Jan LATSKY

Notes:

Mchael en Anna Latsky het in latoue,(Letaue) Pole gewoon. Hulle seun Jan Latsky(ook gespel Lasetes) gebore 17-07-1766. Hy veg teen Napoleon se leer. Na die oorlog sluit hy aan by die Britse leer en word lid van die 60ste regliment en word na die Kaap gestuur. Op 13-01-1817 ontavng hy ontslag uit die leer en kry verlof om in die Kaap aan te bly. Hy word n handelaar en onderneem handelstogte na die binneland. In 1827 word hy eienaar van die plaas Celderyfontein in die Groot Karoo. Hy is in Worcester met Lucia Claudina Buys getroud op 04-06-1827. Hy word 100 jr 5 m en 11 dae en sterf op die plaas van sy seun Stefanus Latsky (Hierdie inligting is verskaf deur Rina Greeff in Namibia +264813381833 dit stryk nie heeltemal met die van Heese en Lombaard maar ek plaas dit tog tot latere verifikasie van korrektheid.)

Jan LATSKY arrived at the Cape between 1817 and 1819. He was born in 1792. He married Lacya Gloudina BUYS at Worcester, her parents were Stephanus Johannes Buys and Anna Catharina Jachemina Du Buisson.
It has been stated that he was of very large stature. He must have had a very adventurist spirit, since he served in the Cossack regiment against Napoleon. He saw Moscow burning. He received a bullet wound and had a scar on the forehead from a sword slash. He also fought at Waterloo. At first he served a doctor grooming his horses.
He moved to the arid part of the Karoo and he obtained the farm Celeryfontein in 1827. He built a house with loopholes for defence. There are very old graves on the farm, with flat stones stacked on top of one another but the graves are not marked.
CHILDRENb1 Anna Catharina Jacomina = 11 Jan 1828, X 9 Dec 1844 Stephanus Johannes Heymanb2 Magadalena Alida Petronella = 16 Aug 1829, X 5 Jul 1847 Mattheus Willem Johannes Kuhnb3 Stephanus Johannes = 3 Mar 1833, X 28 Mar 1853 Neeltje Visser, XX 30 Jul 1866 Christina Johanna Paulsen
Jan died on 18 December 1866 on his farm Celeryfontein not far from Carnarvon in the Cape.
Sources:AM van Rensburg, "Jan Latsky a Centurion" Familia, 1999, vol 36, no 4Heese and Lombard
LG Green, Karoo

Jan married Lucia Claudina BUYS on 4 Jun 1827 in Worcester. Lucia (daughter of Stefanus Johannes BUYS and Anna Catharina Jachemir DU BUISON) was born on 6 Sep 1805 in Worcester op die plaas Bovenland; was christened on 11 May 1806; died on 17 Feb 1877 in Op die plaas Celderyfontein in die Groot Karoo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anna Catharina Jacomina LATSKY was born on 11 Jan 1828; died on 2 Jun 1891.
2. Magadalena Alida Petronella LATSKY was born on 16 Aug 1829.
3. Stefanus Johannes LATSKY was born on 3 Mar 1833.

Michael married Anna. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]