
Surnames A-Z
We provide historical information on more than 650 family names (surnames) of people who contributed to the legacy of Philippolis ...
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“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
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Terry Pratchett
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The history of Philippolis since 1823 (almost 200 years old!) yields a large number of family names. Unfortunately our written records are heavily biased towards white people, but there are sources of black (Sotho and Xhosa) and Griqua names which will be added in due course.
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Our data-base currently consists of more than 650 surnames, drawn from a diversity of sources. More will be added in due course.
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We can provide information, images and maps. Note that a great deal of our information is "spatially referenced", i.e. we can let you know where your ancestors actually lived (specific erven in town, or farms in the district). We may also be able to provide you with social and economic information, e.g. what their occupation was, or in which social circles they moved.
That will help you to create a profile of their lives, and imaginatively step in their shoes ...
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If you would like more information about a Philippolis resident, see the What we can Provide page.
A
Albertyn Aldrich Alexander Allsobrook-Dawson Andriessen Arnold Arnot Ashpole Atherstone Atkinson

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Bacon Badenhorst Bain Bamford Bamford Barends Barker Barnard Bartlett Basson Bayly Beamish Beck Becker Beckmann Beddy Behr Bekker Bender Bennett Bennie Bester Beukes Beyers Bezuidenhout Bierman Bisschoff Bissett Black Blake Bloem Blomerus Blumenthal Bohnen Booysen Borkowf Borman Bornman Boshof Boshoff Botes Botha Bothma Bouwer Brand Bredenkamp Breedt Breet Bresler Brider Brink Brits Brodie Brooks Brown Brummer Bruwer Bryan Buchner Bulterman Burger Burt Butler
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Cawood Celliers Creighton Cilliers Claasens (Claassens?) Clark Clementz Cloete Coertzen Coetsee Coetzee Combrink Constable Cook Cornelissen Cornelius Corner Cornwall Cronje Crossley Crous Crouse Cumming-Smith
D
Daniel Davel Davis De Beer De Boer De Bruin De Jager De Jongh
De Klerk De Lange De Marillac De Nysschen De Smidt De Swardt
De Villiers De Vos De Vries De Wet Dempers Dennill Derbyshire Dercksen Derison Dickson Diedericks Dippenaar Dirks Domberg Douglas Draay Dreyer Du Plessis Du Plooy Du Preez Du Toit Duvenage (or Duvenhage?)

E
Eagle Earle Edomondson Ehlers Eldridge Eloff Engelbrecht Ennis Enslin Erasmus Erskine Esterhuizen (and Esterhuyzen)
F
Faber Fantozzi Faure Fawcet Fenix Fenwick Ferreira Fick Finaughty Fisk Flemming Fletcher Fock Fockens Foesee Fofsey Forster Forsterling Fouche Fourie Fowler Foxcroft Frances Fraser Freemantle Freund Fricke Friedlander Friis Funck
G
Gaba Gabler Geel Geldenhuis (and Geldenhuys) Gelderblom Gertenbach Gey van Pittius Geyer Geyser Gibbon Gie Gillespie Gilliland Glass Goeyman Goldberg Goosen Gordon Gous (and Gouws) Graham Gray Green Greyling Greyvensteyn Griessel Griffiths Grobbelaar (and Grobler) Grundling Gunn Gutsche
H
Haas Hajenius Hall Hambridge Hamilton Hamman Hanger Hankins Harmsen Harris Hartman Harvey Hattingh Hauman Havenga Hawcett Haxton Hayes Healey Heckroodt Heimann Hemmes Hendrikse Hendriksz Henning Herberg Herbst Hermann Herzelban Heynecke Heyns Hicks Hilton Hirschman Hockley (and Hockly) Hoffman Hoggins Holland Holtzhausen Honeybal Horn Hough Howell Hugo Huiter Humphries Hyde

I
Ingle Ingwersen Isaac

J
Jackson Jacobs Jacobson Jaffray Jagersma Janse van Rensburg (and Jansen van Rensburg) Janse van Vuuren (and Jansen van Vuuren) Jansen Johnson Jonas Jonker Jood Jooste Jordaan Jordan Joubert Joynt
K
Kalp Kampfraath Kaplan Karsten Kemmel Keogh Kidson Kiessig Kindinger Kirkham Klaase Kleb Kleingeld Kleinhans Kleinschmidt Klopper (and Kloppers) Klue Knobel Knoesen Koatja Koch Kock Koekemoer Koentzen Kok Koller Kolver Konig Koorts Korner Kotze Krause Kriek Kritzas Kruger Kruizinga Krynaauw Kuiter Kunneke
L
Labuschagne Lakensveld Lamprecht Landman Lang Langeveldt Larter Lategan Le Fleur Le Grange Le Rey Le Roux Lee Leggett Leopold Liebenberg Liefman Lilieneld Lindsay Lipsker Litterick Lockhart Loftus Lombaard Loock Lotriet Lottering Louw Lubbe Lucas Ludeke Lukas

M
Maartins MacFarlne MacKenzie Maddix Maffett Malan Malherbe Maloney Maltman Mandelstein Mandile Marais Marcus Maree Martin (and Martins) Marx Matebesi Mathews Mathey Matthaus Mauritz May McArdle McAslin McCallaghan McDonald McMahon Meades Meintjes Meiring Mellett Mentz Meyer Michau Michels Middleton Miles Minnaar Mizen Molosioa Morgan Moritz Mostert Muller Murray Myburgh Mynhardt
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N
Nachtweh Naude Neelje Nel Nero Neser Nienaber Nieuwenhuizen Noordman Nortje Norval
O
Odendaal Oelofse Olivier Olwage Oosthuizen Opperman Orkin Ortlepp
P & Q
Pahl Pansegrouw Pantry Parker Parkin Pattinson Paulse Paulus Pennels Perold Peters Phillips Pickard Piek Pienaar Pieterse (and Pietersen) Pistorius Pitcher Plewman Pohl Poolman Postma Potgieter Pottas Pratt Pretorius Prinsloo Prior Pritchard Pyper Qoma
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Raal (and Rall) Raath Rabie Rasoeu Regnart Reid Reitz Renison Retief Reycke Ridderhof Ries Robb Robertson Robinson Roestoff Roodt Roos Rorich Rossouw Rothbart Rouls Roux Rowles Rudman Ruiters
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Saaiman Sampson Sargent Sawyer Scarrot Scharnak Schickerling Schlebusch Schmidt Schnitzler Schoeman Scholtz Schoombee Schultz Schutte Scott Scrooby Segal Sem Sennett Serfontein Short Sieberhagen Siebert Simes Simpson Sinclair Slabbert Slippers Smal Small Smetzler Smit Smith Smuts Snyders Snyman Southey Spies Stander (and Standers) Stanton Staples Steenkamp Stelwell Stevenson Steyl Steyn Steytler Stilwell Strachan Strauss Stroebel Struwig Strydom Stuart Stulting Swanepoel Swart (and Swarts)


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Tapson Taylor Terblanche Terburgh Theron Theunissen Thieane Thomas Toerien Tonsing Troskie Tuinzing

U & V
Uys Van Aswegen Van Biljon Van Blerk Van Brummen Van Coller Van Coppenhagen Van de Graaf Van Delft Van den Berg Van den Heever (and Van der Heever) Van der Bank Van der Burgh
Van der Haer Van der Hoven Van der Kolf Van der Kooi Van der linde Van der Merwe Van der Poel Van der Post Van der Riet Van der Ryst Van der Vyver Van der Walt Van der Wath Van der Watt
Van der Westhuizen Van Deventer Van Eck Van Eeden Van Ellinckhuizen Van Graan Van Heerden Van Helsdingen Van Lingen Van Loggerenberg Van Niekerk Van Oest Van Olst Van Oudtshoorn
Van Reenen Van Rensburg Van Rooyen Van Ryneveld Van Schalkwyk Van Schlehenried Van Staden Van Straaten Van Tonder Van Vuuren Van Wyk Van Zyl Vaughan Veldhuizen Veldsman Venter Vermaak Vermeulen Verschoor Verwey Victor Viljoen Villiers Visagie Visser Vorster Voigt Vomeri Von Grassouw
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Wagenaar Watermeyer Watson Watstrom Webb Weideman Weisslein Weldhagen Welgemoed Welke Welsford Wentworth Wessels Wieke Wiese Wiggell Wiggins Wilcocks Wilke Wilken Willemse Williams Williamson Wilmot Wium Wright
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More names will be added ...
