Anna Sophia van Heerden, 1797

Name
Anna Sophia /van Heerden/
Given names
Anna Sophia
Surname
van Heerden
Name
Anna Sophia /Pienaar/
Type of name
married name
Baptism
November 5, 1797 30 30 (aged 0 days)
Citation details: van Heerden, p237, b1c4d5e2.
Death of a maternal grandmother
Citation details: Pretorius, p424, b5c3d4.
War
French Revolution
from 1789 to 1799 (aged 1 year)
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Natural disaster
Drought
1809 (aged 11 years)
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Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region.
Marriage
Citation details: Death notice: Jacobus Johannes PIENAAR (1864), VAB MHG P67, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LW-PJ2P?i=2070&cc=3040532 : accessed 2 May 2020
Citation details: van Heerden, p237, b1c4d5e2.
War
Napoleonic Wars
from May 18, 1803 to November 20, 1815 (aged 18 years)
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Town founded
The settlement of Grahamstown is founded
1812 (aged 14 years)
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Town founded
Cradock is founded
August 27, 1818 (aged 20 years)
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Historical Event
British settlers
1820 (aged 22 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.
Economic Event
British sterling adopted
1825 (aged 27 years)
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Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling.
Historical Event
Great trek
1835 (aged 37 years)
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Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony.
Death of a sister
Citation details: Deel 2, p235, b4c1d11.
Town founded
Settlement of Victoria West is established
1844 (aged 46 years)
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Marriage of a son
Citation details: Joubert, p167, b8c1d6e1f7.
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BEF 1865

Citation details: Death notice: Adriana Petronella JOUBERT (1904), VAB MHG V1634, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99LW-J25Y?cc=3040532 : accessed 2 May 2020
Citation details: Death notice: Jacobus Johannes PIENAAR (1864), VAB MHG P67, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LW-PJ2P?i=2070&cc=3040532 : accessed 2 May 2020
Note: based on date of will
Epidemic
Influenza
from 1857 to 1859 (aged 61 years)
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Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza.
Death of a son
Text:

BEF 1865

Citation details: Joubert, p167, b8c1d6e1f7.
Citation details: Death notice: Jacobus Johannes PIENAAR (1864), VAB MHG P67, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89LW-PJ2P?i=2070&cc=3040532 : accessed 2 May 2020
War
American Civil War
from April 1861 to May 1865 (aged 67 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.
War
First Boer War
from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (aged 83 years)
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Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 103 years)
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Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town.
War
Second Boer War
from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (aged 104 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 104 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 104 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 67 years)
South Africa
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Economic Event
Diamonds discovered
1867 (aged 69 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.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
September 1873 (aged 75 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 83 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.
Economic Event
Gold discovered
1886 (aged 88 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
Pneumonic plague
February 1904 (aged 106 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 108 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 112 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Epidemic
Smallpox
1912 (aged 114 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 121 years)
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Prime minister
Louis Botha
from May 31, 1910 to August 27, 1919 (aged 121 years)
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Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage Marriage1795
3 years
herself
3 years
sister
18001838
Baptism: October 4, 1800 33 33
Death: June 17, 1838Dist. Murraysburg, Western Cape, South Africa
Family with Jacobus Johannes Pienaar
husband
herself
Marriage MarriageJuly 12, 1812Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
13 years
son
18251864
Birth: calculated September 1825 27 Dist. Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa
Death: October 10, 1864Dist. Bethulie, Free State, South Africa

Descendants of Anna Sophia van Heerden

  1. Generation 1
    1. Anna Sophia van Heerden, daughter of Willem Aaron van Heerden and Maartje van Heerden, was baptized on November 5, 1797.

      She married Jacobus Johannes Pienaar on July 12, 1812 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

      Children of Anna Sophia van Heerden and Jacobus Johannes Pienaar:

      1. Jacobus Johannes Pienaar (18251864)
  2. Generation 2 back to top
    1. Jacobus Johannes Pienaar, son of Jacobus Johannes Pienaar and Anna Sophia van Heerden, was born calculated September 1825 in Dist. Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa and died on October 10, 1864 in Sterkfontein, Dist. Bethulie, Free State, South Africa.

      He married Adriana Petronella Joubert, daughter of Petrus Jacobus Joubert and Elizabeth Geertruyda van Aswegen, about 1852 in Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa. She was born on September 4, 1827 in Knoppiesfontein, Dist. Bethulie, Free State, South Africa and died on April 25, 1904 in Strydpoort, Dist. Bethulie, Free State, South Africa at the age of 76.

Ancestors of Anna Sophia van Heerden

  1. Generation 1
    1. Anna Sophia van Heerden, daughter of Willem Aaron van Heerden and Maartje van Heerden, was baptized on November 5, 1797.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
      2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Willem Aaron van Heerden, son of Hendrik van Heerden and Anna Sophia van der Merwe, was baptized on December 25, 1766.

    2. Maartje van Heerden, daughter of Roelof van Heerden and Martha Sophia Pretorius, was baptized on April 19, 1767.

  3. Generation 3 back to top
      4 of 4 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Hendrik van Heerden, son of Willem van Heerden and Martha van der Merwe, was baptized on January 22, 1736.

    2. Anna Sophia van der Merwe, daughter of Hendrik van der Merwe and Hester Pienaar, was baptized on September 30, 1741 and died in 1770 at the age of 28.

    3. Roelof van Heerden, son of Willem van Heerden and Martha van der Merwe, was born in 1744 and died in 1791 at the age of 47.

    4. Martha Sophia Pretorius, daughter of Johannes Lodewicus Pretorius and Anna Sophia Botha, was baptized on December 3, 1747 in Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa and died in 1798 in Loeriesfontein, Dist. Camdeboo, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 50.

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