Susanna Sophia Erlank, 1859–1925 (aged 66 years)
- Name
- Susanna Sophia /Erlank/
- Given names
- Susanna Sophia
- Surname
- Erlank
|
Birth
|
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4c1d8 Citation details: Death notice: Susanna Sophia RICHIE (1887), MOOC 6/9/246 # 1067/1887, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-DSPL-3?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8Q%3A1598082395 : 12 September 2017), 007844956 > image 1232 of 2061; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 |
|---|---|
|
Epidemic
|
Source citation: Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza. |
|
War
|
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. |
|
Historical Event
|
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. |
|
Historical Event
|
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. |
|
Economic Event
|
Source citation: |
|
Economic Event
|
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. |
|
Death of a maternal grandfather
|
Address: Caledon Street, Graaff Reinet
Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library
Citation details: Gravestone: Thomas RETCHIE (1791-1873), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=50513 : accessed 13 Oct 2015 Text: RETCHIE Thomas 1791-1873
Source: eGSSA Documents
Citation details: Death notice: Thomas RITCHIE (1873), MOOC 6/9/143 #9249, http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=268119 : accessed 20 Oct 2015 Date of entry in original source: March 24, 1873 Quality of data: primary evidence |
|
Death of a sister
|
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4c1d3 |
|
Economic Event
|
Source citation: Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field. |
|
Death of a brother
|
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4c1d6 |
|
Death of a paternal grandfather
|
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4 Citation details: Death notice: Andries Gustaaf ERLANK (1879), MOOC 6/9/169 #6622/1879, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-W388-X?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZR%3A1598082383 : 28 September 2018), 007844949 > image 1698 of 2103; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 |
|
War
|
Source citation: |
|
Economic Event
|
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. |
|
Economic Event
|
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. |
|
Death of a mother
|
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4c1 Citation details: Death notice: Susanna Sophia RICHIE (1887), MOOC 6/9/246 # 1067/1887, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-DSPL-3?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8Q%3A1598082395 : 12 September 2017), 007844956 > image 1232 of 2061; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018 |
|
Epidemic
|
Source citation: Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town. |
|
War
|
Source citation: |
|
Epidemic
|
Source citation: Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg. |
|
Death of a sister
|
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4c1d13 Citation details: Death notice: Janet Elizabeth ERLANK (1904), TAB MHG #5429/1904, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS92-H7DV-T?cc=2520237&wc=Q6NX-RBV%3A1590242339 : 16 December 2016), 007805278 > image 1266 of 1430; Pietermaritzburg Archives (formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 Dec 2018
Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library
Citation details: Gravestone: Janet Elizabeth ERLANK (1868-1904), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=3346271 : accessed 2 Dec 2018 |
|
Death of a sister
|
Address: Smith Street, Barkly East
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4c1d12 Citation details: Death registration Jacoba Ritchie ERLANK: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-9728-5415-34?cc=1779109&wc=31DM-T36:139964701,140029801 : accessed 24 September 2015), 1904 > Barkly East > image 78 of 125; National Archives, Pretoria. Citation details: Death notice: Jacoba Ritchie ERLANK (1904), MOOC 6/9/506 #2460/1904, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-W9B4-B?mode=g&i=1076&cat=331262 image 1077/2096 : accessed 22 Feb 2017 Note: Gravestone gives 29 July, while all other sources give 30 July. |
|
Epidemic
|
Source citation: Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa. |
|
Historical Event
|
Source citation: Note: Union of South Africa established. |
|
Epidemic
|
Source citation: Note: Smallpox outbreaks: The outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg and cases of smallpox are discovered in Durban. |
|
War
|
Source citation: |
|
Epidemic
|
Source citation: 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
|
Source citation: |
|
Death of a sister
|
Address: 23 Porter Street,
Queenstown Cause: cerebral haemorrhage
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4c1d2 Citation details: Death registration Maria Elizabeth ERLANK: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-21985-72273-47?cc=1779109 : accessed 30 September 2015), 1924 > Queenstown > image 115 of 972; National Archives, Pretoria. Date of entry in original source: February 11, 1924 Quality of data: primary evidence |
|
Prime minister
|
Source citation: |
|
Prime minister
|
Source citation: |
|
Death of a father
|
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4c1 |
|
Death
|
Source: Erlank naamlys (GISA)
Citation details: b4c1d8 |
| father |
1824–
Birth: June 13, 1824
23
17
— Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: |
|---|---|
| mother |
1827–1887
Birth: July 13, 1827
36
18
— Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: May 26, 1887 — Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
| Marriage | Marriage — January 11, 1847 — Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
|
11 months
elder brother |
1847–1935
Birth: November 29, 1847
23
20
— Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: July 1, 1935 — Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa |
|
17 months
elder sister |
1849–1924
Birth: April 10, 1849
24
21
Death: February 11, 1924 — Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
|
2 years
elder sister |
1851–1873
Birth: May 25, 1851
26
23
— Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: April 14, 1873 — Zeekoegat, South Africa |
|
2 years
elder sister |
|
|
|
1853–1928
Birth: October 5, 1853
29
26
Death: about 1928 — Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
|
23 months
elder brother |
1855–1877
Birth: September 7, 1855
31
28
Death: August 5, 1877 — Louwsburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
|
2 years
elder brother |
|
|
2 years
herself |
1859–1925
Birth: November 5, 1859
35
32
Death: December 16, 1925 — Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
|
11 months
younger sister |
|
|
22 months
younger sister |
1862–1930
Birth: August 11, 1862
38
35
— Hanover, Northern Cape, South Africa Death: April 7, 1930 — Burgersdorp, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
| sister | |
| younger sister |
1866–1904
Birth: August 27, 1866
42
39
Death: July 30, 1904 — Barkly East, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
|
2 years
younger sister |
1868–1904
Birth: October 28, 1868
44
41
— Burgersdorp, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: March 28, 1904 — Carolina, Mpumalanga, South Africa |
|
3 years
younger sister |
|
|
|
|
|
3 years
younger sister |
Descendants of Susanna Sophia Erlank
-
Generation 1
Susanna Sophia Erlank, daughter of Andries Gustaf Erlank and Susanna Sophia Ritchie, was born on November 5, 1859 and died on December 16, 1925 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa at the age of 66.
Ancestors of Susanna Sophia Erlank
-
Generation 1
Susanna Sophia Erlank, daughter of Andries Gustaf Erlank and Susanna Sophia Ritchie, was born on November 5, 1859 and died on December 16, 1925 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa at the age of 66.
Generation 2 back to topAndries Gustaf Erlank, son of Andries Gustaf Erlank and Anna Maria Catharina Bisschoff, was born on June 13, 1824 in Sterkstroom, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Susanna Sophia Ritchie, daughter of Thomas Ritchie and Anna Elizabeth Marais, was born on July 13, 1827 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on May 26, 1887 in Sterkstroom, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 59.
Generation 3 back to topAndries Gustaf Erlank, son of Gustav Erlank and Catharina Maria Wilke, was born about March 1801 in Dist. Wellington, Western Cape, South Africa and died on February 12, 1879 in Murraysburg, Western Cape, South Africa.
Anna Maria Catharina Bisschoff, daughter of Johann Heinrich Bisschoff and Hester Christina Smit, was born calculated March 24, 1807 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on August 4, 1836 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Thomas Ritchie, butcher (in 1840), son of David Ritchie and Jannette …, was born calculated 1791 in St Andrews, Scotland and died on March 22, 1873 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Anna Elizabeth Marais, daughter of Jacobus Marais and Sophia van Heerden, was born on February 17, 1809 in Dist. Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on August 16, 1839 at the age of 30.
4 of 4 individuals (100% complete).
2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).