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From: Abbott Henry <>
Subject: RE: [Paedophile skeleton in LOUW closet?]
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:23:33 +0200


Hi Keith and other listers,

It could be a tongue in the cheeck reference to some-one who married
a spouse much younger than himself.

regards,
Henry

> -----Original Message-----
> From:keith meintjes [SMTP:]
> Sent:9 October 2000 2:49
> To:
> Subject:Re: [Paedophile skeleton in LOUW closet?]
>
> As a Louw descendant who has been looking for family information for the
> last
> 15 years, I must say I have not before heard of such an accusation.
>
> It may, or may not, be true. (I am not a judge, just a descendant.)
>
> Certainly, Martina is correct: There is no mention of any such thing in
> "The
> Louws of Louwvliet". Also, I could not find any mention in "The Diary of
> Adam
> Tas".
>
> (Jan Broertje's son, Jacobus, and Adam Tas were brothers-in-law, having
> married two sisters van Brakel. I imagine that the van der Stels would,
> in
> their own defense, have mentioned any criminal cases involving their
> accusers'
> families)
>
> So, I would like to see the letter. Also, to know the source of Chris
> Louw's
> information.
>
> By the way, pedophilia is from the Latin: "Sexual perversion in which
> children
> are the preferred sexual object". However, it is a 20th Century word,
> entering Webster's Dictionary in 1906. If the 17th Century Dutch had a
> word
> for it, it was not "p(a)edophile".
>
>
> Best wishes
> Keith
>
> (It has been snowing in Michigan, and my boat is still in the water!)
>
>
> =============================
>
> Ken Louw <> wrote:
> I got to see a copy (Afrikaans) yesterday of a supposedly famous public
> letter by Chris Louw, executive producer of radio-documentary programs
> such as Monitor and Spectrum, to dr. Willem de Klerk, titled "Boetman is
>
> die bliksem in".
> The content is largely irrelevant genealogically, except for his
> referring to the Louw progenitor (also his ancestor) as "...die ou
> pedofiel Jan Pieterzoon van Kaspel ter Mare..."
> I do not know if the Afrikaans word "pedofiel" means something else
> totally and not paedophile at all - please be so kind as to inform me if
>
> this is the case.
> Otherwise, if it does mean paedophile, I'd really like to know if this
> is at all true. I have read a lot about the early Louws, including the
> book "The Louws of Louwvliet" which covers their lives quite extensively
>
> and quotes extensively from public recods. And nowhere did I ever come
> across a single sentence referring to Jan Pietersz as a paedophile.
> If it is true and the authors left this piece of information out
> deliberately, I'd like to know.
> If however it is really not true, I think Chris Louw needs to be
> corrected.
> Does anyone incidentally know his contact details?
> Regards,
> Martina Louw.
> (New Zealand)
>
>
>
>
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