generations Part 2

Christina Diana was reared in in the town of Paarl in the Western Cape. She then married John James  Kenneth Gabriel and  had their first son. The first daughter , Dorothea Francina was born in 1889. Dorothea attended school but at the age of 10 was taken out and was then employed as a nursemaid to the children of a white family . For years she worked in service and later met and married David Justinus Hendricks, who was a panelbeater and also worked as a petrol attendant. Six children were born from this union. The second was a daughter, named Nancy Christina. Although Dorothea had so  little schooling but her one aim in life was  to give her children a good education.Nancy was educated to Standard 6 ( grade8) and then attended the Zonnebloem College for Education for 3 years. She was trained as a teacher and started her teaching career in the tiny village of Pniel in the Western Cape.