Zacharias de Beer (b.1719)
1719-03-05/ – 6 February 1777 · de Beer line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Zacharias and Dina de Beer take Queeckvalleij (1762).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Zacharias
- Given
- Zacharias
- Surname
- de Beer
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Immediate family
- Married
- Dina Margaretha van Dyk 30 November 1760, Anna Pretorius 12 May 1743
- Children
A life in the record
- 1719-03-05/ born Born
- 12 May 1743 married Married Anna Pretorius
- 30 November 1760 married Married Dina Margaretha van Dyk
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1762
event
Zacharias and Dina de Beer take Queeckvalleij
The loan farm in the Koup that eighty-three years later became the village of Prince Albert. The de Beers are the first of the families in this history onto this ground - and they were TULBAGH people, as the Oosthuizens were. Whether the two families knew each other in the Land van Waveren before ei
- 6 February 1777 died Died
Stories
What we don't know
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- Founding dates and extent of the Cape districts and NG congregations relevant to this history webgemeentegeskiedenis.co.za (NG Gemeente Beaufort-Wes); sahistory.org.za; karoo-southafrica.com
Research notes
Baptised Stellenbosch before 5 Mar 1719, DIED AT TULBAGH 6 Feb 1777. Almost certainly the Zacharias de BeerH who with his wife Dina took the loan farm QUEECKVALLEIJ in the Koup in 1762 - the farm the town of Prince Albert was later laid out on (PAR-000048). [TO VERIFY] If so, this is the first of our families onto that ground, eighty years before anyone else in this history. AND HE WAS A TULBAGH MAN, like the Oosthuizens who married there in 1749.
[3 Aug 2026] THE DE BEERS ARE THE EARLIEST THREAD IN THIS WHOLE PROJECT, and the 1833 Wintervelt register page shows what they had become by the fourth generation. On one page, one Sunday, a de Beer baptises a child by a Horn; a Matthys Jacobus de Beer baptises a child by a JOHANNA CATHARINA JOACHEMINA VENTER; and Barend Petrus, Jan Adriaan and Catharina Joachemina de Beer stand as witnesses. Add the field cornetcy "of Mr De Beer" over the Koup in 1833-34, the 1851 marriage into the Oosthuizens, the 1849 marriage into the Mienies, and OKKER ALMERO DE BEER carrying the Venetian name - and the family that took Queeckvalleij in 1762 is connected by marriage to almost every line this project follows. [TO VERIFY on the individual links]
[17 Aug 2026] THE TULBAGH OVERLAP, MEASURED. He died at Tulbagh in February 1777 and his children by Dina Margaretha van DykH were born in the LAND VAN WAVEREN in 1766 and 1777 - so the family held Kweekvallei in the Koup from 1762 while still living and baptising at Tulbagh. The Oosthuizens were in the same district across the same years: Jacobus and Dina Carolina BritzM married at Tulbagh on 10 April 1749 and had children there into the 1760s. No shared occasion between the two families has been found at Tulbagh, and none is claimed. See LEAD-0216. [TO VERIFY]
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Open questions
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Was Hilletje Elizabeth de Beer, who married an Oosthuizen about 1807, of the Kweekvallei de Beers?
priority 2 · LEAD-0217
Jacobus Johannes Ockert Oosthuizen (b.1789, d. 16 Feb 1874), son of Marthinus of Tulbagh and a first cousin of the brothers who took up ground in the Koup, married Hilletje Elizabeth de Beer (b. about May 1788, d. 12 Dec 1873) around 1807. Was she of the de Beer family that had held Kweekvallei in the Koup since 1762? If she was, this marriage is a channel by which an Oosthuizen household could have learnt what ground was open behind the Swartberg.
What would settle it A document naming Hilletje Elizabeth de Beer's father.
Elders
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