Susara Catharina Erasmus, 1769–
- Name
- Susara Catharina /Erasmus/
- Given names
- Susara Catharina
- Surname
- Erasmus
- Name
- Susara Catharina /van Straaten/
- Type of name
- married name
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Baptism
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Citation details: Erasmus, p224, b6c2d1. |
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War
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Source citation: Note: French troops arrive at the Cape Colony to guard it against the English. |
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Source citation: Note: The Fish River is made the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony. |
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Source citation: Note: Consequence of signing the Treaty of Paris (3 Sep 1783). |
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Marriage
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Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13. Citation details: Straaten, p290, a3b1. Citation details: Erasmus, p224, b6c2d1. |
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Source citation: Note: The Dutch East India Company is in financial ruins. 29 January – Farmers expelled the officials of the Dutch East India Company and established an independent government at Graaff Reinet. 18 June - Swellendam follows Graaff Reinet and declares a republic under Hermanus Steyn. The Netherlands is invaded by the French under the leadership of Napoléon Bonaparte. A republic is declared by Dutch revolutionaires and the Prince of Orange flees to England. 16 September – British forces under General Sir James Henry Craig seizes the Cape Colony for the Stadtholder Prince William V of Orange. The republics of Graaff Reinet and Swellendam reject the British and the British army is sent in. The start of free trade was announced. |
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Natural disaster
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Source citation: Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region. |
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Town founded
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Town founded
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Historical Event
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Source citation: 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. |
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Marriage of a daughter
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Citation details: Death notice: Petrus Jacobus DU TOIT (1900), MOOC 6/9/403 #2085, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-73F6-F?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8B%3A1598092306 : 12 September 2017), 007844974 > image 758 of 2141; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 20 Nov 2019 Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13. Citation details: Straaten, p292, a3b1c9. |
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Birth of a granddaughter
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Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13f1. |
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Economic Event
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Source citation: Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling. |
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Birth of a granddaughter
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Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13f2. |
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Baptism of a granddaughter
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Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13f2. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Text: CAL 1833 Citation details: Death notice: Petrus Jacobus DU TOIT (1900), MOOC 6/9/403 #2085, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-73F6-F?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8B%3A1598092306 : 12 September 2017), 007844974 > image 758 of 2141; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 20 Nov 2019 Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13f3. |
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Baptism of a grandson
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Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13f3. |
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Historical Event
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Source citation: Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13f4. |
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Baptism of a grandson
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Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13f4. |
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Town founded
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Marriage of a grandson
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Citation details: Deel 2, p253, b4c5d1e1f1g5. Citation details: Death notice: Petrus Jacobus DU TOIT (1900), MOOC 6/9/403 #2085, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-73F6-F?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8B%3A1598092306 : 12 September 2017), 007844974 > image 758 of 2141; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 20 Nov 2019 Quality of data: secondary evidence Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13f3. Citation details: Death notice: Louisa Maria Grobbelaar (1918), MOOC 6/9/1065 #678, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BT-BWSJ?cc=2517051&wc=WVWM-9K9%3A1598032382 : 11 October 2018), 007730937 > image 511 of 745; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 20 Nov 2019 Citation details: Marriage: Petrus Jacobus DU TOIT and Louisa Maria GROBBELAAR (1857), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-492H-Y?i=610&cat=244034 : accessed 14 May 2020 |
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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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Death of a daughter
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Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13. |
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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: 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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Economic Event
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Source citation: Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field. |
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War
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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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1753–
Baptism: December 2, 1753
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— Swartland, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Marriage | Marriage — March 27, 1768 — |
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| Marriage | Marriage — January 7, 1786 — |
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20 years
daughter |
1805–1868
Birth: Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: December 30, 1868 — Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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| Marriage | Marriage — November 28, 1762 — |
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Descendants of Susara Catharina Erasmus
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Generation 1
Susara Catharina Erasmus, daughter of Abraham Erasmus and Adriana Smit, was baptized on August 13, 1769.
She married Jacob van Straaten, son of Jan van Straten and Maria Claasen, on January 7, 1786. He was baptized on February 9, 1738.
Children of Susara Catharina Erasmus and Jacob van Straaten:
- Susara Maria van Straaten (1805–1868)
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Generation 2 back to top
Susara Maria van Straaten, daughter of Jacob van Straaten and Susara Catharina Erasmus, was born in Buffelshoek, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on December 30, 1868 in Groenekloof, Petrusburg, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
She married Daniël Stephanus du Toit, son of Petrus Jacobus du Toit and Elisabeth Maria Theron, on March 2, 1823 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was baptized on March 9, 1800 in Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa and died on September 1, 1876 in Rouxville, Free State, South Africa at the age of 76.
Children of Susara Maria van Straaten and Daniël Stephanus du Toit:
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Generation 3 back to top
Petrus Jacobus du Toit, son of Daniël Stephanus du Toit and Susara Maria van Straaten, was born on March 15, 1833 in Groenkloof, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on March 25, 1900 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 67.
He married Louisa Maria Grobbelaar, daughter of Albertus Grobbelaar and Susanna Elizabeth Maartens, on April 27, 1857 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She was born on March 10, 1838 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on February 12, 1918 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 79.
Children of Petrus Jacobus du Toit and Louisa Maria Grobbelaar:
- Susanna Elizabeth du Toit (1858–1937)
- Daniel Stephanus du Toit (1859–)
- Albert Grobbelaar du Toit (1862–1938)
- Petrus Jacobus du Toit (1864–)
- Susara Maria du Toit (1866–1958)
- Louwisa Maria du Toit (1867–)
- Elizabeth Maria du Toit (1869–)
- Johanna Francina du Toit (1871–)
- Jacob Stephanus du Toit (1873–)
- Hendrik Matthijs du Toit (1875–)
- Louisa Maria du Toit (1877–)
- Johannes Barend du Toit (1878–)
- Jacobus Johannes du Toit (1880–)
- Catharina du Toit (1883–)
Ancestors of Susara Catharina Erasmus
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Generation 1
Susara Catharina Erasmus, daughter of Abraham Erasmus and Adriana Smit, was baptized on August 13, 1769.
Generation 2 back to topAbraham Erasmus, son of Jacob Erasmus and Sara de Klerk, was baptized on July 6, 1738.
Adriana Smit, daughter of Jacobus Smit and Catharina van Dyk, was baptized on December 2, 1753 in Swartland, Western Cape, South Africa.
Generation 3 back to topJacob Erasmus, son of Pieter Erasmus and Maria Elisabeth Joost.
Jacobus Smit, son of Jacobus Smit and Elisabeth Slabbert, was baptized on September 6, 1716 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
Catharina van Dyk, daughter of Burget van Dyk and Maria Visser, was baptized on August 27, 1724 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
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