Magdalena Pretorius1782–
- Name
- Magdalena Pretorius
- Given names
- Magdalena
- Surname
- Pretorius
- Married name
- Magdalena van den Berg
| Baptism | September 22, 1782 Publication: Vol. 8, Pi-Q (2002)
ISBN: 0-7972-0949-2 Citation details: Pretorius, p395, b3c7d1e5. |
| War | 1784 (Age 15 months) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1780s_in_South_Africa Note: French troops depart the Cape after the Treaty of Paris (3 Sep 1783) is signed
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| War | from 1789 to 1799 (Age 6 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution Note: French Revolution
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| Baptism of a brother | Wessel Christiaan Pretorius February 12, 1792 (Age 9 years) Publication: Vol. 8, Pi-Q (2002)
ISBN: 0-7972-0949-2 Citation details: Pretorius, p398, b3c7d1e9. |
| Historical Event | 1795 (Age 12 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790s_in_South_Africa Note: The Dutch East India Company is in financial ruins. 29 January – Farmers expelled the officials of the Dutch East India Company and established an independent government at Graaff Reinet. 18 June - Swellendam follows Graaff Reinet and declares a republic under Hermanus Steyn. The Netherlands is invaded by the French under the leadership of Napoléon Bonaparte. A republic is declared by Dutch revolutionaires and the Prince of Orange flees to England. 16 September – British forces under General Sir James Henry Craig seizes the Cape Colony for the Stadtholder Prince William V of Orange. The republics of Graaff Reinet and Swellendam reject the British and the British army is sent in.The start of free trade was announced
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| Marriage of a sibling | Jacobus Johannes Pretorius — Martha Magdalena Haarhof — View this family March 13, 1796 (Age 13 years) Publication: Vol. 14, Va-Vir (2006)
ISBN: 0-7972-1087-3 Citation details: Viljoen, p317, b3c4d11e4. Publication: Vol. 8, Pi-Q (2002)
ISBN: 0-7972-0949-2 Citation details: Pretorius, p390, b3c7d1e1. |
| Historical Event | March 5, 1797 (Age 14 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790s_in_South_Africa Note: The Cape becomes a British Colony
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| Marriage | Abraham Paulus van den Berg — View this family April 2, 1797 (Age 14 years) Publication: Vol. 1, A-C (1986) ISBN: 0-7969-0370-0 Citation details: Berg, p227, a3b1c10. Publication: Vol. 8, Pi-Q (2002)
ISBN: 0-7972-0949-2 Citation details: Pretorius, p395, b3c7d1e5. |
| War | from May 18, 1803 to November 20, 1815 (Age 20 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars Note: Napoleonic Wars
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| Natural disaster | 1809 (Age 26 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1809_in_South_Africa Note: A severe drought occurs in eastern frontier region
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| Marriage of a sibling | Wessel Christiaan Pretorius — Catharina Petronella Loetz — View this family April 15, 1811 (Age 28 years) Publication: Uitgegee deur F.J. Myburg, Posbus 30194, Pellissier, Bloemfontein, 9322, myburghbond@yahoo.com Citation details: #100, b2c2d1e1f2g7. Publication: Hugenote Genealogiereeks no. 2, Hugenote-Vereniging van Suid-Afrika, Franschhoek, 2009 Citation details: Deel 2, p314, b4c5d10e9. Publication: Vol. 8, Pi-Q (2002)
ISBN: 0-7972-0949-2 Citation details: Pretorius, p398, b3c7d1e9. |
| Town founded | 1812 (Age 29 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_in_South_Africa Note: The settlement of Grahamstown is founded
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| Town founded | August 27, 1818 (Age 35 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1818_in_South_Africa Note: Cradock is founded
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| Historical Event | 1820 (Age 37 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820_in_South_Africa Note: 17 March - The first British settlers arrived in Table Bay, Cape Town on the Nautilus and the Chapman. 1 May - The Albury reaches Cape Town bringing settlers to Albany, South Africa. They arrive in Algoa Bay on 15 May. 2 May - La Belle Alliance reached Cape Town. She brought British settlers to Algoa Bay. 4000 British settlers started arriving in Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), they settled in Grahamstown and along the frontier
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| Economic Event | 1825 (Age 42 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1825_in_South_Africa Note: Rix dollar Dutch: Rijsksdaalder is converted into the British sterling
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| Historical Event | 1835 (Age 52 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1835_in_South_Africa Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony
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| Death of a brother | Jacobus Johannes Pretorius January 23, 1837 (Age 54 years) Publication: Vol. 8, Pi-Q (2002)
ISBN: 0-7972-0949-2 Citation details: Pretorius, p390, b3c7d1e1. |
| Town founded | 1844 (Age 61 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844_in_South_Africa Note: Settlement of Victoria West is established
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| Epidemic | from 1857 to 1859 (Age 74 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://goo.gl/XVwD6F Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza
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| War | from April 1861 to May 1865 (Age 78 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://goo.gl/ETtxkC Note: American Civil War: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War
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| War | from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (Age 98 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Boer_War Note: First Boer War
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| Historical Event | from 1852 to 1902 (Age 69 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Republic 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.
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| Historical Event | from 1854 to 1902 (Age 71 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Free_State 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
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| Economic Event | 1865 (Age 82 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1865_in_South_Africa Note: Economic depression
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| Economic Event | 1867 (Age 84 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Diamond Note: The Eureka Diamond was the first diamond discovered in South Africa. It weighed 21.25 carats (4.250 g), and was found by Erasmus Jacobs near Hopetown on the Orange River in 1867. The diamond, cut to a 10.73-carat (2.146 g) cushion-shaped brilliant, is currently on display at the Mine Museum in Kimberley. The discovery of diamonds in South Africa led to the Kimberley Diamond Rush, and marked the beginning of the Mineral Revolution
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| Death of a brother | Wessel Christiaan Pretorius September 30, 1871 (Age 89 years) Publication: Vol. 8, Pi-Q (2002)
ISBN: 0-7972-0949-2 Citation details: Pretorius, p398, b3c7d1e9. |
| Economic Event | September 1873 (Age 90 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim%27s_Rest,_Mpumalanga Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field
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| Economic Event | 1881 (Age 98 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barberton,_Mpumalanga#Gold 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
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| Economic Event | 1886 (Age 103 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_South_Africa 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.
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| Epidemic | February 1, 1901 (Age 118 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_South_Africa Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town
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| War | from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (Age 117 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War Note: Second Boer War
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- Generation 1
Magdalena Pretorius , daughter ofJohannes Jacobus Pretorius andElisabeth Rachel Meyer , was baptized on September 22, 1782 in Tulbagh, Western Cape. She marriedAbraham Paulus van den Berg (great-uncle), son ofJacobus van den Berg andMaria Magdalena Haak , on April 2, 1797. He was baptized on April 1, 1747.