Willem Isaak GroblerAge: 58 years1844–1903
- Name
- Willem Isaak Grobler
- Given names
- Willem Isaak
- Surname
- Grobler
| Birth | March 27, 1844 21 32 Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.13, b6c2d2e7f3 |
| Baptism | April 28, 1844 (Age 32 days) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.13, b6c2d2e7f3 |
| Town founded | 1844 Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844_in_South_Africa Note: Settlement of Victoria West is established
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| Birth of a brother | Johannes Samuel Grobler November 24, 1845 (Age 19 months) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.13, b6c2d2e7f4 |
| Baptism of a brother | Johannes Samuel Grobler December 21, 1845 (Age 20 months) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.13, b6c2d2e7f4 |
| Birth of a brother | Daniel Jacobus Grobler July 18, 1847 (Age 3 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.13, b6c2d2e7f5 |
| Baptism of a brother | Daniel Jacobus Grobler September 5, 1847 (Age 3 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.13, b6c2d2e7f5 |
| Birth of a sister | Judith Magdalena Maria Grobler July 23, 1849 (Age 5 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.14, b6c2d2e7f6 |
| Baptism of a sister | Judith Magdalena Maria Grobler September 3, 1849 (Age 5 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.14, b6c2d2e7f6 |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | Nicolaas Johannes Grobler January 13, 1851 (Age 6 years) Age: 65 years Publication: Vol. 2, D-G (1989)
ISBN: - Citation details: Grobbelaar, p560, b6c2d. Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Nicolaas Johannes GROBLER (1851), MOOC 6/9/53 #664, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DB5S-JKV?mode=g&i=356&cat=331262 image 357/2173 : accessed 11 Mar 2017 Quality of data: primary evidence |
| Birth of a sister | Louisa Petronella Cecelia Grobler October 8, 1852 (Age 8 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.14, b6c2d2e7f7 |
| Baptism of a sister | Louisa Petronella Cecelia Grobler November 7, 1852 (Age 8 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.14, b6c2d2e7f7 |
| Marriage of a sibling | Nicolaas Johannes Grobler — Maria Magdalena Marais — View this family October 31, 1859 (Age 15 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.12, b6c2d2e7f1 Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library Citation details: Gravestone: Maria Magdalena MARAIS (1840-1912) and Nicolaas Johannes GROBLER (1839-1913), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=3189335 : accessed 24 Mar 2017 Citation details: Marriage: Nicolaas Johannes GROBLER and Maria Magdalena MARAIS (1859), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-7B64?i=629&cat=244034 : accessed 14 May 2020 |
| Epidemic | from 1857 to 1859 (Age 12 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://goo.gl/XVwD6F Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza
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| Marriage of a sibling | Hendrik Paul Welgemoed — Johanna Hendrina Elizabeth Grobbelaar — View this family September 7, 1862 (Age 18 years) Source: Welgemoed naamlys (GISA) Publication: Copy obtained in 2015 Citation details: b4c7, no place Text: c. 1862 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Johanna Hendrina Elizabeth GROBBELAAR (1899), MOOC 6/9/387 #1155, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQJ-8S9P-4?mode=g image 670/2166 : accessed 4 March 2017 Quality of data: secondary evidence Citation details: Marriage: Hendrik Paul WELGEMOED and Johanna Hendrina Elizabeth GROBLER (1862), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-G9J8-V?i=657&cat=994807 : accessed 10 Aug 2019 |
| War | from April 1861 to May 1865 (Age 17 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://goo.gl/ETtxkC Note: American Civil War: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War
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| Economic Event | 1865 (Age 20 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1865_in_South_Africa Note: Economic depression
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| Death of a maternal grandmother | Johanna Elizabeth Botha October 27, 1867 (Age 23 years) Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Johanna Elizabeth BOTHA (1867), MOOC 6/9/121 #3981, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-MS3G-J?mode=g&i=1193&cat=331262 image 1194/2192 : accessed 7 Apr 2017 Publication: Vol. 1, A-C (1986) ISBN: 0-7969-0370-0 Citation details: Botha, p369, b1c7d6e2. |
| Economic Event | 1867 (Age 22 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Diamond Note: The Eureka Diamond was the first diamond discovered in South Africa. It weighed 21.25 carats (4.250 g), and was found by Erasmus Jacobs near Hopetown on the Orange River in 1867. The diamond, cut to a 10.73-carat (2.146 g) cushion-shaped brilliant, is currently on display at the Mine Museum in Kimberley. The discovery of diamonds in South Africa led to the Kimberley Diamond Rush, and marked the beginning of the Mineral Revolution
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| Marriage | Anna Elizabeth Christina du Plessis — View this family February 14, 1870 (Age 25 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.13, b6c2d2e7f3 |
| Economic Event | September 1873 (Age 29 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim%27s_Rest,_Mpumalanga Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field
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| Marriage of a sibling | Johannes Samuel Grobler — Cornelia Susanna Moolman — View this family March 30, 1874 (Age 30 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.13, b6c2d2e7f4 |
| War | from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (Age 36 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Boer_War Note: First Boer War
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| Economic Event | 1881 (Age 36 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barberton,_Mpumalanga#Gold Note: In 1881 gold in the Barberton area was discovered by Tom McLachlan who found alluvial gold at Jamestown. However due to the location (the hot lowveld region was rife with malaria) no-one wanted to go there until Auguste Roberts (French Bob) discovered gold in Concession Creek in 20 June 1883. This discovery resulted in a gold rush to the area
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| Death of a father | Willem Isaak Grobler January 13, 1886 (Age 41 years) Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Willem Isaak GROBLER (1886), MOOC 6/9/229 #177/1886, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-D9HT-D?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8Z%3A1598082388 : 12 September 2017), 007844955 > image 191 of 2041; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 Jan 2019 Publication: Vol. 2, D-G (1989)
ISBN: - Citation details: Grobbelaar, p560, b6c2d2e. Text: 13.6.1886 Shared note: Description of Albert District Source: Stamouers Citation details: http://www.stamouers.com/index.php/the-land-sp-908809780/661-plek-gids : accessed 1 June 2016 |
| Historical Event | from 1852 to 1902 (Age 7 years) 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.
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| Historical Event | from 1854 to 1902 (Age 9 years) 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
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| Economic Event | 1886 (Age 41 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_South_Africa Note: Discovery of the Main Reef in Witwatersrand. Gold rushes to Pilgrim's Rest and Barberton were precursors to the biggest discovery of all, the Main Reef/Main Reef Leader on Gerhardus Oosthuizen's farm Langlaagte, Portion C, in 1886, the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the subsequent rapid development of the gold field there, the biggest of them all.
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| Death of a sister | Johanna Hendrina Elizabeth Grobbelaar March 6, 1899 (Age 54 years) Age: 58 years 4 months Source: Welgemoed naamlys (GISA) Publication: Copy obtained in 2015 Citation details: b4c7 Publication: database with images Citation details: Death registration Johanna Hendrina Elizabetha GROBLAAR: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-159394-438935-58?cc=1779109 : accessed 11 October 2015), 1899 > Cradock > image 89 of 352; National Archives, Pretoria. Date of entry in original source: March 11, 1899 Text:
Quality of data: primary evidence Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Johanna Hendrina Elizabeth GROBBELAAR (1899), MOOC 6/9/387 #1155, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQJ-8S9P-4?mode=g image 670/2166 : accessed 4 March 2017 Date of entry in original source: March 9, 1899 Quality of data: primary evidence |
| Epidemic | February 1, 1901 (Age 56 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_South_Africa Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town
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| Death of a mother | Judith Magdalena Odendaal October 30, 1901 (Age 57 years) Address: Elandsfontein,
Ward 2,
Subdistrict Venterstad,
District Albert
Cause: old age Publication: database with images Citation details: Death registration Judith Magdalena ODENDAL: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-159394-36875-99?cc=1779109 : accessed 11 October 2015), 1901 > Albert > image 254 of 309; National Archives, Pretoria. Date of entry in original source: November 1, 1901 Quality of data: primary evidence Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Judith Magdalena ODENDAAL (1901), MOOC 6/9/441 #4318/1901, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ6-G9NW-Z?i=1714&cat=331262 image 1715/2149 : accessed 21 Mar 2017 Quality of data: primary evidence Publication: Vol. 2, D-G (1989)
ISBN: - Citation details: Grobbelaar, p560, b6c2d2e. Text: 3 October 1901 Burgersdorp Shared note: Description of Albert District Source: Stamouers Citation details: http://www.stamouers.com/index.php/the-land-sp-908809780/661-plek-gids : accessed 1 June 2016 Note: [SAG 2] partially wrong data
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| War | from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (Age 55 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War Note: Second Boer War
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| Death | January 1903 (Age 58 years) Publication: ISBN 0 620 10291 8 Citation details: p 8.13, b6c2d2e7f3 |
- Generation 1
Willem Isaak Grobler , son ofWillem Isaak Grobler andJudith Magdalena Odendaal , was born on March 27, 1844 in Cradock, Eastern Cape and died in January 1903 at the age of 58. He marriedAnna Elizabeth Christina du Plessis (sister-in-law), daughter ofDaniël Jacobus du Plessis andAnna Christina van den Heever , on February 14, 1870 in Colesberg, Northern Cape. She was born in July 1853 in Boesmanspoort, Colesberg, Northern Cape and died on November 17, 1914 in Venterstad, Eastern Cape at the age of 61.