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Good day,

I wonder if anyone can assist. My in law's side of the family were predominantly Bethlehem farmers, pre ABW but actually had a Bethlehem street address after the ABW. I have an idea this may have come about because of the farm burning policy and would like some information of migration to urban centres. Also is there any where I can find a killed in action list of Boer commando's, particularly the Schutte clan from Bethlehem area, Thank you.

Hi Ken Bird,

You can start with this link:
wmbr.org.za/database-search/

Looks like there are 19 hits with the surname Schutte.

Hope that helps & good luck.

Ken, there were 310 people named Schutte in the concentration camps.
A farm name or a first name would help narrrow this down. You can search the databases here:
www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/PersonsSearch/1/0/0/

if they were from Bethlehem, the nearest concentration camps were Harrismith, then Winburg.
In the Harrismith camp were these 6 people named Shutte, though some were later moved to the Winburg camp:

1 116709 Miss Aleta Odendaal
2 115287 Master Cornelius Schutte
3 115284 Mrs Johanna Schutte
4 115285 Miss Judith Schutte
5 115286 Miss Maria Schutte
6 115283 Mr Peter Schutte

In the Winburg camp, these are the 3 names:
1 103257 Mr Christian Erns Schutte
2 100449 Mr Johannes Hermanus Thomas Jr Schutte
3 100450 Mrs Magdalena S G Schutte

Rob