Kmdt. Adrianus Johannes Gijsbertus de la Rey

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Adrianus Gysbertus de la Rey b9 25 December 1812 - 6th December 1891. marries Adriana Wilhelmina van Rooyen in 1838. she : 1818 - 1913 . Adrianus was better known as Lang Adriaan. He moved to the Kimberley area after the discovery of Diamonds.....

Their son is : Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey . b9c5 . 1847 - 1914. He is better known as General Koos de la Rey. the famous Boer war general.

Information of the de la Rey family kindly supplied by Lucas Rinken

Van Niekerk was the first and last administrator of Stellaland. He governed the country not from Vryburg, which was the headquarters of Stellaland, but from his farm, Niekerksrust, which was situated in the S.A.R. on the Harts River. Van Niekerk was assisted by an administration elected for this purpose. Whereas information varies from source to source, the Stellaland Administration was probably constituted as follows: Lang Adriaan (A.J.G.) de la Rey (Commandant); Klein Adriaan de la Rey, a son of the first member (Executive Councillor); C. Genis (Registrar of Deeds); F. Ludorf (State Prosecutor); J.P. Minaar (Auditor General); H. Van Boegschooten (Secretary) and Doms, representing David Massouw as was the case with the War Council (Boon 1885:604; Goldman 1927:98; Sillery 1971:84).