Our family connections - Ons familie verwantskappe

Elisabeth Margaretha Joubert, daughter of Jan Joubert and Maria Roux, was born about 1761 in Paarl / Drakenstein, Western Cape. She married 2 times. The first time she married Philippus Poggenpoel, son of Julius Poggenpoel and Geertruij Jagers, on December 19, 1779 in Paarl, Western Cape. He was born about 1748 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands and died on June 23, 1795. The second time she married Zacharias Blomerus on March 8, 1807 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was born in Stokholm, Sweden.

Anna Catharina Carolina Poggenpoel, daughter of Philippus Poggenpoel and Elisabeth Margaretha Joubert, was born on December 16, 1789 in Cape Town, Western Cape and died on January 6, 1828 in Cape Town, Western Cape at the age of 38. She married Gottfried Andreas Watermeyer (mother’s second cousin’s husband), son of Bernhard Friedrich Watermeyer and Anna Catherine Nobiling, between February 6, 1814 and February 9, 1814 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was born on November 9, 1763 in Hamburg, Germany and died on April 13, 1832 at the age of 68.

Carel Friedrich Joubert Watermeyer, landed proprietor (before 1901), son of Gottfried Andreas Watermeyer and Anna Catharina Carolina Poggenpoel, was born on January 2, 1815 and died on May 16, 1901 in Forest Cottage, Wynberg, Western Cape at the age of 86. He married 2 times. The first time he married Johanna Wilhelmina “Nancy” Mackerel, daughter of William John Mackerel, on July 19, 1838 in Cape Town, Western Cape. She was born on March 11, 1818 in Cape Town, Western Cape and died on September 8, 1857 in Green Point, Cape Town, Western Cape at the age of 39. The second time he married Julia Hutton, daughter of Henry Hutton and Elizabeth Sophia Beevor, on November 9, 1864 in Wynberg, Western Cape. She was born on August 18, 1829 in Beaumont, Essex, England and died on June 13, 1907 in Wynberg, Western Cape at the age of 77.