Die Pell-familie was pioniers in die vroe\u00eb ontwikkelingsjare van Jeffreysbaai. Hulle was ware baanbrekers rondom 1865, wat \u2019n groot rol gespeel het in die totstandkoming van die gesogte kusdorp. <\/p>\n
\u2019n Bekende baken op die dorp is die Pellhuis in St Francisstraat. Minder bekend egter is die Pell-familiebegraafplaas in Pellsrus. Dit is dus vanpas om die familie se laaste rusplek te bewaar.<\/p>\n
Waar die familie destyds begrawe is, het dit mettertyd erg verwaarloos: die grafte is toegegroei, grafstene is beskadig en omgestoot en die omheining was in \u2019n treurige toestand. Die munisipaliteit het die gebied omhein met palisade. Daarna het opknapping van die Pell-begraafplaas begin deur middel van samewerking tussen die Kouga Munisipaliteit en die Humansdorp Museumvereniging.<\/p>\n
Die tesourier van die Humansdorpse Museumvereniging, Petro Meyer s\u00ea dit was \u2019n reuse taak: \u201cVan die grafte het aan die een kant gesak. \u2019n Nuwe blad is gegooi en die muurtjies opgebou en daarna is graniette\u00ebls bo-op vas sement om dit mooi af te rond.\u201d<\/p>\n
Waar moontlik is die ou grafstene behou en die woorde net weer oorgeverf. Daar was twee gebreekte grafstene wat vervang is met nuwes. Daar was tekens van nog \u2019n graf, maar met geen steen op nie. \u201cOns het uiteindelik sewe grafte gerestoureer, waarvan een graf drie name op het.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2019n Nuwe grafsteen bevat die name van die ma (1905), pa (1879) en hul kind (1868) wat jonk dood is \u2013 daar was slegs ingeduikte grond en gruisklippe wat aangedui het dat daar wel \u2019n graf was. <\/p>\n
\u201cDit is moontlik dat die pa, ma en kind elkeen apart begrawe is, maar geen duidelike tekens van nog grafte kon gekry word nie. Wanneer in ag geneem word dat die spesifieke grafte ouer as 100 jaar is, is dit verstaanbaar,\u201d s\u00ea Meyer. <\/p>\n
Dit het heelwat navorsing geverg om die inligting op die grafstene te bekom. Geen ou foto\u2019s kon opgespoor word wat meer lig kon werp op die ligging van genoemde grafte nie. <\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019n Lys is beskikbaar van almal wat daar begrawe is en die gegewens is gebruik om die grafte te identifiseer,\u201d verduidelik Meyer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
George Pell<\/strong><\/p>\n George Pell was \u2019n hotelbaas, winkelier en ambagsman. Hy het in 1865 getender vir \u2019n kontrak om die regeringsgeboue op Humansdorp te herstel en te vergroot. George se seun, William, het sy pa fluks gehelp.<\/p>\n Hy het hom beywer vir die groei van Jeffreysbaai en het diens van onskatbare waarde aan die inwoners van Jeffreysbaai en omgewing gelewer. Dit het die uitbouing van infrastruktuur ingesluit.<\/p>\n George Pell se winkel was meer as net \u2019n handelaar en kantien. Daar was alles van oesters en vars vis tot kerse en konfyt te koop. Twee dosyn oesters is verkoop vir twee sjielings, terwyl \u2019n honderd sigare vyftien sjielings gekos het. Pell het selfs ganse aan \u2019n boer ge- stuur en vis voorsien aan die Thornhill Hotel. Hy was ook verantwoordelik vir die insameling van huishuur wat destyds twee sjielings en ses pennies beloop het. Die vissermanne het maar swaar gekry, en het dan sommer \u2019n paar visse aangebied in ruil vir die huurgeld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Die Pell-familie was pioniers in die vroe\u00eb ontwikkelingsjare van Jeffreysbaai. 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