Jacomina van den Berg, 1737

Name
Jacomina /van den Berg/
Given names
Jacomina
Surname
van den Berg
Name
Jacomina /Martens/
Type of name
married name
Baptism
October 6, 1737 35 (aged 0 days)
Citation details: Berg, p224, a3b1c5.
Historical Event
Census
1754 (aged 16 years)
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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 (aged 17 years)
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Note: Smallpox epidemic breaks out at Cape Colony. A total of 2,372 people die.
Marriage
Citation details: Maartens, p372, a6.
Citation details: Berg, p224, a3b1c5.
War
Britain declares war on the Netherlands
December 20, 1780 (aged 43 years)
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Note: French troops arrive at the Cape Colony to guard it against the English.
Historical Event
Colonisation
1780 (aged 42 years)
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Note: The Fish River is made the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony.
War
French troops depart the Cape
1784 (aged 46 years)
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Note: Consequence of signing the Treaty of Paris (3 Sep 1783).
Birth of a granddaughter
Text:

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Citation details: Death notice: Susanna Elizabeth MAARTENS (1866), MOOC 6/9/115 #2627, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-VBC3?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SZP%3A1598082375 : 28 September 2018), 007844942 > image 2003 of 2278; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 23 Nov 2019
Citation details: Grobbelaar, p567, b9c7d1.
Marriage of a son
Citation details: Maartens, p373, a6b4.
Baptism of a granddaughter
Citation details: Maartens, p373, a6b4c1.
War
French Revolution
from 1789 to 1799 (aged 61 years)
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Historical Event
Dutch East India Company goes bankrupt
1795 (aged 57 years)
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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 (aged 59 years)
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Natural disaster
Drought
1809 (aged 71 years)
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Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region.
Marriage of a granddaughter
Citation details: du Toit, p255, a1b5c7d1e13f3.
Citation details: Grobbelaar, p567, b9c7d1.
War
Napoleonic Wars
from May 18, 1803 to November 20, 1815 (aged 78 years)
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Town founded
The settlement of Grahamstown is founded
1812 (aged 74 years)
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Town founded
Cradock is founded
August 27, 1818 (aged 80 years)
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Historical Event
British settlers
1820 (aged 82 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 87 years)
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Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling.
Historical Event
Great trek
1835 (aged 97 years)
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Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony.
Town founded
Settlement of Victoria West is established
1844 (aged 106 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 164 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 164 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.
Death of a father
Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage MarriageDecember 24, 1724
3 years
brother
2 years
sister
3 years
brother
5 years
herself
5 months
brother
4 years
brother
3 years
brother
3 years
brother
3 years
brother
2 years
younger sister
1751
Birth: about 1751 48
Death:
Family with Joachim Heinrich Martens
husband
herself
Marriage MarriageAugust 5, 1759
9 years
son

Descendants of Jacomina van den Berg

  1. Generation 1
    1. Jacomina van den Berg, daughter of Jacobus van den Berg and Maria Magdalena Haak, was baptized on October 6, 1737.

      She married Joachim Heinrich Martens on August 5, 1759.

      Children of Jacomina van den Berg and Joachim Heinrich Martens:

      1. Matthys Daniel Maartens (1768)
  2. Generation 2 back to top
    1. Matthys Daniel Maartens, son of Joachim Heinrich Martens and Jacomina van den Berg, was baptized on July 3, 1768.

      He married Susanna Haarhof on May 13, 1798.

      Children of Matthys Daniel Maartens and Susanna Haarhof:

      1. Susanna Elizabeth Maartens (17981866)
  3. Generation 3 back to top
    1. Susanna Elizabeth Maartens, daughter of Matthys Daniel Maartens and Susanna Haarhof, was born in 1798 in Buffelshoek, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on April 30, 1866 in Pretoriuskloof, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 68.

      She married Albertus Grobbelaar, son of Johannes Jacobus Grobbelaar and Elizabeth Margaretha van Jaarsveld, on April 9, 1815 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was born on July 2, 1792 and died on April 9, 1846 in Over-Sneeuberg, Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 53.

      Children of Susanna Elizabeth Maartens and Albertus Grobbelaar:

      1. Louisa Maria Grobbelaar (18381918)

Ancestors of Jacomina van den Berg

  1. Generation 1
    1. Jacomina van den Berg, daughter of Jacobus van den Berg and Maria Magdalena Haak, was baptized on October 6, 1737.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
      2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Jacobus van den Berg, son of Jacobus van den Berg and Jacomina Carteniers, was baptized on August 6, 1702.

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