Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… Villiers was born on 10 March 1850 in Swellendam, in the Cape Colony (now Western Cape). De Villiers is known as the 'father of South African … (1971) Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, NASOU: Cape Town, vol. 3 pg. 656| Wallis, F. (2000) Nuusdagboek: …