STEAM TRAINS; AUSTRALIA

This little green steam engine was built by retired railway staff in Australia. The engine driver of this machine was once a fireman for our dad, Barend Petrus De Bee,r on the Bloemfontein traject to Noupoort in the Northern Cape.

PUFFING BILLY IN AUSTRALIA

My youngest brother, Floris Petrus De Beer (Fonnie)'s eldest son Neil and his family emigrated to Australia.  When Fonnie spoke Afrikaans to his son next to an amateur locomotive, the enginedriver warned them that he also understands Afrikaans. They discovered that the driver was not only from South Africa, but actually stoked locomotives for our father in Bloemfontein !!!

BAREND PETRUS DE BEER FAMILY LINE

According to the research of D & J De Beer: DIE DE BEER-FAMILIE. Drie eeue in Suid-Afrika (Afrkaans title) ISBN 978-0-620-47855-7 (Cf. Family Origins GEN2SA V.5.42) August 2010,  Karel Johannes De Beer derives from the Barend Petrus De Beer-family tree:

• Father : Barend Petrus De Beer *Born in Petrusburg, Orange Free State, South Africa on 26 May 1923 and died +18 August 2006 , buried in the private cemetery of the Nederduits-Gereformeerde Church yard, Pellisierpark, Bloemfontein.

• Father's grandfather, Barend Petrus De Beer: *Born in Graaff -Reinet on 4May 1842 and died  + 9April 1904, buried in the Anglo Boer War Cemetery at Petrusburg.

• Father's great, great grandfather, Barent (d) Petrus De Beer: *Born in Graaff -Reinet on 26January 1817 in the Northern Cape and died +28February 1894, buried in the family churchyard on the farm, INHOEK, three kilometers West from Petrusburg. (See previous published photographs on my Blog of eroded tombstones.)

• The latter's father, Barend Petrus De Beer: *Born on the farm, SNEEUBERG, Graaff-Reinet, 30September 1789 in theNorthern Cape and died on +8November 1837, buried in Graaf-Reinet, Northern Cape.

• (Still under research review) Barend Petrus De Beer; Trace under the second main branch of Mathys Andriesz De Beer (a2):  PN: praenomen nescio (unknown):Barend De Beer's first South African generation ( ??)  Kweekvallei / Prince Albert ? ? Cape Colony ? Cf. 10498 *..............a2b6c7d3e3f3g3<5943> (D&J De Beer, Ibid. p. 1199) possible name from mother's side in KWEEKVALLEI, Western Cape* Circa September 1789 ??.........+Died in circa 1816 and possibly buried in Graaff -Reinet (?)
• Barend De Beer, second South African generation (?) + Colesberg; and
• Barend Petrus De Beer, third South African generation (?)  * Fauresmith, Orange Free State + Fauresmith disrict.