
I received an email in Afrikaans during the week asking if I had any information about the death by hanging of Cornelius Johannes Claassen at Somerset East, South Africa, on July 24, 1901.
I have posted my wife Juliet’s Claassen family tree on my website, and although Cornelius is not listed, he is presumed to be related.
A cousin of Juliet, genealogist Johann Claassen, replied to an email I sent him:


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