Cornelia (Burger) Bouwer
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Cornelia (Burger) Bouwer (abt. 1719 - bef. 1797)

Cornelia Bouwer formerly Burger aka Bùrgerts
Born about in de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
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Wife of — married 16 Feb 1736 in de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
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Died before before about age 78 in Cape of Good Hope Colonymap
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Table Bay, South Africa (1762)
Cornelia (Burger) Bouwer was part of the settlement of the Dutch Cape Colony.
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Biography

SAG nr.

b1c5 SM [1]

Name

Cornelia [2][1][3][4][5] Helena [5] Burger [2][1][3] / Burgers [4] / Bùrgerts [5] / Bouwer [1][3][4] / Bauer [1]

Birth

Date: about 1719 [2][1][3][5][6]
Place: Kaapkolonie [2] Cape, [South Africa] [1][3]

Marriage

Marriage record: Den 16 Feb 1736. Jan Lodewijk Bowder van Hessen Cassel Burger aan Cabo. J.M. met Cornelia Burger van Cabo. J.D.[7]
Date: 19 February 1736[7]
Place: Drakenstein Dutch Reformed Church[7]
Groom: Jan Lodewijk Bowder[7]
Bride: Cornelia Burger [7]

Death

Date: 1745 [3] / 1797 [5] / February 15, 1819. [1][8] / before 13 Aug 1797 [9]
Place: Cape, [South Africa] [3][5]

Estate

Reference no.: MOOC8/22.32 [9]
13 Augustus 1797 [9]
"Inventaris van alle zodaanige goederen, slaaven beestiaal, etc:a als er door de wed:we wylen den burger Johannes Lodewyk Bouwer zyn bezeeten en met er dood ontruimd en nagelaaten, mitsgaders op heeden ter plaatse van haaren zoon Barend Daniel Bouwer, gen:t de Klipfontein gel: aan de Kafferkuils Rivier, alwaar woonagtig is geweest..." [9]
Erfgenamen
1) Elisabeth Francina Bouwer gehuuwd met Hendrik Jeremias de Bruin
2) Margaretha Geertruida Bouwer, wed:we wylen Daniel Marais
3) de kinderen van wijlen Jeremias Esaias Bouwer, zynde:
a) Jeremias Cornelis
b) Joh:s Lodewijk
c) Cornelis Tobias
d) Barend Daniel
e) Hester Magdalena gehuuwd met Marth:s Joh:s Potgieter
4) Aletta Sophia Bouwer gehuuwd met Pieter Bezuidenhout
5) Barend Daniel Bouwer
6) Johanna Catharina Bouwer getrouwd met Salomon Pienaer
7) Hendrina Maria Bouwer gehuuwd met Joh:s Jansz van Rensburg Nic:sz
8) Willem Christiaan Bouwer
9) Petrus Fred:k Bouwer
NB: nog eene dogter van de wed:e Bouwer in naame Helena Catharina, getrouwd met Casper Willemse, is voor haare moeder komen te overlyden, zo wel als 't door haar nagelaten kind" [9]
"Aldus gedaan en ginventariseerd ter plaatse opgem: op den 13:e Augustus 1797..." [9]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 WikiTree profile Burger-793 created by Pienaar-305 4 October 2014. Sources:
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 WikiTree profile Burger-304 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 WikiTree profile Burger-402 created through the import of Van der Walt Family Tree.ged on Jan 22, 2013 by Rene van der Walt.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 WikiTree profile Burgers-90 created through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 WikiTree profile 'Bùrgerts'-1 created through import of Simpkins Bouwer Family_2016-12-29.ged by Debra Simpkins 31 December 2016. Sources:
    • Ancestry.com South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Repository: Ancestry.com
    • Marriage Jan Lodewijk Bowder and Cornelia Burgers 1736 NGK Drakenstein 19 Feb 1736
  6. Source:
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Source:
    • Robertson, Delia.The First Fifty Years Project http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Cornelia Burger Drakenstein Heemkring, compilers, Drakenstein I Marriages., CD-ROM (Paarl) Drakenstein Heemkring, 2006 , Marriage Register. Hereinafter cited as Drakenstein I Marriages. The date stated by the transcriber is 16 Febr but on the document its 19 Febr. The 19th was on a Sunday.Febr 03, 2015 by Susanna de Bruyn
  8. This date of death that perhaps there was some conflation of data / profiles of persons bearing the same names. Added by Philip van der Walt Feb 15, 2015.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Source:




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posted by André Laubscher
Above Burger-304 shows reference to a second husband De_Brúyn-271 in 1753, however her husband Johann Ludwig (Bauer) Bouwer Bauer-1713 only died on 2 Jun 1784.

Further Cornelia Burger in the South Africa, Voter Indexes, 1719-1996 is shown as still being married to Jan Lodewijk Bauer in 1760?

posted by Debra Simpkins
Yes, there is an error. I think it relates to surnames. She is called Cornelia de Bruyn on the 1797 Index https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BB-5SY3-N?i=368.

All her Bouwer children are mentioned in the inventory. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BB-MCRH?i=78.

Hendrik De Bruyn De_Brúyn-271 is married to her daughter Elizabeth Francina Bouwer Boüer-5 . At some point he may have been married to a Cornelia Burger but certainly not to his mother-in-law.

posted by Jaulanne van der Bank
835 Local file reference
835 Local file reference
Cornelia Helena Burger 'Burgerts'. <ref>Source: #S75 Gedcom Import Debra Simpkins 31 December 2016</ref><ref> File M46 File: C:\Users\Work\Documents\Family Tree Maker\Simpkins Bouwer Family Media\File Not Found.jpg. Marriage Jan Lodewijk Bowder and Cornelia Burgers 1736 NGK Drakenstein 19 Feb 1736 Gedcom Import Debra Simpkins 31 December 2016</ref>
Thanks Lou - I connected her to her other husband and also corrected the date of death to as what can be read in the MOOC (removed the unlikely date of 15 Feb 1819 from her profile - this date will almost certainly belong to one of her daughters by the same name).
posted by Philip van der Walt
Bùrgerts-1 and Burger-304 appear to represent the same person because: Can we please merge this profiles. Ive create Bùrgerts-1 and then found Burger-304
Burger-793 and Burger-304 appear to represent the same person because: Burger-304 already existed.
posted by Philip van der Walt
Schalk, jy het hierdie profiel aangemaak terwyl daar al twee ander profiele van haar was. Sy staan ook nie op die lys van name wat ek gister deurgegee het nie. Dit kos my alleen meer werk om dit alles nou te gaan saam voeg en edit.
posted by Philip van der Walt
Burger-402 and Burger-304 appear to represent the same person because: Burger-304 is a duplicate and it has the LOWEST id.
posted by Philip van der Walt
Burgers-90 and Burger-402 appear to represent the same person because: Same data, same spouse
posted by Philip van der Walt