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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon BESAANS, Johannes Petrus Born: 1875 06 01 Died: 1942 Contractor Born in Zierikzee, Zeeland, the Netherlands. Arrived in Pretoria of the then ZAR with his family in 1887. He practiced as a contractor and established the engineering firm Besaans and Du Plessis. He died in Zutphen the Netherlands, while on holiday there. Books citing BESAANS Macmillan, Allister. 1933. Environs of the Golden City and Pretoria. Cape Town: Cape Times. pp 388 Ploeger, Jan. 1994. Nederlanders in die Transvaal 1850-1950. Pretoria: Van Schaik. pp 44