Rudolph Marthinus Brits, 1782–1868 (aged 86 years)
- Name
- Rudolph Marthinus /Brits/
- Given names
- Rudolph Marthinus
- Surname
- Brits
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Birth
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Citation details: Death notice: Rudolph Marthinus BRITS (1868), VAB MHG B208, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-DNS5-48?i=351&cat=195564 : accessed 1 Dec 2019 |
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Baptism
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3. |
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War
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Source citation: Note: Consequence of signing the Treaty of Paris (3 Sep 1783). |
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Marriage of a parent
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Citation details: Brits, p446, b6c3d2. |
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War
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Historical Event
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Source citation: 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. |
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Marriage
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3. Citation details: Brits, p450, b6c7d7. |
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War
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Natural disaster
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Source citation: Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region. |
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Town founded
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Town founded
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Historical Event
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Source citation: 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. |
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Marriage of a son
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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: 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 Citation details: Myburgh, p761, b2c5d4e2f3. |
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Economic Event
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Source citation: Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3f2g2. |
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Baptism of a grandson
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3f2g2. |
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Marriage
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3. Citation details: Brits, p448, b6c3d3e4f1. |
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Historical Event
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Source citation: Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Text: CAL SEP 1836 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: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3f2g6. |
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Baptism of a grandson
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3f2g6. |
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Town founded
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Marriage of a grandson
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3f2g2. Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e1f15. Citation details: Marriage: Jacobus BRITS and Cicilia Helena Christina BRITS (1849), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-W97L-K?i=416&cat=244034 : accessed 22 Apr 2020 |
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Marriage of a grandson
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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 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: Gerrit Rudolf BRITS and Maria Jacoba MEIBURG (1857), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89QG-BNPY?cc=1910846&wc=39ZF-T3X%3A183083201%2C183099001%2C1301817626 : 4 November 2016), Free State > Bloemfontein > Marriages 1848-1870 > image 229 of 544; Dutch Reformed Church Synod Centre, Bloemfontein : accessed 29 Nov 2019 |
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Death of a wife
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3. |
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Epidemic
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Source citation: Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza. |
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Death of a brother
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Citation details: Brits, p446, b6c3d2e1. |
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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
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Citation details: Brits, p447, b6c3d2e3. Citation details: Death notice: Rudolph Marthinus BRITS (1868), VAB MHG B208, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-DNS5-48?i=351&cat=195564 : accessed 1 Dec 2019 |
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| Marriage | Marriage — May 21, 1780 — |
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17 months
brother |
1781–1864
Baptism: October 20, 1781
Death: May 11, 1864 — Boshof, Free State, South Africa |
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8 months
himself |
1782–1868
Birth: calculated June 10, 1782
Death: November 1, 1868 — Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa |
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| Marriage | Marriage — September 23, 1792 — |
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1782–1868
Birth: calculated June 10, 1782
Death: November 1, 1868 — Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa |
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| wife |
1785–
Baptism: February 3, 1785
43
— Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Marriage | Marriage — January 11, 1801 — Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
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3 years
son |
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1782–1868
Birth: calculated June 10, 1782
Death: November 1, 1868 — Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa |
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| Marriage | Marriage — October 6, 1833 — Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Descendants of Rudolph Marthinus Brits
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Generation 1
Rudolph Marthinus Brits, son of Rudolph Brits and Johanna Petronella Oosthuizen, was born calculated June 10, 1782 and died on November 1, 1868 in Zuurfontein, Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.
He married 2 times. The first time he married Dina Carolina Brits, daughter of Rudolph Johannes Brits and Geertruida van Eck, on January 11, 1801 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was baptized on February 3, 1785 in Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa.
The second time he married Elizabeth Catharina Brits (first cousin once removed descending), daughter of Johannes Nicolaas
Johan
Brits and Anna Johanna Wilken, on October 6, 1833 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She was born on July 9, 1816 and died on December 27, 1857 at the age of 41.Children of Rudolph Marthinus Brits and Dina Carolina Brits:
- Jan Brits (1803–1869)
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Generation 2 back to top
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.
He married Anna Cecilia Meyburgh (fourth cousin once removed descending), daughter of Jacobus Myburgh and Martha du Plessis, on January 21, 1825 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She was born calculated May 1808 and died on November 15, 1896 in Doornhoek, Boshof, Free State, South Africa.
Children of Jan Brits and Anna Cecilia Meyburgh:
- Jacobus Brits (1828–)
- Gert Roelof Brits (1836–1912)
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Generation 3 back to top
Jacobus Brits, son of Jan Brits and Anna Cecilia Meyburgh, was born on January 12, 1828.
He married Cecilia Helena Christina Brits (first cousin once removed ascending), daughter of Johannes Jacobus Frederik Brits and Catharina Elizabeth van der Linde, on February 26, 1849 in Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa. She was born on July 29, 1827.
Children of Jacobus Brits and Cecilia Helena Christina Brits:
- Jan Johannes Rudolf Brits (1850–)
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.
He married Maria Jacoba Meybürgh (first cousin), daughter of Philippus Arnoldus Meiburgh and Johanna Susanna Nienaber, on August 17, 1857 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. She was born calculated 1840.
Children of Gert Roelof Brits and Maria Jacoba Meybürgh:
- Jan Jacobus Brits (1858–)
- Johanna Susanna Brits (1860–1933)
- Philippus Arnoldus Brits (1861–1919)
- Anna Cecilia Brits (1863–1869)
- Maria Jacoba Brits (1864–1919)
- Dina Carolina Brits (1867–1930)
- Anna Cecilia Brits (1869–1926)
- Martha Cornelia Brits (1871–1928)
- Magdalena Cecilia Johanna Brits (1874–1942)
- Jeanetta Jacoba Brits (1878–)
- Marthinus Jacobus Johannes Brits
Ancestors of Rudolph Marthinus Brits
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Generation 1
Rudolph Marthinus Brits, son of Rudolph Brits and Johanna Petronella Oosthuizen, was born calculated June 10, 1782 and died on November 1, 1868 in Zuurfontein, Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.
Generation 2 back to topRudolph Brits, son of Hans Jacob Brits and Hester Engela van der Heiden.
Generation 3 back to topHans Jacob Brits, son of Rudolph Brits and Maria Gerrits, was baptized on January 2, 1729.
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