Willem Jacobus Burgers, 1828–1892 (aged 64 years)
- Name
- Willem Jacobus /Burgers/
- Given names
- Willem Jacobus
- Surname
- Burgers
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Birth
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Citation details: Pienaar, p45, b2c5d7e7f3. |
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Baptism
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Citation details: Burger, p502, b2c2d2e2f12. |
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Historical Event
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Source citation: Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony. |
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Death of a maternal grandmother
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Source: Suid-Afrikaanse Geslagsregister
Citation details: Theron, b4c7d1 Citation details: Deel 2, p372, b4c7d1. Citation details: Death notice: Elsabe Johanna VAN DER MERWE (1840), MOOC 6/9/19 #4145, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-MQ2H-C?i=55&cat=331262 image 56/2223 : accessed 5 March 2017 Quality of data: primary evidence |
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Death of a half-brother
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Citation details: Death notice: Schalk Willem BURGER (1840), MOOC 6/9/22 #4555, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-MQLC-2?mode=g&i=516&cat=331262 image 517/2223 : accessed 10 Mar 2017 Quality of data: primary evidence |
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Town founded
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Death of a father
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Citation details: Burger, p502, b2c2d2e2. Citation details: Death notice: Barend Jacobus BURGER (1845), MOOC 6/9/36 #7877, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-6RQ9?mode=g&i=1400&cat=331262 image 1401/2225 : accessed 8 Mar 2017 Quality of data: primary evidence |
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Death of a half-sister
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Source: Burger(s) Genealogy
Citation details: Willem Jacobus BURGER (1808-1883), https://burgerfamilie.com/getperson.php?personID=I375&tree=Tree5 : accessed 1 May 2020 |
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Marriage
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Citation details: Pienaar, p45, b2c5d7e7f3. 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 Citation details: Marriage: Willem Jacobus BURGER and Elsje Jacoba PIENAAR (1849), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSFQ-SF2W?i=289&cat=1153592 : accessed 28 Jan 2019 |
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Epidemic
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Source citation: Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza. |
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War
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Source citation: Note: 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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Economic Event
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Source citation: |
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Death of a mother
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Citation details: Deel 2, p372, b4c7d1e1. |
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Economic Event
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Source citation: 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 half-brother
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Citation details: Death notice: Jacobus Stephanus BURGER (1868), MOOC 6/9/123 #4344, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-MSSH-D?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZK%3A1598082376 : 28 September 2018), 007844943 > image 1586 of 2192; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 18 Jan 2020 |
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Marriage of a daughter
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Citation details: Burger, p502, b2c2d2e2f12g1. 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: 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 Citation details: Marriage: Cornelis Willem Petrus CLOETE and Johanna Sophia BURGERS (1869), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-B7Q2-D?i=69&cat=244034 : accessed 11 Jan 2020 |
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Birth of a grandson
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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 |
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Birth of a grandson
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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. Text:
Date of entry in original source: November 1, 1937 Quality of data: secondary evidence 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 |
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Economic Event
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Source citation: Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field. |
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Birth of a grandson
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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 |
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Birth of a granddaughter
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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 |
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Death of a daughter
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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 |
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War
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Death of a brother
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Citation details: Burger, p502, b2c2d2e2f14. |
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Historical Event
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Source citation: 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
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Source citation: 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
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Source citation: 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
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Source citation: 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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Death
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Citation details: Pienaar, p45, b2c5d7e7f3. Citation details: Burger, p502, b2c2d2e2f12. |
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1774–1845
Birth: calculated April 2, 1774
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— Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: April 28, 1845 — Cambdeboo, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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| mother |
1792–1867
Baptism: December 16, 1792
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Death: September 28, 1867 |
| Marriage | Marriage — April 16, 1826 — Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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22 months
himself |
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2 years
younger sister |
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4 years
younger brother |
1834–1881
Birth: April 15, 1834
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— Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: December 9, 1881 |
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1774–1845
Birth: calculated April 2, 1774
26
21
— Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: April 28, 1845 — Cambdeboo, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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1776–1840
Baptism: September 29, 1776
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24
Death: before September 1, 1840 |
| Marriage | Marriage — October 27, 1793 — |
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3 years
half-brother |
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2 years
half-sister |
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17 months
half-sister |
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3 years
half-brother |
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3 years
half-brother |
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3 years
half-brother |
1807–1840
Birth: calculated December 1807
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31
— Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: September 1, 1840 — Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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4 years
half-brother |
1811–1868
Birth: August 8, 1811
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34
— Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: April 8, 1868 — Dist. Richmond, Northern Cape, South Africa |
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2 years
half-sister |
| father |
1774–1845
Birth: calculated April 2, 1774
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21
— Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: April 28, 1845 — Cambdeboo, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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| Marriage | Marriage — — |
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23 months
half-sister |
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5 years
half-sister |
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| mother |
1792–1867
Baptism: December 16, 1792
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19
Death: September 28, 1867 |
| Marriage | Marriage — April 3, 1814 — Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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6 years
half-sister |
1820–1847
Birth: January 1820
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27
— Dist. Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: March 21, 1847 — Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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| wife | |
| Marriage | Marriage — October 29, 1849 — Richmond, Northern Cape, South Africa |
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11 months
daughter |
1850–1877
Birth: calculated September 1850
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17
— Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: December 22, 1877 — Cambdeboo-Oost, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Descendants of Willem Jacobus Burgers
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Generation 1
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.
He married Elsje Jacoba Pienaar (second cousin once removed descending), daughter of Petrus Pienaar and Johanna Sophia van der Merwe, on October 29, 1849 in Richmond, Northern Cape, South Africa. She was born on March 7, 1833.
Children of Willem Jacobus Burgers and Elsje Jacoba Pienaar:
- Johanna Sophia Burgers (1850–1877)
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Generation 2 back to top
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.
She married Cornelius Willem Petrus
Lang Kerneels
Cloete (fourth cousin), son of Daniel Francois Cloete and Hester Aletta Burger, on May 26, 1869 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He 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.Children of Johanna Sophia Burgers and Cornelius Willem Petrus
Lang Kerneels
Cloete:- Daniel Francois Cloete (1870–1894)
- Willem Jacobus Cloete (1872–1937)
- Pieter John Cloete (1874–1937)
- Elsje Jacoba Cloete (1876–1946)
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Generation 3 back to top
Willem Jacobus Cloete, son of Cornelius Willem Petrus
Lang Kerneels
Cloete and Johanna Sophia Burgers, was born on June 5, 1872 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on November 1, 1937 in Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 65.He married 2 times. The first time he married Jacoba Ritchie Erlank (fourth cousin), daughter of Andries Gustaf Erlank and Susanna Sophia Ritchie, on December 7, 1897 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She was born on August 27, 1866 and died on July 30, 1904 in Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 37.
The second time he married Cornelia Susanna
Nellie
Wessels on April 25, 1907 in Winburg, Free State, South Africa. She was born calculated 1873 in South Africa and died on July 24, 1956 in Mutare, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe.Children of Willem Jacobus Cloete and Jacoba Ritchie Erlank:
- Cornelius Willem Petrus
Corneels
Cloete (1899–1967) - Sophia Ritche Cloete (1900–1905)
- Willem Jacobus Cloete (1901–1981)
- Ellen Erlank Cloete (1902–1994)
- Johanna Francina
Dollie
Cloete (1904–1985)
Children of Willem Jacobus Cloete and Cornelia Susanna
Nellie
Wessels:- …
Jannie
Cloete (1918–1933) - Nita Estelle Cloete (1918–1976)
- Cornelius Willem Petrus
Pieter John Cloete, son of Cornelius Willem Petrus
Lang Kerneels
Cloete and Johanna Sophia Burgers, was born on March 22, 1874 and died on July 7, 1937 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 63.He married Hester Aletta Joubert (first cousin), daughter of Daniel Francois Joubert and Maria Magdalena Cloete,. She was born on December 3, 1882 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on March 8, 1948 at the age of 65.
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:
- Charles Pienaar Stevens (1901–)
- Cornelius Burgers
Piekie
Stevens (1905–1978)
Ancestors of Willem Jacobus Burgers
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Generation 1
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.
Generation 2 back to topBarend Jacobus Burger, son of Barend Jacobus Burger and Jacoba Lubbe, was born calculated April 2, 1774 in Sneeuvlei, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on April 28, 1845 in Cambdeboo, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Elisabeth Magdalena Theron, daughter of Jacobus Arnoldus Theron and Elsabé Johanna Duvenhage, was baptized on December 16, 1792 and died on September 28, 1867 at the age of 74.
Generation 3 back to topBarend Jacobus Burger, son of Schalk Willem Burger and Hester Smit, was baptized on August 22, 1747.
Jacoba Lubbe, daughter of Barend Lubbe and Martha Burger, was baptized on March 18, 1753 in Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa.
Jacobus Arnoldus Theron, son of Thomas Arnoldus Theron and Elizabeth Margaretha du Toit, was born on September 8, 1769 and died on December 6, 1819 at the age of 50.
Elsabé Johanna Duvenhage, daughter of Abraham Duvenhage and Elsabe Magdalena Hasse, was born calculated March 21, 1773 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and died on February 9, 1840 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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