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Vosloo

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Vosloo is a surname.

The Vosloo progenitor (Jan Vosloo) was born around 1649, a grandson of Johan Crantz (1575) from the farm Voßloh (Vossloh) in Westphalia, a region in northwestern-Germany.

Jan Vosloo (1649) joined the VOC in order to escape poverty that gripped Germany after the thirty year war.

01Notable people

02Vosloo Book

Daniel Jacobs at the request of Ton Vosloo compiled a book in two parts to tell the story of the Vosloos.

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