Catharina Johanna Kriel
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- Catharina Johanna /Kriel/
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- Catharina Johanna
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- Kriel
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- Catharina Johanna /van Zyl/
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Citation details: Nieuwoudt, p330, b1c3d6. |
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Source citation: Note: French troops arrive at the Cape Colony to guard it against the English. |
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Source citation: Note: The Fish River is made the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony. |
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Source citation: Note: Consequence of signing the Treaty of Paris (3 Sep 1783). |
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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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Source citation: Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region. |
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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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Source citation: Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling. |
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Source citation: Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony. |
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Citation details: Nieuwoudt, p330, b1c3d6. Citation details: Marriage: Heremias Cornelis NIEUWOUDT and Maria Magdalena VAN ZYL (1845), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJG-LW28?cat=244034 : accessed 21 Apr 2020 |
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Source citation: Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza. |
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Citation details: Nieuwoudt, p330, b1c3d6. |
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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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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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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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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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Source citation: Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field. |
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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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1792–1864
Birth: Kruisfontein, South Africa Death: March 13, 1864 — Modderfontein, South Africa |
Descendants of Catharina Johanna Kriel
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Generation 1
She married Gideon van Zyl.
Children of Catharina Johanna Kriel and Gideon van Zyl:
- Maria Magdalena van Zyl (1792–1864)
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Generation 2 back to top
Maria Magdalena van Zyl, daughter of Gideon van Zyl and Catharina Johanna Kriel, was born in Kruisfontein, South Africa and died on March 13, 1864 in Modderfontein, South Africa.
She married Heremias Cornelis Nieuwoudt, son of Jeremias Cornelis Nieuwoudt and Jacoba Botma, on June 9, 1845 in Drooge Rivier, Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa. He was born on December 14, 1787 in Klynfontein, Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa and died on March 4, 1859 in Dist. Calvinia, Northern Cape, South Africa at the age of 71.
Ancestors of Catharina Johanna Kriel
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Generation 1
