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Death notice of Cecilia Maria Theron, born du Plessis, died 10 April 1895 - KAB MOOC 6/9/340 ref 1007

death notice · an original record · consulted 2026-08-22

Type
death notice
Repository
KAB (Western Cape Archives and Records Service), Master of the Orphan Chamber / High Court (MOOC), death notices series 6/9
Reference
DEPOT KAB, SOURCE MOOC, VOLUME_NO 6/9/340, REFERENCE 1007. BEGIN DATE 1895, END DATE 1895.
Consulted
2026-08-22

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*** FOUND 22 AUG 2026, ONE DAY AFTER LEAD-0267 NAMED IT AS THE DOCUMENT THAT WOULD ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS AT ONCE. *** Searched NAAIRS, database KAB, query (THERON) AND (CECILIA) = 38 documents; this is one of them. | DESCRIPTION exactly as the index gives it: 'THERON, CECILIA MARIA. NEE DU PLESSIS. DEATH NOTICE.' | FOUR ELEMENTS MATCH AND NONE OF THEM IS THE NAME ALONE, which 9 forbids: surname THERON, her married name; given names CECILIA MARIA; NEE DU PLESSIS, which is what the headstone's 'GEBOREN DU P[LESSIS]' reads (SRC-541); and the year 1895. That is the same set of four that identified the stone, arrived at from a different archive. PER-001346. | READ FROM THE RESULT SUMMARY TABLE, NOT THE ITEM VIEW - the source, volume and reference are what the page itself says are needed to order a copy, and they are complete. The item view would add only the depot, which the database already fixes as KAB. | STILL AN INDEX AND NOT THE DOCUMENT. What is established is that this record EXISTS and how to order it. A Cape death notice of 1895 names the deceased's parents, the surviving spouse, the children, the place and date of death and often the farm - so it should close LEAD-0267 (her parentage, and whether the du Plessis who held Rondabel as a loan farm before 1818 is any relation), settle the death day the stone leaves ambiguous between 10 and 19 April, and state where she died. | A NAMESAKE TRAP FROM THE SAME RESULT SET, recorded so nobody folds it in: MOOC 7/1/489 refs 523, 524 and 525 are the will and two inventories of 'SMIT, CECILIA JACOBA. WIFE OF PETRUS JACOBUS THERON', 1880 and 1887. A DIFFERENT WOMAN AND A DIFFERENT PETRUS JACOBUS THERON: ours (PER-000384, b.1854) was already married to Cecilia Maria by 1877, when their first recorded child was born. Also present and unrelated: MOOC 6/9/9 ref 1736, Cecilia Catharina Theron, death notice 1836. | *** [22 Aug 2026, THE SAME DAY] THE DOCUMENT ITSELF ARRIVED. *** TRANSCRIPTION, in full, gaps marked: Form of Information of a Death: Act No. 7 of 1894 / Vorm van Kennisgeving van een Sterfgeval: Wet No. 7 van 1894. | Name and Surname of deceased: CECILIA MARIA THERON. Sex: female. | Usual place of residence when alive: RONDAVEL, KLAARSTROOM. Age: 38 years. | Race or Nationality: European. Birthplace: CAPE COLONY. Conjugal Condition: Married. | Total Issue LIVING - Males: 1, aged 13 years [an earlier figure struck through]. Females: 8, aged 17, 15, 10, 8, 7, 6, 4 and 2 years. | Total Issue DECEASED - Males: 1, aged 7 months. Females: 1, aged 2 months. Stillborn: none. | Age of surviving spouse: 41 years. Rank, Profession or Occupation: Housewife. | Date of Death: TENTH APRIL 1895. Place where died: RONDAVEL, KLAARSTROOM, WARD KREDOUW. | Place of Burial: ON FARM RONDAVEL, WARD KREDOUW. Cause of Death: CONSUMPTION. Duration of last illness: five months. | Medical Practitioner who attended in last illness: DR STEVENSON, PRINCE ALBERT. | Signature of Informant: P J THERON. Description of Informant: HUSBAND OF DECEASED. Residence of Informant: RONDAVEL, KLAARSTROOM. | When Registered: TENTH MAY 1895. District of PRINCE ALBERT. Deputy Registrar: Geo T Anderson [reading of the surname uncertain]. No. of Entry: 37. | The lower DECLARATION panel is blank.

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