{"id":9,"date":"2020-04-28T09:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2020-04-28T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:14:35","slug":"house-of-pretorius","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Pretorius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretorius-family-coat-of-arms-645x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretorius-family-coat-of-arms-645x1024.jpg 645w, https:\/\/pretorius.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretorius-family-coat-of-arms-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/pretorius.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretorius-family-coat-of-arms-768x1220.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pretorius.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretorius-family-coat-of-arms-967x1536.jpg 967w, https:\/\/pretorius.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretorius-family-coat-of-arms-1289x2048.jpg 1289w, https:\/\/pretorius.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretorius-family-coat-of-arms-1200x1906.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pretorius.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretorius-family-coat-of-arms-1980x3145.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/pretorius.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pretorius-family-coat-of-arms-scaled.jpg 1611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretorius History, Family Crest &amp; Coats of Arms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Origins Available: England<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pretorius surname comes from the word Latin &#8220;praetor,&#8221; and was a term used for a reeve, the chief magistrate or bailiff of a district. Additionally, the name could have meant &#8220;leader.&#8221; The Pretorius variant is a common Afrikaans surname which is unique to South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early Origins of the Pretorius family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surname Pretorius was first found in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincolnshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lincolnshire<\/a>\u00a0where they held a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/blogs\/family-seat\">family seat<\/a>\u00a0as Lords of the Manor. The family name was first referenced in the year 1150 when Willelmus Pretor held estates in that shire. Later, Robertus Preter was listed in the Curia Regis Rolls of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloucestershire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gloucestershire<\/a>\u00a0in 1208.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/pretorius-family-crest#cite_note-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the 16th century, early\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/blogs\/Spelling-Variations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spelling variations<\/a>\u00a0of the name appeared in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/blogs\/Germany\">Germany<\/a>\u00a0including Jacob Praetorius the Elder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/blogs\/Abbreviations\">(c.<\/a>\u00a01520-1586), the German organist and composer. He was the first of many listed in this century, but how the English and German families are related is unknown. Moreover how the South African variant Pretorius became so popular there is again unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early History of the Pretorius family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Pretorius research. Another 71 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1455 and 1487 are included under the topic Early Pretorius History in all our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/product\/PDF+Coat+of+Arms+and+Extended+History+%28A4+Size%29\">PDF Extended History products<\/a>&nbsp;and printed products wherever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretorius Spelling Variations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/blogs\/Spelling-Variations\">Spelling variations<\/a>&nbsp;of this family name include: Prater, Preater, Prather, Pretor, Prether and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early Notables of the Pretorius family (pre 1700)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information is included under the topic Early Pretorius Notables in all our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/product\/PDF+Coat+of+Arms+and+Extended+History+%28A4+Size%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF Extended History products<\/a>\u00a0and printed products wherever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Migration of the Pretorius family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: John Prater, who settled in Newfoundland in 1622; Thomas Prater, who settled in Virginia in 1622; Jonathan Prather, who arrived in Virginia sometime between 1634 and 1789.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofnames.com\/pretorius-family-crest#ContemporaryNotables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contemporary Notables of the name Pretorius (post 1700)<strong>+<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lieutenant General Hattingh Pretorius SD SM MMM (1942-2008), South African military commander, Chief of the South African Army (1993-1994)<\/li><li>Andr\u00e9 Pretorius (b. 1978), South African rugby union\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Footballer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">footballer<\/a><\/li><li>Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819-1901), first president of the South African Republic<\/li><li>Ryan Pretorius (b. 1979), former South African American football place kicker<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretorius History, Family Crest &amp; Coats of Arms Origins Available: England The Pretorius surname comes from the word Latin &#8220;praetor,&#8221; and was a term used for a reeve, the chief&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretorius.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}