ds Adriaan Hofmeyr

active 1883–1897 · Hofmeyr line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Cecil John Rhodes donates an organ to the Prince Albert church (1897~).

Names

Baptismal name

Adriaan

Given

Adriaan

Surname

Hofmeyr

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

A life in the record

1. about 1897 event Cecil John Rhodes donates an organ to the Prince Albert church
   After the expedition toward Mashonaland with ds Adriaan Hofmeyr and Jan Luttig MP turned back at N'gami, Rhodes offered each man a farm in Rhodesia. Nobody accepted, so he gave the church an organ and a carved chair instead. When a better organ arrived from Britain the "Rhodes organ" was sent out to

Stories

• mentioned The church at Zeekoegat

What we don't know

• No birth date is recorded.
• No death date is recorded.
• Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
• No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

1. Rose Willis & Doreen Atkinson, "Zeekoegat: Explorations in the Koup Karoo" (2022) Karoo Development Foundation38pp cameo

Research notes

These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.

Open questions

• Did Ds Adriaan Hofmeyr travel to Mashonaland in 1897, after he had left Prince Albert? priority 2 · LEAD-0044

  SRC-068 has Hofmeyr serving Prince Albert 1883-1895 and then joining Jan LuttigM and Cecil John RhodesM on a Mashonaland expedition in 1897, two years after he left the town. The organ that ended up at Zeekoegat came out of that trip.

  What would settle it A dated account of the N'gami expedition.