Maria Susanna Margaretha Eksteen, 1819–
- Name
- Maria Susanna Margaretha /Eksteen/
- Given names
- Maria Susanna Margaretha
- Surname
- Eksteen
- Name
- Maria Susanna Margaretha /Furstenburg/
- Type of name
- married name
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Baptism
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p388, b2c2. |
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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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Economic Event
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Source citation: Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling. |
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Historical Event
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Source citation: Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony. |
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Marriage
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p388, b2c2. |
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Town founded
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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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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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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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Death of a husband
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p388, b2c2. |
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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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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p389, b2c2d9e2. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p389, b2c2d9e3. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p389, b2c2d9e4. |
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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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Birth of a granddaughter
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p389, b2c2d9e5. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p389, b2c2d9e6. |
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Death of a daughter
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p388, b2c2d1. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p390, b2c2d9e8. |
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Birth of a granddaughter
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p390, b2c2d9e9. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p390, b2c2d9e10. |
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Birth of a granddaughter
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Text: 1899 Citation details: Deel 2, p253, b4c5d1e1f1g5h2.
Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library
Citation details: Gravestone: Petrus Du Toit THERON (1890-1949) and Dina Carolina FURSTENBURG (1899-1967), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=3450449 : accessed 21 Nov 2019 Citation details: Furstenburg, p390, b2c2d9e11. |
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Epidemic
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Source citation: Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town. |
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War
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Epidemic
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Source citation: Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg. |
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Epidemic
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Source citation: Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa. |
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Death of a son
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p388, b2c2d2. |
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Historical Event
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Source citation: Note: Union of South Africa established. |
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Epidemic
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Source citation: Note: Smallpox outbreaks: The outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg and cases of smallpox are discovered in Durban. |
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Death of a son
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p389, b2c2d9. |
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War
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Epidemic
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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. |
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Prime minister
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Death of a son
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p388, b2c2d5. |
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Prime minister
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Economic Event
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Source citation: Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century. |
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Death of a son
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p388, b2c2d3. |
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Death of a grandson
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Citation details: Furstenburg, p389, b2c2d9e6. |
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Prime minister
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| Marriage | Marriage — — |
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1817–1872
Birth: November 14, 1817
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Death: December 17, 1872 — Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa |
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| Marriage | Marriage — May 27, 1839 — Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa |
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9 months
daughter |
1840–1888
Birth: February 27, 1840
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20
— Dist. Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa Death: September 11, 1888 — Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa |
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15 months
son |
1841–1907
Birth: May 1841
23
22
Death: October 8, 1907 — Brandfort, Free State, South Africa |
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3 years
son |
1844–1932
Birth: June 1, 1844
26
25
Death: November 1932 — Dist. Brandfort, Free State, South Africa |
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2 years
daughter |
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2 years
son |
1848–1924
Birth: December 23, 1848
31
29
Death: June 9, 1924 — Dist. Bethlehem, Free State, South Africa |
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3 years
son |
1851–
Birth: August 19, 1851
33
32
— Uniondale, Western Cape, South Africa |
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2 years
son |
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2 years
daughter |
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2 years
son |
1858–1916
Birth: April 6, 1858
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38
— Free State, South Africa Death: October 26, 1916 — Randfontein, Gauteng, South Africa |
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3 years
son |
1860–1944
Birth: about 1860
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40
Death: September 17, 1944 — Brandfort, Free State, South Africa |
Descendants of Maria Susanna Margaretha Eksteen
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Generation 1
Maria Susanna Margaretha Eksteen, daughter of Michiel Casparus Eksteen and Maria Susanna Magdalena Coetzer, was baptized on April 11, 1819.
She married Francois Johannes Reimert Furstenburg, son of Johan Pieter Fürstenburg and Anna Margaretha Roos, on May 27, 1839 in Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa. He was born on November 14, 1817 and died on December 17, 1872 in Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa at the age of 55.
Children of Maria Susanna Margaretha Eksteen and Francois Johannes Reimert Furstenburg:
- Maria Susanna Margaretha Furstenburg (1840–1888)
- Johan Pieter Hendrik Furstenburg (1841–1907)
- Michiel Casparus Furstenburg (1844–1932)
- Anna Margaretha Furstenburg (1846–)
- Francois Johannes Reimert Furstenburg (1848–1924)
- Hendrik Oostewald Furstenburg (1851–)
- Roelof Abraham Furstenburg (1853–)
- Martha Hendrina Magdalena Furstenburg (1855–)
- Frederik Constant Furstenburg (1858–1916)
- Jeremias Petrus Furstenburg (1860–1944)
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Frederik Constant Furstenburg, son of Francois Johannes Reimert Furstenburg and Maria Susanna Margaretha Eksteen, was born on April 6, 1858 in Free State, South Africa and died on October 26, 1916 in Randgate, Randfontein, Gauteng, South Africa at the age of 58.
He married Johanna Susanna Brits, daughter of Gert Roelof Brits and Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. She was born on January 31, 1860 in Boshof, Free State, South Africa and died on May 30, 1933 in Randgate, Randfontein, Gauteng, South Africa at the age of 73.
Children of Frederik Constant Furstenburg and Johanna Susanna Brits:
- Maria Susanna Furstenburg
- Francois Johannes Furstenburg (1881–1950)
- Gert Roelof Furstenburg (1883–1943)
- Frederik Constandt Furstenburg (1885–1952)
- Johanna Susanna Furstenburg (1887–)
- Philippus Arnoldus Furstenburg (1888–1938)
- Martha Magdalena Furstenburg
- Marthinus Jacobus Furstenburg (1892–1954)
- Maria Jacoba Furstenburg (1895–)
- Michiel Casparus Furstenburg (1897–)
- Dina Carolina Furstenburg (1899–1967)
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Dina Carolina Furstenburg, daughter of Frederik Constant Furstenburg and Johanna Susanna Brits, was born on August 23, 1899 in Skeerpoort, North West Province, South Africa and died on July 27, 1967 in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa at the age of 67.
She married Petrus Du Toit Theron (sixth cousin), son of Pieter Andries Theron and Susara Maria du Toit.
Dina Carolina Furstenburg and Petrus Du Toit Theron had 5 children.
Ancestors of Maria Susanna Margaretha Eksteen
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Generation 1
Maria Susanna Margaretha Eksteen, daughter of Michiel Casparus Eksteen and Maria Susanna Magdalena Coetzer, was baptized on April 11, 1819.
Generation 2 back to top2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
