Dina Carolina Brits, 18671930 (aged 62 years)

Name
Dina Carolina /Brits/
Given names
Dina Carolina
Surname
Brits
Name
Dina Carolina /Viljoen/
Type of name
married name
Birth
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: Dina Carolina BRITS (1930), VAB MHG 22411, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LS-J9DT-W?i=1664&cc=3040532 : accessed 30 Nov 2019
Economic Event
Diamonds discovered
1867 (aged 0)
Hopetown, Northern Cape, South Africa
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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.
Death of a sister
before 1869 (aged 1 year)
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

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.

Death of a paternal grandfather
August 3, 1869 (aged 2 years)
Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3f2.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
September 1873 (aged 6 years)
Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumulanga, South Africa
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Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field.
War
First Boer War
from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (aged 13 years)
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Economic Event
Gold discovered
1881 (aged 13 years)
Barberton, Mpumulanga, South Africa
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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.
Marriage
Citation details: Death notice: Dina Carolina BRITS (1930), VAB MHG 22411, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LS-J9DT-W?i=1664&cc=3040532 : accessed 30 Nov 2019
Citation details: Death notice: David Jacobus VILJOEN (1910), VAB MHG V1834, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99LW-J9WG-K?i=166&cat=195564 : accessed 30 Nov 2019
Citation details: Marriage: David Jacobus VILJOEN and Dina Carolina BRITS (1884), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:2:77TD-ZGL8?cc=1910846&wc=39ZX-L29%3A183083201%2C183099001%2C183104101 : 21 May 2014), Free State > Bloemfontein > Marriages 1870-1890 > image 641 of 828; Dutch Reformed Church Synod Centre, Bloemfontein : accessed 30 Nov 2019
Citation details: Viljoen, p324, b3c4d12e8f7g3.
Death of a maternal grandfather
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
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1886 (aged 18 years)
Langlaagte, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Source citation:

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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.
Death of a maternal grandmother
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
Death of a paternal grandmother
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
Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 33 years)
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Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town.
War
Second Boer War
from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (aged 34 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 34 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 34 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.
Epidemic
Pneumonic plague
February 1904 (aged 36 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 38 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 42 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Death of a husband
Cause: struck by lightning
Text:

BEF 01 APR 1930

Citation details: Death notice: Dina Carolina BRITS (1930), VAB MHG 22411, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LS-J9DT-W?i=1664&cc=3040532 : accessed 30 Nov 2019
Citation details: Death notice: David Jacobus VILJOEN (1910), VAB MHG V1834, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99LW-J9WG-K?i=166&cat=195564 : accessed 30 Nov 2019
Citation details: Viljoen, p324, b3c4d12e8f7g3.
Death of a father
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
Epidemic
Smallpox
1912 (aged 44 years)
Source citation:

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Note: Smallpox outbreaks: The outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg and cases of smallpox are discovered in Durban.
War
World War I
from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (aged 51 years)
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Epidemic
Spanish flu
1918 (aged 50 years)
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Note: An estimated 500,000 people die from the Spanish flu epidemic in South Africa, the fifth hardest hit country in the world.
Death of a brother
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
Death of a sister
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
Prime minister
Louis Botha
from May 31, 1910 to August 27, 1919 (aged 52 years)
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Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 3, 1919 to June 30, 1924 (aged 57 years)
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Death of a sister
Citation details: Death notice: Anna Cecilia BRITZ (1926), VAB MHG 19084, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LW-P6XP?i=309&cat=195564 : accessed 30 Nov 2019
Death of a sister
Address: 27 Boshof Road, Kimberley
Citation details: Death registration: Martha Cornelia BRITS (1928), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95F7-9FBP?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-8GW%3A139968901%2C141194401 : 23 August 2019), 1928 > Kimberley > image 446 of 1225; National Archives, Pretoria : accessed 1 Dec 2019
Economic Event
Wall Street Crash
October 1929 (aged 62 years)
Source citation:

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Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century.
Prime minister
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
from June 30, 1924 to September 5, 1939 (on the date of death)
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Death
Citation details: Death notice: Dina Carolina BRITS (1930), VAB MHG 22411, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LS-J9DT-W?i=1664&cc=3040532 : accessed 30 Nov 2019
Family with parents
father
18361912
Birth: September 12, 1836 32 28
Death: August 19, 1912Boshof, Free State, South Africa
mother
Marriage MarriageAugust 17, 1857Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
10 months
elder brother
1858
Birth: June 5, 1858 21 18
20 months
elder sister
18601933
Birth: January 31, 1860 23 20 Boshof, Free State, South Africa
Death: May 30, 1933Randfontein, Gauteng, South Africa
16 months
elder brother
18611919
Birth: June 2, 1861 24 21 Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
Death: February 10, 1919Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa
23 months
elder sister
18631869
Birth: April 12, 1863 26 23
Death: before 1869
21 months
elder sister
18641919
Birth: calculated December 1864 28 24 Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
Death: February 17, 1919Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa
3 years
herself
18671930
Birth: calculated June 1867 30 27 Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
Death: April 1, 1930Dist. Hoopstad, Free State, South Africa
2 years
younger sister
18691926
Birth: October 14, 1869 33 29 Dist. Fauresmith, Free State, South Africa
Death: August 3, 1926Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
3 years
younger sister
18711928
Birth: between June 1871 and April 1872 35 32 Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa
Death: May 6, 1928Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa
3 years
younger sister
18741942
Birth: calculated February 1874 37 34 Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa
Death: November 23, 1942Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa
5 years
younger sister
brother
Family with David Jacobus Viljoen
husband
18581910
Birth: April 15, 1858 25 23 Burgersdorp, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death: October 22, 1910Dist. Hoopstad, Free State, South Africa
herself
18671930
Birth: calculated June 1867 30 27 Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
Death: April 1, 1930Dist. Hoopstad, Free State, South Africa
Marriage MarriageJuly 7, 1884Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

Descendants of Dina Carolina Brits

  1. Generation 1
    1. Dina Carolina Brits, daughter of Gert Roelof Brits and Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, was born calculated June 1867 in Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa and died on April 1, 1930 in Bultfontein, Dist. Hoopstad, Free State, South Africa.

      She married David Jacobus Viljoen (sixth cousin), son of David Jacobus Viljoen and Hester Catherina van Aswegen, on July 7, 1884 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. He was born on April 15, 1858 in Burgersdorp, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on October 22, 1910 in Bultfontein, Dist. Hoopstad, Free State, South Africa at the age of 52.

Ancestors of Dina Carolina Brits

  1. Generation 1
    1. Dina Carolina Brits, daughter of Gert Roelof Brits and Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, was born calculated June 1867 in Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa and died on April 1, 1930 in Bultfontein, Dist. Hoopstad, Free State, South Africa.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
      2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Gert 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.

    2. Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, daughter of Philippus Arnoldus Meiburgh and Johanna Susanna Nienaber, was born calculated 1840.

  3. Generation 3 back to top
      4 of 4 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Jan 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

    4. 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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