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Johannes Gustaaf Erlank1869–

Name
Johannes Gustaaf Erlank
Given names
Johannes Gustaaf
Surname
Erlank
Birth December 28, 1869 44 33

Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b3c2d4.
Baptism February 6, 1870 (Age 40 days)
Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b3c2d4.
Economic Event September 1873 (Age 3 years)
Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumulanga, South Africa

Source: Wikipedia
Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field
Death of a paternal grandfatherJonas Michiel Johannes Erlank
July 28, 1878 (Age 8 years) Age: 79 years 8 months 15 days
Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b3
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: Jonas Michael Johannes ERLANK (1878), MOOC 6/9/164 #5624/1878, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-W38W-D?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZR%3A1598082383 : 28 September 2018), 007844949 > image 628 of 2103; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018
Death notice: Jonas Michael Johannes ERLANK (1878)
Death notice: Jonas Michael Johannes ERLANK (1878)

War from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (Age 10 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: First Boer War
Birth of a sisterSusanna Sophia Elizabeth Erlank
December 1, 1881 (Age 11 years)

Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b3c2d5.
Economic Event 1881 (Age 11 years)
Barberton, Mpumulanga, South Africa

Source: Wikipedia
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
Baptism of a sisterSusanna Sophia Elizabeth Erlank
January 12, 1882 (Age 12 years)
Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b3c2d5.
Economic Event 1886 (Age 16 years)
Langlaagte, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Source: Wikipedia
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.
Epidemic February 1, 1901 (Age 31 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town
War from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (Age 29 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: Second Boer War
Historical Event from 1852 to 1902

Source: Wikipedia
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
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 34 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg
Death of a brotherJonas Michiel Erlank
June 20, 1906 (Age 36 years)
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b3c2d2.
Epidemic 1906 (Age 36 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa
Historical Event May 31, 1910 (Age 40 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: Union of South Africa established
Epidemic 1912 (Age 42 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: Smallpox outbreaks: The outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg and cases of smallpox are discovered in Durban
Death of a fatherJonas Michiel Erlank
July 28, 1916 (Age 46 years)
Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa

Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b3c2.
War from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (Age 44 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: World War I
Epidemic 1918 (Age 48 years)

Source: Wikipedia
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
Economic Event October 1929 (Age 59 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 brotherIzak Jacobus Erlank
February 28, 1932 (Age 62 years)
Strand, Western Cape, South Africa

Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b3c2d3.
War from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (Age 69 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: World War II
Historical Event February 14, 1961 (Age 91 years)
South Africa

Source: Wikipedia
Note: Decimalisation of currency replaces the South African pound with the South African rand
Historical Event May 31, 1961 (Age 91 years)

Source: Wikipedia
Note: South Africa becomes a republic
  1. Generation 1

    1. Johannes Gustaaf Erlank, son of Jonas Michiel Erlank and Elizabeth Susanna “Johanna” van den Berg, was born on December 28, 1869.