Our family connections - Ons familie verwantskappe

Jacobus van den Berg, son of Abraham Paulus van den Berg and Hendrina van Rensburg, was baptized on April 10, 1773. He married Maria Susanna van der Merwe (first cousin once removed ascending), daughter of Isak van der Merwe and Anna Susanna van Heerden, on February 23, 1794. She was born about 1774 in Camdeboo, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died on January 26, 1859 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape.

Izak Jacobus van den Berg, son of Jacobus van den Berg and Maria Susanna van der Merwe, was baptized on November 17, 1805. He married 3 times. The first time he married Johanna Maria Naudé (first cousin), daughter of Carel David Naudé and Elisabeth van der Merwe, on October 6, 1823 in Eastern Cape. She was baptized on May 11, 1806. The second time he married Martha Hendrina Wilhelmina van den Berg (uncle’s niece), daughter of Abraham Paulus van den Berg and Martha Hendrina Koen, on April 4, 1825 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was baptized on May 20, 1805. The third time he married Elisabeth Susanna Joubert, daughter of Francois Joubert and Maria Hendrika Meegel, on January 6, 1827 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was born on April 15, 1809.

Elizabeth Susanna “Johanna” van den Berg, daughter of Izak Jacobus van den Berg and Elisabeth Susanna Joubert, was born on December 19, 1836 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She married Jonas Michiel Erlank (father’s great-aunt’s great-great-nephew), son of Jonas Michiel Johannes Erlank and Susanna Sophia Wilke,. He was born on February 27, 1825 and died on July 28, 1916 in Kimberley, Northern Cape at the age of 91.

Anna Susanna van den Berg, daughter of Izak Jacobus van den Berg and Elisabeth Susanna Joubert, was born on February 7, 1842 and died on August 15, 1906 in Middelburg, Eastern Cape at the age of 64. She married Andries Lodewikus Schoombee.