Another point is that Mrs. Hazel Matthysen nee Gemmel, the elderly neighbour, stated that there was an English school in the two back outside rooms. Her parents were involved in the establishment of the Presbyterian Church in 1904. Pre 1899 the only school was the “Government School” on the corner of Begeman and Mare Streets. This school taught in Dutch, but offered an hour a day for English.
According to Herbert Prins, most of the houses in Fenter Street were built by J.C. Kriegler who died during the “2nd Anglo Boer War” and is buried in the Heidelberg Kloof Cemetery.

One of the theories why Fenter Street is spelled with a F and not a V is that the Surveyor Mr Thomas W. Fannin, being Irish spelt it with the F. Mr Venter being the first owner of the farm Langlaagte, where Heidelberg was established. Another theory was that after the 2nd Anglo-Boer War, the British took over Heidelberg and spelt it the English way. It’s interesting that Mr Weakley the editor of the Heidelberg Times, drew a sketch of Heidelberg before 1899 and spelt the street with a V.
 

Kriegler, Johan Christian (1858-1900) 
Kriegler was a teacher, a businessman and Deacon of the Klipkerk. He built most of the houses in Fenter Street. Kriegler was one of the first to volunteer for the 2nd Anglo-Boer War. He was made Veldtkornet after the “Battle of Paardeberg” and “Kommandant” when Org Meyer was demoted.
After the battle at Modderspruit, Kriegler came across a young soldier who had been shot through both legs. As he bent over him the boy cried out. “Oh, sir, spare me!” Kriegler tenderly lifted the lad, gave him a drink of water and comforted him.

Kriegler was wounded at the battle of Karee Siding (Tafelkop) on the 29th of March 1900. He was shot through the chest and the bullet grazed his spine. The British loaded him onto a cart and took him to an English camp at 9pm in the evening of the same day. Sibella, his wife (nee Bosman), was shocked when she received the telegram the next morning. Sibella and her daughter, Janie (17 years old), left for Brandfort the same day. (Friday). 

On Saturday, at about 12pm they met the ambulance train at Kroonstad with Mr Uys, Mr J Biccard and John du Toit, all three who were also wounded at the same battle. They continued on to Brandfort by train and then by horse and cart arriving at 1pm on Sunday. 

Permission was asked by Rev Adriaan Louw of Heidelberg and a Red Cross man, Burgher H Oosterhagen for them to visit Kriegler. Permission was granted. They found him weak, but his blue eyes lit up with love. They could only visit for an hour. That evening they slept 10m away from him, but were not allowed to help him. They visited him again for a hour in the morning and had to say goodbye to him. They asked if he could be exchanged and they promised to look into the mater. They again visited him on the Friday, 6th May. He looked a lot better. 

General Wavell, believed that Kriegler was a high ranking officer to fight the way he did on that day. Sibella Kriegler and Janie  remained at Brandfort, nursing Kriegler, through May and into June, 1900. He died on the 9th of June. Janie believed the lack of adequate medical treatment resulted in her father’s death.
Sibella spent the rest of the war in the Concentration at Merewent with her 4 children- Janie 17, Fanie 13, Isabella 10 and Johann 2. Sibella never remarried after her husband’s death.  Sibella died in 1924, aged 61, and is buried with her son in the Heidelberg Kloof Cemetery.

Janie became one of Dr. O’Reilly’s nurses in the camp and also taught at the camps school.  She married Charles Brink of the Heidelberg commando and lived in Pretoria, where her husband became the quartermaster general of the defence force.  Janie died in 1971, aged 88 years.

(Janie had kept a diary of her experiences in the war).

Fanie, graduated as a B.Sc. at Oxford and became a Doctor.  He was engaged to be married to Jeanne von Belkum, when she died tragically in 1916 at the age of 30.  She was buried on their planned wedding day.  He remained single the rest of his life. Isabella never married and died in 1980, aged 91 and is buried with her father. Johann (Jock) , was a baby during the war and in the camp.  He joined the permanent force at the age of 23 and was commissioned in 1926.  He married Anna, daughter of commandant J van der Walt DTD of the Pretoria south commando, who had been wounded twice during the Boer war.

In 1934 Kriegler qualified as a pilot in the SAAF, then attended a number of courses in England and in 1938 was attached to the axis armies.  During the second WW Kriegler served as brigade commander in North Africa and Italy.  He was decorated with the CBE in 1947 and retired in 1953 to a farm outside Pretoria, where he lost his wife in 1980.  His son, JC Kriegler, an advocate, became a judge.  
Source: Heidelbergers of the Boer War by Ian Uys.