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Gebeurtenis EVT-000154

Twee Oosthuizen-dogters sterf in die jaar van die pokke

1713 · regional · Drakenstein

[SRC-074] Barbara, five, and Jannetje, three, both die in 1713 - the year the smallpox epidemic brought ashore on a Company fleet killed roughly a quarter of the colony's people and devastated the Khoi far worse. The family loses two of its nine children in one year. Cause is inferred from the date and is NOT stated in the record [TO VERIFY]; the burial registers would settle it.

Wie daar was: 4 mense

Almal wat die rekord by hierdie geleentheid noem. Wie saam gestaan het, is die duidelikste oorlewende bewys van watter families na aan watter was; as jy van ander weet wat hier was, is dit die bladsy waarop hulle hoort.

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