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| − | (b. **/**/1884 - d. Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, **/**/1960). Actress. Emma Krogh, the daughter of a Deputy State Secretary in the administration of Paul Kruger’s Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, could claim to have been the first identified actress in a South African film. She played the heroine in [[The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery]], filmed and directed by [[R.C.E. Nissen]] for [[Rufe Naylor]]’s [[Springbok Film Co.]], first shown on 11 December 1911 at the [[Tivoli]] (afternoon) and the [[Orpheum]] (evening) in Johannesburg. She was a music teacher and also the mother of [[Stella Blakemore]], the author of extremely popular Afrikaans children’s books, notably the Maasdorp series for teenage girls and the Keurboslaan series for boys, the latter written under the pseudonym of Theunis Krogh, which was the name of her maternal grandfather. | + | (b. **/**/1884 - d. Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, **/**/1960). Actress. Emma Krogh, the daughter of a Deputy State Secretary in the administration of Paul Kruger’s Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, could claim to have been the first identified actress in a South African film. She played the heroine in [[The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery]], filmed and directed by [[R.C.E. Nissen]] for [[Rufe Naylor]]’s [[Springbok Film Co.]], first shown on 11 December 1911 at the [[Tivoli]] (afternoon) and the [[Orpheum]] (evening) in Johannesburg. She was a music teacher, the first female head of a school in Pretoria and also the mother of [[Stella Blakemore]], the author of extremely popular Afrikaans children’s books, notably the Maasdorp series for teenage girls and the Keurboslaan series for boys, the latter written under the pseudonym of Theunis Krogh, which was the name of her maternal grandfather. |
| − | Though a document in the National Archives Repository identifies Emma Krogh as “very anti-British”, she nevertheless married Canadian-born Captain Percy Blakemore, who came to South Africa as a | + | Though a document in the National Archives Repository identifies Emma Krogh as “very anti-British”, she nevertheless married Canadian-born Captain Percy Blakemore, who came to South Africa as a trooper in the ranks of the Strathcona Horse, but ended up as officer commanding the 1st Squadron of the Kings' Colonials during the South African War. He remained in South Africa to become a farmer, but later deserted his wife and daughter to return to England, reportedly to become a professional gambler (others sources claim that he was last known to be peddling Bibles in Australia). For some time Emma ran a music and drama school in Pretoria where her daughter, who had married David Owen, a Welshman who was in the British colonial service in Swaziland, took over some of her duties. When Owen was transferred to the Gold Coast (today’s Ghana), the couple’s adopted children were sent to school in Wales, where their grandmother joined them. In 1954 they all moved to Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland, where Emma died in 1960. |
Revision as of 19:52, 2 December 2014
(b. **/**/1884 - d. Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, **/**/1960). Actress. Emma Krogh, the daughter of a Deputy State Secretary in the administration of Paul Kruger’s Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, could claim to have been the first identified actress in a South African film. She played the heroine in The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery, filmed and directed by R.C.E. Nissen for Rufe Naylor’s Springbok Film Co., first shown on 11 December 1911 at the Tivoli (afternoon) and the Orpheum (evening) in Johannesburg. She was a music teacher, the first female head of a school in Pretoria and also the mother of Stella Blakemore, the author of extremely popular Afrikaans children’s books, notably the Maasdorp series for teenage girls and the Keurboslaan series for boys, the latter written under the pseudonym of Theunis Krogh, which was the name of her maternal grandfather.
Though a document in the National Archives Repository identifies Emma Krogh as “very anti-British”, she nevertheless married Canadian-born Captain Percy Blakemore, who came to South Africa as a trooper in the ranks of the Strathcona Horse, but ended up as officer commanding the 1st Squadron of the Kings' Colonials during the South African War. He remained in South Africa to become a farmer, but later deserted his wife and daughter to return to England, reportedly to become a professional gambler (others sources claim that he was last known to be peddling Bibles in Australia). For some time Emma ran a music and drama school in Pretoria where her daughter, who had married David Owen, a Welshman who was in the British colonial service in Swaziland, took over some of her duties. When Owen was transferred to the Gold Coast (today’s Ghana), the couple’s adopted children were sent to school in Wales, where their grandmother joined them. In 1954 they all moved to Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland, where Emma died in 1960.
Sources
St. John Daily Sun, 4 June 1903
http://www.nb.co.za/authors/2462
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/submitted/etd-06172005-101329/unrestricted/01chapter1-3.pdf
http://www.jagermedals.com/South%20Africa%20Campaigns%20from%201799/jm423.html
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