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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon WOCKE, Richard Colnor Albert (Jnr) Born: fl. 1880 Died: 1891 Architect The son of Richard WOCKE and active as an architect and builder in Bloemfontein in the 1880s; RCA Wocke is also referred to as AW WOCKE or Albert WOCKE. He was educated in Germany and was already working in Bloemfontein by the early 1880s as a master builder with his father. He was later in the service of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT as clerk of works at Heilbron, but in 1891 was replaced and back in Bloemfontein on a reduced salary. G Wocke, active in Bloemfontein around 1892 and Emil Otto Heinrich Wocke, active in Bloemfontein c1897, may have been sons of Richard Wocke. References Oberholster, JJ. 1972. The Historical Monuments of South Africa. Cape Town: Rembrandt Van Rijn Foundation for Culture at the request of the National Monuments Council. pp Schoeman, Karel. 1982. Vrystaatse erfenis : Bouwerk en geboue in die 19de eeu. Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau. pp 107