Hester Christina Smit1772–
- Name
- Hester Christina Smit
- Given names
- Hester Christina
- Surname
- Smit
- Married name
- Hester Christina Bishof
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b1
| Baptism | August 30, 1772 Publication: Vol. 11, Scho-Sny (2004)
ISBN: 0-7972-1031-8 Citation details: Smit, p442, a4b6c10d2. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | Alewijn Smit de oude about 1774 (Age 16 months) Publication: Vol. 11, Scho-Sny (2004)
ISBN: 0-7972-1031-8 Citation details: Smit, p436, a4b6. |
| Historical Event | July 1776 (Age 3 years) Source: Wikipedia Note: Americans declare independece
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| Death of a paternal grandmother | Hester Bekker January 11, 1778 (Age 5 years) Publication: Vol. 11, Scho-Sny (2004)
ISBN: 0-7972-1031-8 Citation details: Smit, p436, a4b6. |
| Baptism of a brother | Alwyn Jacobus Smit February 13, 1780 (Age 7 years) Publication: Vol. 11, Scho-Sny (2004)
ISBN: 0-7972-1031-8 Citation details: Smit, p442, a4b6c10d5. |
| War | December 20, 1780 (Age 8 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1780s_in_South_Africa Note: Britain declares war on the Netherlands. French troops arrive at the Cape Colony to guard it against the English
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| Historical Event | 1780 (Age 7 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1780s_in_South_Africa Note: The Fish River is made the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony
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| War | 1784 (Age 11 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1780s_in_South_Africa Note: French troops depart the Cape after the Treaty of Paris (3 Sep 1783) is signed
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| Marriage | Johann Heinrich Bisschoff — View this family August 26, 1792 (Age 19 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4 Publication: Vol. 11, Scho-Sny (2004)
ISBN: 0-7972-1031-8 Citation details: Smit, p442, a4b6c10d2. Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Anna Maria Catharina Jacoba BISSCHOF (1836), MOOC 6/9/9 #1700, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQJ-6QFL?i=1871&cat=331262 image 1871-2/2202 : accessed 4 March 2017 |
| Death of a mother | Anna Maria Bothma September 14, 1794 (Age 22 years) Publication: Vol. 11, Scho-Sny (2004)
ISBN: 0-7972-1031-8 Citation details: Smit, p440, a4b6c10. |
| War | from 1789 to 1799 (Age 16 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution Note: French Revolution
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| Historical Event | 1795 (Age 22 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790s_in_South_Africa Note: The Dutch East India Company is in financial ruins. 29 January – Farmers expelled the officials of the Dutch East India Company and established an independent government at Graaff Reinet. 18 June - Swellendam follows Graaff Reinet and declares a republic under Hermanus Steyn. The Netherlands is invaded by the French under the leadership of Napoléon Bonaparte. A republic is declared by Dutch revolutionaires and the Prince of Orange flees to England. 16 September – British forces under General Sir James Henry Craig seizes the Cape Colony for the Stadtholder Prince William V of Orange. The republics of Graaff Reinet and Swellendam reject the British and the British army is sent in.The start of free trade was announced
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| Historical Event | March 5, 1797 (Age 24 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790s_in_South_Africa Note: The Cape becomes a British Colony
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| Birth of a daughter #1 | Anna Maria Catharina Bisschoff calculated March 24, 1807 (Age 34 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Anna Maria Catharina Jacoba BISSCHOF (1836), MOOC 6/9/9 #1700, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQJ-6QFL?i=1871&cat=331262 image 1871-2/2202 : accessed 4 March 2017 Quality of data: secondary evidence Note: Based on age at death.
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| War | from May 18, 1803 to November 20, 1815 (Age 30 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars Note: Napoleonic Wars
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| Natural disaster | 1809 (Age 36 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1809_in_South_Africa Note: A severe drought occurs in eastern frontier region
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| Town founded | 1812 (Age 39 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_in_South_Africa Note: The settlement of Grahamstown is founded
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| Death of a father | Andries Adriaan Smit September 23, 1814 (Age 42 years) Publication: Vol. 11, Scho-Sny (2004)
ISBN: 0-7972-1031-8 Citation details: Smit, p440, a4b6c10. |
| Town founded | August 27, 1818 (Age 45 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1818_in_South_Africa Note: Cradock is founded
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| Historical Event | 1820 (Age 47 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820_in_South_Africa Note: 17 March - The first British settlers arrived in Table Bay, Cape Town on the Nautilus and the Chapman. 1 May - The Albury reaches Cape Town bringing settlers to Albany, South Africa. They arrive in Algoa Bay on 15 May. 2 May - La Belle Alliance reached Cape Town. She brought British settlers to Algoa Bay. 4000 British settlers started arriving in Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), they settled in Grahamstown and along the frontier
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| Marriage of a child | Andries Gustaf Erlank — Anna Maria Catharina Bisschoff — View this family April 6, 1823 (Age 50 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Anna Maria Catharina Jacoba BISSCHOF (1836), MOOC 6/9/9 #1700, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQJ-6QFL?i=1871&cat=331262 image 1871-2/2202 : accessed 4 March 2017 Quality of data: secondary evidence Citation details: Marriage: Andries Gustaf ERLANK and Anna Maria Cathia Jac BISHOF (1823), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-QDG7?i=103&cat=959223 : accessed 11 Apr 2020 |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Andries Gustaf Erlank June 13, 1824 (Age 51 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c1 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Andries Gustaaf ERLANK (1879), MOOC 6/9/169 #6622/1879, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-W388-X?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZR%3A1598082383 : 28 September 2018), 007844949 > image 1698 of 2103; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Janet Elizabeth ERLANK (1904), TAB MHG #5429/1904, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS92-H7DV-T?cc=2520237&wc=Q6NX-RBV%3A1590242339 : 16 December 2016), 007805278 > image 1266 of 1430; Pietermaritzburg Archives (formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 Quality of data: secondary evidence |
| Baptism of a grandson | Andries Gustaf Erlank July 5, 1824 (Age 51 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c1 |
| Marriage | Coenraad Christiaan Wunder — View this family July 25, 1825 (Age 52 years) Publication: Vol. 11, Scho-Sny (2004)
ISBN: 0-7972-1031-8 Citation details: Smit, p442, a4b6c10d2. |
| Economic Event | 1825 (Age 52 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1825_in_South_Africa Note: Rix dollar Dutch: Rijsksdaalder is converted into the British sterling
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| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Hester Christina Johanna Adriana Erlank February 14, 1826 (Age 53 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c2 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Andries Gustaaf ERLANK (1879), MOOC 6/9/169 #6622/1879, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-W388-X?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZR%3A1598082383 : 28 September 2018), 007844949 > image 1698 of 2103; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Hester Christina Johanna Adriana ERLANK (1893), MOOC 6/9/317 #1171/1893, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-W94N-C?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S86%3A1598082396 : 12 September 2017), 007844963 > image 1589 of 2039; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #3 | Catharina Maria Erlank November 18, 1827 (Age 55 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c3 |
| Death of a granddaughter | Catharina Maria Erlank May 10, 1829 (Age 56 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c3 |
| Birth of a grandson #4 | Johan Hendrik Erlank October 3, 1830 (Age 58 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c4 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Andries Gustaaf ERLANK (1879), MOOC 6/9/169 #6622/1879, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-W388-X?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZR%3A1598082383 : 28 September 2018), 007844949 > image 1698 of 2103; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 |
| Birth of a grandson #5 | Gustav Zacharias Erlank January 30, 1833 (Age 60 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c5 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Andries Gustaaf ERLANK (1879), MOOC 6/9/169 #6622/1879, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-W388-X?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZR%3A1598082383 : 28 September 2018), 007844949 > image 1698 of 2103; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #6 | Anna Maria Catharina Jacoba Erlank February 15, 1835 (Age 62 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c6 |
| Historical Event | 1835 (Age 62 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1835_in_South_Africa Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony
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| Birth of a granddaughter #7 | … Erlank July 26, 1836 (Age 63 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c7 |
| Death of a granddaughter | … Erlank July 27, 1836 (Age 63 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c7 |
| Death of a daughter | Anna Maria Catharina Bisschoff August 4, 1836 (Age 63 years) Age: 29 years 4 months 11 days Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Anna Maria Catharina Jacoba BISSCHOF (1836), MOOC 6/9/9 #1700, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQJ-6QFL?i=1871&cat=331262 image 1871-2/2202 : accessed 4 March 2017 Quality of data: primary evidence |
| Death of a granddaughter | Anna Maria Catharina Jacoba Erlank August 22, 1836 (Age 63 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c6 |
| Town founded | 1844 (Age 71 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844_in_South_Africa Note: Settlement of Victoria West is established
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| Death of a brother | Alwyn Jacobus Smit August 19, 1846 (Age 73 years) Publication: Vol. 11, Scho-Sny (2004)
ISBN: 0-7972-1031-8 Citation details: Smit, p442, a4b6c10d5. |
| Marriage of a grandchild | Andries Gustaf Erlank — Susanna Sophia Ritchie — View this family January 11, 1847 (Age 74 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c1 Source: Master's Office / Orphan Chamber Citation details: Death notice: Thomas RITCHIE (1873), MOOC 6/9/143 #9249, (http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=268119 : accessed 13 Oct 2015) Text: Kennisgeving van sterfgeval 1. Naam van Overlede. Thomas Ritchie 9. Namen der Kinderen van den Overledene, ... Susanna Sophia gehuwd met Andries Erlank jr Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Susanna Sophia RICHIE (1887), MOOC 6/9/246 # 1067/1887, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-DSPL-3?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8Q%3A1598082395 : 12 September 2017), 007844956 > image 1232 of 2061; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 Citation details: Marriage: Andries Gustaf ERLANCK and Susanna Sophia RITCHIE (1847), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-Q6YZ?i=418&cat=959223 : accessed 31 Jan 2019 |
| Marriage of a grandchild | Gustav Zacharias Erlank — Anna Susanna Pienaar — View this family December 27, 1852 (Age 80 years) Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA) Citation details: b4c5. Citation details: Marriage: Gustaf Zacharias ERLANK and Anna Susanna PIENAAR (1852), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-S9V7-K?i=412&cat=244034 : accessed 23 Apr 2020 |
| Epidemic | from 1857 to 1859 (Age 84 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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| War | from April 1861 to May 1865 (Age 88 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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| Historical Event | from 1852 to 1902 (Age 79 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 81 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 | 1865 (Age 92 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1865_in_South_Africa Note: Economic depression
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| Economic Event | 1867 (Age 94 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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| Economic Event | September 1873 (Age 101 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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| War | from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (Age 108 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 108 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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| Economic Event | 1886 (Age 113 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 | yes |
- Generation 1
Hester Christina Smit , daughter ofAndries Adriaan Smit andAnna Maria Bothma , was baptized on August 30, 1772. She married 2 times. The first time she marriedJohann Heinrich Bisschoff on August 26, 1792 in Cape Town, Western Cape. The second time she marriedCoenraad Christiaan Wunder on July 25, 1825 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape.Children of
Hester Christina Smit andJohann Heinrich Bisschoff :Anna Maria Catharina Bisschoff (1807–1836)
- Generation 2back to top
Anna Maria Catharina Bisschoff , daughter ofJohann Heinrich Bisschoff andHester Christina Smit , was born calculated March 24, 1807 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on August 4, 1836 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She marriedAndries Gustaf Erlank (second cousin’s son-in-law’s brother), son ofGustav Erlank andCatharina Maria Wilke , on April 6, 1823 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. He was born about March 1801 in Dist. Wellington, Western Cape and died on February 12, 1879 in Murraysburg, Western Cape.Children of
Anna Maria Catharina Bisschoff andAndries Gustaf Erlank :Andries Gustaf Erlank (1824–)Hester Christina Johanna Adriana Erlank (1826–1893)Catharina Maria Erlank (1827–1829)Johan Hendrik Erlank (1830–1911)Gustav Zacharias Erlank (1833–1909)Anna Maria Catharina Jacoba Erlank (1835–1836)… Erlank (1836–1836)
- Generation 3back to top
Andries Gustaf Erlank , son ofAndries Gustaf Erlank andAnna Maria Catharina Bisschoff , was born on June 13, 1824 in Sterkstroom, Queenstown, Eastern Cape. He marriedSusanna Sophia Ritchie (third cousin once removed descending), daughter ofThomas Ritchie andAnna Elizabeth Marais , on January 11, 1847 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was born on July 13, 1827 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on May 26, 1887 in Sterkstroom, Queenstown, Eastern Cape at the age of 59.Children of
Andries Gustaf Erlank andSusanna Sophia Ritchie :Andries Gustav Erlank (1847–1935)Maria Elizabeth Erlank (1849–1924)Anna Maria Elizabeth Erlank (1851–1873)Janet Elizabeth Erlank (1853–)Thomas Erland Erlank (1853–1928)Johan Jacobus Erlank (1855–1877)David Ritchie Erlank (1857–)Susanna Sophia Erlank (1859–1925)Hester Christina Johanna Adriana Erlank (1860–)Hester Christina Johanna Adriana Erlank (1862–1930)Elizabeth Maria Erlank Jacoba Ritchie Erlank (1866–1904)Janet Elizabeth Erlank (1868–1904)Else Lasya Erlank (1871–)Johanna Adriana Erlank (1871–)Anna Maria Elizabeth Erlank (1874–)
Hester Christina Johanna Adriana Erlank , daughter ofAndries Gustaf Erlank andAnna Maria Catharina Bisschoff , was born on February 14, 1826 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on June 1, 1893 in Hanover, Northern Cape at the age of 67. She married 2 times. The first time she marriedAndries Stephanus Gous . The second time she marriedCornelis Maartins Oosthuissen .Gustav Zacharias Erlank , shopkeeper (before March 15, 1909), son ofAndries Gustaf Erlank andAnna Maria Catharina Bisschoff , was born on January 30, 1833 and died on March 15, 1909 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape at the age of 76. He marriedAnna Susanna Pienaar (sister-in-law’s step-mother’s second cousin), daughter ofWillem Johannes Pienaar andFrancina Philippina Retief , on December 27, 1852 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was born on January 18, 1834 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on September 21, 1894 in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape at the age of 60.Children of
Gustav Zacharias Erlank andAnna Susanna Pienaar :Gustaaf Zacharias Erlank (1857–1926)