Anna (Pretoriús) de Beer (bef. 1718 - bef. 1755)

Born before 2 Oct 1718 in Drakenstein, Cabo de Goede Hoop

Ancestors

Wife of Charel Marais — married [date unknown] in Unmarried Parents

Wife of Zaccharias de Beer — married 12 May 1743 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dutch Cape Colony

Descendants

Died before 22 Jun 1755 at about age 36 in Cabo de Goede Hoop

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Biography

Name

Anna Pretorius ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5][6] [7] [8]} de Beer ^{[4] [5]}

Birth

Date: 05 March 1718 ^[4] (Before 02 October 1718 ^[1] / Before 1718 ^[3] / In 1718 ^[6] / about 1718^[8]

Place: Drakenstein ^[3] / Kaapkolonie ^[4]

Parents

Father: Johannis Pretoriús / Joannes Pretorius ^[9]

Mother: Lena Voslo / Helena Vosloo ^[9][10]

Baptism

Name: Anna Pretorius ^[9]

Date: 02 October 1718 ^{[1] [4] [9]}

Place: Drakenstein, Dutch Reformed Church ^[9], Cape, [South Africa] ^[1]

Witnesses: Maria Roússois ^[9]

Anno 1718 Den 2 Octob, Anna, doghter van Johannis Pretoriús en Lena Voslo, getijgen Maria Roússois ^[9]

Marriage

de Facto Relationship

Father: NN

Mother: Anna Pretorius

Children 1

Charl Marais (Born: 03 April 1738) the son of Charl Marais & Anna Pretorius ^{[11] [12]}

Marriage 2

Date: 12 May 1743 ^{[1] [13]}

Place: Cape Town, [South Africa] ^{[1] [13]}

Husband: Zacharias de Beer ^[1] (Anna Pretorius eerste huwelik van Zacharias de Beer. ^{[14] [13]}

Wife: Anna Pretorius ^{[1] [13]}

Children 2

Hilletjie de Beer ^[1]/ Heiltje de Beer ^[15]

Johannes Mattheus de Beer ^[1]

Magdalena Elizabeth de Beer ^[1]

Johanna Adriana de Beer ^[1]

Anna Elizabeth de Beer ^[1]

Death

Date: Anna Pretorius passed away c.1754 ^[4] / before 1755^[3] / about 1755^[8]

Place: Kaapkolonie, [Suid Afrika] ^[4]

Events

Anna had a son in an extramarital relationship with Charles Marais ^[16]

Weesmeesteren Extracten, Blad 10, Cape Archives, MOOC 5

1738 21 April. ... de minderjarige Anna Pretorius dewelke door haar Eerw: bij den landbouwer Charle Marai ter deugdelijke educatie en opvoeding ... een geruimen tijd herwaarts geplaatst is, haar so verre hadde verloopen, dat zij met verwerpingen van alle eer, goede naam en faam door de deugdeloose conversaite met de soon van eevengem. Charle Marais beswangert geworden zijnde en onlangs geleeden in de craam was bevallen van een onegt kind ^[17][18][19]

Weesmeesteren Extracten, Blad 10, Cape Archives, MOOC 5

1738. 21. Maij. Werdende vervolgens door den E. Agtb. Heer president aan de minderjarige Anna Pretorius dewelke volgs: resolv: van den 21 April laatst: ter vergardering vercheenen was, afgevraagt bij wine zij 't on[egte] geprocre Eerde kind verwekt hadde, ende alsoo desel[ve] daar op standvastelijk betuijgde, dat de soon van d[en] landbouwer Charle Marais gent: Charle Marais de j[onge] daar de vader van was, soo hebben haar Eerw. sulx a[ ] evengent: Charle Marais voorgehouden mitsg: weijer voorgestelt, dat tot reparatie haaren eere met den an[der] soudel hebben te trouwen, dog nademaal denselven sul[x] gantshcelijk ontkende, en daar neevens verklaarde dat niet van sens was met gesegde Anna Pretorius te trouwen, gelijk meergem: Charl Marais d'oude, om de do[ ] zijn soon bijgebragte reedenen, daar toe ook niet wil consenteeren, soo is naar rijpe deliberatie geodevonden en geresolveert voorn: Charl Marais met zijn soon voor den E:Agtb. Raad van Justitie deeser gouvernement tot 't geeven van consent, en 't voltrecken van't huwelijk te doen dagvaarden. ^[17][18]

The above-mentioned information is the result of a baby boy Charl born out of wedlock. Anna Pretoriús was orphaned at the age of fourteen years and placed with the Marais family to further her education. When she was nineteen years old and her guardian's son Charles Marais was sixteen years old, Anna fell pregnant and had a son, Charles in 1738. ^[20]

Family

Charl Marais

Johannes Pretorius * c.1614 = NHK Oude Kerk, op eiland Goeree-Overflakkee, Nederland 16.10.1642 S.V. ds. Wessel Schout wat sy familienaam Willem Schout na die Latynse vonn Wesselius Praetorius (later Pretorius) verander het tydens sy jare as teologiese student aan Universiteit van Leiden, Nederland, a. op 1.4.1666 in Kaap as adelbors maar vertrek kort daarna as sieketrooster en later sekunde na Mauritius; keer permanent terug na die Kaap op 9.12.1669 en word die familie se stamvader in Suid-Afiika; in 1674 word hy sekretaris v.d. Weeskamer + Kaapstad 30.4.1694 x Kaapstad 18.1 1.1673 Geertruyda Meyntjes / Meyntings / Menthing v. Hasselt, Holland (vandag Belgie) (wed. v. Dirk Bosch) xx Kaapstad 28.2.1677 Johanna Victor v. Amsterdam (sy xx Kaapstad 28.10.1696 Johannes Sterrenberg v. Amsterdam)

b3 Johannes = 22.9.1680 + c.1732 x Helena Vosloo * c.1698 + c.1731 d.v. Johannes Vosloo en Helena v. Malabar

c5 Anna = 2.10.1718 x 12.5.1743 Zacharias de Beer = 5.3.1719 (moeder v. Charl Marais * 3.4.1738 = Paarl 9.7.1739, (sien SAG vol. 5 p.463) ^[11]

SAG Volume 5 Page 463

NN Marais en Anna Pretorius = 2.10.1718 d.v. Johannes Pretorius en Helena Vosloo is die ouers van:

Charl Marais * 3.4.1738 = Paarl 9.7.1739 x 20.4.1766 Hendrina Johanna de Beer = 29.3.1750 (Matthys-dg) (sy xx 13.7.1783 Louis Johannes Fourie)

b1 Charles Johannes^[11]

SAG Volume 15 Page 284

Vosloo Jan (Johannes) * Lippstadt, Wesfale, Duitsland c.1649, maar afkomstig v. Plettenberg, in Sauerland v. Wesfale, baashoutkapper in diens v. V.O.C., Kaapse Politieke Raad Resolusie v. 22.10.1689 gee hom reg om onwettige houtkappers te kan beboet, karweier, besit sedert 12.9.1699 erf aan Tweede Bergh Dwarsstraat, Tafel Vallei en vanaf 30.8.1708 tot 6.8.1722 die plaas Land Vossenburg oor die Bergrivier, agter Limietberg, dist. Drakenstein, daarna die leningsplase Vogel Valleij, naby huidige Hermon en de Sant drift naby die latere Piketberg † na 22.1.1732 en laat volgens sy testament v. daardie datum al sy besittings aan Abraham de Klerk na. Jan Vosloo het verskeie buite-egtelike kinders gehad waaronder

b3 Helena * Nov. 1696 (moeder: waarskynlik Kompanjieslavin Helena v. Malabar), sy word vrygestel op 10.4.1708 x c.1710 Johannes Pretorius ≈ 22.9.1680 † c.1732 s.v. stamvader Johannes Pretorius en Johanna Victor (Erkenning: Daniel Jacobs – "Die Vosloos, Nuttige landsbouers") ^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12} WikiTree profile Pretorius-3084 created on Sep 19, 2011 by Judy Potgieter.
   • Source: Title: SOUTH AFRICAN GENEALOGIES. Vol 1. A-CHeese, J.A. & R.T.J. Lombard, Pretoria, Human Sciences Research Council. 1986. pp 698
2. ↑ WikiTree profile Pretorius-4682 created on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} WikiTree profile Pretorius-4825 created by Pieter Meyer on May 20, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} WikiTree profile Pretorius-5036 created on Aug 10, 2013 by Willem Pretorius
   • Source: Author: Hendrik Britz Title: Britz Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree Page: Anna Pretorius
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Wikitree profile Pretorius-4700 created] by Lou Larney on Oct 30, 2012.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} WikiTree profile Pretorius-5428 created] by Hennie Scheepers, Wednesday, October 1, 2014.
7. ↑ WikiTree profile Pretorius-4697 created on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} WikiTree profile Pretorius-9558 created] by Tjaard Marais on 11 Nov 2022. Source:
   • National Archives
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6} Transcribed and added April 20, 2015 by Susanna de Bruyn from a photo received from Ronel Olivier personal collection of the Drakenstein baptisms.
10. ↑ Source:
    • Vosloo, Johannes x Helena van Malabar - probably the mother of his children "Cape Melting Pot, The Role and Status of the Mixed Population at the Cape 1652-1795" as Translated by Delia Robertson from "Groep Sonder Grense, Die Rol en Status van die Gemengde Bevolking aan die Kaap 1652-1795 by H.F. Heese, M.A., Ph.D (Böeseken, p.174) Added by Rachel Marais on 28 February 2022
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3} Source:
    • South African Genealogies, Originally compiled by: J.A.Heese R.T.J. Lombard, edited and augmented by GISA (Genealogical Institute of South Africa) Stellenbosch 1999 (SAG Volume 8 Page 390); Added by Rachel Marais on 28 February 2022
12. ↑ Source:
    • Baptism Charl Marais

    1739 9 Julij Charl (onecht) De Vader ..... De Moeder Anna Pretorius De Getuygen Gerrit Pretorius en Johanna Pretorius

    Added on 19 October 2022 by Rachel Marais
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3} Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970" database with images, FamilySearch Marriage 12 May 1743 Anna Pretorius & Zacharias de Beer South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Stellenbosch > Marriages 1700-1788 > image 18 of 39; State Archives, Cape Province. Added on 03 March 2022 by Rachel Marais
14. ↑ by Hennie Scheepers, Wednesday, October 1, 2014.
15. ↑ Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970" database with images, FamilySearch Baptism 29 August 1744 Heiltje de Beer South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Stellenbosch > Baptisms 1733-1786 > image 44 of 247; State Archives, Cape Province. Added on 04 March 2022 by Rachel Marais
16. ↑ : 5 Weesmeesteren Extracten, Blad 10, Cape Archives, MOOC 5: 1738. 21. April. 't Collegie met veel ongenoegen in evaring gebragt hebbene dat de minderjarige Anna Pretorius dewelke door haar Eerw. bij den Landbouwer Charle Marais ter deugdelijke educatie, en opvoedingen en ledt. een geruimen tijd herwaarts geplaatst is, haar soo verre hadde verloopen dat zij met verwerpinge van alle eer, goede naam en faam door de deugdeloose conversatie met de soon van eevengem: Charle Marais beswangert geworden zijnde nu onlangs geleeden in de craam was bevallen van een onegt kind Aug 10, 2013 by Willem Pretorius.
17. ↑ ^{17.0 17.1} Commentbox info by Dirk le Roux On April 14, 2016.
18. ↑ ^{18.0 18.1} My South African Ancestors : the Zaaiman, Bosman, de Vries and Buys families of the Cape: Author. Richard Ball 2014. (http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/bosmandevriesbuys/I621.html) Child of Anna Pretorius and Charel Marais. Seen and entered by Ronel Olivier April 29, 2016.
19. ↑ Events echoed: Elisabeth (Dúplici) du Plessis (Jan 31, 1717) is the illigitimate child of Carel Prieur (du Plesis) du Plessis (1688 - 1737). Entered by Philip van der Walt May 23, 2016.
20. ↑ Although the rules of the Cape of Good Hope and the Church suggest the couple were married, this marriage did not occur. What became of Anna and her infant son after the hearing and how she survived financially is not known. Presumably, the grandfather Charles Marais provided their needs. Anna Pretoriús married Zaccharias de Beer on May 12, 1743, about five years after the birth of Charl. Added by Ronel Olivier April 29, 2016

See Also

Geni Tree : Anna de Beer (Nee) Pretorius Added by AR Swanepoel

Family Search : Anna de Beer (Nee) Pretorius Added by AR Swanepoel