From Modder Fonteyn to the Koup, 1809-1841

On 23 April 1809 a clerk writes down room by room what is in the house at de Modder Fonteyn, down to the forge in the winkel. Eleven children are named, the eldest buys the farm for a thousand rixdollars, and the other ten had to find ground elsewhere

A clerk from the Orphan Chamber rode out to de Modder Fonteyn on the Olifants River on 23 April 1809 and wrote down what was in the house, room by room, including a complete forge in a room called the winkel. The owner had died intestate and his wife before him. Eleven children are named with their ages, and the seven youngest were placed with their eldest brother, aged twenty-five, who had promised to raise and school them. He bought the farm for a thousand rixdollars; the other ten had to find ground elsewhere. Twenty-five years later Oosthuizen households held two of three adjoining farms along the north foot of the Swartberg; the middle one was a du Preez's.

Everything on this site begins in a house on a river called the Olifants, and it begins because the man who owned that house died without leaving a will.

On 23 April 1809 a clerk from the Orphan Chamber rode out to a place called de Modder Fonteyn, gelegen aan d'Olifants rivier, and wrote down what was in it. He went through the house room by room, out to the yard, and then counted the stock. What he produced is MOOC8/28.63, and it is the oldest room-by-room description of how any of these people actually lived.

It also names eleven children with their ages, and says what was to become of the seven who were still minors. Within about twenty-five years, three of those children were holding farms within sight of one another on the far side of the Karoo.

The household

Ocker Oosthuijsen was baptised in 1755, the son of Jacobus Oosthuizen and Dina Carolina Britz, who had married at Tulbagh on 10 April 1749. On 26 January 1783 he married Susanna Catharina van Tonder at Swellendam.

Every record of him read so far calls him Ocker or Ockert, and nothing more. The baptism of his eldest son enters him as "Vader Ocker Oosthuijsen"; his own estate calls him Ockert Oosthuijzen throughout. The Jacobus that turns up in his name two generations later is almost certainly not a second given name at all but the old way of saying which Ocker was meant: Jacobus's son. not yet verified

The eldest boy was Jacobus Johannes, and his baptism entry is worth reading for the witnesses alone:

't Kint Jacobus Johannes — 4 Maij. Vader Ocker Oosthuijsen. Moeder Susanna Catharina Van Tonderen. Get: Jacobus Oosthuijsen, en Dina Carolina Britz, Johannes Jacobus Oosthuysen, en Johanna Jonker. [SRC-455]

The grandparents themselves stood at the font, with the child's uncle beside them. This is a family still living close enough together to fill a baptism from one household.

More children followed, and eleven of them were still alive when their parents died. The household was at de Modder Fonteyn, gelegen aan d'Olifants rivier in the words of the estate papers.

Which Olifants is not settled, and the two answers lie six hundred kilometres apart. The family knows the place as the Modder Fonteyn at what is now Citrusdal, on the Boland river of that name, where a building on the property still stands [FAMILY], and the Surveyor-General's cadastre puts a farm called Modderfontein four kilometres from that town. But a second Olifants rises in this district. The Traka north of the Swartberg is one of its heads, and the river runs west past Oudtshoorn to join the Gouritz; a printed map of the 1830s letters that whole valley GEORGE. [SRC-462] And in 1816 these brothers were enrolled as households in the George district, on a page whose facing side lists a holding written Modder fontyn. [SRC-459]

The estate papers name no district. They do name the three men who took the inventory, and that turns out to be the same thing. Ten mynen overstaan: A:A: Faure — and three weeks later, in another estate of the same series, he is written down as den landdrost te Zwellendam de heer A:A: Faure. [SRC-549] A landdrost's authority was territorial: the farm he sat over stood in his district. Citrusdal did not. It lay in Tulbagh, and from 1808 in the new district of Clanwilliam, across two other magistracies.

The two witnesses carry the rest of it. Den clercq Johannes Dorotheus Camijn and den eerste gerechtsboden Hendrik van As junior were the Swellendam drostdy's own clerk and first messenger: at an estate taken on a farm written onder 't district van Zwellendam, the same party appears with the secretary J. H. Frouenfelder countersigning. [SRC-549] The men standing beside Faure were his own staff, not commissioners sent out from the Orphan Chamber at the Cape.

The southern Olifants did lie in Swellendam — until 23 April 1811, when George was proclaimed a separate district because the Swellendam magistracy had grown too large, taking in what are now Mossel Bay, Calitzdorp, Oudtshoorn, Uniondale and Knysna. Which is why the same households stand in the George roll of 1816 without having moved. The district came to them.

Three other records point the same way. Ockert married at Swellendam in 1783, his son Ockert Almero married at Swellendam in 1807, and the death notice of 1867 gives Jacobus Johannes's birth in 1784 as the Division of Swellendam. [SRC-451]

And the same three men had been at the Cango four days earlier. On 19 April 1809 they took the estate of Helena Dorothea Schoeman at d' Oude Muragie, at the end of the Cango, closing on a formula word for word the same as this one. [SRC-549] From there to the southern Olifants at De Rust is about 32 km, one day with a wagon. From there to Citrusdal is about 312 km in a straight line, over the Langeberg and through two other magistracies. A landdrost's circuit did not cross the Colony and come back between the 19th and the 23rd.

So the family's own answer is wrong, as far as the records gathered here go. What is still open is not the district but the ground. not yet verified

The house, room by room

The clerk's walk through the house is the closest thing here to standing in the doorway.

The voorhuis, the front room, held three chairs, a rustbank, three benches, three tables and three candlesticks. On a shelf: two copper kettles, two pewter teapots, a copper brazier, six pewter plates, two pewter bowls, a little pewter salt cellar, twelve steel forks and twenty-two pewter spoons. Twenty-two spoons is a household that seats a lot of people.

There is also a coffee mill, a flat iron, a mortar and pestle, a tobacco knife, an iron balance with copper pans, and een zilvere horlogie, a silver watch, which is the one thing in the inventory that is there because somebody wanted it rather than needed it.

The right-hand room had four bedsteads, an old cupboard and a bed met zijn toebehoren. The left-hand room held four empty chests. The combuis, the kitchen, had six iron pots, a sauce pot, a grid, three pans, two pot-spoons and a meat fork. Between the rooms are the things a working farm turns out every week: two butter vats, two small ones, a churn, a drip-tub, a flour sieve.

Nobody enslaved is listed. Two of the three Tarka inventories from this family open with the names of enslaved people, and his own father's estate of 1802 did. This one names none, and whether that means the household held none or that none survived to be inventoried is not established. not yet verified

The winkel

Then the clerk reaches a room he calls de winkel, and the house changes character.

Een oude blaasbalk · een ballast yzer · twee voorhamers · een handhamer · een tang · een schroef

A bellows, a ballast iron, two sledgehammers, a hand hammer, tongs and a vice. That is a complete forge, in the house, on a stock farm.

Out on the werf stand an ox-wagon, twelve pieces of timber, four yellowwood planks, eenige stukken wagemakershout, wagonmaker's wood, and een chais, DEFECT, a broken chaise. A damaged carriage standing in a yard that has a forge and a stock of wagon timber is a job somebody was part of the way through when the owner died.

No document ever calls this man a smith. The trade is read off the tools, the timber and the name of the room, which is an inference. not yet verified But it changes what kind of household this was. A forge is fixed capital. It wants charcoal, water and a reason to stay, and it makes its owner the man a district comes to for a wagon tyre, a ploughshare or a hinge. It is also a skill that packs, and the sons who took up ground in the Koup a generation later carried more than sheep with them.

The stock, at the end of the list, is modest and points where the century was going: an old riding horse, eight oxen, five breeding cattle, forty-eight goats, and two hundred sheep.

April 1809

Ockert died ab intestato, and his wife was already dead. The inventory says so in four words that do a great deal of work: the arrangements below were made bij 't afsterven van zijne ouders, at the death of his parents, plural. These children were orphans outright.

Eleven heirs are named with their ages.

Against the last seven of them the clerk drew a single bracket and wrote one line: alle woonachtig bij denzelver broeder Jacobus Joh:s Oosthuijsen. All living with their brother Jacobus Johannes.

Then he set down why:

De laatstgem: zeven onmondige zijn op speciaal verzoek van Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen die bij 't afsterven van zijne ouders heeft belooft dezelve te zullen nazigneemen en doen onderwijzen tot dat zij hunne mondige jaren zullen hebben bereykt, besteed.

The seven minors were placed at his own request, because when his parents died he had promised to take them in and have them taught until they came of age.

He was twenty-five. He bought the farm out of the estate for a thousand rixdollars, and took on seven children, the youngest of them two years old. His brother Ockert Almoro, twenty-three and married eighteen months, gave the inventory with him, and the two of them signed it at the foot: Jacobus Johanes Oosthuysen, Ocker Almero Oosthuysen. The witnesses were the clerk Johannes Dorotheus Camijn and the first gerechtsbode Hendrik van As junior, before A. A. Faure.

Against the estate stood debts to a Cape secretary, two burgers, a widow and a young unmarried woman in Cape Town: about six hundred and sixty rixdollars owed on goods bought on account and money lent.

The farm went to one son

That is the whole trekboer mechanism in a single household, and it is arithmetic rather than temperament. A loan farm could not be divided. It went to one son, and the others took a share of the money and had to find ground.

Ten of them had to find it somewhere else.

The promise, kept in a tax roll

The seven minors were placed with the eldest brother at his own request, and a promise made in an inventory is easy to write and hard to check. This one can be checked.

Two years later the George opgaafrol of 1811 enrols the household on the Olifants River like this, one line after another:

JACOBUS JOHANNES OOSTHUIZ[EN] · ANNA MAGDALENA STRYDOM · 1|1|3|2 CORNELIS ANDRIES OOSTHUIZ[EN] · 1 GERRIT ADRIAAN OOSTHUIZ[EN] · 1

A married householder with his wife and children, and then two of his younger brothers entered beside him as single men in the same block. [SRC-522] By the roll of 1813 a third has appeared, Pieter Marthinus, in the same position. [SRC-523]

That is the undertaking of April 1809 still standing two and four years on, written by a tax clerk who had no interest in it whatsoever.

The same rolls settle something the estate papers leave open. They are George rolls, and by 1811 the ward has a name of its own: Veldkornetskap Oliphants Rivier. [SRC-525] Which Olifants this family lived on is answered by whose jurisdiction enrolled them, not by reading a river name off a page.

The family and its farms

Where they went

Where most of the eleven went is not known. Two of them can be followed, and they went the same way.

Ockert Almoro had married Adriana Cecilia Venter at Swellendam in October 1807, eighteen months before his father died. Seven years after the estate was settled his own son was born at Graaff-Reinet, and by 1821 he is on the Beaufort West tax roll.

His eldest brother Jacobus Johannes went to the same country and got there first, and it is the Graaff-Reinet baptism register that says so. [SRC-454] On 5 November 1818, at a visiting minister's stop aan onder Traca, Jacobus Johannes and his wife Anna Magdalena Strydom baptised a daughter, Anna Magdalena, born on 1 August. Among the witnesses is Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen, the brother who had been fifteen and living in his house nine years earlier.

Traka is the field cornetcy that the Vrolykheid survey diagram names fifteen years later. So two of the brothers who had shared a house on the Olifants River were standing at a font in the Koup by 1818, and Cornelis Andries is on Middelwater from about 1821 and stays there for forty years.

Stretch's season, 1833

In August 1833 the government surveyor C. Lennox Stretch worked his way through this district measuring loan farms that had been grazed for two generations without anybody holding paper on them. Three of the farms he drew that month lie in a row along the north foot of the Swartberg.

Middelwater, diagram 349/1833, was "Surveyed for Okert Oosthuizen".

Vrolykheid, diagram B355/1833, was "Surveyed for Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen As. son".

Between them lies De Claar Stroom, diagram 350/1833, the loan farm that runs from one to the other. A local history says the ground belonged to Petrus Oosthuizen, and that when a village was laid out on it a generation later the town was to be called Petersburg for him, and that the business of it kept "Petrus Oosthuizen and his brother, Ockert, very busy". [SRC-010]

Three adjoining farms, three Oosthuizen households, in one survey season. Eight years later, on 15 April 1841, the Crown turned a dozen of these loan farms into perpetual quitrent on a single day, and Middelwater and Vrolykheid were both among them.

The three men on the diagrams

The obvious reading is that these are the brothers of the 1809 inventory: Ockert Almoro at Middelwater, Jacobus Johannes at Vrolykheid, and Pieter Marthinus, who was twelve when he went to live with his eldest brother, as the Petrus of De Claar Stroom. Piet, Pieter and Petrus are one name.

That reading is taken here, and the three names on the diagrams are read as the three brothers. It is worth being plain about what it rests on. The diagrams that survive are not Stretch's own sheets but typed copies made by the Surveyor-General's office in the 1960s, and they carry no dates and no fathers' names beyond the one disputed patronymic. Nothing on the paper identifies any of the three. What identifies them is everything around the paper: one household, one survey season, three farms in a row, and no other candidates in the family. The 1841 title deeds would put it beyond argument and have not been read. not yet verified

And the middle farm has since come out of that row. The Beaufort roll of 1822 carries Klaare Stroom against Hermanus Carel du Preez [SRC-559], and Stretch's own sheet for it, diagram 350 of 1833, reads "Surveyed for the Widow Du Pre". So in the very season this reading turns on, De Claar Stroom was not Oosthuizen ground. The only Oosthuizen hold on it here is Pieter Marthinus in 1858 to 1860, a quarter of a century later, and that comes from the Klaarstroom cameo rather than from a deed.

Middelwater and Vrolykheid are untouched by this, and so are the Petersburg years. What it removes is the strongest single argument above: three farms in a row in one survey season. Two of the three are what the diagrams support, and the reading has to stand on those.

One word argues against the reading, and it is worth being exact about how much weight that word can carry. As. son points at a father whose name began with A, and their father was an Ocker. But what survives is a typist's reading, made in 1963, of handwriting from 1833. A capital O and a capital A are one flourish apart in that hand, and Os. son would mean Ockert's son, which is what the rest of the evidence says. Neither reading can be preferred from a typescript. Only the original sheet can settle it.

One apparent objection turns out to point the other way. The local history names only two brothers on this ground, Petrus and Ockert, and it is describing the Petersburg years: the town surveyed after Meiringspoort opened in 1858, the first erven sold on 4 August 1860. By then Jacobus Johannes had been out of the district for more than a decade. A source about 1858 that names two Oosthuizen brothers and not three is what this reading predicts.

The alternative was looked for. Every descendant of Jacobus Oosthuizen and Dina Carolina Britz has been searched, across all thirteen of their children, and the family produces no Jacobus Johannes with an A-named father who was grown by 1833. The only Oosthuizen uncle whose name begins with A is an Adriaan, and his son Jacobus lived, married and died in the Overberg, three hundred kilometres away. No better candidate than these brothers has been found.

What is still not understood about the move

Why these brothers came to this particular ground is not known, and it is the largest gap in the story. The Koup was not empty when they reached it. The de Beers had taken Kweekvallei in 1762 and held the field cornetcy of the Koup in the 1830s, and De Claar Stroom had been a loan farm since 1777, so the three names were on the ground before the family was. Somebody knew which places were open, and somebody had to vouch for newcomers before they could hold them.

There are threads worth pulling. Both families were at Tulbagh in the same decades: Zacharias de Beer died there in February 1777 and his children were baptised in the Land van Waveren, while Jacobus Oosthuizen and Dina Carolina Britz married at Tulbagh in 1749 and raised their family in the same district. A cousin of these brothers married a de Beer around 1807, a generation before the marriage long taken to be the first between the two families. None of that is yet a documented connection, and the loan-farm rent rolls for the Koup between 1777 and 1833 would name every holder year by year. That search is open.

The 1816 opgaafrol sharpens the question rather than answering it. On one opening of the George district roll stand six Oosthuizen households — Jacobus Johannes with Anna Magdalena Strydom, Pieter Marthinus on his own, Cornelis Andries with his own Strydom wife, Gerrit Adriaan, and two more written Pet: Jac — enrolled in a single field cornetcy, with four Strydom households in the same column and a sister married to a Venter among them. [SRC-459] That is not a family arriving. It is a family already thick on the ground.

Which is why the question in the first paragraph will not stay in the first paragraph. If de Modder Fonteyn stood on the southern Olifants, the crowd explains itself: these people were never far away, and the move to the far side of the Swartberg was a ride through a poort rather than a crossing of the Colony. If it stood at Citrusdal, then a whole connection of Oosthuizens and Strydoms shifted east inside seven years, and what moved them is not known. The district evidence points at the first.

Beaufort West, 7 February 1836

Twenty-seven years after the estate, two of the households came back together.

Jan Adriaan, son of Ockert Almero, married Susanna Catharina, daughter of Cornelis Andries, at Beaufort West. They were first cousins, and the register says so: hulle is neef en niggie. Their son Ockert Almero was born on Middelwater in November of the same year.

Descendants of these households still farm in this district, though as living people they are not named on this site. One of them is Frans Oosthuizen, whose family research this history is built on, and he descends from two of the brothers: both Ockert Almero and Cornelis Andries are his four-times-great-grandfathers, one on each side of that 1836 marriage.

What became of Jacobus Johannes

The eldest brother, the one who made the promise, did not stay.

His wife Anna Magdalena died at Colesberg on 30 July 1846. Six months later, on 8 February 1847, he married Anna Helena Roscher in the Nederduitsche Hervormde church at Colesberg. The register puts his trade as vee boer and his residence, at sixty-two, as the Hantam, four hundred kilometres north-west of the town he was marrying in. [SRC-452]

He died on 29 October 1867 at his residence on the farm Grootfontein, division Colesberg, aged eighty-two years, eleven months and ten days. The death notice names his parents as Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen and Susanna Catharina van Tonder, and lists his property in one line:

4 Oxen, 2 Bales Wool, some household furniture & farming implements, half share of the expected Crops still on the Lands.

Half a share of a crop still standing is what a man farms on when the land is somebody else's. He had bought a farm at twenty-five and raised seven of his brothers and sisters on it. He died on another man's ground, and his widow signed the form.

His son Ockert Jacobus, born in 1809, the year of the estate, went the other way. In 1848 he helped lay out the first farms in the Marico and named his own Klaarstroom, after the ground his family had come to.

Where to read on

The Oosthuizens stayed, and the rest of what happened on this ground is told elsewhere.

• How the Oosthuizens came to the Koup is the road in four moves, and the page that holds this day in its place on it.
• The Oosthuizens of Swellendam is the generation before this inventory: the thirteen children, the district that ran over the mountains, and the opstal a man could sell when the ground under it was not his.
• The Oosthuizens of the Koup follows the line itself, eight generations from a soldier off a Dutch East India ship in 1685 to a farmer baptised at Prince Albert in 1909.
• The Koup before the grants is the district these brothers walked into: who was already behind the Swartberg, and why so much of it stood empty.
• The three farms each have their own history, and they run on long past 1833: Middelwater, Vrolykheid and De Claar Stroom, the last of which became the village of Klaarstroom.
• The fifteenth of April, 1841 is the single day the loan farms of this district became property.
• Almero answers where the second brother's odd middle name came from, and the answer is a Venetian nobleman standing godfather at a Cape font in 1786.

What this story is about

• about Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (b.1755)
• about Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen (b.1784)
• about Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
• about Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
• about Pieter Marthinus Oosthuijzen
• set on De Modder Fonteyn (aan d'Olifants rivier)
• set on Middelwater
• set on Vrolikheid
• set on De Claar Stroom (the 1777 loan farm)

Sources

Everything this story rests on, with a link to the original wherever one exists. Where a citation is incomplete it says so, an incomplete citation is a research gap, not a formatting problem. If your work is here and the credit is wrong or thin, please tell us and it will be fixed.

1. Estate inventory, deed MOOC8/28.63, 23 April 1809 Cape Archives (KAB), Master of the Orphan Chamber; transcription published by TANAP / Globalise (Huygens KNAW)MOOC8/28.63, {18090423}view it online →
2. Surveyor-General diagram, B355/1833, August 1833 Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm B355/1833
3. Surveyor-General diagram, 349/1833, August 1833 Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 349/1833
4. Surveyor-General diagram, 350/1833, August 1833 Landmeter-Generaal, KaapstadNo. 350/1833; surveyed August 1833 by C. Lennox Stretch, Land Surveyor; copied from the diagram relating to Title Deed No. P.A.Q. 5-8 dated 15.4.1841; endorsed 27-4-1959; scale in Rhynland Roods
5. Death notice, 19 December 1867 FamilySearch, "Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990" [TO VERIFY - the collection is inferred from the form and the hand, matching SRC-077; no breadcrumb, waypoint, film or DGS number has been seen]Death Notice no. 3999½, filed 19 December 1867; two images, seen as image 1213 of 2192 [TO VERIFY] Citation incomplete: Supplied as a screenshot. The ark and film/image numbers were never captured, so the original cannot be ordered from this entry alone.
6. marriage_register, 8 February 1847 Duplicaat Origineel Register, Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk, Colesberg [TO VERIFY - supplied as a screenshot; no collection breadcrumb, film or DGS number has been seen, per 5a-ii]Entry no. 819, 8 February 1847; Huwelyk bevestigd in de Kerk van Colesberg, Parochie van Colesberg, District van Colesberg
7. Baptism register, 5 November 1818 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Graaff-Reinet, doopregister [TO VERIFY - supplied as a photograph of the opening; no collection breadcrumb, film or DGS number has been seen, per 5a-ii]Bladz 266, the entry under the heading "Den 5 November aan onder Traca gedoopt"; the facing page is bladz 265, headed "Den 25 October 18[18] Georgs"
8. Baptism register Dutch Reformed church register [TO VERIFY - supplied as a crop of one entry; congregation, volume and year are not visible on it, per 5a-ii]Entry no. 39; the date column reads "4 Maij"
9. MOOC8/28.63 - Inventory of the estate of Ockert Oosthuijzen, taken at de Modder Fonteyn on the Olifants River, 23 April 1809 Cape Archives (KAB), Master of the Orphan Chamber; transcription published by TANAP / Globalise (Huygens KNAW)MOOC8/28.63, {18090423}view it online →
10. Rose Willis and Doreen Atkinson, with Judy Maguire and Bruce Rubidge, "Klaarstroom: Ancient place of clear waters" (Karoo Cameos, 2021) Karoo Development Foundation, Karoo CameosKaroo Cameos, 2021view it online →
11. Death Notice 3999½ - Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen, died 29 October 1867 at Grootfontein, division Colesberg FamilySearch, "Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990" [TO VERIFY - the collection is inferred from the form and the hand, matching SRC-077; no breadcrumb, waypoint, film or DGS number has been seen]Death Notice no. 3999½, filed 19 December 1867; two images, seen as image 1213 of 2192 [TO VERIFY] Citation incomplete: Supplied as a screenshot. The ark and film/image numbers were never captured, so the original cannot be ordered from this entry alone.
12. Marriage 819, Colesberg, 8 February 1847 - Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen and Anna Helena Roscher Duplicaat Origineel Register, Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk, Colesberg [TO VERIFY - supplied as a screenshot; no collection breadcrumb, film or DGS number has been seen, per 5a-ii]Entry no. 819, 8 February 1847; Huwelyk bevestigd in de Kerk van Colesberg, Parochie van Colesberg, District van Colesberg
13. Death notice of Anna Magdalena Strydom, first wife of Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen, d. 30 July 1846 at Colesberg FamilySearch index card, collection not stated on the view supplied [TO VERIFY]; the image behind it is a printed DEATH NOTICE form "Pursuant to the Provisions contained in Section 11 Ordinance 104"Attached on FamilySearch to Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen 1784-1867, KFRS-SCK
14. Graaff-Reinet baptism register, blad 266 - Anna Magdalena Oosthuizen, baptised "aan onder Traca" 5 November 1818 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Graaff-Reinet, doopregister [TO VERIFY - supplied as a photograph of the opening; no collection breadcrumb, film or DGS number has been seen, per 5a-ii]Bladz 266, the entry under the heading "Den 5 November aan onder Traca gedoopt"; the facing page is bladz 265, headed "Den 25 October 18[18] Georgs"
15. Baptism entry 39 - Jacobus Johannes, son of Ocker Oosthuijsen and Susanna Catharina van Tonderen, 4 May Dutch Reformed church register [TO VERIFY - supplied as a crop of one entry; congregation, volume and year are not visible on it, per 5a-ii]Entry no. 39; the date column reads "4 Maij"
16. GEORGE opgaafrol J 89, 1811 - the foster household on the Olifants River, in the first year the district existed FamilySearch, from the Cape Archives J-series. Filmed by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, at Gov Archive's Cape Town RSA.Film # 008145124, image 93 of 545. TARGET CARD: LOCALITY OF RECORD GEORGE / CAPE PROVINCE; TITLE OF RECORD OPGAAFROLLEN / CENSUS - TAX; VOLUME/S J 89; YEAR/S INCLUDED 1811. Filming block: OPERATOR C MARAIS; REDUCTION X 14; DATE FILMED 9 MAY 1978; FILM EMULSION NUMBER 460-394-361; FILM UNIT SER. NO. 3385; PROJECT NUMBER S-AF 20 B; ROLL NUMBER 12. Column headers as written: 'Naamen der In en Opgezeetenen boven de 16 Jaaren en van hunne Vrouwen', then Mans Naamen | Vrouwen Naamen | Mannen | Vrouwen | Zoons | Dogters | Knechts | 'In Dienst hebbende Hottentots'.
17. GEORGE opgaafrol J 90, 1813 - the foster household again, with a third brother now enrolled in his own right FamilySearch, from the Cape Archives J-series. Filmed by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, at Gov Archive's Cape Town RSA.Film # 008145124, images 165, 181 and 182 of 545. TARGET CARD: LOCALITY OF RECORD GEORGE / CAPE PROVINCE; TITLE OF RECORD OPGAAFROLLEN / CENSUS - TAX; VOLUME/S J 90; YEAR/S INCLUDED 1813. Filming block: OPERATOR C MARAIS; REDUCTION X 14; DATE FILMED 9 MAY 1978; FILM EMULSION NUMBER 5460-394-361; FILM UNIT SER. NO. 3385; PROJECT NUMBER S-AF 20 B; ROLL NUMBER 12. Same film and roll as SRC-522 (J 89, 1811), so this film carries at least two consecutive George volumes.
18. GEORGE opgaafrol J 91 - the VELDKORNETSKAP OLIPHANTS RIVIER named, with its farms, and a WANHOOP among them FamilySearch, from the Cape Archives J-series. Filmed by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, at Gov Archive's Cape Town RSA.Film # 008145124, image 220 of 545; END card at image 236. TARGET CARD: LOCALITY OF RECORD GEORGE / CAPE PROVINCE; TITLE OF RECORD OPGAAFROLLEN / CENSUS - TAX; VOLUME/S J 91. YEAR/S INCLUDED IS BLANK ON BOTH CARDS - the year is NOT established and must not be assumed from its position between J 90 (1813) and J 97 (1816). Filming block: OPERATOR C MARAIS; REDUCTION X 15; DATE FILMED 9 MAY 1978; FILM EMULSION NUMBER 5460-394-361; FILM UNIT SER. NO. 3385; PROJECT NUMBER S-AF 20 B; ROLL NUMBER 12.

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