Ina GREEFF

Family/Spouse: Robert STOLTZ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The "Steyn" was added to the family name because Pieter was born on the birthday of President Steyn who was a personal friend of his father, Gabriël Johannes (Jan) Greeff.Pieter relocated from Lichtenburg to the Witwatersrand in January 1933, with his wife Sannie and two daughters, Marie and Ina. He found work on the gold mines during those difficult years of the Great Depression.They lived in Benoni, where he became well known, respected and loved. He was a hard and diligent worker and soon rose through the ranks to mine captain. He soon owned his own home. He was later appointed to the position of economy engineer, a position created for him due to his ability to plan and implement economy measures to the benefit of his employer. He regularly conducted services at church gatherings in the black townships on weekends, and was fond of ministering to children.His love for children was very special to his own three children, who only have fond memories of the times they spent together as a family.He left the mines to join his son-in-law, Corrie Botes in a welding business in Springs, and after his retirement he devoted much of his time to his beloved Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by distributing tracts to workers at railway and bus stations, often travelling by train to Johannesburg and Pretoria for this purpose.Once a black man refused to accept the tract he offered, commenting that he was a white rascist. Pieter calmly related to the man with an anecdote from his rural background, asking him what happens when a springbuck suddenly discovers that he is among the impala. The man responded by saying that it immediately sets off to its own kind. He then accepted the tract.He and Sannie raised their two daughters, Marie and Ina in Benoni, where their only son Jannie (Gabriel Johannes) was born in 1943.A lasting testimony to his creative ability and workmanship was the memorial designed and built by him for the grave of his grandfather, Hendrik Adriaan Greeff. The memorial can be seen at the family graveyard at Manana, about 10kms to the east / northeast of Lichtenburg.

Pieter married Susanna Maria Magrieta (Sannie) REYNEKE on 9 Jun 1925. Susanna (daughter of Sias REYNEKE and Sannie VAN WYK) was born on 28 Feb 1906 in Paardekraal; died on 8 Mar 1986 in Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa; was buried in Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sannie was a loving and faithful partner to Pieter for more than 58 years of their married life. Her priorities were her husband and the children, and she diligently looked after the family finances, carefully planning her savings to ensure that there were funds for an annual family holiday by the sea while ensuring that the household was always well attended to and in good shape.She loved her children too much to spoil them. While they received everything that they needed, she did not tolerate ill discipline and did not hesitate to spank a child in public if this was called for, but never unjustified. Her children knew where they stood, knew right from wrong and grew up to understand and appreciate the value of "tough love".Sannie loved to play tennis and won many local tournaments. She actively participated well into her sixties when she took up bowls because all her friends had either retired, died or given up tennis for bowls. She also excelled at bowls, winning many titles over the years. She became very well loved and respected at the club, as was the case at the tennis club previously.After having been involved in a car accident while driving at Ventersdorp in the fifties, she refused to drive further and never drove again in her life. She made extensive use of public transport to get to wherever she wished to be.After Piet (as she affectionately called him) passed away in 1983, she simply pined away to join him three years later.

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His Grandson, GJ Greeff, says he was born on 13 Sept 1870, and Zelda Rowan (page 62) cites his date of birth as 03 September 1870.
Gedoop deur Ds D van der Hoff.

Gabriël married Carolina Petronella (Totie) DE WET, a1b1c1d2e1f2g9 on 6 May 1891 in Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Carolina (daughter of Pieter Francois DE WET, a1b1c1d2e1f2 and Magrieta Wilhelmina Jacoba VAN ZYL) was born on 8 Apr 1873 in Dordrecht, Cape, South Africa; died on 3 Jul 1947; was buried in Manana Cemetery, Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Oompie's sister

Sias married Sannie VAN WYK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lived on the farm Lichtenburg near Cape Town, trekked to Western Transvaal. Founder of Lichtenburgh, stephfather of Gen. Koos de la Rey.

Dictionary of South African Biography:
Greeff, Hendrik Adriaan (Subscriber Content)(*Lichtenburg, Durbanville, CC, 29.1.1828 - †Sandspruit, Wakkerstroom dist., 3.4.1884), founder of Lichtenburg, commandant, farmer, businessman, and adventurer, was the son of Matthys Greeff and his wife, Rachel Jacoba de Villiers.At the age of eighteen G. left home and entered the service of Net de Vos, a waggon-builder at Worcester. About 1847 or 1848 he built a ferry over the Vaal River near Bloemhof and made a good living from the toll. Finding this life too restricted, however, he sold the ferry, bought a waggon and a team of oxen, purchased merchandise in the Cape Colony and undertook a hunting expedition to the Transvaal, but a hostile Black chief robbed him of all his possessions and he escaped with only his horse and gun.G. then left the Cape Colony (1856) and moved to the Transvaal, where he took part in various hunting expeditions, among others to what was to become Rhodesia, and Damaraland. His family, who accompanied him, often had to endure great hardships such as encounters with hostile Blacks, water shortage, rain, cold, and heat.In 1860 G. bought the farm Doornfontein and later also a part of the farm Elandsfontein and the present farm Manana. Since as a farm surveyor he was usually paid in land, he acquired a number of farms with which he speculated, and in 1865 he campaigned for the founding of a town to be called Lichtenburg on the farm Doornfontein. It was not until 25.7.1873 that Pres. T. F. Burgers approved this proposal, and included the farm Middelbosch. G. opened a shop in the town but remained living on Manana, farming mealies and selling his mealie harvest every year in Kimberley, where it fetched a good price.A church elder, field cornet, and later commandant, G. became a respected resident of the Western Transvaal. On the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War in December 1880 he was involved in the siege, laid by Gen. P. A. Cronjé, of the British garrison in Potchefstroom, and on 20.12.1880 he guarded an outpost alongside the Mooi River, but left shortly afterwards for Lichtenburg, which he reached on Christmas Day. He and Commandant J. W. Viljoen were responsible for the maintenance of peace among the Black tribes on the western frontier, and it was through G.'s intervention that Cronje acquired his only cannon, enabling him to return the British gunfire. G. was later replaced as commandant and in February 1881 returned to Potchefstroom where he remained for the duration of the war. Since news that peace had been declared had not reached Potchefstroom, G. was appointed (1.4.1881) to guard the town with thirty men, but the order was retracted when news was received that the war was over.In the same year G. was made commissioner for Native affairs to prevent Boer volunteers from becoming involved in the disputes of the Tswanas on the western frontier and at first he succeeded in doing so, but by the end of the year volunteers were crossing the frontier as they pleased. In 1883, when he was offered the post of Ianddros at Lichtenburg, he declined it on account of poor health. After various doctors had treated him without success, he left to have medical treatment at Wakkerstroom, but died at Sandspruit and was buried there. His remains were reinterred by the family on the farm Manana on 29.4.1944.On 16.7.1855 G. married Susanna Maria Redelinghuis in the Cape Colony, and had three sons and six daughters, the eldest of whom married Gen. J. H. de la Rey. A bust of G. was unveiled at the entrance to the Civic Centre in Lichtenburg on 29.1.1973.

Hendrik married Susanna Maria REDELINGHUYS on 16 Jul 1855 in Hopetown, Cape, South Africa. Susanna (daughter of Jan REDELINGHUYS) was born on 6 Jan 1839 in Tulbagh, Cape, South Africa; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Getroud deur Ds J Murray.Alt Marriage: Hendrik Adriaan GREEFF, b2c1d4e1f6g1 Date: 16 Jul 1855 Location: Hoopstad, O.F.S., South Africa

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Teacher Lichtenburg

Pieter married Magrieta Wilhelmina Jacoba VAN ZYL in 1857 in Robertson, Cape, South Africa. Magrieta was born on 23 Apr 1837; was christened on 23 Jul 1837 in Swellendam, Cape, South Africa; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]