Oscar Pistorius

BT British Olympic Ball 2012 - Arrivals

Pistorius in 2012, photo by Prphotos.com

Birth Name: Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius

Place of Birth: Sandton, Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, South Africa

Date of Birth: 22 November, 1986

Ethnicity: Afrikaner [Dutch, German, some French Huguenot, distant Belgian (both Flemish and Walloon) and Danish, remote English, remote Malagasy, Bengali, Indian, and Indonesian], some English, evidently one eighth Italian

Oscar Pistorius is a South African sprint runner. Both of his legs were amputated below the knee when he was eleven months old, and he competed in events for single below-knee amputees and for able-bodied athletes.

Oscar is the son of Sheila Francis (Bekker) and Heinrich Carl Wilhelm “Henke” Pistorius. His mother was born in Kenya. He has Afrikaner [German and Dutch], some English, and evidently one eighth Italian, ancestry, from his mother’s grandfather, an Italian emigrant to Kenya. He is English-speaking.

Oscar was found guilty of culpable homicide of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp. In February 2013, he shot her in his Pretoria home.

Oscar’s paternal grandfather was Hendrik Wilhelm Carl Pistorius (the son of Theodor/Theodore Georg Joseph Pistorius and Anna Sofia/Sophia Magdalena Stander). Hendrik was born in Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng. Theodor was the son of Carl Wilhelm Heinrich/Hendrik Pistorius and Anna Maria van Staden. Oscar’s great-grandmother Anna was born in Rustenburg, Bojanala, North West, the daughter of Johannes Hendrikus Stander and Johanna Frederika Elizabeth Schoeman.

Oscar’s paternal grandmother was Gertruda/Gertruida Jacoba de Beer (the daughter of Arnoldus Stephanus de Beer and Martha Johanna Maria de Beer). Gertruda was born in Transvaal. Arnoldus was the son of Johannes Christoffel de Beer and Emmerentia Petronella Swanepoel. Martha was born in Doorndraai Dam, the daughter of Dewald Lambertus de Beer and Martha Johanna Maria Scheepers.

Oscar’s maternal grandfather was named Len Bekker.

Oscar’s maternal grandmother was named Joyce W. Sugar (the daughter of parents surnamed Sugar and Brocklesby). Joyce was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England.

The original Pistorius emigrants to South Africa were Friedrich Heinrich Pistorius (b. 16 March 1789, Tondorf, Sachsen-Weimar, Germany), his elder brother, Maximilian Ernst Ludwig (b. 1781), and the eight children of Friedrich, who arrived at the Cape, South Africa in 1838, onboard the “Cape Packet.” The family moved to Natal in 1842. The brothers were the sons of Wilhelm August Pistorius and Fredericke Maria Voigt. Friedrich Heinrich (1789-c. 1863), a brick-maker, is considered to be the Progenitor/Stamvader of the Pistorius family in South Africa.

Oscar is a seventh cousin, once removed, of model Candice Swanepoel.

Sources: Genealogy of Oscar Pistorius – http://www.geni.com

Birth record of Oscar’s maternal grandmother, Joyce W. Sugar – https://www.familysearch.org

14 Responses

  1. Devotion says:

    Looks more Italian than these three.

    Sexy man, too bad he is a monster.

  2. cwm85 says:

    POS is out of prison. He killed his ex gf viciously and got a slap on the rest. What a joke or so called justice.

  3. black plague says:

    Anybody knows the fucking surname of that fucking italian who emigrated to Kenya?
    I also don’t have my two legs,so sad, but my girlfriend is not as beautiful as Reeva Steenkamp,my girl is very very ugly,so terrible.My girlfriend is from Eritrea in Africa and she also don’t have her two legs.
    My life is so terrible,I wanna die.

  4. guyinsf says:

    Any Afrikaner is surely to have the follower 3: Dutch, French and German.

  5. andrew says:

    Pistorius surname goes back to Johannes Pistorius, b. 1471 in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy and dead in Woerden, Utrecht, Netherlands. “Johannes Pistorius and his family fled from Pistoia Italy during the Roman Catholic era of the Lombards invasion of Pistoia to rid of any religious groups other than Roman Catholic”. Nice story.

    http://www.geni.com/discussions/110922?by_or_about=6000000017201272181

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