grootpan
District:Bethal
Status
Type:widow
Sources
Title:DBC 84 Middelburg CR
Type:Camp register
Location:National Archives, Pretoria
Reference No.:DBC 84
Notes:p. 354
Title:DBC 118 Jacobs Siding CR
Type:Camp register
Notes:p. 83
Title:DBC 126 Merebank RC
Type:Camp register
Location:National Archives, Pretoria
Reference No.:DBC 126
Notes:p. 78, 97


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.