Samuel de Beer (b.1762)
before 1762-11-02 – ? · de Beer line
Connection to the Koup
Lived on Kweekvallei in this district (1812/1814).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Samuel
- Given
- Samuel
- Surname
- de Beer
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
- Zacharias de Beer (b.1719)
- Mother
- Dina Margaretha van Dyk
- Brothers and sisters
- Married
- Anna Eleonora de Villiers 28 December 1783
- Children
- Matthys Andries de Beer (b.1799)
A life in the record
- before 1762-11-02 born Born
- 28 December 1783 married Married Anna Eleonora de Villiers
- 1812–1814 land Lived on it, Kweekvallei
Ground they are on record on
- Kweekvallei lived on it · 1812–1814
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-656, De Villiers, Geslacht-register I, de BEER, 22 Sep 2026] Baptised 2 November 1762, son of Zacharias de BeerM (PER-000273) by his third wife Dina Margaretha van Dijk (PER-000688); burgher of Drakenstein; married 28 December 1783 Anna Eleonora de VilliersH (PER-002080). De Villiers lists fourteen children, among them Zacharias Johannes (1786), Sijbrand Abraham (1797), MATTHIJS ANDRIES (baptised 28 June 1799, PER-000274) and Debora Johanna (1803).
THE FIELD CORNET OF KWEEK VALLEY. A government commission travelling from the Draay towards the Karoo, reported in Records of the Cape Colony vol. IX (October 1812 - April 1814) p. 85 (SRC-662), reached 'that of the field cornet Samuel de BeerH, called the Kweek Valley'. This is very probably this Samuel, the son of the 1762 loan-farm holder Zacharias, which makes the de Beer hold on Kweekvallei (PAR-000048) continuous from 1762 into the 1810s [TO VERIFY: identity rests on name, date and place; another Samuel de BeerH, husband of Anna Elisabeth van Jaarsveld, was dead by 1804]. FamilySearch id not yet found.
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