Abraham Pelzer
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- Abraham /Pelzer/
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Citation details: Viljoen, p310, b3c4d10. |
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Source citation: Note: Bartolomeu Dias (or Bartholomew Dias) a Portuguese navigator sailed south along the coast of Southern Africa as far as the Orange River, was blown out to sea and made landfall at Mossel Bay and Algoa Bay. He erects the first padrão (stone cross) on the South African coast. At the Fish River his men refused to go any further. He returns sailing round the Cape of Good Hope, named by either Dias or his patron, King John II of Portugal for the “great hope it gave of discovering the Indies”. |
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Source citation: Note: Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape on the way to India. A Portuguese navigator, he sighted land at St. Helena Bay, doubled the Cape, passed up the coast of Natal at Christmas time and named it Natal, and reached Arab Mozambique. He had discovered a route to India. His patron was the successor to John II, Manuel the Fortunate. |
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Source citation: Note: An English admiral, Sir Francis Drake, rounded the Cape on his voyage round the world. He called it “a most stately thing and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth”. |
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Source citation: Note: The Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) or better known as the Dutch East India Company is established in the Netherlands. |
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Source citation: Note: Jan van Riebeeck arrives at the Cape in the Drommedaris and sets up a supply station and fortifications for the Dutch East India Company. |
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Source citation: Note: The first nine men received grants of land along the Liesbeeck River (now Rondebosch). |
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Source citation: Note: Jan van Riebeeck leaves the Cape on promotion to a position on the Council of Justice in Batavia. |
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Source citation: Note: J. van Arkel is appointed the first minister. |
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Source citation: Note: French Huguenot refugees arrive after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Simon van der Stel, the Governor of the Cape Colony settles the Huguenot refugees in the present day Drakenstein, Franschhoek and Wellington areas which were beyond the Cape Colony and belonged to the Khoikhoi people. |
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Source citation: Note: Smallpox epidemic breaks out at the Cape Colony. |
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Source citation: Note: A population count in the Cape shows that there were 5,510 Europeans and 6,279 slaves in the Cape Colony. |
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Source citation: Note: Smallpox epidemic breaks out at Cape Colony. A total of 2,372 people die. |
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Citation details: Viljoen, p310, b3c4d10. |
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Source citation: Note: French troops arrive at the Cape Colony to guard it against the English. |
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Citation details: Viljoen, p310, b3c4d10e1. |
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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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Source citation: Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza. |
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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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Source citation: 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. |
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Source citation: Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town. |
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Source citation: Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg. |
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Source citation: Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa. |
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Source citation: Note: Union of South Africa established. |
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Source citation: Note: Smallpox outbreaks: The outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg and cases of smallpox are discovered in Durban. |
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Source citation: Note: An estimated 500,000 people die from the Spanish flu epidemic in South Africa, the fifth hardest hit country in the world. |
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Source citation: Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century. |
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Source citation: Note: Decimalisation of currency replaces the South African pound with the South African rand. |
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Source citation: Note: South Africa becomes a republic. |
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Descendants of Abraham Pelzer
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Generation 1
He married Engela Zaaiman.
Children of Abraham Pelzer and Engela Zaaiman:
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Generation 2 back to top
Barbara Jacomina Pelzer, daughter of Abraham Pelzer and Engela Zaaiman.
She married Johannes Hercules Viljoen, son of Henning Viljoen and Susanna Durand, on May 30, 1779 in Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa. He was baptized on April 29, 1753.
Children of Barbara Jacomina Pelzer and Johannes Hercules Viljoen:
- Henning Johannes Viljoen (1780–)
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Henning Johannes Viljoen, son of Johannes Hercules Viljoen and Barbara Jacomina Pelzer, was baptized on December 21, 1780 in Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa.
He married Anna Jacoba Griesel, daughter of Abraham Jacobus Griesel and Anna Maria Botma, in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She died on April 25, 1825.
Children of Henning Johannes Viljoen and Anna Jacoba Griesel:
Ancestors of Abraham Pelzer
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