MOOC8/75.66 - inventory of Maria Elisabeth Louw, widow of Jacobus Adriaan Louw, died 2 August 1823 AT LOKENBURG
estate inventory (transcription) · consulted 2026-08-10
- Type
- estate inventory (transcription)
- Repository
- TANAP "Inventories of the Orphan Chamber", Huygens Institute (GLOBALISE), CC0-1.0
- Reference
- MOOC8/75.66, sealed at the Weeskamer, Cape of Good Hope, 26 September 1823 (J. Serrurier)
- Consulted
- 2026-08-10
The citation as it was given
SHE HAS A NAME NOW. The 1820 Lokenburg diagram calls her only "de Wede. Jacobus Adn. Louw"; this inventory names her: "Inventaris de boedel van wijlen van mejuffrouw MARIA ELISABETH LOUW, weduwe Jacobus Adriaan Louw, met den dood ontruymt en nagelaaten op den twee Augustus een duyzend acht hondert en drie en twintig, TER PLAATZE LOKENBURG in 't Onder Bokkeveld, drostdy Clan William." She was measured for in February 1820 and died on the farm on 2 AUGUST 1823, three years later. SHE WAS A MONEYLENDER, OR AT LEAST A CREDITOR, which is what the estate mostly consists of - a series of obligations and schuldbekentenissen rather than stock: Charles Johannes Overholster rd:s1200 at 5 percent, Nicolaas Maree rd:s1000, PETRUS BURGER P.z. rd:s890, Joh. Petrus Gous rd:s100, Jan Lock rd:s100, Martinus Nicolaas Ras rd:s400, IZAK JACOBUS VAN DER MERWE rd:s100, ALEWIJN JOHANNES SMIT rd:s200, Daniel Jacobus Louw D.z. TWO OF HER DEBTORS CARRY NAMES THIS PROJECT IS FOLLOWING: a van der Merwe owing her money in October 1822, and a Burger. Neither is identified. [TO VERIFY] LEAD-0149.
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
What rests on this source
Documents
People
- Anna Jacoba Louw (1793-1868) 1793 – 3 March 1868
- Maria Elisabeth Louw 2 August 1823