Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, 1808–1881 (aged 73 years)
- Name
- Jacobus Nicolaas /Boshoff/
- Given names
- Jacobus Nicolaas
- Surname
- Boshoff
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Birth
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Source: Wikipedia
Citation details: Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Nicolaas_Boshoff : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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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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Economic Event
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Source citation: Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling. |
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Marriage
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Citation details: Death notice: Margaretha Louisa BOSHOFF (1879), VAB MHG B514, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-HWDX?i=140&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020
Source: Wikipedia
Citation details: Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Nicolaas_Boshoff : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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Historical Event
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Source citation: Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony. |
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Town founded
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Marriage of a daughter
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Citation details: Death notice: Pieter Johannes Venter JOUBERT (1948), VAB MHG 42040, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LH-SPTK?i=2051&cat=195564 : accessed 1 Dec 2019 Citation details: Death notice: Margaretha Louisa BOSHOFF (1879), VAB MHG B514, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-HWDX?i=140&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020 Citation details: Death notice: Francois Jacobus JOUBERT (1906), VAB MHG J1096, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT- D1D7-CWX?i=358&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020 Citation details: Joubert, p169, b8c1d6e3f6. Shared note: The wives of Francois Jacobus JOUBERT (1827-1906) The wives of Francois Jacobus JOUBERT (1827-1906) He first marries Margaretha Louis BOSHOFF (1828-1879). Then he is married a second time to Dina Carolina BOTHA (1852-1923). She was the widow of Jan Johannes BRITS and was the mother-in-law of his son Pieter Johannes Venter JOUBERT (1870-1948), who was married to Dina's daughter Anna Cecilia BRITS (-1901). In Pieter Johannes Venter JOUBERT's death notice of 1948 his mother's name is given as Dinah Carolina Boshoff. This fact was recorded 69 years after his mother's death and is a mixture of the first names of his father's second wife and the surname of his mother. |
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Occupation
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President of the Orange Free State
from August 27, 1855 to September 6, 1859 (aged 51 years)
Citation details: Joubert, p169, b8c1d6e3f6.
Source: Wikipedia
Citation details: Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Nicolaas_Boshoff : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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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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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Baptism: Minor children of Louisa Margaretha BOSHOFF and Francois Jacobus JOUBERT (1879), VAB MHG B514, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-HWH7?i=146&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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Baptism of a grandson
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Citation details: Baptism: Minor children of Louisa Margaretha BOSHOFF and Francois Jacobus JOUBERT (1879), VAB MHG B514, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-HWH7?i=146&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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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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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Baptism: Minor children of Louisa Margaretha BOSHOFF and Francois Jacobus JOUBERT (1879), VAB MHG B514, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-HWH7?i=146&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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Baptism of a grandson
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Citation details: Baptism: Minor children of Louisa Margaretha BOSHOFF and Francois Jacobus JOUBERT (1879), VAB MHG B514, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-HWH7?i=146&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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Birth of a grandson
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Text: CAL 1871 Citation details: Marriage: Pieter Johannes Venter JOUBERT and Magdalena Cecilia Johanna BRITZ (1907), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C953-SS3V-M?cc=1910846&wc=39ZJ-MNT%3A183083201%2C1301841311%2C1559233681 : 4 November 2016), Free State > Dealesville > Marriages 1905-1919 > image 34 of 226; Dutch Reformed Church Synod Centre, Bloemfontein : accessed 1 Dec 2019 Text: CAL JUL 1870 Citation details: Death notice: Pieter Johannes Venter JOUBERT (1948), VAB MHG 42040, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LH-SPTK?i=2051&cat=195564 : accessed 1 Dec 2019 Citation details: Baptism: Minor children of Louisa Margaretha BOSHOFF and Francois Jacobus JOUBERT (1879), VAB MHG B514, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-HWH7?i=146&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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Baptism of a grandson
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Citation details: Baptism: Minor children of Louisa Margaretha BOSHOFF and Francois Jacobus JOUBERT (1879), VAB MHG B514, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-HWH7?i=146&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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Death of a daughter
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Citation details: Death notice: Margaretha Louisa BOSHOFF (1879), VAB MHG B514, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89L3-HWDX?i=140&cat=195564 : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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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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Economic Event
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Source citation: Note: Pilgrim's rest declared a gold field. |
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Economic Event
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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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Death
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Source: Wikipedia
Citation details: Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Nicolaas_Boshoff : accessed 27 Apr 2020 |
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| Marriage | Marriage — November 3, 1827 — Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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1828–1879
Birth: November 8, 1828
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— Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: July 19, 1879 — Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa |
Descendants of Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
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Generation 1
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, president of the Orange Free State (from August 27, 1855 to September 6, 1859), was born on January 31, 1808 and died on April 21, 1881 at the age of 73.
He married Adriana Petronella Gertruida van Aswegen on November 3, 1827 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Children of Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff and Adriana Petronella Gertruida van Aswegen:
- Margaretha Louisa Boshoff (1828–1879)
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Generation 2 back to top
Margaretha Louisa Boshoff, daughter of Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff and Adriana Petronella Gertruida van Aswegen, was born on November 8, 1828 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on July 19, 1879 in Beverley, Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa at the age of 50.
She married Francois Jacobus Joubert, son of Gideon Daniel Joubert and Aletta Sophia Venter, on April 22, 1847 in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was born on December 29, 1827 and died on August 8, 1906 in Beverley, Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa at the age of 78.
Children of Margaretha Louisa Boshoff and Francois Jacobus Joubert:
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Pieter Johannes Venter Joubert, son of Francois Jacobus Joubert and Margaretha Louisa Boshoff, was born on June 29, 1870 in Dist. Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa and died on October 8, 1948 in Doornlaagte, Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa at the age of 78.
He married 2 times. The first time he married Anna Cecilia Brits, daughter of Jan Johannes Rudolf Brits and Dina Carolina Botha,. She was born calculated November 16, 1872 in Boshof, Free State, South Africa and died on July 14, 1901 in Refugee camp, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.
The second time he married Magdalena Cecilia Johanna Brits, daughter of Gert Roelof Brits and Maria Jacoba Meybürgh, on May 7, 1907 in Dealesville, Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa. She was born calculated February 1874 in Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa and died on November 23, 1942 in Doornlaagte, Dist. Boshof, Free State, South Africa.
Children of Pieter Johannes Venter Joubert and Anna Cecilia Brits:
- Dina Carolina Joubert (1892–)
- Francois Jacobus Joubert (1895–)
- Jan Johannes Joubert (1897–)
Ancestors of Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
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Generation 1
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, president of the Orange Free State (from August 27, 1855 to September 6, 1859), was born on January 31, 1808 and died on April 21, 1881 at the age of 73.
