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Source SRC-305

Death Notice of Jan Willem Storm, cattle farmer, died 14 September 1862; filed 7 October 1862

death notice (original scan) · consulted 2026-08-07

Type
death notice (original scan)
Repository
[TO VERIFY] Master of the Orphan Chamber, Cape; the image is captioned 'Probate Records 1861-1862, 1863'
Reference
notice numbered 9887, filed 7 October 1862
Consulted
2026-08-07

The citation as it was given

THE ENTRIES, in English on a printed English form: 1 name JAN WILLEM STORM. 2 birth place IN THIS COLONY. 3 parents HENDRIK WILLEM STORM & MAGDALENA BOTES. 4 age THREE AND TWENTY YEARS. 5 condition in life CATTLE FARMER. 6 married to JOHANNA DE KOKER. 7 day of decease 14TH OF SEPTEMBER 1862. 8 died AT THE RESIDENCE OF D. DE KOKER. 9 children: 'by a former marriage, ROELOFF JACOBUS STORM, minor'. 10 property '1 wagon complete, 10 horses, 75 sheep'; HAS LEFT A WILL. Signed W.J.S. STORM. THE SECOND PRIMARY DOCUMENT NAMING THE SAME PARENTS. With SRC-304, the 1879 notice of his brother Hendrik Jacobus, this makes two independent death notices giving HENDRIK WILLEM STORM and MAGDALENA BOTES as the parents. The Storm family of this district is no longer held together by a compiled tree; it is held together by two death notices. AGE 23 IN SEPTEMBER 1862 gives a birth in 1839, and FamilySearch has Jan Willem Storm as 1839-1862 (L5BC-TRK), the youngest of the seven children. IT REFINES THE MIGRATION. His brother died in the ORANGE FREE STATE in 1879; this man died IN THIS COLONY in 1862. So the family had not all gone by 1862, and the move north falls between these two notices. That narrows a gap this project had been treating as 'after 1855'. THE SIGNATURE IS A THIRD BROTHER: W.J.S. Storm is Willem Johannes Stephanus Storm (1827-1907), fourth of the seven. A brother reporting a brother's death. TWO SMALLER THINGS. 'BY A FORMER MARRIAGE' - at twenty-three he had already been married once and had a son, ROELOFF JACOBUS STORM, a minor in 1862. And the estate is a wagon, ten horses and seventy-five sheep, which is what a young cattle farmer of this district owned. DE KOKER is a new surname here. He married Johanna de Koker and died at the residence of D. de Koker, presumably her father's. [TO VERIFY] the archive reference.

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