Gabriel Jan Smuts GREEFF^{[1, 2]}

1907 - 1976  (69 years)

• Name	Gabriel Jan Smuts GREEFF
  Born	5 Feb 1907	Lichtenburg   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Aug 1976	Kimberley   [3]
  Person ID	I35	Lichtenburgstam
  Last Modified	30 May 2017

  
  

  Father	Gabriel Johannes (Jan) GREEFF,   b. 13 Sep 1870, Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa ,   d. 16 Jul 1944, Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa  (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Carolina Petronella (Totie) DE WET,   b. 8 Apr 1873, Dordrecht, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 3 Jul 1947, Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa  (Age 74 years)
  Married	6 May 1891	Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa
  Family ID	F561	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Wilhelmina Alexandra (Minnie) VERWEY,   b. 7 Sep 1905, Witgatboom, Christiana, Transvaal, South Africa ,   d. 19 May 1995, Strand, Cape, South Africa  (Age 89 years)
  Married	16 Feb 1935	Melville, Johannesburg   [3, 4]
  Children	1. Gabriel Johannes (Johan) GREEFF,   b. 16 Nov 1942, Cape Town, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 22 May 2011, Cape Town, Cape, South Africa  (Age 68 years)   2. Willex Daniel GREEFF,   b. 1 Jun 1945, Kimberley, Cape, South Africa  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2015
  Family ID	F17	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Recordings » Slide Show		Pieter Francois Steyn Greeff, *2 Oktober 1900 es Ek en kleinboet Jannie maak mekaar skrik
  		Pieter Francois Steyn Greeff, *2 Oktober 1900 ew Jannie speel met dinamiet
  		Pieter Francois Steyn Greeff, *2 Oktober 1900 ex Jannie bou 'n kanon

  
  

• Notes

  Named after his father's good friend General Jan Christiaan Smuts (Later Field Marshal and also Prime Minister of SA) who agreed to be Godfather to his youngest son in 1906. Started work at SA Railways on 1 Sept 1925. On 1 Feb. 1926, commenced electrical apprenticeship at Pretoria. From 1931 till 1936 worked in electrical Drawing office and on the electrification of the Natal railway line. Married, and with his wife, was sent to Holland, Germany and England for studies on electrical traction, and in 1938 achieved his degree at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London and was accepted as a Chartered Engineer, M.I.E.E.. After outbreak of the war in 1939, returned to SA and became head of the Electrotechnical Drawing office, and also designed gunsights for cannons. Appointed as Electrical Engineer in Durban (1940), Cape Town (1941) and Kimberley (1943 till retirement in 1975) and Member of the SA Institute of Elect. Engineers. Developed great skill as cine photographer and bisley rifle champion. Elder in the DR Church, Kimberley.

  
  

• Sources

  [S165] Lichtenburgstam.ged. [S34] HAG Ged 120708.ged, Jan Greeff. [S187] Greeff, G J (Johan) *16 Nov 1942. [S23] Email, Johan Greeff - 4.1.2008 (Reliability: 3).