Our family connections - Ons familie verwantskappe

Barend Vorster, son of Jan “Hans” Vorster and Elisabeth Lubbe, was baptized on December 1, 1726 in Cape Town, Western Cape and died about 1793 in Kleyne Valley, Dist. Tulbagh, Western Cape. He married Dorothea Maria Smit (first cousin’s sister-in-law), daughter of Alewijn Smit de oude and Hester Bekker, between January 15, 1745 and April 3, 1746 in Roodezand, Tulbagh, Western Cape. She was baptized on April 8, 1730 in Drakenstein, Western Cape and died after May 1797.

Hester Aletta Vorster, daughter of Barend Vorster and Dorothea Maria Smit, was born about 1756 in Tigerkloof, Piketberg, Western Cape. She married Schalk Jacobus Burger (first cousin), son of Barend Burger and Helena Smit, on May 25, 1777 in Tulbagh, Western Cape. He was baptized on December 24, 1747.

Elisabeth Helena Vorster, daughter of Barend Vorster and Dorothea Maria Smit, was born in Tigerkloof, Piketberg, Western Cape and died about 1801. She married Pieter Schalk van Heerden (uncle’s nephew), son of Pieter Willem van Heerden and Anna Sophia van der Merwe, on August 3, 1777. He was baptized on November 13, 1757 and died in 1814 at the age of 56.

Barend Bartholomeus Burger, son of Schalk Jacobus Burger and Hester Aletta Vorster, was born about 1780. He married Rachel Maria Dippenaar (sister-in-law), daughter of Michaelis Christoffel Dippenaar and Anna Smit, on October 4, 1801 in Cape Town, Western Cape. She was born about February 1782 in Dist. Cradock, Eastern Cape and died on July 6, 1857 in Rietvley, Sneeuberg, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape.

Alwyn Petrus Burger, son of Schalk Jacobus Burger and Hester Aletta Vorster, was born in 1788 in Camdeboo, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on June 17, 1858 in Schoonberg, Gatsrivier, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape at the age of 70. He married 2 times. The first time he married Maria Magdalena Dippenaar (sister-in-law), daughter of Michaelis Christoffel Dippenaar and Anna Smit, on September 13, 1812 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was born calculated 1789 in Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on July 28, 1876. The second time he married Hendrina Petronella Vorster about 1831.

Willem Jacobus Burger, son of Schalk Jacobus Burger and Hester Aletta Vorster, was baptized on August 18, 1793 and died on November 15, 1877 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape at the age of 84. He married Geertruy Jacoba Pienaar on May 18, 1817 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was born on March 21, 1799 and died on November 17, 1868 in De Rust, Sneeuberg, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape at the age of 69.

Johanna Elizabeth Burger, daughter of Schalk Jacobus Burger and Hester Aletta Vorster, was baptized on November 16, 1794. She married Schalk Johannes Burger (first cousin), son of Willem Burger and Judith Catharina Grundlingh, on September 20, 1812 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. He was baptized on April 26, 1789.

Anna Sophia Burger, daughter of Schalk Jacobus Burger and Hester Aletta Vorster, was born on May 2, 1797 and died on December 9, 1847 at the age of 50. She married Alwyn Jacobus Dippenaar (brother-in-law), son of Michaelis Christoffel Dippenaar and Anna Smit, on May 30, 1813 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. He was born on December 20, 1792 in Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on December 9, 1853 in Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State at the age of 60.

Sophia van Heerden, daughter of Pieter Schalk van Heerden and Elisabeth Helena Vorster, was baptized on March 30, 1782. She married Jacobus Marais (great-aunt’s aunt’s grandson), son of Charles Marais and Rachel Hugo, on November 23, 1798. He was born on June 8, 1779.

Pieter Willem van Heerden, son of Pieter Schalk van Heerden and Elisabeth Helena Vorster, was baptized on October 26, 1783 and died in 1830 at the age of 46. He married Anna Sophia Pretorius in 1801.

Izak Johannes van Heerden, son of Pieter Schalk van Heerden and Elisabeth Helena Vorster, was baptized on April 20, 1794. He married Engela Elizabeth Pretorius (second cousin’s wife), daughter of Willem Pretorius and Engela Smit, on May 30, 1813 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was baptized on September 25, 1789.