Maria Elizabeth …
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- Maria Elizabeth //
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- Maria Elizabeth
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- Maria Elizabeth /Dippenaar/
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Citation details: Death notice: Anna Susanna DIPPENAAR (1904), MOOC 6/9/513 #3525, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-7S1K-3?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SCK%3A1598082349 : 27 April 2020), 007844462 > image 134 of 2224; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 May 2020 |
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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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Marriage of a daughter
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Citation details: Death notice: Gerrit VAN NIEKERK (1929), TAB MHG 70068, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9P-SS5C-W?cc=2520237&wc=Q6VB-BGL%3A1590242704 : 14 February 2019), 007808634 > image 631 of 2117; Pietermaritzburg Archives (formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 May 2020 Citation details: Death notice: Daniel Jacobus VAN NIEKERK, snr (1900), MOOC 6/9/410 #3179, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-73J8-W?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8B%3A1598092306 : 28 September 2018), 007844974 > image 1925 of 2141; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 May 2020 Citation details: van Niekerk, p263, b6c4d4e6. |
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Birth of a grandson
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Citation details: Death notice: Gerrit VAN NIEKERK (1929), TAB MHG 70068, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9P-SS5C-W?cc=2520237&wc=Q6VB-BGL%3A1590242704 : 14 February 2019), 007808634 > image 631 of 2117; Pietermaritzburg Archives (formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 May 2020 |
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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 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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Marriage of a grandson
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Citation details: Death notice: Gerrit VAN NIEKERK (1929), TAB MHG 70068, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9P-SS5C-W?cc=2520237&wc=Q6VB-BGL%3A1590242704 : 14 February 2019), 007808634 > image 631 of 2117; Pietermaritzburg Archives (formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 May 2020 |
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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: 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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Epidemic
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Source citation: Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg. |
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Death of a daughter
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Citation details: Death notice: Anna Susanna DIPPENAAR (1904), MOOC 6/9/513 #3525, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-7S1K-3?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-SCK%3A1598082349 : 27 April 2020), 007844462 > image 134 of 2224; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 3 May 2020 |
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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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1821–1904
Birth: calculated January 1821
— Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death: December 9, 1904 — Dist. Aberdeen, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Descendants of Maria Elizabeth …
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Generation 1
She married Johannes Mattheus Dippenaar.
Children of Maria Elizabeth … and Johannes Mattheus Dippenaar:
- Anna Susanna Dippenaar (1821–1904)
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Generation 2 back to top
Anna Susanna Dippenaar, daughter of Johannes Mattheus Dippenaar and Maria Elizabeth …, was born calculated January 1821 in Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on December 9, 1904 in Hartebeesthoek, Dist. Aberdeen, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
She married Daniel Jacobus van Niekerk senior, son of Gerrit
Gert
van Niekerk and Maria Magdalena Roberts, on April 3, 1838 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was born on March 29, 1816 in Dist. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on August 7, 1900 in Poortje, Dist. Aberdeen, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 84.Children of Anna Susanna Dippenaar and Daniel Jacobus van Niekerk senior:
- Gerrit van Niekerk (1841–1929)
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Generation 3 back to top
Gerrit van Niekerk, son of Daniel Jacobus van Niekerk senior and Anna Susanna Dippenaar, was born calculated February 1841 in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on July 19, 1929 in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
He married 2 times. The first time he married Anna Magdalena Cloete (fifth cousin), daughter of Daniel Francois Cloete and Hester Aletta Burger,. She was born on July 18, 1848 and died on March 20, 1882 in Niekerksvley, Dist. Standerton, Mpumalanga, South Africa at the age of 33.
The second time he married Theunsina Hendrika Potgieter after 1882 in Standerton, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Children of Gerrit van Niekerk and Anna Magdalena Cloete:
Ancestors of Maria Elizabeth …
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Generation 1
