Martha Hendrina Wilhelmina van den Berg, 1805

Name
Martha Hendrina Wilhelmina /van den Berg/
Given names
Martha Hendrina Wilhelmina
Surname
van den Berg
Name
Martha Hendrina Wilhelmina /van den Berg/
Type of name
married name
Baptism
May 20, 1805 22 20 (aged 0 days)
Citation details: Berg, p227, b1c9d5e2.
War
Napoleonic Wars
from May 18, 1803 to November 20, 1815 (aged 10 years)
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Natural disaster
Drought
1809 (aged 3 years)
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Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region.
Town founded
The settlement of Grahamstown is founded
1812 (aged 6 years)
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Town founded
Cradock is founded
August 27, 1818 (aged 13 years)
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Historical Event
British settlers
1820 (aged 14 years)
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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.
Marriage
Citation details: Berg, p227, a3b1c10d1e7.
Citation details: Berg, p227, b1c9d5e2.
Economic Event
British sterling adopted
1825 (aged 19 years)
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Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling.
Historical Event
Great trek
1835 (aged 29 years)
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Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony.
Town founded
Settlement of Victoria West is established
1844 (aged 38 years)
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Epidemic
Influenza
from 1857 to 1859 (aged 53 years)
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Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza.
War
American Civil War
from April 1861 to May 1865 (aged 59 years)
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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.
Economic Event
Diamonds discovered
1867 (aged 61 years)
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.
War
First Boer War
from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (aged 75 years)
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Economic Event
Gold discovered
1886 (aged 80 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.
Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 95 years)
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Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town.
Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 96 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 96 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
Economic depression
1865 (aged 59 years)
South Africa
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Economic Event
Gold discovered
September 1873 (aged 68 years)
Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumulanga, South Africa
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Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1881 (aged 75 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.
War
Second Boer War
from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (aged 97 years)
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Epidemic
Pneumonic plague
February 1904 (aged 98 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 100 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 105 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Epidemic
Smallpox
1912 (aged 106 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 113 years)
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Epidemic
Spanish flu
1918 (aged 112 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.
Prime minister
Louis Botha
from May 31, 1910 to August 27, 1919 (aged 114 years)
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Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 3, 1919 to June 30, 1924 (aged 119 years)
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Prime minister
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
from June 30, 1924 to September 5, 1939 (aged 134 years)
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Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage MarriageJune 28, 1801Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
4 years
herself
Family with Izak Jacobus van den Berg
husband
1805
Baptism: November 17, 1805 32 31
herself
Marriage MarriageApril 4, 1825Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Izak Jacobus van den Berg + Johanna Maria Naudé
husband
1805
Baptism: November 17, 1805 32 31
husband’s wife
Marriage MarriageOctober 6, 1823Eastern Cape, South Africa
Izak Jacobus van den Berg + Elisabeth Susanna Joubert
husband
1805
Baptism: November 17, 1805 32 31
husband’s wife
1809
Birth: April 15, 1809 40 33
Marriage MarriageJanuary 6, 1827Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
10 years
stepdaughter
1836
Birth: December 19, 1836 31 27 Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
5 years
stepdaughter
18421906
Birth: February 7, 1842 36 32
Death: August 15, 1906Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Descendants of Martha Hendrina Wilhelmina van den Berg

  1. Generation 1
    1. Martha Hendrina Wilhelmina van den Berg, daughter of Abraham Paulus van den Berg and Martha Hendrina Koen, was baptized on May 20, 1805.

      She married Izak Jacobus van den Berg (second cousin), son of Jacobus van den Berg and Maria Susanna van der Merwe, on April 4, 1825 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was baptized on November 17, 1805.

Ancestors of Martha Hendrina Wilhelmina van den Berg

  1. Generation 1
    1. Martha Hendrina Wilhelmina van den Berg, daughter of Abraham Paulus van den Berg and Martha Hendrina Koen, was baptized on May 20, 1805.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
      2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Abraham Paulus van den Berg, son of Dirk van den Berg and Aletta van Rensburg, was baptized on October 5, 1782.

    2. Martha Hendrina Koen was baptized in 1785.

  3. Generation 3 back to top
      2 of 4 individuals (50% complete).
    1. Dirk van den Berg, son of Jacobus van den Berg and Maria Magdalena Haak, was baptized in 1744.

    2. Aletta van Rensburg, daughter of Hendrik Janse van Rensburg and Anna Maria van der Merwe, was baptized on December 17, 1748.

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