Elsje Jacoba Cloete, 18761946 (aged 69 years)

Name
Elsje Jacoba /Cloete/
Given names
Elsje Jacoba
Surname
Cloete
Birth
Citation details: Death notice: Johanna Sophia BURGERS (1877), MOOC 6/9/162 #4845/1877, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQN-X4DZ?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZY%3A1598082381 : 12 September 2017), 007844948 > image 1945 of 2181; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 Nov 2018
Marriage
Citation details: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK93-T2Q4 : accessed 31 October 2015), Cornelius Burgers Stevens, 16 Apr 1978.
Citation details: Death notice: Elsje Jacoba CLOETE (1945), VAB MHG #38642, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9L4-ZHVD?i=531&cat=195564 : accessed 14 Jan 2020
Death of a mother
Citation details: Death notice: Johanna Sophia BURGERS (1877), MOOC 6/9/162 #4845/1877, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQN-X4DZ?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZY%3A1598082381 : 12 September 2017), 007844948 > image 1945 of 2181; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 Nov 2018
Marriage of a parent
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Citation details: Death notice: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1929), MOOC 6/9/3624 #24488/1929, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-HSR1-J?i=891&cat=331262 : accessed 18 Feb 2017, image 892/1527
Citation details: Death notice: Francina Elizabeth CLOETE (1921), MOOC 6/9.2202 #3585, "South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BB-KSY5-N?cc=2517051&wc=WVWM-9K1%3A1598032435 : 11 October 2018), 007731710 > image 725 of 749; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 14 Jan 2020
Citation details: Marriage: Cornelis Willem Petrus CLOETE and Fransina Elizabeth CLOETE (1878), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-43L1-T?i=263&cat=244034 : accessed 15 Jan 2020
War
First Boer War
from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (aged 4 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 25 years)
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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.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1881 (aged 4 years)
Barberton, Mpumulanga, South Africa
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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.
Death of a paternal grandfather
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1886 (aged 9 years)
Langlaagte, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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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.
Death of a paternal grandmother
Citation details: Death notice: Hester Aletta BURGER (1888), MOOC 6/9/260 #1698/1888, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-XYWR?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8S%3A1598082389 : 28 September 2018), 007844957 > image 1990 of 2064; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 Nov 2018
Death of a maternal grandfather
May 8, 1892 (aged 16 years) Age: 64 years 3 months
Citation details: Pienaar, p45, b2c5d7e7f3.
Citation details: Burger, p502, b2c2d2e2f12.
Death of a brother
Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 24 years)
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Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town.
War
Second Boer War
from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (aged 26 years)
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Historical Event
Orange Free State
from 1854 to 1902 (aged 25 years)
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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.
Epidemic
Pneumonic plague
February 1904 (aged 27 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 29 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 34 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Epidemic
Smallpox
1912 (aged 35 years)
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Note: Smallpox outbreaks: The outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg and cases of smallpox are discovered in Durban.
War
World War I
from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (aged 42 years)
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Epidemic
Spanish flu
1918 (aged 41 years)
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Note: An estimated 500,000 people die from the Spanish flu epidemic in South Africa, the fifth hardest hit country in the world.
Prime minister
Louis Botha
from May 31, 1910 to August 27, 1919 (aged 43 years)
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Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 3, 1919 to June 30, 1924 (aged 48 years)
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Death of a father
Cause: diabetes, senility
Citation details: Death registration Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-22056-65711-89?cc=1779109 : accessed 28 September 2015), 1929 > Barkly East > image 96 of 111; National Archives, Pretoria.
Date of entry in original source: October 28, 1929
Quality of data: primary evidence
Citation details: Death notice: Cornelius Willem Petrus CLOETE (1929), MOOC 6/9/3624 #24488/1929, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-HSR1-J?i=891&cat=331262 : accessed 18 Feb 2017, image 892/1527
Economic Event
Wall Street Crash
October 1929 (aged 53 years)
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Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century.
Death of a half-brother
Citation details: Death notice: Christiaan Cornelius CLOETE (1935), VAB MHG #26916, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6FDS-WSW?i=2299&cat=195564 : accessed 14 Jan 2020
Death of a brother
Address: Frontier Hospital, Queenstown
Citation details: Death notice: Pieter John CLOETE (1937), MOOC 6/9/4939 #55408, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C913-1K3M?i=876&cat=331262, image 877/1582 : accessed 21 Feb 2017
Death of a brother
November 1, 1937 (aged 61 years) Age: 65 years 4 months 25 days
Cause: haemorrhage of the brain and shock as the result of a motor car accident on the night of the 30/10/37
Date of entry in original source: November 1, 1937
Quality of data: primary evidence
Citation details: Death registration Willem Jacobus CLOETE: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-159394-179887-91?cc=1779109 : accessed 17 October 2015), 1937 > Barkly East > image 91 of 200; National Archives, Pretoria.
Citation details: Death notice: Willem Jacobus CLOETE (1937), MOOC 6/9/4997 #56972/1937, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-93F5-Z?i=584&cat=331262 : accessed 20 Feb 2017 image 585/1542
Prime minister
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
from June 30, 1924 to September 5, 1939 (aged 63 years)
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Death of a husband
Citation details: Death notice: Elsje Jacoba CLOETE (1945), VAB MHG #38642, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9L4-ZHVD?i=531&cat=195564 : accessed 14 Jan 2020
Death of a half-sister
Address: Marigold Street, Port Elizabeth
Citation details: Vol 1, p97, #1988, b5c7d1e10f1g7h4.
Citation details: Letter of administration: Johanna Maria CLOETE (1943), MOOC 6/9/10412 #88361, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91C-VSXP-1?i=977&cat=331262 image 978/1596 : accessed 15 Mar 2017
Quality of data: primary evidence
Citation details: Death registration: Johanna Maria CLOETE (1943), FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5NQ-LY4?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-XC9%3A139967201%2C141806301 : 18 February 2020), 1943 > Port Elizabeth > image 142 of 1314; National Archives, Pretoria : accessed 24 Nov 2020
Death of a half-sister
Citation details: Vol 1, p68, #1298, b5c7d1e7f3g3h2.
Citation details: Death notice: Hester Aletta CLOETE (1944), https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9L-272W-T?i=422&cc=2520237&cat=188051 image 423/2736 : accessed 26 Mar 2017
Citation details: Gravestone: Hester A CLOETE (1880-1944), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1644861 : accessed 15 Jan 2020
War
World War II
from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (aged 69 years)
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Death of a half-sister
Citation details: Death notice: Cornelia Wilhelmina CLOETE (1945), MOOC 6/9/12439 #2836/45, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C913-X9GK-T?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-9PD%3A1598042337 : 11 October 2018), 007734633 > image 1744 of 1767; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa. : accessed 15 Jan 2020
Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 5, 1939 to June 4, 1948 (on the date of death)
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Burial of a father
Death
Citation details: Death notice: Elsje Jacoba CLOETE (1945), VAB MHG #38642, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9L4-ZHVD?i=531&cat=195564 : accessed 14 Jan 2020
Family with parents
father
18461929
Birth: May 23, 1846 29 26 Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: October 23, 1929Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
mother
18501877
Birth: calculated September 1850 22 17 Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: December 22, 1877Cambdeboo-Oost, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Marriage MarriageMay 26, 1869Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
15 months
elder brother
18701894
Birth: August 16, 1870 24 19
Death: between May 30, 1894 and May 31, 1894Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
22 months
elder brother
Willem Jacobus CLOETE (c. 1915)
18721937
Birth: June 5, 1872 26 21 Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: November 1, 1937Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
22 months
elder brother
18741937
Birth: March 22, 1874 27 23
Death: July 7, 1937Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
2 years
herself
18761946
Birth: March 28, 1876 29 25
Death: January 31, 1946Zastron, Free State, South Africa
Father’s family with Francina Elizabeth Cloete
father
18461929
Birth: May 23, 1846 29 26 Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: October 23, 1929Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
stepmother
18591921
Birth: December 11, 1859 37 30 Dist. Aliwal North, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: November 3, 1921Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Marriage MarriageApril 18, 1878Bamboeshoek, Dist. Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
11 months
half-sister
18791959
Birth: calculated February 1879 32 19 Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: May 21, 1959Winburg, Free State, South Africa
15 months
half-sister
18801944
Birth: April 24, 1880 33 20 Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: May 3, 1944Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa
23 months
half-brother
18821935
Birth: calculated February 1882 35 22 Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: July 16, 1935Dist. Winburg, Free State, South Africa
7 years
half-brother
18881954
Birth: August 1, 1888 42 28
Death: September 25, 1954
5 years
half-sister
18931945
Birth: calculated August 1893 47 33 Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: October 10, 1945Dist. Maclear, Eastern Cape, South Africa
-10 years
half-sister
18831943
Birth: September 24, 1883 37 23
Death: August 9, 1943Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Family with Barend Francois Stevens
husband
herself
18761946
Birth: March 28, 1876 29 25
Death: January 31, 1946Zastron, Free State, South Africa
Marriage MarriageBarkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa
son
4 years
son
19051978
Birth: June 19, 1905 29 Rhodes, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: April 16, 1978Zastron, Free State, South Africa

Descendants of Elsje Jacoba Cloete

  1. Generation 1
    1. Elsje Jacoba Cloete, daughter of Cornelius Willem Petrus Lang Kerneels Cloete and Johanna Sophia Burgers, was born on March 28, 1876 and died on January 31, 1946 in Zastron, Free State, South Africa at the age of 69.

      She married Barend Francois Stevens in Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He died on June 27, 1940.

      Children of Elsje Jacoba Cloete and Barend Francois Stevens:

      1. Charles Pienaar Stevens (1901)
      2. Cornelius Burgers Piekie Stevens (19051978)
  2. Generation 2 back to top
    1. Cornelius Burgers Piekie Stevens, son of Barend Francois Stevens and Elsje Jacoba Cloete, was born on June 19, 1905 in Rhodes, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on April 16, 1978 in Zastron, Free State, South Africa at the age of 72.

      Cornelius Burgers Piekie Stevens had 5 children.

  3. Generation 3 back to top
    The details of this generation are private.

Ancestors of Elsje Jacoba Cloete

  1. Generation 1
    1. Elsje Jacoba Cloete, daughter of Cornelius Willem Petrus Lang Kerneels Cloete and Johanna Sophia Burgers, was born on March 28, 1876 and died on January 31, 1946 in Zastron, Free State, South Africa at the age of 69.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
      2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Cornelius Willem Petrus Lang Kerneels Cloete, son of Daniel Francois Cloete and Hester Aletta Burger, was born on May 23, 1846 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on October 23, 1929 in Glen Almond, Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 83.

    2. Johanna Sophia Burgers, daughter of Willem Jacobus Burgers and Elsje Jacoba Pienaar, was born calculated September 1850 in Camdeboo, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on December 22, 1877 in Van der Waltshoek, Cambdeboo-Oost, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

  3. Generation 3 back to top
      4 of 4 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Daniel Francois Cloete, son of Cornelis Willem Cloete and Francina Elizabeth Joubert, was born on February 17, 1817 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on December 12, 1883 in Cambdeboo, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 66.

    2. Hester Aletta Burger, daughter of Alwyn Petrus Burger and Maria Magdalena Dippenaar, was born on November 5, 1819 and died on September 18, 1888 in Van der Waltshoek, Cambdeboo-Oost, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 68.

    3. Willem Jacobus Burgers, son of Barend Jacobus Burger and Elisabeth Magdalena Theron, was born on January 28, 1828 and died on May 8, 1892 at the age of 64.

    4. Elsje Jacoba Pienaar, daughter of Petrus Pienaar and Johanna Sophia van der Merwe, was born on March 7, 1833.

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