Stephanus Jacobus MEINTJES^{[1, 2]}

1819 - 1887  (68 years)

• Name	Stephanus Jacobus MEINTJES  [3]
  Born	19 Feb 1819  [4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	13 Mar 1887	Pretoria   [3]
  Notes	Settled in Transvaal about 1862, Attorney and Advocate of Transvaal Supreme Court, owner of farm Arcadia, Pretoria. (Meintjes Book) Andries Francois du Toit (1813-1883) was die oorspronklike eienaar van die grond waarop die Uniegebou opgerig is. Hy was ook Pretoria se eerste landdros en het boonop vir die uitleg van die stad gesorg. In dié tyd het hy sy grond, wat Arcadia genoem is, verkoop aan Stephanus Jacobus Meintjies (1819-1887), na wie Meintjieskop genoem is. http://web.archive.org/web/20190809002752/http://www.angelfire.com:80/folk/brinkfamily/files/hoofstuk3.pdf Beatrix Street, however, was named after Beatrix Dorey Meintjes (1885), eldest daughter of Edward Philip Arnold (Eddie) Meintjes (1861), son of Stephanus Jacobus Meintjes (1819-1887). Meintjes Street, Sunnyside, was called after Eddie Meintjes. Stephanus Jacobus Meintjes (1819-1887) was an Attorney and later an Advocate of the Supreme Court. He was the owner of Trevenna Estate, which now forms part of Sunnyside. He purchased the farm Arcadia, which he divided into erven. The hill on the farm, Meintjeskop was named after him. He erected the town?s first mill on the banks of the Apies River at Lion Drift (Bridge) in Church Street. The land around Meintjeskop was bought by the Government in 1909 for £32 500 and the City Council donated a further portion own by them, valued at £25 000 for the erection of the Union Buildings on the site described by Lord Selborne (1859-1942) as ?one of the finest in the world?. Meintjes square (now a small park) situated on the corner of Park and Beatrix Streets was first known as Arcadia Square and renamed by the City Council to honour Meintjes Sr. [5]
  Person ID	I1004	LC Joubert
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2023

  
  

  Father	Stephanus Jacobus MEINTJES
  Mother	Cecilia Magdalena VORSTER
  Family ID	F394	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Catharina Johanna Magdalena SCHMIDTZ
  Married	25 Feb 1839	Graaff-Reinet   [3]
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2019
  Family ID	F395	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S637] WEBSITE, https://www.bronberger.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1281:uniegeboue-se-koppie-vir-n-basoetoponie-verruil&catid=50:toeka-se-dae&Itemid=76. Pretoria se bekendste landmerk is gebou op ?n koppie met ?n ryk geskiedenis. Een van die destydse eienaars het die plaas met dié koppie van president Pretorius gekry in ruil vir ?n Basoetoponie. Dit is ook die koppie waar ?n konsentrasiekamp, Britse blokhuise en ?n Britse Hospitaal in die Anglo-Boere-oorlog was. Ons praat van Meintjeskop, tuiste van die Uniegeboue. Meintjeskop is vernoem na Stephanus Jacobus Meintjes wat die eerste Arcadia voorstad uitgelê het. Daar is oorspronklik na ?Meintjes se kop? verwys, maar reeds in 1870 het dit as Meintjeskop bekend gestaan ... [S637] WEBSITE, https://www.afrikanergeskiedenis.co.za/andries-se-waterwiel-in-die-apies-word-meintjes-se-meule/. Eens was daar ?n waterwiel in die Apiesrivier en die storie van sy oorsprong begin by Pretoria se eerste landdros en maak ?n draai by ?n rits bekende name uit toeka se dae. Van Arcadia Meule en Meintjes Meule tot De Loor?s Bakkery en Boerstra Bakkery by Meintjesdrift, Meuledrift, Leeudrift, Arcadiabrug en Leeubrug ? alles langs die Apies in Kerkstraat-Oos. [S46] MEINTJES 1675 - 1971, Johann Meintjes, (edited by Keith Meintjes. Copyright 2004 by Keith Meintjes.). [S46] MEINTJES 1675 - 1971, Johann Meintjes, (edited by Keith Meintjes. Copyright 2004 by Keith Meintjes.). [f3]. [14122 14] [S637] WEBSITE, http://melvinresidence.blogspot.com/2012/08/proposed-street-name-changes-in.html.