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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon KLASING, Jacobus Coenraad Born: 1862 02 02 Died: 1911 01 24 Architect Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Came to South Africa in 1895. In 1897 he was working for the ZAR PWD as an architect and is part of a group photograph of staff members. On 4 May 1898 he married Catharina Koster (b 1864 08 13 d 1965 08 10) in Pretoria. They had one child, Elisabeth Klasing, born 1899. During the Anglo-Boer War he was a member of the Hollander Corps escaping capture during the Battle of Elandslaagte. He died in Pretoria and was buried in the Rebecca Street Cemetery, Pretoria West. Schoeman (2011:166) erroneously has his date of death as 1911 01 30. Books citing KLASING Ferreira, OJO (Editor and Annotator). 1977. Krijgsgevangenschap van L. C. Ruijssenaers 1899-1902. Pretoria: Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing. pp 185 Ploeger, Jan & De Kock, Gideon de V. 1989. Nederlandse emigrasie na Suid-Afrika 1800-1900. Port Elizabeth: University of Port Elizabeth. pp 115 Schoeman, Chris. 2011. Brothers in arms. Hollanders in the Anglo-Boer War. Cape Town: Zebra Press. pp 166