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MCDONALD FLEMMER FAMILY STORY
McDonald 'McGyvir' Flemmer, made contact just before the March 2003 Reunion on behalf of a family named Flemmer living in Cradock, with relatives in the area. His story is follows. It is not clear if this family is descended from the original Flemmer family, but McGyvir and his family came along to the Reunion anyway and were made very welcome. McGyvir is conducting the genealogical research to establish his line of descent and the results of his endeavours will be posted in due course. This is his story to date
I am MacDonald Christo Marcello Flemmer, the father of Marcello Christiano Flemmer who is the son of Esmeralda Yvonne Rhagosingh and we are living in Cradock,South Africa. I am the son of Christy Stone and Christine (Flemmer) Muller.
My father was not married to my mother but he died before I was born. Christine Flemmer is the daughter of Lodewyk Flemmer and Rose (Dow) Flemmer. Lodewyk Flemmer is the son of Chrisjan Flemmer and Liza (Holster) Flemmer. Christjan Flemmer is the son of Jan Flemmer and Ragel (Essex) Flemmer.
According to family legend, Jan Flemmer was a "White" man and married a "coloured" lady and that is possibly how the coloured clan came about. He lived on a farm called Olienhout Farm in the Fish River area.
Jan Flemmer had only one child, a son - Chrisjan Flemmer who also married a "coloured" lady and they had 12 children from first to last only two of them (Charles and Jacob) are still alive.
Chrisjan and Liza Flemmer's children are :
1. Jan Flemmer
2. Frank Daantjie Flemmer
3. Chrisjan Flemmer
4. Charles Flemmer
5. Lodewyk Flemmer
6. Ragel (Flemmer) Kalse
7. Sabiena (Flemmer) Pieterson
8. Abraham Flemmer
9. Warrie Flemmer
10. Jacob Flemmer
11. Liza (Flemmer) Williams
12. Willem Flemmer
My grand-father Lodewyk Flemmer and Rose (Dow) Flemmer had seven children. They are :
1. Chrisjan Flemmer
2. Alima (Flemmer) Fish
3. Jan Flemmer
4. Lavinia (Flemmer) Nieuwenhuys
5. Christine (Flemmer) Muller
6. Maggie (Flemmer) Baartman
7. Bettie Flemmer
Lodewyk Flemmer left his wife Rose and got married to Martha September by custom law and they had ten children. Although not married legally, Martha's children from Lodewyk took the Flemmer surname.
According to family legend, Morris Flemmer, one of the sons of Frank Daantjie Flemmer married a "Black" lady in Botswana, and that is how the "Black" clan came about. Two of Morris's grand children are living in Polokwane and also bear the surname of Flemmer.