Chevalier Jacob LETTERSTEDT was born in 1796 in Lallerstedt, ?stergtland, Sweden.
2,3 He and
Maria Barendina BECKER were married on 14 August 1822 in Evangelsche Luther Kirke, Cape Town.
4,5 He and
Lydia BOYS were married on 8 October 1851 in St Martin in the Fields, London, England.
6,7,8 He died on 18 March 1862, at age ~66, in Paris, France.
9 Chevalier Jacob Letterstedt was a Swedish businessman who settled in South Africa (Cape Colony). He arrived at Cape Town in 1820, where he made his fortune in grain trade. Later he founded the company that became South African Breweries. He was Consul of Sweden-Norway in 1841. He was living at Mariandahl, Newlands, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa in 1845. The farm at Mariandahl is now Newlands Cricket Ground.
The Cape Town Historical Society has published the following details about Jacob Letterstedt:
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE JOSEPHINE MILL, Home of the Cape Town Historical Society
In 1975, the Josephine Mill was given as a ruin to this Society by Myra East. The Historical Society [of Cape Town] was instrumental in gaining generous support from corporate bodies and the University of Cape Town, who together recreated a working water mill.
The Mill was founded in 1840 by Jacob Letterstedt, a Swede, who named it in honour of Crown Princess Josephine of Sweden who had granted him an official audience in 1837. Jacob arrived in Cape Town almost penniless in a party of 1820 Settlers, but he had the good fortune of finding favour with a widow, Maria Dreyer, owner of two farms in Newlands, Louwvliet and Questenberg. Maria, though 18 years his senior, offered Jacob marriage, which he accepted, and they married on 14 August 1822. Jacob unified the farms as Mariendahl, named after his wife. Though the mill stood alongside the Liesbeek River, Jacob led the water to the mill race along an aquaduct from the Newlands Spring near Newlands Avenue. At present, the huge cast-iron wheel uses water pumped out of the river.
The building housing the milling machinery is the bulk of Jacob's original mill. The five-storey section attached, with the free-standing chimney, was added when the mill was converted to steam operation some time between 1860 and 1880. After Jacob died in 1862, his estate passed to his daughter, Lydia, by a second marriage. The estate was managed as J. Letterstedt & Co.
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