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Persoon PER-001414

Maria Magdalena Elisabeth van der Westhuizen

omstreeks 1814 – 24 Junie 1880 · van der Westhuizen line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het op Haggas Nr. 145 in hierdie distrik gewoon (1880-06-24).

Name

Given
Maria Magdalena Elisabeth
Surname
van der Westhuizen

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Naaste familie

Married
Cornelis Petrus Janse van Vuuren, Gabriel Antonie le Roux
Children

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. omstreeks 1814 gebore Born
  2. 16 Februarie 1840 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop · Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (1839-1842)
  3. 24 Junie 1880 oorlede Died
  4. undated grond Lived on it, Haggas Nr. 145

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Wie by hulle gestaan het

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Stories

Wat ons nie weet nie

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Bronne

  1. Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/

Navorsingsnotas

[SRC-249] Named as the wife in her husband's 1863 death notice, spelled there "Maria Magdalena Elisbeth van der Westhuysen". The Beaufort West baptism register names her as the mother in BWB-232-11 and BWB-261-07, spelled "Elizabetta" and "Elizabeth". She outlived him by seventeen years.

[4 Aug 2026, SRC-253] HER OWN DEATH NOTICE, and it rewrites her. She was born at CANGO, DISTRICT OUDTSHOORN, was sixty-six when she died on 24 June 1880, and is recorded in her own right as an AGRICULTURIST. She did not remain a widow: after Cornelis Petrus died in 1863 she married GABRIEL ANTONIE LE ROUX (PER-001436) and was his widow at her death. Her moveable estate was valued at about 200 pounds. She died AT THE FARM HAGAS, District Prince Albert.

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