Lea Jacoba Stander, 1801

Name
Lea Jacoba /Stander/
Name
/Gericke/
Type of name
married name
Birth
about 1801 34 30
Citation details: cf b4
Baptism
September 17, 1801 35 30 (aged 0)
Citation details: Stander, p114, b8c8.
War
Napoleonic Wars
from May 18, 1803 to November 20, 1815 (aged 14 years)
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Natural disaster
Drought
1809 (aged 8 years)
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Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region.
Town founded
The settlement of Grahamstown is founded
1812 (aged 11 years)
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Town founded
Cradock is founded
August 27, 1818 (aged 17 years)
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Marriage
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Citation details: Stander, p114, b8c8.
Historical Event
British settlers
1820 (aged 19 years)
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Note: 17 March - The first British settlers arrived in Table Bay, Cape Town on the Nautilus and the Chapman. 1 May - The Albury reaches Cape Town bringing settlers to Albany, South Africa. They arrive in Algoa Bay on 15 May. 2 May - La Belle Alliance reached Cape Town. She brought British settlers to Algoa Bay. 4000 British settlers started arriving in Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), they settled in Grahamstown and along the frontier.
Economic Event
British sterling adopted
1825 (aged 24 years)
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Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling.
Death of a brother
before 1826 (aged 25 years)
Citation details: Stander, p112, b8c5.
Death of a maternal grandmother
Citation details: Barnard, p136, b2c1.
Historical Event
Great trek
1835 (aged 34 years)
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Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony.
Town founded
Settlement of Victoria West is established
1844 (aged 43 years)
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Marriage of a son
Citation details: cf b4c5
Citation details: Lange, p36, b8c4.
Citation details: Marriage: Adriaan Marthinus GERICKE and Dorothea Hester Catharina LANGE (1851), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK8-G95J-W?i=523&cat=244034 : accessed 22 Apr 2020
Citation details: Death notice: Adriaan Marthinus GERICKE (1914), MOOC 6/9/757 #1750, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-TQ7L?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SDL%3A1598092349 : 28 September 2018), 007845006 > image 855 of 1290; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 22 Apr 2020
Birth of a granddaughter
Citation details: b4c5d1
Citation details: Death registration: Anna Magdelena Egbertha GERICKE (1931), FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95FG-6HZ?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-685%3A139964401%2C141624001 : 21 August 2019), 1931 > Oudtshoorn > image 70 of 786; National Archives, Pretoria : accessed 4 Jan 2022
Birth of a granddaughter
calculated 1854 (aged 53 years)
Epidemic
Influenza
from 1857 to 1859 (aged 58 years)
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Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza.
Birth of a granddaughter
calculated 1859 (aged 58 years)
Citation details: Death notice: Dorothea Hester Catharina LANGE (1876), MOOC 6/9/156 #3179, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQN-XCDC?i=194&cat=331262 image 195/2181 : accessed 24 Mar 2017
War
American Civil War
from April 1861 to May 1865 (aged 64 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.
Marriage of a granddaughter
Citation details: cf b4c4d1
Citation details: Death notice: Johannes Gerhardus FERREIRA (1930), MOOC 6/9/3785 #27993/1930, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-HS3N-7?mode=g&i=290&cat=331262 image 291/1314 : accessed 21 Feb 2017
Citation details: Marriage: Johannes Theodorus Gerhardus FERREIRA and Anna Magdalena Egbertha GERICKE (1873), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-83ZH-7?i=440&cat=959223 : accessed 30 Jan 2019
Marriage of a granddaughter
Marriage of a son
Citation details: Marriage: Adriaan Marthinus GERICKE and Susanna Johanna Magdalena FOUCHE (1878), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-43GK-S?cat=244034 : accessed 22 Apr 2020
Citation details: Death notice: Adriaan Marthinus GERICKE (1914), MOOC 6/9/757 #1750, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-TQ7L?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SDL%3A1598092349 : 28 September 2018), 007845006 > image 855 of 1290; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 22 Apr 2020
War
First Boer War
from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (aged 80 years)
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Death of a husband
Citation details: b4
Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 100 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 101 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 101 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 101 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.
Economic Event
Economic depression
1865 (aged 64 years)
South Africa
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Economic Event
Diamonds discovered
1867 (aged 66 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 72 years)
Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumulanga, South Africa
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Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1881 (aged 80 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 85 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
Pneumonic plague
February 1904 (aged 103 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 105 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 109 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Epidemic
Smallpox
1912 (aged 111 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.
Death of a son
Address: Great Brak River,
District Mossel Bay
Cause: bronchitis
Citation details: b4c5
Citation details: Death registration Adriaan GERICKE: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-22019-26149-17?cc=1779109 : accessed 29 September 2015), 1914 > Mossel Bay > image 157 of 246; National Archives, Pretoria.
Date of entry in original source: June 20, 1914
Quality of data: primary evidence
Citation details: Death notice: Adriaan Marthinus GERICKE (1914), MOOC 6/9/757 #1750, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-TQ7L?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SDL%3A1598092349 : 28 September 2018), 007845006 > image 855 of 1290; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 22 Apr 2020
War
World War I
from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (aged 117 years)
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Epidemic
Spanish flu
1918 (aged 117 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 118 years)
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Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 3, 1919 to June 30, 1924 (aged 123 years)
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Death
yes
Citation details: cf b4
Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage MarriageDecember 17, 1786
9 years
brother
17951826
Baptism: October 2, 1795 29 24
Death: before 1826
4 years
brother
23 months
herself
1801
Birth: about 1801 34 30
Death:
Family with Johan Christiaan Gericke
husband
17981887
Birth: about 1798 57 24 George, Western Cape, South Africa
Death: September 26, 1887Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
herself
1801
Birth: about 1801 34 30
Death:
Marriage MarriageApril 4, 1819George, Western Cape, South Africa
7 years
son
18261914
Birth: April 18, 1826 28 25 George, Western Cape, South Africa
Death: June 15, 1914Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa

Descendants of Lea Jacoba Stander

  1. Generation 1
    1. Lea Jacoba Stander, daughter of Adriaan Stander and Geertruyda Elizabeth Barnard, was born about 1801.

      She married Johan Christiaan Gericke, son of Johan Godfried Gericke and Anna Barbara Gerber, on April 4, 1819 in George, Western Cape, South Africa. He was born about 1798 in George, Western Cape, South Africa and died on September 26, 1887 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.

      Children of Lea Jacoba Stander and Johan Christiaan Gericke:

      1. Adriaan Johan Marthinus Gericke (18261914)
  2. Generation 2 back to top
    1. Adriaan Johan Marthinus Gericke, sheep farmer (before 1914), son of Johan Christiaan Gericke and Lea Jacoba Stander, was born on April 18, 1826 in Geelhoutboom, George, Western Cape, South Africa and died on June 15, 1914 in Wolwedans, Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa at the age of 88.

      He married 2 times. The first time he married Dorothea Hester Catharina Lange, daughter of Johan Frederik Lange and Anna Helena van Rensburg, on May 19, 1851 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. She was born on February 21, 1827 and died on August 9, 1876 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa at the age of 49.

      The second time he married Susanna Johanna Magdalena Fouche on March 26, 1878 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. She was born calculated 1855.

      Children of Adriaan Johan Marthinus Gericke and Dorothea Hester Catharina Lange:

      1. Anna Magdalena Egberta Gericke (18521931)
      2. Lea Jacoba Gericke (1854)
      3. Dorothy Catharina Paulina Gericke (1859)
  3. Generation 3 back to top
    1. Anna Magdalena Egberta Gericke, daughter of Adriaan Johan Marthinus Gericke and Dorothea Hester Catharina Lange, was born on February 22, 1852 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa and died on January 21, 1931 in Kloof Street, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa at the age of 78.

      She married Johannes Theodorus Gerhardus Ferreira, son of Andries Hercules Ferreira and Geziena Johanna Keyter, on September 29, 1873 in George, Western Cape, South Africa. He was born on December 12, 1852 in Dist. Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa and died between September 23, 1930 and September 24, 1930 in George, Western Cape, South Africa.

      Children of Anna Magdalena Egberta Gericke and Johannes Theodorus Gerhardus Ferreira:

      1. Andries Herklaas Ferreira (1930)
      2. Dorothea Ferreira
      3. Gesina Johanna Ferreira (18781912)
      4. Marthinus Ferreira (1930)
      5. Jacoba Egberta Ferreira (18811940)
      6. Johannes Burgers Ferreira
      7. Hendrik Esias Ferreira (18911980)
      8. Salmina Ferreira (1930)
      9. Georgina Ferreira (1930)
      10. Petrus Ferreira (1930)
      11. Esther Ferreira
    2. Lea Jacoba Gericke, daughter of Adriaan Johan Marthinus Gericke and Dorothea Hester Catharina Lange, was born calculated 1854.

      She married Pieter Daniel Terblans on September 29, 1873 in George, Western Cape, South Africa. He was born calculated 1849.

    3. Dorothy Catharina Paulina Gericke, daughter of Adriaan Johan Marthinus Gericke and Dorothea Hester Catharina Lange, was born calculated 1859.

Ancestors of Lea Jacoba Stander

  1. Generation 1
    1. Lea Jacoba Stander, daughter of Adriaan Stander and Geertruyda Elizabeth Barnard, was born about 1801.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
      2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Adriaan Stander, son of Heinrich Stander and Helena Lindeque, was baptized on May 4, 1766 in Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa.

    2. Geertruyda Elizabeth Barnard, daughter of Johannes Henricus Barnard and Maria Eizabeth Dietlof, was born about 1771.

  3. Generation 3 back to top
      4 of 4 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Heinrich Stander was born about 1727 and died on April 10, 1785.

    2. Johannes Henricus Barnard, son of Adam Barnard and Lea le Roux, was baptized on August 14, 1735.

    3. Maria Eizabeth Dietlof, daughter of Johann Christoffel Dietlof and Catharina van Eeden, was born in 1743 and died on February 2, 1831 in George, Western Cape, South Africa at the age of 88.

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