Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Botha, 18631949 (aged 86 years)

Name
Catharina Elizabeth Johanna /Botha/
Given names
Catharina Elizabeth Johanna
Surname
Botha
Name
Catharina Elizabeth Johanna /Welgemoed/
Type of name
married name
Birth
Citation details: Marriage: David Johannes WELGEMOED and Catharina Johanna Elizabeth BOTHA (1886), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-G924-1?i=825&cat=994807 : accessed 22 Sep 2020
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Citation details: Death Registration: Catharina Elizabeth Johanna BOTHA (1949), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95F7-SMXT?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-8PJ%3A139963701%2C139965702 : 24 June 2016), 1949 > Cradock > image 133 of 385; National Archives, Pretoria : accessed 22 Sep 2020
Citation details: Baptism: Catharina Elizabeth Johanna BOTHA (1863), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-8SZL-N?i=409&cat=994807 : accessed 22 Sep 2020
Baptism
War
American Civil War
from April 1861 to May 1865 (aged 2 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 1 year)
South Africa
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Economic Event
Diamonds discovered
1867 (aged 3 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 10 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 17 years)
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Economic Event
Gold discovered
1881 (aged 17 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.
Marriage
Citation details: b4c2d1
Citation details: Death notice: David Johan WELGEMOED (1925), MOOC 6/9/2820 #8439/1925, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BK-Y7MJ?i=792&cat=331262 : accessed 20 Feb 2017
Citation details: Marriage: David Johannes WELGEMOED and Catharina Johanna Elizabeth BOTHA (1886), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-G924-1?i=825&cat=994807 : accessed 22 Sep 2020
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1886 (aged 22 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 37 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 39 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 38 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 38 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 40 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Birth of a grandson
Citation details: b4c2d1e3f1
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 42 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 47 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Epidemic
Smallpox
1912 (aged 48 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.
Birth of a grandson
Citation details: b4c2d1e3f3
War
World War I
from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (aged 55 years)
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Epidemic
Spanish flu
1918 (aged 54 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 56 years)
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Death of a son
Citation details: b4c2d1e7
Citation details: Death notice: Barend Jacobus WELGEMOED (1923), MOOC 6/9/2523 #2502, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-19T7?cc=2517051&wc=WVWM-9F8%3A1598032430 : 11 October 2018), 007731736 > image 361 of 834; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 22 Sep 2020
Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 3, 1919 to June 30, 1924 (aged 61 years)
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Death of a husband
Address: Buxton,
District Stockenstrom
Citation details: b4c2d1
Citation details: Death registration David Johannes WELGEMOED: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-22061-14251-50?cc=1779109 : accessed 11 October 2015), 1925 > Stockenstrom > image 111 of 240; National Archives, Pretoria.
Date of entry in original source: July 1, 1925
Quality of data: primary evidence
Citation details: Death notice: David Johan WELGEMOED (1925), MOOC 6/9/2820 #8439/1925, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BK-Y7MJ?i=792&cat=331262 : accessed 20 Feb 2017
Economic Event
Wall Street Crash
October 1929 (aged 66 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.
Prime minister
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
from June 30, 1924 to September 5, 1939 (aged 76 years)
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Death of a daughter
Citation details: Death registration: Adriana Katrina WELGEMOED (1941), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-5QB7-F?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-HVQ%3A139967901%2C142128601 : 11 January 2017), 1941 > Stockenstroom > image 124 of 173; National Archives, Pretoria : accessed 22 Sep 2020
War
World War II
from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (aged 82 years)
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Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 5, 1939 to June 4, 1948 (aged 85 years)
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Prime minister
Daniel Francois Malan
from June 4, 1948 to November 30, 1954 (on the date of death)
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Death
Address: Elizabeth Jordaan Oue Tehuis, Cradock
Citation details: Death Registration: Catharina Elizabeth Johanna BOTHA (1949), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95F7-SMXT?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-8PJ%3A139963701%2C139965702 : 24 June 2016), 1949 > Cradock > image 133 of 385; National Archives, Pretoria : accessed 22 Sep 2020
Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage MarriageMay 7, 1860Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
3 years
herself
18631949
Birth: April 5, 1863 23 23
Death: May 6, 1949Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Family with David Johannes Welgemoed
husband
18551925
Birth: before December 15, 1855 25 20 Dist. Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: June 30, 1925Dist. Stockenstrom, Eastern Cape, South Africa
herself
18631949
Birth: April 5, 1863 23 23
Death: May 6, 1949Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Marriage MarriageJanuary 11, 1886Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
10 months
son
1886
Birth: November 15, 1886 30 23
Death:
18 months
son
1888
Birth: May 14, 1888 32 25
Death:
18 months
son
1889
Birth: November 11, 1889 33 26
Death:
2 years
daughter
18921941
Birth: January 18, 1892 36 28 Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: August 23, 1941Dist. Stockenstrom, Eastern Cape, South Africa
5 years
son
18971923
Birth: March 19, 1897 41 33 Tarkastad, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: September 13, 1923Dist. Wodehouse, Eastern Cape, South Africa
David Johannes Welgemoed + Maria Elizabeth van der Merwe
husband
18551925
Birth: before December 15, 1855 25 20 Dist. Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: June 30, 1925Dist. Stockenstrom, Eastern Cape, South Africa
husband’s wife
18581880
Birth: January 6, 1858 25 19 Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: September 26, 1880Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Marriage MarriageMarch 27, 1878Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
8 months
stepdaughter
18781940
Birth: November 15, 1878 22 20
Death: March 25, 1940Tarkastad, Eastern Cape, South Africa
19 months
stepdaughter
18801880
Birth: June 20, 1880 24 22 Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: December 20, 1880Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Descendants of Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Botha

  1. Generation 1
    1. Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Botha, daughter of Pieter Barend Botha and Adriana Catharina Erasmus, was born on April 5, 1863 and died on May 6, 1949 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 86.

      She married David Johannes Welgemoed, son of Andries Jacobus Welgemoed and Magdalena Wilhelmina Bosch, on January 11, 1886 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was born before December 15, 1855 in Dist. Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on June 30, 1925 in Buxton, Dist. Stockenstrom, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

      Children of Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Botha and David Johannes Welgemoed:

      1. Andries Jacobus Welgemoed (1886)
      2. Pieter Barend Welgemoed (1888)
      3. David Johannes Welgemoed (1889)
      4. Adriana Catharina Welgemoed (18921941)
      5. Barend Jacobus Welgemoed (18971923)
  2. Generation 2 back to top
    1. Andries Jacobus Welgemoed, driver (in 1922), son of David Johannes Welgemoed and Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Botha, was born on November 15, 1886.

      He married Anna Remertha Venter, daughter of Albertus Stephanus Venter and Maria Elizabeth Welgemoed.

      Children of Andries Jacobus Welgemoed and Anna Remertha Venter:

      1. Barend Jacobus Welgemoed (19061963)
      2. Private
      3. Albertus Stephanus Welgemoed (19141977)
    2. Adriana Catharina Welgemoed, daughter of David Johannes Welgemoed and Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Botha, was born on January 18, 1892 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on August 23, 1941 in Buxton, Dist. Stockenstrom, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 49.

    3. Barend Jacobus Welgemoed, constable (to 1923), son of David Johannes Welgemoed and Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Botha, was born on March 19, 1897 in Tarkastad, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on September 13, 1923 in Indwe, Dist. Wodehouse, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 26.

      Barend Jacobus Welgemoed had 1 child.

Ancestors of Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Botha

  1. Generation 1
    1. Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Botha, daughter of Pieter Barend Botha and Adriana Catharina Erasmus, was born on April 5, 1863 and died on May 6, 1949 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 86.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
      2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Pieter Barend Botha, son of P. B. Botha, was born after 1840.

    2. Adriana Catharina Erasmus, daughter of J. A. G. J. Erasmus, was born after 1840.

  3. Generation 3 back to top
      2 of 4 individuals (50% complete).
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