ANNA JACOBA DE BEER (nee van Rooyen)

Only a correction on my previous publications re: my grand mother's correct information:

On my father's side (Barend Petrus de Beer) his mother's name is Anna Jacoba De Beer and not Petronella as it was previously misquoted.

Anna Jacoba Van Rooyen was born on 23 December 1894 in Mafikeng in the North West province of South Africa.

She married Karel Johannes de Beer and gave birth to six children: Dolly, Hannatjie, Barend,Karel,Flip and Willem de Beer.The family lived in Petrusburg in the Free State province.  Anna Jacoba died on 2 February 1947 and was buried in the Petrusburg grave yard for war casualties of the Anglo Boer War.

While her husband worked on the South African Railways, his wife assisted with midwifery in the Petrusburg district.