Rev. Evert Jean Jacques Van Der Horst

Born: 3 Mar 1875, Lady Grey, Cape Province, South Africa
Marriage (1): Louisa Yeld in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Marriage (2): Johanna Helena Van Ryneveld on 22 Mar 1905 in Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa
Died: 21 Nov 1958, Clocolan, Orange Free State, South Africa aged 83

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bullet Birth Notes:

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/The%20Family%20Register%20of%20the%20South%20African%20Nation/page_01088.pdf

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Name: Van der Horst, Evert Jean Jacques
Date Of Birth: 03 March 1875
Place Of Birth: Lady Grey, C.C.
Occupation: District Headmaster of Bloemhof
Father Name: Van der Horst, Evert J. J.
Surname Of Spouse: Van Ryneveld
First Name Of Spouse: Helena
Date Of Marriage: 1905
Surname Of Father Spouse 1: Van Ryneveld
First Name Of Father Spouse 1: D
Other Information: M. L. A. for Wolmaransstad; elected October 1915; D. R. Min. Wolmaranstad; Edicated at Normal Coll., Victoria Coll., Stellenbosch; 1 daughter. Came to Transvall 1902. Hobby: Education. During later War acted as Chaplain to Howick Camp, Natal. Address: Box 5, Wolmaransstad
Collection: 1916 Who's Who

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http://baard-townshend.eu/getperson.php?personID=I5948&tree=BT

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-57ZC-J?cc=2727134

bullet Death Notes:

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/The%20Family%20Register%20of%20the%20South%20African%20Nation/page_01088.pdf

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National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT TAB
SOURCE MHG
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 779/59
PART 1
DESCRIPTION VAN DER HORST, EVERT JEAN JACQUES.
STARTING 19580000
ENDING 19580000
REMARKS SURVIVING SPOUSE JOHANNA HELENA VAN DER HORST (BORN VAN RYNEVELD) PREDECEASED SPOUSE LULU YELD VAN DER HORST.

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Copy of Evert Jean Jacques Van Der Horst's death notice dated 10 Dec 1958 in RAB's possession. He died at 9.50 in the morning.

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/The%20Family%20Register%20of%20the%20South%20African%20Nation/page_01088.pdf

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https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC38-M2T

• General Comment. http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C2150177886
Name: Van der Horst, Evert Jean Jacques
Date Of Birth: 03 March 1875
Place Of Birth: Lady Grey, C.C.
Occupation: District Headmaster of Bloemhof
Father Name: Van der Horst, Evert J. J.
Surname Of Spouse: Van Ryneveld
First Name Of Spouse: Helena
Date Of Marriage: 1905
Surname Of Father Spouse 1: Van Ryneveld
First Name Of Father Spouse 1: D
Other Information: M. L. A. for Wolmaransstad; elected October 1915; D. R. Min. Wolmaranstad; Edicated at Normal Coll., Victoria Coll., Stellenbosch; 1 daughter. Came to Transvaal 1902. Hobby: Education. During later War acted as Chaplain to Howick Camp, Natal. Address: Box 5, Wolmaransstad
Collection: 1916 Who's Who

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http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C22770
Name: Van Der Horst, Evert Jean Jacques
Date Of Birth: 03 March 1875
Place Of Birth: Lady Grey, Cape Colony
Father Name: Van Der Horst, J.J.
Surname Of Spouse: Van Ryneveld
First Name Of Spouse: Helena
Date Of Marriage: 1905
Surname Of Father Spouse: Van Ryneveld
First Name Of Father Spouse: D.
Source: Who's Who 1919 - 20
Collection Name: 1919 Who's Who

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Van der Horst, Evert Jean Jacques (Subscriber Content)

(*Lady Grey, CC, 3.3.1875 - †Wolmaransstad, 18.11.1958), clergyman, politician, and civil servant, was the son of Evert Jean Jacques van der Horst and his wife, Helena Elizabeth Terblanche and the elder brother of the economist, Dr Johannes Gerhardus Pieter van der Horst

Van der H. first trained as a teacher at the Normaalkollege (Teachers' Training College) and the Victoria College at Stellenbosch, but later went on to study at the Theological Seminary at Stellenbosch. Having been admitted to the ministry in 1900, he then tended the spiritual needs of those in the concentration camp at Howick in Natal.

But teaching was always his greatest interest and at the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902 he was appointed headmaster of the school at Bloemhof in the Transvaal, where he worked till 1903. In the same year he was ordained as the NG Kerk minister at Wolmaransstad and during his years there founded the first Christian National Education (CNE) school with funds for which he himself stood security.

During the general election of 1915, when Gen. J. C. G. Kemp. was not re-eligible because of his part in the Rebellion of 1914, Van der H. bowed to pressure from his congregation to stand for election as the National Party's (NP) candidate for the House of Assembly, and succeeded in defeating his opponent of the South African Party by 200 votes. He was, however, allowed to stay on as the minister of his parish-a unique occurrence in the history of the church. He believed that church and state could not be separated and that one should supplement the other. At the end of his term of office in the House of Assembly he did not seek re-election in 1920 so that Kemp could once more represent his old constituency. Van der H. returned as a full-time minister and became a member of the Synodal Commission of the NG Kerk. When he retired in 1925 he continued to serve as an elder in the church.

In the same year Col. F. H. P. Creswell,. Minister of Labour, appointed Van der H. welfare superintendent in the Department of Labour, in charge of the settlement at the Hartebeespoort Dam. In 1929 he was made chairman of the Landraad (Land Council) and as superintendent of all the government settlements remained in control of the settlements at Kakamas, Warrenton, Vaalharts, and Hartebeespoort Dam until he retired in 1935. In this position he made a significant contribution to the establishment of a separate Department of Social Welfare.

Retaining an interest in politics, he joined the 'Purified' National Party which started in 1934. On two occasions, on 10.3.1937 at Heidelberg and during the general election of 1938 at Vredefort, he stood for election as the member of the House of Assembly for these constituencies but without success; he remained active in the divisional management of the NP at Wolmaransstad nevertheless. After the Second Anglo-Boer War his prime target was the uplift, material and spiritual, of many less privileged fellow-Afrikaners. He helped these people whenever the opportunity arose, whether it was as an educationist, a clergyman and politician, or in his official capacity as a civil servant, in fact wherever he was involved with the lot of his fellow-citizens on the settlements.

In 1905 Van der H. Married Johanna Helena van Ryneveld and had three sons and two daughters. A photograph of him appears in the Afrikaanse kultuuralmanak (infra)

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Date: 3 March, 1875

The Rev. Evert Jean Jacques van der Horst, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and member of parliament for Wolmaransstad, is born. He played a leading role in the establishing of irrigation schemes like Kakamas, Vaalharts, Hartbeespoort etc.
http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/rev-evert-jean-jacques-van-der-horst-minister-dutch-reformed-church-and-member-parliamen

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http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=658273

• Children. In 1905 Van der H. Married Johanna Helena van Ryneveld and had three sons and two daughters.
http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Dictionary%20of%20South%20African%20Biography/page_05352.pdf

• General Comment. His mother is given as Helen Elizabeth Terblanche in the Dictionary of South African Biography (two records)

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His mother is given as Regina Jacoba Simonis at:-
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/person/Rev-Evert-Jean-Jacques-van-der-Horst/187323212-1000221

• Occupation. Farmer.
Copy of Evert Jean Jacques Van Der Horst's death notice dated 10 Dec 1958 in RAB's possession.

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Dutch Reformed minister's wife.
Copy of his first wife, Louisa Van Der Horst's, death notice dated 7 Nov 1903 in RAB's possession.

• General Comment. Copy of his first wife, Louisa Van Der Horst's, death notice dated 7 Nov 1903 in RAB's possession. He was present at her death and signed her death notice.

Evert married Louisa Yeld, daughter of Thomas Alleyne Yeld and Susanna Margaretha De Villiers, on 22 Mar 1905 in Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa. (Louisa Yeld was born in 1874 in Paarl, Cape Province, South Africa and died on 15 Jul 1903 in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• General Comment. Copy of Louisa Van Der Horst's death notice dated 7 Nov 1903 in RAB's possession. It confirms they had no children.

Evert next married Johanna Helena Van Ryneveld, daughter of Daniel Johannes Van Ryneveld and Anna Wilhelmina Johanna Carolina Truter, on 22 Mar 1905 in Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa. (Johanna Helena Van Ryneveld was born calculated 22 Mar 1877 in Boshof, Orange Free State, South Africa and died after 1958.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/The%20Family%20Register%20of%20the%20South%20African%20Nation/page_01088.pdf

And

http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=658273

• Web Based Info. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-57ZC-J?cc=2727134

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