Our family connections - Ons familie verwantskappe

Heremias Cornelis Nieuwoudt, son of Jeremias Cornelis Nieuwoudt and Jacoba Botma, was born on December 14, 1787 in Klynfontein, Clanwilliam, Western Cape and died on March 4, 1859 in Dist. Calvinia, Northern Cape at the age of 71. He married 3 times. The first time he married Jannetjie Sophia “Johanna” Bock, daughter of Michiel Nicolaas Bok and Johanna Sophia “Jannetjie” Steenkamp, on February 7, 1808 in Tulbagh, Western Cape. She was born on March 29, 1790 in Groenrivier, Onder-Bokkeveld, Dist. Clanwilliam, Western Cape and died on February 27, 1840 in Groenrivier, Onder-Bokkeveld, Dist. Clanwilliam, Western Cape at the age of 49. The second time he married Sophia Maria Jacoba van der Merwe (uncle’s step-mother’s great-great-niece), daughter of Willem Schalk van der Merwe and Anna Louisa Jacobs, on May 16, 1841 in Clanwilliam, Western Cape. She was born on May 6, 1812 in Tulbagh, Western Cape and died on November 20, 1842 in Onder-Bokkeveld, Calvinia, Northern Cape at the age of 30. The third time he married Maria Magdalena van Zyl, daughter of Gideon van Zyl and Catharina Johanna Kriel, on June 9, 1845 in Drooge Rivier, Clanwilliam, Western Cape. She was born in Kruisfontein, , and died on March 13, 1864 in Modderfontein, , .

Gerrit Christiaan Jacobus “Gert” Nieuwoudt, son of Heremias Cornelis Nieuwoudt and Jannetjie Sophia “Johanna” Bock, was born on September 3, 1813 in Bokkeveld, Calvinia, Northern Cape and died on March 30, 1847 at the age of 33. He married Maatje Catharina Kotze, daughter of Theunis Gerhardus Kotze and Aletta Catharina Carstens, on January 3, 1836 in Clanwilliam, Western Cape. She was born on August 25, 1818 and died on March 27, 1881 at the age of 62.

Aletta Catharina Nieuwoudt, daughter of Gerrit Christiaan Jacobus “Gert” Nieuwoudt and Maatje Catharina Kotze, was born on May 28, 1837 in Willemsrivier, Bokkeveld, Calvinia, Northern Cape and died on December 17, 1879 in Zoutpan, Calvinia, Northern Cape at the age of 42. She married Thomas Petrus Arnoldus Theron (third cousin), son of Petrus Lodewicus Theron and Christina Sophia Hough, on August 7, 1854 in Calvinia, Northern Cape. He was born on February 10, 1832 and died on July 17, 1899 in Calvinia, Northern Cape at the age of 67.