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- PRIVATE
- A farmer
Source: Andrew O Thompson's Genealogy
From Mark McLoughlin:
«b»DAVID de la CLERQUE LUNDIE
«/b»David Lundie was born in Pretoria on 16 June 1926. His parents were Marshall Lundie and Elizabeth ("Lily) (nee de Klerk).
The family moved to Johannesburg in 1936. They lived respectively in Riviera Road in Killarney, Tottenham Avenue in Melrose and in Alice Lane in Sandown.
David attended at the prestigious preparatory school Pridwin, then went on to Parktown Boys' High School. His academic inclinations were very limited and school was a chore rather than a pleasure.
The after effects of rheumatic fever prevented David from joining up when the Second World War broke out, and he expressed a desire to go farming. In around 1942 his father Marshall purchased a farm at Zebediela in what was then the Northern Transvaal, now Limpopo province. Elizabeth and David moved there and Marshall retired to join them there in 1944.
In 1945 David married Clydagh Maguire, the daughter of an Irish farmer in the Potgietersrus district. Her mother was Eleanor Cole-Kemsley, who, although born in South Africa, grew up in Tasmania, where her father was a very successful businessman.
On 11 January 1947 their son David Con Marshall was born and on 3 February 1949 their daughter Judith Mavourneen completed their family.
In about 1952 the Zebediela farm was sold and the family bought two adjoining farms between Margate and Ramsgate on the South Coast of Natal. Marshall, Lily, David and his family farmed there for about three years.
They sold the Natal farms in early 1956 and returned to the (then) Transvaal. David purchased a farm near Eerstegoud in the district of Pietersburg (now Polokwane). David farmed this property for ten years, concentrating on lucerne, pigs and Jersey cattle which provided rich cream for a local dairy. The success of this farming enterprise was rather limited and David worked as an employee for the first time in his life in about 1962 when he became an insurance salesman with the Old Mutual.
Early in 1965 he joined a group of businessmen who owned a large cattle ranch (called Morea) in the district of Klaserie in the Eastern Transvaal lowveld (now Mphumalanga). He managed this enterprise with great skill, becoming general manager of the cattle ranch and later also the adjoining citrus orchards, after which they moved to Fleur de Lys and took up residence there. Fleur de Lys was the homestead reserved for the general manager.
Around early 1974 David was offered a partnership by the owners of a cattle ranch called Glen Lyden. The arrangement included a magnificent Victorian homestead of baronial dimensions.
David and Clydagh enjoyed 15 wonderful years of productive farm life in this new enterprise which included a flourishing trade in bananas in addition to the large scale cattle farming efforts. David's experience as a banana farmer in Natal helped a great deal.
In 1989 they took the decision to retire from Glen Lyden. The decision was taken as a result of security concerns. A close family friend offered them a part time job doing research work at a piggery near Pietersburg.
A few months after this move, on 23 October 1989, David was murdered by a group of bank robbers during the theft from him of a getaway vehicle. Clydagh never fully recovered from this event and died in 2000.
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1926 - 1989 (63 years)
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