Elsie Johanna Schlebusch, 18571919 (aged 62 years)

Name
Elsie Johanna /Schlebusch/
Given names
Elsie Johanna
Surname
Schlebusch
Name
Elsie Johanna /Cloete/
Type of name
married name
Birth
Citation details: Death notice: Elsje Johanna SCHLEBUSCH (1920), KAB MOOC 6/9/1620 #224, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-M3MQ-7?cc=2517051&wc=WVWM-9K4%3A1598032350 : 11 October 2018), 007730988 > image 419 of 834; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 9 Oct 2020
Marriage
Citation details: Death notice: Christian Cornelis CLOETE (1926), KAB MOOC 6/9/3053 #13099, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-YWMR?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-922%3A1598032477 : 11 October 2018), 007731771 > image 571 of 728; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 9 Oct 2020
Epidemic
Influenza
from 1857 to 1859 (aged 1 year)
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Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza.
War
American Civil War
from April 1861 to May 1865 (aged 7 years)
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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.
Economic Event
Economic depression
1865 (aged 7 years)
South Africa
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Economic Event
Diamonds discovered
1867 (aged 9 years)
Hopetown, Northern Cape, South Africa
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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.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
September 1873 (aged 15 years)
Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumulanga, South Africa
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Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field.
War
First Boer War
from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (aged 23 years)
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Economic Event
Gold discovered
1881 (aged 23 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.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1886 (aged 28 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.
Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 43 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 44 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 44 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.
Historical Event
Orange Free State
from 1854 to 1902 (aged 44 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 46 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 48 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 52 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Epidemic
Smallpox
1912 (aged 54 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 61 years)
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Residence
Citation details: Death notice: Elsje Johanna SCHLEBUSCH (1920), KAB MOOC 6/9/1620 #224, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-M3MQ-7?cc=2517051&wc=WVWM-9K4%3A1598032350 : 11 October 2018), 007730988 > image 419 of 834; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 9 Oct 2020
Epidemic
Spanish flu
1918 (aged 60 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.
Death of a son
before 1919 (aged 61 years)
Citation details: Death notice: Elsje Johanna SCHLEBUSCH (1920), KAB MOOC 6/9/1620 #224, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-M3MQ-7?cc=2517051&wc=WVWM-9K4%3A1598032350 : 11 October 2018), 007730988 > image 419 of 834; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 9 Oct 2020
Prime minister
Louis Botha
from May 31, 1910 to August 27, 1919 (aged 61 years)
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Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 3, 1919 to June 30, 1924 (on the date of death)
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Death
Citation details: Death notice: Christian Cornelis CLOETE (1926), KAB MOOC 6/9/3053 #13099, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-YWMR?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-922%3A1598032477 : 11 October 2018), 007731771 > image 571 of 728; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 9 Oct 2020
Citation details: Death notice: Elsje Johanna SCHLEBUSCH (1920), KAB MOOC 6/9/1620 #224, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-M3MQ-7?cc=2517051&wc=WVWM-9K4%3A1598032350 : 11 October 2018), 007730988 > image 419 of 834; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 9 Oct 2020
FamilySearch ID
Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage Marriage
herself
18571919
Birth: calculated October 1857 Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: December 14, 1919Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Family with Christiaan Cornelius Cloete
husband
18531926
Birth: April 18, 1853 31 23 Dist. Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: October 23, 1926Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
herself
18571919
Birth: calculated October 1857 Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: December 14, 1919Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Marriage Marriage
daughter
daughter
daughter
son
daughter
daughter
son
Christiaan Cornelius Cloete + Petronella Gertruida Weitz
husband
18531926
Birth: April 18, 1853 31 23 Dist. Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: October 23, 1926Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa
husband’s wife
Marriage MarriageAugust 26, 1921Aliwal North, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Descendants of Elsie Johanna Schlebusch

  1. Generation 1
    1. Elsie Johanna Schlebusch, daughter of Jan Louw Schlebusch and Cicilia Johanna Vorster, was born calculated October 1857 in Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on December 14, 1919 in Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

      She married Christiaan Cornelius Cloete, son of Christiaan Cornelis Cloete and Alida Elizabeth Johanna Joubert,. He was born on April 18, 1853 in Dist. Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on October 23, 1926 in Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 73.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
    1. Cicilia Johanna Cloete, daughter of Christiaan Cornelius Cloete and Elsie Johanna Schlebusch.

      She married Smith. He died before 1926.

    2. Alida Elizabeth Johanna Cloete, daughter of Christiaan Cornelius Cloete and Elsie Johanna Schlebusch.

    3. Elsje Johanna Cloete, daughter of Christiaan Cornelius Cloete and Elsie Johanna Schlebusch.

    4. Christian Cornelis Cloete, son of Christiaan Cornelius Cloete and Elsie Johanna Schlebusch. He died before 1919.

      Christian Cornelis Cloete had 3 children.

    5. Maria Magdalena Cloete, daughter of Christiaan Cornelius Cloete and Elsie Johanna Schlebusch.

    6. Christina Cornelia Cloete, daughter of Christiaan Cornelius Cloete and Elsie Johanna Schlebusch.

Ancestors of Elsie Johanna Schlebusch

  1. Generation 1
    1. Elsie Johanna Schlebusch, daughter of Jan Louw Schlebusch and Cicilia Johanna Vorster, was born calculated October 1857 in Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on December 14, 1919 in Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
      2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
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