Maria Jacoba Brits, 1864–1919 (aged 54 years)
- Name
- Maria Jacoba /Brits/
- Given names
- Maria Jacoba
- Surname
- Brits
- Name
- Maria Jacoba /Viljoen/
- Type of name
- married name
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Birth
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Citation details: Death notice: Gert Roelof BRITS (1912), VAB MHG B3920, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-6Q9Q-1M?cat=195564 : accessed 26 Nov 2019 Citation details: Death notice: Maria Jacoba BRITS (1919), VAB MHG V2142, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99LW-J9Q6-G?i=1654&cc=3040532 : accessed 30 Nov 2019 |
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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 sister
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Citation details: Baptism: Anna Cecilia BRITS (1870), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C953-S9GT-9?cc=1910846&wc=39ZN-T3X%3A183083201%2C183099001%2C1559168493 : 4 November 2016), Free State > Bloemfontein > Christenings, memberships 1869-1872 > image 35 of 149; Dutch Reformed Church Synod Centre, Bloemfontein : accessed 30 Nov 2019 Shared note: Anna Cecilia BRITS (*1863 and *1869) Anna Cecilia BRITS (*1863 and *1869) There are two children named Anna Cecilia baptised to Gert Roelof BRITS and Maria Jacoba MEYBURGH. The first born in 1863 is presumed to have died before the second was born in 1869. |
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Death of a paternal grandfather
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3f2. |
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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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Death of a maternal grandfather
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Address: Palmietfontein, Dist. Caledonrivier Citation details: Death notice: Phillipus Arnoldus MYBURG (1884), VAB MHG M405, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9LW-G9NP-W?i=748&cat=195564 : accessed 28 Nov 2019 |
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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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Death of a maternal grandmother
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Citation details: Death notice: Johanna Susanna NIENABER (1888), VAB MHG N275, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99LW-P1C1?i=656&cat=195564 : accessed 28 Nov 2019 |
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Marriage
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Citation details: Death notice: Maria Jacoba BRITS (1919), VAB MHG V2142, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99LW-J9Q6-G?i=1654&cc=3040532 : accessed 30 Nov 2019 Citation details: Marriage: Jan Hendrik VILJOEN and Maria Jacoba BRITS (1891), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:2:77TD-ZYF2?cc=1910846&wc=39ZX-T36%3A183083201%2C183123201%2C183123202 : 21 May 2014), Free State > Boshof > Marriages 1878-1900 > image 470 of 712; Dutch Reformed Church Synod Centre, Bloemfontein : accessed 30 Nov 2019 Citation details: Viljoen, p324, b3c4d12e8f7g7. Text: x BRITS |
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Death of a paternal grandmother
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Text: 15.1.1896 (88.6.-) Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3f2. Citation details: Death notice: Anna Cecilia MIJBURG (1896), VAB MHG M819, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9LW-P93Z-L?i=1476&cat=195564 : accessed 7 Dec 2019 |
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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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Historical Event
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Source citation: Note: Union of South Africa established. |
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Death of a father
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Citation details: Death notice: Gert Roelof BRITS (1912), VAB MHG B3920, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-6Q9Q-1M?cat=195564 : accessed 26 Nov 2019 |
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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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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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Death of a brother
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Citation details: Death notice: Philippus Arnoldus BRITS (1919), VAB MHG B4645, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-DN33-CK?i=561&cc=3040532 : accessed 30 Nov 2019 |
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Prime minister
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Death
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Citation details: Death notice: Maria Jacoba BRITS (1919), VAB MHG V2142, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99LW-J9Q6-G?i=1654&cc=3040532 : accessed 30 Nov 2019 |
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1836–1912
Birth: September 12, 1836
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Death: August 19, 1912 — Boshof, Free State, South Africa |
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| Marriage | Marriage — August 17, 1857 — Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa |
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10 months
elder brother |
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20 months
elder sister |
1860–1933
Birth: January 31, 1860
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— Boshof, Free State, South Africa Death: May 30, 1933 — Randfontein, Gauteng, South Africa |
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16 months
elder brother |
1861–1919
Birth: June 2, 1861
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— Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa Death: February 10, 1919 — Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa |
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23 months
elder sister |
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21 months
herself |
1864–1919
Birth: calculated December 1864
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24
— Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa Death: February 17, 1919 — Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa |
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3 years
younger sister |
1867–1930
Birth: calculated June 1867
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27
— Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa Death: April 1, 1930 — Dist. Hoopstad, Free State, South Africa |
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2 years
younger sister |
1869–1926
Birth: October 14, 1869
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— Dist. Fauresmith, Free State, South Africa Death: August 3, 1926 — Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa |
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3 years
younger sister |
1871–1928
Birth: between June 1871 and April 1872
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— Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa Death: May 6, 1928 — Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa |
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3 years
younger sister |
1874–1942
Birth: calculated February 1874
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— Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa Death: November 23, 1942 — Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa |
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5 years
younger sister |
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| herself |
1864–1919
Birth: calculated December 1864
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— Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa Death: February 17, 1919 — Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa |
| Marriage | Marriage — November 23, 1891 — Boshof, Free State, South Africa |
Descendants of Maria Jacoba Brits
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Generation 1
Maria Jacoba Brits, daughter of Gert Roelof Brits and Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, was born calculated December 1864 in Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa and died on February 17, 1919 in Dealesville, Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa.
She married Jan Hendrik
Jerman
Viljoen (sixth cousin), son of David Jacobus Viljoen and Hester Catherina van Aswegen, on November 23, 1891 in Boshof, Free State, South Africa. He was born on July 17, 1865.
Ancestors of Maria Jacoba Brits
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Generation 1
Maria Jacoba Brits, daughter of Gert Roelof Brits and Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, was born calculated December 1864 in Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa and died on February 17, 1919 in Dealesville, Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa.
Generation 2 back to topGert Roelof Brits, son of Jan Brits and Anna Cecilia Meyburgh, was born on September 12, 1836 and died on August 19, 1912 in Biesempan, Boshof, Free State, South Africa at the age of 75.
Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, daughter of Philippus Arnoldus Meiburgh and Johanna Susanna Nienaber, was born calculated 1840.
Generation 3 back to topJan Brits, son of Rudolph Marthinus Brits and Dina Carolina Brits, was born on October 21, 1803 and died on August 3, 1869 at the age of 65.
Anna Cecilia Meyburgh, daughter of Jacobus Myburgh and Martha du Plessis, was born calculated May 1808 and died on November 15, 1896 in Doornhoek, Boshof, Free State, South Africa.
Philippus Arnoldus Meiburgh, son of Jacobus Myburgh and Martha du Plessis, was born on September 5, 1818 and died on December 2, 1884 in Palmietfontein, Dist. Smithfield, Free State, South Africa at the age of 66.
Johanna Susanna Nienaber, daughter of Jan Hendrik Nienaber and Maria Jacoba van den Berg, was born calculated August 24, 1823 in Klippoort, Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa and died on August 26, 1888 in Palmietfontein, Dist. Smithfield, Free State, South Africa.
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