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- PRIVATE
- Name taken from the death certificate of his mother, Johanne, Karen Matilde David, nee Petersen, formerly, Hansen.
«b»CO 8617 Naturalization Papers H 1904-1908
«/b»Name: Karl Mathews Hansen
Born: Hamburg, Germany
Age at next birthday: 22 yrs
Occupation: Post Office Clerk
Place of residence: Elliotdale.
Periods & places residing in Colony: Port Elizabeth Abt 1893, Riebeek East 1893-5, Alexandria 1895, Elliodale 1896
Dated Elliotdale, 30 May 1907
Witness E.W. Wilkins (J.P. Elliotdale)
Details:
Port Elizabeth. Main St, «tab»March 1893- June 1893 (3 months)
Riebeek East. Main st, «tab»June 1893- Aug 1895 (2 yrs 2 months)
Alexandria. Main St. «tab»Aug 1895- Apr 1896 (8 months)
Elliotdale. Main St. «tab»«tab»Apr 1896 to present date. (11 yrs 2 months)
Dated: 26 June 1907
Declaration: 11 Oct 1907
Listed as a labour agent in Elliotdale in 1911 & 1912
Birth record from Flensburg, Germany, Birth Index Cards, 1874-1902 lists his name as «b»Carl Matthias Hansen
Information of a death reads:
«/b»Karl Matthew Hansen, male, age 64 yrs, European, born Denmark. married, School Caretaker, Penioner - Military; died 3 July 1948 at 45 Croydon rd, East London, intended burial: Cambridge Cemetery, East London. cause of death: Bilateral Pulmonary Kochs Infection [Tuberculosis]. Medical practitioner: J.B. Leslie. Informant G.H. Argers[?] [copy in Hansen file.]
Citation
"South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5NS-LZP?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-X7F%3A139965301%2C140049701 : 18 February 2020), 1948 > East London > image 1018 of 2132; National Archives, Pretoria.
According to Chloris David, later Edey:
Karl Hansen...was the "Black Sheep", babied and petted by your great Grandmother [Johanne Karen Mathilde Petersen] who had littl time over for the young Albert David which is why he became such an aggressive young man who seldon took the advice of others, or so I was told by the old man M.D. [Dr Albert David], shyly making circles in the air with his corncob pipe and his eyes screwed up as if in laughter.
...Karl stayed at home for a long time not doing anything but planting things in the garden until Hand Jurgen [Hansen, his brother] decided he should be up and doing. He travelled to Kokstad to some work there....I never knew him,, he used to ooze out of a room and disappear. His wife Kate, did nothing else but produce a chind each year. I liked the little I knew of her. She was Afrikaans which of course, was athe EMD as far as your grandmother was concerned. She had about 6 children and the only one I remember is Albert Hansen; my own age and so good looking. Also very clever. The Old Man {Dr Albert David] "had him educated" a nd he often came up to «i»Meadows«/i» for holidays.
Karl drank and was sickly, and never held down a job. Long after his mother {Johanne Karen Mathilde Petersen] had died the Old Man M. D. [Dr Albert David] was still struggling with him. Hans Jurgen tried to help but to no avail...the man was a washout. I have an idea that Aunt Kate [Karl's wife] asserted herself and they went up to the Transvaal to her people. I can remember being on the farm whena a telegram cam to say taht he had died and my Father looking at it and saing he couldn't get away now. In the end The old Man [Dr Albert David] adn Ursula (Wilkins, Alma's daughter) attended the funeral....
Source: David Family History
Karl's death certificate gives his cause of death as
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Cal 1885 - 1948 (63 years)
