Huibrecht Cloete
16 June 1763 – 20 March 1837
Names
- Surname
- Cloete
The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.
Immediate family
- Father
- Jacob Cloete
- Mother
- Johanna Kruger
- Married
- Stephanus Botma (1762-1830) 3 November 1782
- Children
- Lodewyk Bothma
A life in the record
- 16 June 1763 born Born
- 3 November 1782 married Married Stephanus Botma (1762-1830)
- 20 March 1837 died Died
What we don't know
- 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.
Research notes
[SRC-597] Married Stephanus BotmaH at Cape Town on 3 November 1782 and bore thirteen children, of whom Lodewyk (PER-000037) took Spreeufontein.
[SRC-600] Named with her husband at the Tulbagh font in 1794 for their daughter Christina; the witnesses are her own people, Jacob CloeteM and Johanna Hendrina Cloete.
*** [SRC-601] HER OWN DEATH NOTICE, no. 2156, filed 19 May 1837. *** Born 16 June 1763 in the KLYN ROGGEVELD, daughter of JACOB CLOETE (PER-001941) and JOHANNA KRUGER (PER-001942), a farmer's wife, and she died on 20 MARCH 1837 at her son Jacob's place HARTEBEESTFONTEIN in the MIDDEL ROGGEVELD. FamilySearch MQL7-XBF gives 28 March; the notice is the original and is followed here. Eleven heirs are named, two of them daughters already dead and represented by their children. Her father is the JACOB CLOETE who stood witness at her daughter Christina's Tulbagh baptism in 1794 (SRC-600).
[SRC-603] At the Tulbagh font again in December 1802, for her son Lodewyk, where the clerk writes her HUIJBREG KLOETE.
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