Maria Claasen

Name
Maria /Claasen/
Given names
Maria
Surname
Claasen
Name
Maria /van Straten/
Type of name
married name
Marriage
Citation details: Straaten, p290, a3.
Epidemic
Smallpox
March 16, 1713
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Note: Smallpox epidemic breaks out at the Cape Colony.
Historical Event
Census
1754
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Note: A population count in the Cape shows that there were 5,510 Europeans and 6,279 slaves in the Cape Colony.
Epidemic
Smallpox
May 1, 1755
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Note: Smallpox epidemic breaks out at Cape Colony. A total of 2,372 people die.
Marriage of a son
Citation details: Straaten, p290, a3b1.
War
Britain declares war on the Netherlands
December 20, 1780
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Note: French troops arrive at the Cape Colony to guard it against the English.
Historical Event
Colonisation
1780
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Note: The Fish River is made the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony.
War
French troops depart the Cape
1784
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Note: Consequence of signing the Treaty of Paris (3 Sep 1783).
Marriage of a son
Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13.
Citation details: Straaten, p290, a3b1.
Citation details: Erasmus, p224, b6c2d1.
War
French Revolution
from 1789 to 1799
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Historical Event
Dutch East India Company goes bankrupt
1795
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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.
Historical Event
The Cape becomes a British Colony
March 5, 1797
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Baptism of a granddaughter
Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13.
Citation details: Straaten, p292, a3b1c9.
War
Napoleonic Wars
from May 18, 1803 to November 20, 1815
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Natural disaster
Drought
1809
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Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region.
Town founded
The settlement of Grahamstown is founded
1812
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Town founded
Cradock is founded
August 27, 1818
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Historical Event
British settlers
1820
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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.
Marriage of a granddaughter
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.
Economic Event
British sterling adopted
1825
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Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling.
Family with Jan van Straten
husband
herself
Marriage Marriage
son
Jan van Straten + Henriëtta Wilhelmina Wiederholt
husband
husband’s wife
Marriage MarriageNovember 9, 1746

Descendants of Maria Claasen

  1. Generation 1
    1. Children of Maria Claasen and Jan van Straten:

      1. Jacob van Straaten (1738)
  2. Generation 2 back to top
    1. Jacob van Straaten, son of Jan van Straten and Maria Claasen, was baptized on February 9, 1738.

      He married 3 times. The first time he married Martha van Aarde on November 28, 1762.

      The second time he married Susara Catharina Erasmus, daughter of Abraham Erasmus and Adriana Smit, on January 7, 1786. She was baptized on August 13, 1769.

      The third time he married Adriana Smit.

      Children of Jacob van Straaten and Susara Catharina Erasmus:

      1. Susara Maria van Straaten (18051868)
  3. Generation 3 back to top
    1. 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.

Ancestors of Maria Claasen

  1. Generation 1
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