Cornelius Willem Petrus “Corneels” Cloete 1899–1967

Cornelius Willem Petrus “Corneels” CloeteAge: 67 years1899–1967

Name: Cornelius Willem Petrus “Corneels” Cloete

Given names: Cornelius Willem Petrus

Surname: Cloete

Nickname: Corneels

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Birth	April 30, 1899 26 32 Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa Source: Gravestones in the Barkly East cemetery Citation details: Gravestone: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1899-1967), Barkly East
Birth of a sister	Sophia Ritche Cloete June 8, 1900 (Age 13 months)
Birth of a brother	Willem Jacobus Cloete 1901 (Age 20 months) Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Epidemic	February 1, 1901 (Age 21 months) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_South_Africa Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town
War	from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (Age 5 months) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War Note: Second Boer War
Historical Event	from 1852 to 1902 Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Republic Note: The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often referred to as the Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal, was an independent and internationally recognised country in Southern Africa from 1852 to 1902.
Historical Event	from 1854 to 1902 Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Free_State Note: The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje-Vrijstaat, Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province
Epidemic	February 1904 (Age 4 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_in_South_Africa Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg
Birth of a sister	Johanna Francina “Dollie” Cloete July 9, 1904 (Age 5 years) Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa Source: SA Voters roll transcription (1984) Citation details: Johanna Francina DELPORT (CLOETE), D015/M12
Death of a mother	Jacoba Ritchie Erlank July 30, 1904 (Age 5 years) Age: 33 years 11 months Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa Address: Smith Street, Barkly East Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c1d12 Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972 Publication: database with images Citation details: Death registration Jacoba Ritchie ERLANK: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-9728-5415-34?cc=1779109&wc=31DM-T36:139964701,140029801 : accessed 24 September 2015), 1904 > Barkly East > image 78 of 125; National Archives, Pretoria. Death Registration: Jacoba Ritchie Cloete (1904) Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Jacoba Ritchie ERLANK (1904), MOOC 6/9/506 #2460/1904, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-W9B4-B?mode=g&i=1076&cat=331262 image 1077/2096 : accessed 22 Feb 2017 Death notice: Jacoba Ritchie ERLANK (1904) Note: Gravestone gives 29 July, while all other sources give 30 July.
Death of a sister	Sophia Ritche Cloete April 15, 1905 (Age 5 years) Glen Almond, Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa Cause: Membranous croup Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972 Publication: database with images Citation details: Death registration Sophia Ritchie CLOETE: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-21988-26313-44?cc=1779109&wc=31DH-YWP:139965001,140029801 : accessed 24 September 2015), 1905 > Barkly East > image 39 of 144; National Archives, Pretoria. Death Registration: Sophia Cloete (1905) Note: Child living with grandparents at time of death
Epidemic	1906 (Age 6 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_in_South_Africa Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa
Marriage of a parent	Willem Jacobus Cloete — Cornelia Susanna “Nellie” Wessels — View this family April 25, 1907 (Age 7 years) Winburg, Free State, South Africa Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Willem Jacobus CLOETE (1937), MOOC 6/9/4997 #56972/1937, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-93F5-Z?i=584&cat=331262 : accessed 20 Feb 2017 image 585/1542 Source: South Africa, Free State Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1848-1956 Publication: database with images Citation details: Marriage: Cornelia Susanna WESSELS and Willem Jacobus CLOETE (1907), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9QG-RQVN?cc=1910846&wc=39ZF-GPF%3A183083201%2C1301774502%2C1301774601 : 4 November 2016), Free State > Winburg > Marriages 1883-1899 1903-1904 1902-1955 > image 702 of 1280; Dutch Reformed Church Synod Centre, Bloemfontein : accessed 16 Oct 2018 Marriage: Cornelia Susanna WESSELS and Willem Jacobus CLOETE (1907)
Historical Event	May 31, 1910 (Age 11 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa Note: Union of South Africa established
Epidemic	1912 (Age 12 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_in_South_Africa Note: Smallpox outbreaks: The outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg and cases of smallpox are discovered in Durban
Birth of a half-brother	… “Jannie” Cloete before 1918 (Age 18 years)
Birth of a half-sister	Nita Estelle Cloete January 22, 1918 (Age 18 years) Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa Source: LT GEDCOM Citation details: https://genes.tronsmit.com/individual.php?pid=I52&ged=LTGedcom Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Willem Jacobus CLOETE (1937), MOOC 6/9/4997 #56972/1937, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-93F5-Z?i=584&cat=331262 : accessed 20 Feb 2017 image 585/1542
War	from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (Age 15 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I Note: World War I
Epidemic	1918 (Age 18 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_in_South_Africa Note: Spanish flu: An estimated 500,000 people die from the Spanish flu epidemic in South Africa, the fifth hardest hit country in the world
Death of a paternal grandfather	Cornelius Willem Petrus “Lang Kerneels” Cloete October 23, 1929 (Age 30 years) Glen Almond, Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa Cause: diabetes, senility Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972 Publication: database with images Citation details: Death registration Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-22056-65711-89?cc=1779109 : accessed 28 September 2015), 1929 > Barkly East > image 96 of 111; National Archives, Pretoria. Date of entry in original source: October 28, 1929 Quality of data: primary evidence Death Registration: Cornelius Willem Petrus Cloete (1929) Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1929), MOOC 6/9/3624 #24488/1929, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-HSR1-J?i=891&cat=331262 : accessed 18 Feb 2017, image 892/1527 Death notice: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1929)
Economic Event	October 1929 (Age 30 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://goo.gl/MgHbRM Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century
Death of a half-brother	… “Jannie” Cloete before 1933 (Age 33 years) Age: ~15 Cause: Het aan sy hart gely Source: Ouma Babes se vertelling Citation details: http://genes.tronsmit.com/individual.php?pid=I1&ged=Theron#stories : accessed 16 Nov 2014 Note: Op 'n jong leeftyd oorlede.
Death of a father	Willem Jacobus Cloete November 1, 1937 (Age 38 years) Age: 65 years 4 months 25 days Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa Cause: haemorrhage of the brain and shock as the result of a motor car accident on the night of the 30/10/37 Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972 Publication: database with images Citation details: Death registration Willem Jacobus CLOETE: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-159394-179887-91?cc=1779109 : accessed 17 October 2015), 1937 > Barkly East > image 91 of 200; National Archives, Pretoria. Date of entry in original source: November 1, 1937 Quality of data: primary evidence Death registration: Willem Jacobus Cloete (1937) Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Willem Jacobus CLOETE (1937), MOOC 6/9/4997 #56972/1937, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-93F5-Z?i=584&cat=331262 : accessed 20 Feb 2017 image 585/1542
War	from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (Age 40 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II Note: World War II
Historical Event	February 14, 1961 (Age 61 years) South Africa Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_South_Africa Note: Decimalisation of currency replaces the South African pound with the South African rand
Historical Event	May 31, 1961 (Age 62 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_South_Africa Note: South Africa becomes a republic
Death	February 26, 1967 (Age 67 years) Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Source: Gravestones in the Barkly East cemetery Citation details: Gravestone: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1899-1967), Barkly East Source: Barkly East Reporter Publication: Newspaper Citation details: Memoriam: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1967), 3 March 1967 Memoriam: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1967)
Burial	March 1, 1967 (3 days after death) Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa Source: Barkly East Reporter Publication: Newspaper Citation details: Memoriam: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1967), 3 March 1967 Memoriam: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1967)

Generation 1
1. Cornelius Willem Petrus “Corneels” Cloete, son of Willem Jacobus Cloete and Jacoba Ritchie Erlank, was born on April 30, 1899 in Barkly East, Eastern Cape and died on February 26, 1967 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal at the age of 67. He married Johanna Hendrina Grobler “Babes” Welgemoed (great-great-grandfather’s wife’s great-great-niece), daughter of Hendrik Paul Welgemoed and Elizabeth Margaretha Welgemoed.
  Cornelius Willem Petrus “Corneels” Cloete and Johanna Hendrina Grobler “Babes” Welgemoed had 2 children.
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Family with parents
father Parents Cornelius Willem Petrus “Lang Kerneels” Cloete Johanna Sophia Burgers	Willem Jacobus Cloete 1872–1937
mother Parents Andries Gustaf Erlank Susanna Sophia Ritchie	Jacoba Ritchie Erlank 1866–1904
himself Family Johanna Hendrina Grobler “Babes” Welgemoed Private Private	Cornelius Willem Petrus “Corneels” Cloete 1899–1967
younger sister Family (none)	Sophia Ritche Cloete 1900–1905
younger brother Family Petronella Johanna “Piekie” de Villiers	Willem Jacobus Cloete 1901–1981
sister Family (none)	Private
younger sister Family Gert Christiaan “Boet” Delport Gert Cloete Delport Private	Johanna Francina “Dollie” Cloete 1904–1985
Father’s family with Cornelia Susanna “Nellie” Wessels
father Parents Cornelius Willem Petrus “Lang Kerneels” Cloete Johanna Sophia Burgers	Willem Jacobus Cloete 1872–1937
step-mother Parents (unknown)	Cornelia Susanna “Nellie” Wessels 1873–1956
half-brother Family (none)	… “Jannie” Cloete 1918–1933
half-sister Family John Maitland “Laurie” Watermeyer Julia Watermeyer Private Private Private	Nita Estelle Cloete 1918–1976
Family with Johanna Hendrina Grobler “Babes” Welgemoed
himself Parents Willem Jacobus Cloete Jacoba Ritchie Erlank	Cornelius Willem Petrus “Corneels” Cloete 1899–1967
wife Parents Hendrik Paul Welgemoed Elizabeth Margaretha Welgemoed	Johanna Hendrina Grobler “Babes” Welgemoed 1908–1989
daughter Family (none)	Private
daughter Family (none)	Private

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