Brown plaque № 6376

Knysna, South Africa

1859. The old Parsonage. On completion of the first Dutch Reformed Church in Knysna in 1851, the parsonage, a simple thatch roofed, single storeyed building, was built on this site in 1859. The first Dominee to live here, until 1864, was Ds. de Rouxbaix, who was then succeeded by Ds. M.C. Botha wher

e his son, well known archivist Colin Graham Botha was born. It has been enlarged over the years, an extra storey added with the thatch roof replaced in 1881, and the north and south facing verandas h

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