Deadwood Camp Gedenksboek
Simon Frederik van Smaalen - Deadwood Camp Gedenkboek
Simon Frederik van Smaalen is my 2nd great grandfather. So I would like to give you my sincerest and immense thanks for scanning the book and making it available online. To say that it means a lot to my family would be an understatement - especially my father Brink Gardner (SF's great grandson) and his uncle Derek van Bergen (SF's last surviving grandson).
Simon Frederik van Smaalen was born in Rotterdam on 28/2/1864 to Leendert van Smaalen and Johanna Maria Hendriks.
SF arrived in South Africa from the Netherlands before 1888 - the only Van Smaalen to come to SA.
Here he married Johanna Elizabeth Celliers on 25/7/1888 in Pretoria.
He applied for naturalization in 1890 and again in 1894.
They moved to Pietersburg, where they had 5 children (4 daughters and 1 son) between 1890 and 1898.
He was a builder and/or carpenter by profession.
During the Anglo Boer War he served under general Cronje. He was captured/surrendered at Paardeberg on 27/2/1900, and sent to St Helena.
He died on 6/3/1939 in Pretoria.
Here is a photo of some detail on a box that SF made on St Helena.
Kind regards,
Leone Gardner