Contact Artefacts
please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.

OERDER, Jacobus Hendrikus

Born: 1862
Died: 1939 07 02

Architect


Trained as an architect in the Netherlands. Emigrated in 1888 to the Kaapse Hoop goldfields of the Barberton district as an inspector for the mines. A year later he became secretary to the State mines Engineer of the ZAR [Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek]. After the Anglo-Boer War he became a draughtsman in the Surveyor-General's Office (1905) of the Transvaal Colony. In 1906 until 1922 he was employed by the State Mines Engineer in Johannesburg.

References

Ploeger, Jan. 1994. Nederlanders in Transvaal 1850-1950. Pretoria: Van Schaik. pp 97