Notable Burials
The people remembered on the mountain
Soldiers and founding families, mothers and miners — a closer look at some of the people who lie in the Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery. Choose a name to read their story.
Private J. Lydon
d. 1901 · 3rd Mounted Infantry, Northumberland Fusiliers
William Cooke
d. 1901 · 1st King’s Liverpool Regiment
Henry George Baskerville
d. 1901 · Royal Engineers, Telegraph Division
Rudolf Johannes Gouws
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
Albertus John Robert Myburgh
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
Commandant Maritz
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
Charles Rupert Lambourn
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
William Lambourn
son of Charles Rupert Lambourn
Daniel du Plessis Oosthuizen
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
Gesina Susanna Isabella Oosthuizen
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
Evan Davies
1884–1964
Sparg
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
McAllister
known locally as “Delville Wood McAllister”
Shane Richard Latré
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
Thomas Henry Lyle Heath
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
Catherina Elizabeth von Wielligh
née Coetzee · c. 1868–1888
Jan Andries Brink
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
Sophia Dorothea Brink
Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery
William Hayes
1845–1886
Matthew Leonard Walsh
c.1853–1895
John William Pearce, M.G.M.M.S.
c.1870–1926