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- a son was born to an Andries(barrister) and Maria Henrietta - Andries STOCKENSTROM - on 22:9:1868 bap 21:10:1868 in Graaf Reinet Baptism Register
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He commenced his career as an ensign in the Cape Regiment and distinguished himself as a soldier.In July 1812 became deputy Landrost at Cradock and in May 1815 Landrost of Graaf-Reinet area. From 1822 -24 he was engaged in marking the boundary of the colony. In 1828 he became Commisioner-General of the Eastern Province and member of the Governer's Council of Advice. In 1829 he was entrusted with the task of settling a large number of Hottentots on the Kei River. In 1836 he was appointed Lieutenat-Governer of the Eastern Districts of the Cape Colony.
Knighted 1836
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a cutting out of the Herald found while doing some research in the PE Library. Unfortunately it is undated.
"A valuable document which usually hangs in the entrance hall of Mr & Mrs James Gardiner's farm, Maasstrom, in the Bedford district, has been brought to Port Elizabeth for re-framing. It is the deed of granting of Arms to Sir Andries Stockenström. Sir Andries was Lieut-Governor of the Eastern Province from 1834 to 1839. He was created a baronet in 1840. Mrs Gardiner is his great-great-granddaughter.
The arms certificate, which has been handed down to Mrs Gardiner, was issued at the College of Arms, London on March 17, 1840. The wording, written with a quill pen and is in a beautiful script, is signed by the Garter Principal King of Arms and the Clarenceux King of Arms of the Herald's College. At the foot are two tins that contain their seals.
LANDDROST
Her father, Sir Andries Stockenström, who died in 1957, was the forth and last baronet of Maasstrom, Mrs Gardiner was his only child. Her mother who has remarried lives in Bedford. She is Mrs. L Blignaut, wife of a retired bank manager.
Andries Stockenström was landdrost of Graaff-Reinet and was killed in the Zuurberg in 1811 while leading a patrol of Graaff-Reinet commandos.
Sir Andries, who succeeded his father as landdrost of Graaff-Reinet, married Miss Elsabe Maasdorp, a member of a prominent Graaff-Reinet family. The name of the farm, which Queen Victoria granted Sir Andries at the time of his knighthood, is made up of the parts of two names - maas and ström.
Sir Andries son, Sir Gysbert Henry Stockenström, became the second baronet of Maasstrom, followed by his nephew,
Sir Andries Stockenström, father of Sir Andries, the fourth baronet.
Mrs Gardiner's husband James, is a direct descendant of the 1820 Settler, Robert Pringle, who farmed at Lynedoch, in the Bedford district. Robert's youngest son William Dods built the Lyndoch home. Lynedoch was the original farm of the first Sir Andries Stockenström, (not named Lyndoch) who subsequently handed it over to Colonel John Graham, who was in charge of the Grahamstown garrison."
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