Our family connections - Ons familie verwantskappe

Izaak van Heerden, son of Pieter Willem van Heerden and Anna Sophia van der Merwe, was baptized on October 6, 1755. He married Elsie Myburgh (aunt’s sister), daughter of Willem Myburgh and Elizabeth Olivier,. She was baptized on July 10, 1757.

Pieter Willem van Heerden, son of Izaak van Heerden and Elsie Myburgh, was baptized on April 18, 1778. He married Johanna Margaretha Pretorius (father’s step-mother’s father’s great-niece), daughter of Jacobus Cornelis Pretorius and Margaretha Johanna Coetzee, on April 17, 1796. She was baptized on October 31, 1779 and died about 1848 in De Zeekoegat, Agter-Sneeuberg, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape.

Catharina Cecilia van Heerden, daughter of Izaak van Heerden and Elsie Myburgh, was born on October 27, 1793. She married Thomas Arnoldus Theron (aunt’s half-brother), son of Jacobus Theron and Anna Sophia de Vos, on November 5, 1809 in Tulbagh, Western Cape. He was baptized on October 23, 1789 in Tulbagh, Western Cape and died on January 11, 1863 in Wolvenkop, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape at the age of 73.

Izak Jacobus van Heerden, son of Pieter Willem van Heerden and Johanna Margaretha Pretorius, was baptized on December 3, 1797 and died in 1864 at the age of 66. He married 2 times. The first time he married Johanna Alida Kruger (son’s wife’s aunt), daughter of Hendrik Kruger and Anna Catharina Steenkamp, on April 30, 1815 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was baptized on September 22, 1799 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape and died before October 19, 1816. The second time he married Elizabeth Margaretha van Heerden (second cousin), daughter of Willem van Heerden and Herculina Johanna du Preez, on March 8, 1818 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape. She was baptized on November 25, 1801.

Pieter Willem van Heerden, son of Pieter Willem van Heerden and Johanna Margaretha Pretorius, was baptized on April 25, 1802 and died in 1875 at the age of 72. He married Maria Elizabeth Buys, daughter of Bernardus Rudolph Buys and Helena Dorothea van Wyk, on July 14, 1823 in Cradock, Eastern Cape. She was born in 1806.