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	Johann Bernhard Rudolph's Descendants - pafg09.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Elizabeth married Marthinus Wessel Pretorius son of Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius and Johanna Frederika Kemp in 1895 in Mount Alice, Weenen, Natal, South Africa.
		Marthinus was born on 15 Feb 1869 in Weenen, Natal, South Africa.
		Andreas Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius was born on 09 Oct 1905.
	www.rudolph-gen.com /tree/pafg09.htm (840 words)

	janvorster - pafg401 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		George Marthinus Hattingh was born on 15 Oct 1813.
		George Marthinus Hattingh [Parents] was born on 15 Oct 1813.
		Anna Jacoba Pretorius died on 24 Dec 1841 in Cradock..
	general.rau.ac.za /genealogy/vorster/janvorste/pafg401.htm (479 words)

	South African Republic - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was annexed by the United Kingdom in 1900 during the Second Boer War.
		The first president of the South African Republic was Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, elected in 1857.
		The capital was established at Pretoria (founded 1855), though for a brief period Nelspruit served as the seat of government.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/South_African_Republic (797 words)

	SOUTH AFRICA
		It was the choice of the son, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, who wished to honour the memory of his father, Commandant-General Andries Pretorius, the hero of Blood River and negotiator with Britain of the Sand River Convention, which acknowledged the independence of the Transvaal." Pretoria became the seat of government on 1 May 1860.
		Commandant-General Marthinus Wessel Pretorius had bought a large amount of land in the area, which was taken over by the government as they foresaw the development of a large centre.
		When Marthinus Pretorius failed to unite the Transvaal and the Orange Free State during his presidency he resigned and was replaced by Reverend Thomas Francois Burgers in 1870.
	mandyfehr8.tripod.com /southafrica (5651 words)

	Fulfilment: Chapter 12 of 'The Great Trek'
		The end result was that the older Pretorius gradually gained the support of the majority of the Transvaalers and became their chief spokesman.
		Joyous hymns and psalms were sung to mark the solemn reconciliation, and in the excitement hardly anyone noticed that Pretorius and Potgieter had prepared more trouble for the future by declaring that the two joint posts of Commandant-General which they had assumed would descend to their heirs.
		Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, however, lived on into the new century and we may note in passing that he received the unique honour of becoming President of both the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/ransford/chap12.htm (2915 words)

	Genealogy.com: The Schulte/Pretorius family
		Berent Wessel Schulte from Germany immigrated to Leyden in the early 1600's.
		Their oldest son is Marthinus Wessel of Graaf-Reinett, born 17/09/1819.
		He had an oldest son named Marthinus Wessel Pretorius who passed when he was young.
	www.genealogy.com /genealogy/users/g/l/e/Alida-Glen (198 words)

	Pta name-change battle looms
		The corner of Pretorius and Prinsloo streets in the city centre.
		This came to light on Tuesday when a report with recommendations on the street names was distributed with the agenda for Thursday night's city council meeting in Pretoria.
		Pretorius Street: named after Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, son of Andries and president of the Transvaal Republic.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-7-1442_1625947,00.html (465 words)

	janvorster - pafg77 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was christened on 12 Feb 1747 in Tulbagh.
		Susanna Elisabeth Viljoen [Parents] was born on 17 Apr 1767.
		Susanna Elisabeth Adriana Pretorius was born on 28 Aug 1808.
	general.rau.ac.za /genealogy/vorster/janvorste/pafg77.htm (544 words)

	Potchefstroom Museum
		Then came Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, president of the South African Republic, who also made his home here.
		The new town was elegantly laid out, with broad streets aligned along the points of the compass - a fitting capital for the South African Republic of which Marthinus Wessel Pretorius would become the first president in 1857.
		MW Pretorius built this old Cape-style dwelling with its coach house, stable and smithy in 1868.
	www.places.co.za /html/potchmuseum.html (922 words)

	Pretoria at Caribbean Topfunwebsites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		However, they were forced to abandon their villages in their flight from a regiment of Zulu raiders in 1832.
		Pretoria itself was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers, who named it after his father Andries Pretorius.
		The elder Pretorius had become a national hero of the Voortrekkers after his victory over the Zulus in the famous Battle of Blood River.
	www.topfunwebsites.com /montserrat/pretoria.html (818 words)

	Business Day - News Worth Knowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Inspired and motivated, Pretorius chose a slightly raised site not far from the western bank of the Aapies River where his settlement would arise.
		In his mind’s eye he already caught a vision of the town becoming the political and commercial centre of the far-flung autonomous Boer groupings in the Transvaal —; provided these fractious districts could be persuaded to join in a united trekker republic.
		There was no reason, Pretorius reckoned, why the place could not become the future capital of a unified country — which was one of the main ideals of the Great Trek.
	www.businessday.co.za /articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A113689 (587 words)

	Orange Free State
		Marthinus Wessel Pretorius: Third President, from 1859 to 1863 (also President of the South African Republic from 1857 to 1871).
		Marthinus Theunis Steyn: Sixth and last President, from 1896 to 1902.
		Christiaan Rudolph de Wet: Acting President from 29 May to 31 May 1902 and signatory of the Peace of Vereeniging.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/o/or/orange_free_state.html (595 words)

	Museum Park - Museum Park Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Die standbeeld van MW Pretorius, wat die stigting van 'n dorp destyds aangevoor het, pryk digby dié van sy vader, Andries Pretorius, die Voortrekkerleier, na wie die dorp en latere hoofstad van die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek en Republiek van Suid-Afrika vernoem is.
		Die beeldegroep van Andries Pretorius, na wie Pretoria vernoem is, en Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, stadstigter en eerste president van die ZAR, is met die oog op Pretoria se Eeufeesviering in 1955 deur die beeldhouer Coert Steynberg (1905-1982) gemaak.
		Kerkplein was oorspronklik was oorspronklik Marktplein en is deur MW Pretorius uitgelê.
	www.museumpark.co.za /museumparktour.htm (4929 words)

	SA’s military headquarters on the mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This was at the prime of the mid nineteenth century, when traders and farmers came to the area and settled on farms in the vicinity.
		One of the farmers, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (son of Andries Pretorius) bought two farms in 1853 on which he founded Pretoria.
		Forming part of these farms was a patch of excess ground on a hill bordering the area that two years later became known as Pretoria.
	www.centurionnews.co.za /artikel.asp?nID=297 (829 words)

	(Marthinus Stefanus PRETORIUS - Marthinus Wessel PRETORIUS ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Marthinus Stefanus PRETORIUS (11 Sep 1877 - ____)
		Marthinus Wessel PRETORIUS (3 Sep 1883 - 1 Sep 1952)
		Marthinus Wessel PRETORIUS (30 Sep 1878 - ____)
	www.pretorius.info /genealogy/index/ind0842.html (159 words)

	(Marthinus Wessel PRETORIUS - Marthinus Wilhelmus PRETORIUS ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Marthinus Wessel PRETORIUS (10 Oct 1899 - 1948)
		Marthinus Wessel PRETORIUS (AFT 1927 - BEF 1932)
		Marthinus Wilhelmus PRETORIUS (14 Mar 1886 - ____)
	www.pretorius.info /genealogy/index/ind0847.html (133 words)

	Mount Anderson Ranch - situated in the Drakensberg Mountains of the Mpumalanga Province, water conservancy, wildlife ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By 1857 feelings in Lydenburg ran so high that the population broke away from the Transvaal and formed a republic of their own.
		Only in 1860 did Lydenburg re-join the South African Republic and pay allegiance to its president Marthinus Wessel Pretorius.
		Little exploitative mineral wealth had been located between Cape Town and the Fish and Kei Rivers in the two centuries subsequent to the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck.
	www.mountanderson.com /history.htm (2484 words)

	Africa
		1860: 02/08: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, son of Commandant General Andries Pretorius, is elected President but he has to obtain a leave of absence from the Transvaal where he was also President.
		12/17: a meeting of the old Volksraad to repudiate the South African Republic "Potchefstroom" constitution of Pretorius and Paul Kruger and establish the Republic of Lydenburg of the districts of Lydenburg, Utrecht, and Zoutpansburg.
		01: President Pretorius mounts an armed raid into Orange Free State to force its union with the South African Republic but it fails and peace is made by Paul Kruger; 06/01: the Peace Treaty with the Orange Free State is signed, each recognizing the independence of the other.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/9853/History_Africa.html (6399 words)

	European Settlers up to 1860 - British Settlers in Natal 1824 - 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As far as the Transvaal is concerned, Pretoria, in its early years, had a fair number of Natalians among its residents.
		William Skinner and the Devereux brothers, Lionel and Edward, were taken to the Transvaal by Andries Pretorius in the early 1850s to build his house on the farm Grootplaats.
		In 1854, together with Jan Visagie, the secretary to Andries’ son, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, these three demarcated the site of Church Square, Pretoria, and also designed and constructed the first Dutch Reformed Church, completed in 1856.
	www.shelaghspencer.co.za /settlers/european_overview.htm (3888 words)

	Welcome to Pretoria - 1999 Interlending & Document Supply Conference
		Pretoria has a vibrant, multicultural buzz which comes from a harmonious blend of traditions, cultures, languages and architecture.
		Pretoria was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Wessel Pretorius who named it after his father, Andries Pretorius, a Voortrekker leader.
		The Greater Pretoria is also known as Tswane by the Sotho language group.
	www.ifla.org /ilds/pretoria.htm (1487 words)

	Pretoria, South Africa
		The first voortrekkers arrived in the area, then sparsely populated, in 1827.
		Pretoria was founded in 1855 by the Boer general Marthinus Wessel Pretorius and named after his father Andries Pretorius, whose victory in the battle of Blood River had made possible the establishment of an independent white settlement in the Transvaal.
		In 1860 Pretoria became capital of the Transvaal and in 1910 the seat of government of the Union of South Africa.
	www.planetware.com /south-africa/pretoria-saf-gp-pre.htm (339 words)

	Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This bio is currently being researched and written.
		Boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the Great Trek leader Andries Pretorius, and the first president of the South African Republic and founder of Pretoria.
		Andries Pretorius was born on September 17, 1819, near Graaff-Reinet in the then Cape Colony.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/people/pretorius-mw.htm (65 words)

	Happy Tours - Pretoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This was following the Great Trek by White Pioneers (Voortrekkers) from the then British controlled Cape Colony.
		The City is named after the farmer Marthinus Wessel Pretorius who was also the son of a Voortrekker leader.
		Soon after its inception around the stream flowing from the natural fountains in the South, Pretoria became the capital of the Boer Republic (ZAR) in 1860.
	www.happytours.co.za /pta.html (161 words)

	Routes Travel Info Portal: Pretoria
		Pretoria is named after the Pretorius family who settled here in the 1850s
		In 1854 Marthinus Wessel Pretorius bought portions of the farm Elandspoort and a church was built on the spot today known as Church Square.
		The first suburb was Arcadia on the foot of Meintjieskop, on which the Union Buildings were built.
	www.routes.co.za /gp/pretoria (400 words)

	GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg338 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Marthinus Wessel Pretorius died in Cape, South Africa.
		Susanna Elisabeth Viljoen [Parents] was born about 1760.
		She married Marthinus Wessel Pretorius on 12 Nov 1797 in Cape, South Africa.
	myweb.absa.co.za /johann.grobler/pafg338.htm (381 words)

	IOL: Plastic comes off Tshwane statue
		The statue made new headlines when sculptor Angus Taylor warned the bronze would turn green if kept under plastic and cloth for too long.
		Chief Tshwane stands only a few metres away from statues of former ZAR president Marthinus Wessel Pretorius and his father Andries, after whom Pretoria was named.
		An engraving at the base Chief Tshwane's statue says it was through his "existence our city origin and history sprung".
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?from=rss_Politics&set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=qw1152218884447B232 (500 words)

	North West - SouthAfrica.info
		Molema House, the home of Sol Plaatje and Dr S M Molema, pays tribute to these important figures in South African history.
		The Goetz Fleischack Museum in the restored home of Andreas Marthinus Goetz, magistrate of Potchefstroom (1870-1881), is the only remaining example of the early townhouses which were erected around the New Market Square between 1850 and 1855.
		It is believed that Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first State President of the South African Republic, built the old Cape-style dwelling that now constitutes the President Pretorius Museum, with its coach-house, stable and smithy.
	www.southafrica.info /heritage/922462.htm (488 words)

	Features
		Founded in 1855 by Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, the son of Boer pioneer leader Andries Pretorius, Pretoria is home to some well-known South African monuments and museums.
		It used to be a somewhat conservative metropolis, but this all started to change in May 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first fl democratically elected president of South Africa.
		Pretoria has many restaurants with a variety of cuisines, including restaurants which are gay-owned or gay-friendly.
	www.planetout.com /travel/article.html?key=248&sernum=8204 (966 words)

	City Hall, Pretoria
		Pretoria's City Hall has an enormous clock-tower with 32 bells.
		Outside the entrance are statues of Andries Pretorius and his son Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, founder of Pretoria.
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	www.planetware.com /pretoria/city-hall-saf-gp-pcityh.htm (58 words)

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