Jeanetta Jacoba Brits, 1878

Name
Jeanetta Jacoba /Brits/
Given names
Jeanetta Jacoba
Surname
Brits
Name
Jeanetta Jacoba /Ellis/
Type of name
married name
Birth
calculated 1878 41 38
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: Marriage: Daniel Cornelis Francois ELLIS and Janetta Jacoba BRITS (1908), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C953-SSSB-Z?cc=1910846&wc=39ZJ-MNT%3A183083201%2C1301841311%2C1559233681 : 4 November 2016), Free State > Dealesville > Marriages 1905-1919 > image 44 of 226; Dutch Reformed Church Synod Centre, Bloemfontein : accessed 1 Dec 2019
War
First Boer War
from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (aged 3 years)
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Economic Event
Gold discovered
1881 (aged 3 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.
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
Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 24 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 24 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.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1886 (aged 8 years)
Langlaagte, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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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
Marriage
Citation details: Baptism: Maria Jacoba GROENEWALD (1900), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89GM-KQ1Q?cc=1910846&wc=39ZN-V8J%3A183083201%2C183123201%2C1301770676 : 4 November 2016), Free State > Boshof > Christenings 1898-1902 > image 35 of 59; Dutch Reformed Church Synod Centre, Bloemfontein : accessed 1 Dec 2019
Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 23 years)
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Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town.
Death of a daughter
before 1902 (aged 24 years)
Death of a husband
War
Second Boer War
from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (aged 24 years)
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Epidemic
Pneumonic plague
February 1904 (aged 26 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 28 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 32 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
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 34 years)
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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 40 years)
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Epidemic
Spanish flu
1918 (aged 40 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 41 years)
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Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 3, 1919 to June 30, 1924 (aged 46 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 51 years)
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Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century.
Death of a sister
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
Death of a sister
Address: 51 Barend Street, Randgate, Krugersdorp
Citation details: Death notice: Johanna Susanna BRITS (1933), TAB MHG #81710, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3F-N514?cc=2520237&wc=Q6VB-BT2%3A1590242822 : 14 February 2019), 007820146 > image 1407 of 1687; Pietermaritzburg Archives (formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 22 Nov 2019
Death of a husband
Citation details: Death notice: Daniel Cornelis Francois ELLIS (1937), VAB MHG 29636, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99L4-H4YJ?i=1539&cat=195564 : accessed 1 Dec 2019
Prime minister
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
from June 30, 1924 to September 5, 1939 (aged 61 years)
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Death of a sister
Citation details: Death notice: Magdalena Cecilia Johanna BRITS (1942), VAB MHG 34716, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9L4-HGFX?i=1021&cat=195564 : accessed 1 Dec 2019
War
World War II
from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (aged 67 years)
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Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 5, 1939 to June 4, 1948 (aged 70 years)
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Prime minister
Daniel Francois Malan
from June 4, 1948 to November 30, 1954 (aged 76 years)
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Prime minister
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
from November 30, 1954 to August 24, 1958 (aged 80 years)
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Economic Event
Rand adopted
February 14, 1961 (aged 83 years)
South Africa
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Note: Decimalisation of currency replaces the South African pound with the South African rand.
Historical Event
Republic of South Africa
May 31, 1961 (aged 83 years)
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Note: South Africa becomes a republic.
Prime minister
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
from September 2, 1958 to September 6, 1966 (aged 88 years)
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Prime minister
Balthazar Johannes Vorster
from September 13, 1966 to October 2, 1978 (aged 100 years)
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Prime minister
Pieter Willem Botha
from October 9, 1978 to September 14, 1984 (aged 106 years)
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Executive President
Pieter Willem Botha
from September 14, 1984 to August 15, 1989 (aged 111 years)
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Executive President (acting)
Jan Christiaan Heunis
from January 19, 1989 to March 15, 1989 (aged 111 years)
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Historical Event
Nelson Mandela released from prison
February 11, 1990 (aged 112 years)
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Historical Event
First General Elections
April 27, 1994 (aged 116 years)
South Africa
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Executive President
Frederik Willem de Klerk
from August 15, 1989 to May 10, 1994 (aged 116 years)
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President
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
from May 10, 1994 to June 14, 1999 (aged 121 years)
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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
elder sister
18671930
Birth: calculated June 1867 30 27 Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
Death: April 1, 1930Dist. Hoopstad, Free State, South Africa
2 years
elder sister
18691926
Birth: October 14, 1869 33 29 Dist. Fauresmith, Free State, South Africa
Death: August 3, 1926Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
3 years
elder 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
elder 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
herself
brother
Family with Hermanus Bernardus Groenewald
husband
18771902
Birth: calculated 1877 Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa
Death: February 7, 1902Brandfort, Free State, South Africa
herself
Marriage Marriagebefore 1900
2 months
daughter
19001902
Birth: March 13, 1900 23 22
Death: before 1902
Family with Daniel Cornelis Francois Ellis
husband
18691937
Birth: calculated March 1869Ladismith, Western Cape, South Africa
Death: November 30, 1937Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa
herself
son
Private
daughter
Private
Daniel Cornelis Francois Ellis + Maria Elizabeth le Grange
husband
18691937
Birth: calculated March 1869Ladismith, Western Cape, South Africa
Death: November 30, 1937Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa
husband’s wife
stepson
Private
Daniel Cornelis Francois Ellis + Susara Elizabeth Brits
husband
18691937
Birth: calculated March 1869Ladismith, Western Cape, South Africa
Death: November 30, 1937Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa
husband’s wife
stepson
Private
stepson
Private

Descendants of Jeanetta Jacoba Brits

  1. Generation 1
    1. Jeanetta Jacoba Brits, daughter of Gert Roelof Brits and Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, was born calculated 1878.

      She married 2 times. The first time she married Hermanus Bernardus Groenewald, son of Johannes Jacobus Groenewald and Abrahamina Johanna Amy du Plessis, before 1900. He was born calculated 1877 in Klippan, Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa and died on February 7, 1902 in Hospital, Refugee camp, Brandfort, Free State, South Africa.

      The second time she married Daniel Cornelis Francois Ellis.

      Children of Jeanetta Jacoba Brits and Hermanus Bernardus Groenewald:

      1. Maria Jacoba Groenewald (19001902)

      Jeanetta Jacoba Brits and Daniel Cornelis Francois Ellis had 2 children.

Ancestors of Jeanetta Jacoba Brits

  1. Generation 1
    1. Jeanetta Jacoba Brits, daughter of Gert Roelof Brits and Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, was born calculated 1878.

  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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