Johanna Aletta Benade, 1809

Name
Johanna Aletta /Benade/
Given names
Johanna Aletta
Surname
Benade
Name
Johanna Aletta /Pretorius/
Type of name
married name
Birth
about 1809
Citation details: Pretorius, p415, b3c9d5e4.
War
Napoleonic Wars
from May 18, 1803 to November 20, 1815 (aged 6 years)
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Natural disaster
Drought
1809 (aged 0)
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Note: A severe drought occurs in the eastern frontier region.
Town founded
The settlement of Grahamstown is founded
1812 (aged 3 years)
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Town founded
Cradock is founded
August 27, 1818 (aged 9 years)
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Historical Event
British settlers
1820 (aged 11 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 16 years)
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Note: Rix dollar (Dutch: Rijsksdaalder) is converted into the British sterling.
Marriage
Citation details: Death notice: Sophia Adriana PRETORIUS (1924), MOOC 6/9/2571 #3474, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91S-W9H4-D?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-9LJ%3A1598032486 : 11 October 2018), 007733402 > image 530 of 667; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 May 2020
Citation details: Pretorius, p415, b3c9d5e4.
Historical Event
Great trek
1835 (aged 26 years)
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Note: Voortrekkers start leaving the Cape Colony.
Town founded
Settlement of Victoria West is established
1844 (aged 35 years)
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Birth of a granddaughter
Citation details: Death notice: Johanna Aletta JOUBERT (1941), MOOC 6/9/7631 #73700, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91W-G9S4-Q?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SMG%3A1598062406 : 28 September 2018), 007736466 > image 28 of 1559; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 1 May 2020
Epidemic
Influenza
from 1857 to 1859 (aged 50 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 56 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.
Marriage of a granddaughter
Citation details: Death notice: Alexander Mathewson VILJOEN (1933), MOOC 6/9/4271 #37888, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-N9C1-9?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SMR%3A1598062359 : 12 June 2018), 007736434 > image 622 of 1384; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 1 May 2020
Citation details: Death notice: Francois Nicolaas VILJOEN (1934), MOOC 6/9/4424 #41350, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91W-XWJD?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SMY%3A1598062368 : 27 April 2020), 007736443 > image 96 of 1439; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 1 May 2020
Citation details: Death notice: Johanna Aletta JOUBERT (1941), MOOC 6/9/7631 #73700, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91W-G9S4-Q?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SMG%3A1598062406 : 28 September 2018), 007736466 > image 28 of 1559; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 1 May 2020
Citation details: Viljoen, p322, b3c4d12e6f6g2.
War
First Boer War
from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (aged 72 years)
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Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 92 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 93 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
from 1852 to 1902 (aged 93 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 93 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 56 years)
South Africa
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Economic Event
Diamonds discovered
1867 (aged 58 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 64 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 72 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 77 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 95 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 97 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 101 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Epidemic
Smallpox
1912 (aged 103 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 109 years)
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Epidemic
Spanish flu
1918 (aged 109 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 110 years)
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Death of a daughter
Citation details: Death notice: Sophia Adriana PRETORIUS (1924), MOOC 6/9/2571 #3474, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91S-W9H4-D?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-9LJ%3A1598032486 : 11 October 2018), 007733402 > image 530 of 667; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 2 May 2020
Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 3, 1919 to June 30, 1924 (aged 115 years)
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Prime minister
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
from June 30, 1924 to September 5, 1939 (aged 130 years)
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Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage Marriage
herself
Family with Jan Christoffel Pretorius
husband
1798
Baptism: September 30, 1798 31 22 Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
herself
Marriage MarriageJuly 3, 1826Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
9 years
daughter
18351924
Birth: April 23, 1835 36 26
Death: January 5, 1924Venterstad, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Descendants of Johanna Aletta Benade

  1. Generation 1
    1. Johanna Aletta Benade, daughter of Dirk Christoffel Benade and Martha Wilhelmina Venter, was born about 1809.

      She married Jan Christoffel Pretorius, son of Jan Lodewyk Pretorius and Elsie Rachel van den Berg, on July 3, 1826 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was baptized on September 30, 1798 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

      Children of Johanna Aletta Benade and Jan Christoffel Pretorius:

      1. Sophia Adriana Pretorius (18351924)
  2. Generation 2 back to top
    1. Sophia Adriana Pretorius, daughter of Jan Christoffel Pretorius and Johanna Aletta Benade, was born on April 23, 1835 and died on January 5, 1924 in Venterstad, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 88.

      She married Francois Nicolaas Joubert (fourth cousin), son of Petrus Jacobus Joubert and Elizabeth Geertruyda van Aswegen,. He was born on February 4, 1835 in Dist. Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa and died on August 10, 1903 in Venterstad, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 68.

      Children of Sophia Adriana Pretorius and Francois Nicolaas Joubert:

      1. Johanna Aletta Joubert (18571941)
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    1. Johanna Aletta Joubert, daughter of Francois Nicolaas Joubert and Sophia Adriana Pretorius, was born calculated November 1857 in Dist. Bethulie, Free State, South Africa and died on May 13, 1941 in Venterstad, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

      She married Francois Nicolaas Viljoen (second cousin), son of Francois Jacobus Viljoen and Jacoba Aletta Joubert, on April 8, 1875 in Bethulie, Free State, South Africa. He was born on September 26, 1850 in Venterstad, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on April 11, 1934 in Venterstad, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 83.

      Children of Johanna Aletta Joubert and Francois Nicolaas Viljoen:

      1. Alexander Mathewson Viljoen (18851933)

Ancestors of Johanna Aletta Benade

  1. Generation 1
    1. Johanna Aletta Benade, daughter of Dirk Christoffel Benade and Martha Wilhelmina Venter, was born about 1809.

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