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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon STRAUB, Johannes Marinus Born: c. 1867 Died: 1947 02 17 Carpenter / Contractor From Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Arrived in the ZAR in 1896 as a carpenter to the NZASM. He Joined the Second Hollander Corps and saw action at the Battle of Tabakberg. After the war he ran a building contracting firm in Pretoria. References Ploeger, Jan. 1994. Nederlanders in Transvaal 1850-1950. Pretoria: Van Schaik. pp 116