Our family connections - Ons familie verwantskappe

Jacob van Straaten, son of Jan van Straten and Maria Claasen, was baptized on February 9, 1738. He married 3 times. The first time he married Martha van Aarde on November 28, 1762. The second time he married Susara Catharina Erasmus, daughter of Abraham Erasmus and Adriana Smit, on January 7, 1786. She was baptized on August 13, 1769. The third time he married Adriana Smit.

Susara Maria van Straaten, daughter of Jacob van Straaten and Susara Catharina Erasmus, was born in Buffelshoek, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on December 30, 1868 in Groenekloof, Petrusburg, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She married Daniël Stephanus du Toit (mother’s great-aunt’s great-nephew), son of Petrus Jacobus du Toit and Elisabeth Maria Theron, on March 2, 1823 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. He was baptized on March 9, 1800 in Tulbagh, Western Cape and died on September 1, 1876 in Rouxville, Free State at the age of 76.

Petrus Jacobus du Toit, son of Daniël Stephanus du Toit and Susara Maria van Straaten, was born on March 15, 1833 in Groenkloof, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on March 25, 1900 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape at the age of 67. He married Louisa Maria Grobbelaar (father’s second cousin’s wife’s great-niece), daughter of Albertus Grobbelaar and Susanna Elizabeth Maartens, on April 27, 1857 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was born on March 10, 1838 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on February 12, 1918 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape at the age of 79.