looking for my grandmother's family

Question

My grandmother died in 1970, Marthina Sophia Bezuidenhout (Smit), was married to Jurie Jacobus Bezuidenhout. I have no information of her at all, I only have a photograph. She was buried in Migdol/ Delareyville on a farm next to my grandfather.

She remarried after my grandfathers death to a Koos Van Der Merwe.

Comments

What country was your grandmother born in? Would you share the county and or city?

Do you have the year of her first marriage, and the country, county and or city of that?

What country was she in at the time of death, county and or city? Would you happen to know the cemetery where she is buried? Sometimes family information can be found at Find A Grave, including children's names and or parents names.

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Hi there, she was born in South Africa, all I know is that she lived in the North west of the country, her birthday was in December. She died in 1970.

She died in south africa too, in Nortwest. The farm she was buried on is close to Delareyville North west South africa.

Her children:

Jurie Jacobus Bezuidenhout

Hester Bezuidenhout

Christoffel Johannes Bezuidenhout

Answer 1

Here are the first hits at familysearch.org  Maybe you will see a useful clue here.

Sophia Smit

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

birth: 6 January 1919

baptism: 16 April 1919 Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: Carel Frederik Smit

mother: Wilhelmina Susanna De Jager Smit

 

Ella Sophia Smit

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

birth: 31 July 1938

baptism: 2 October 1938 Johannesburg, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: Karel Lodewyk Smit

mother: Margaretha Abigael Meyer

 

Margaretha Magdalena Sophia Smit

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

birth: 15 April 1940

baptism: 19 May 1940 Johannesburg, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: Cornelis Johannes Smit

mother: Margaretha Magdalena Sophia Ehles

 

Anna Sophia Cornelia Smit

South Africa, Free State Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1848-1956

birth: 9 July 1916

baptism: 29 October 1916 Ladybrand, Free State, South Africa

father: Antonie Johannes Hermanus Smit

mother: Elizabeth Johanna Van Tonder

 

Sophia Smit

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

birth: 6 January 1919

baptism: 16 April 1919 Woodstock, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: Carel Frederik Smit

mother: Wilhelmina Susanna De Jager Smit

 

Sophia Smit

South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004

child: William Smit

 

Sophia Smit

South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004

child: Charles

 

Anna Sophia Smith

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

birth: 23 August 1881

baptism: 30 October 1881 Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: James Smith

mother: Johanna Elizabeth Muller Smith

 

Anna Sophia Smith

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

birth: 23 August 1881

baptism: 30 October 1881 Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: James Smith

mother: Johanna Elizabeth Muller

 

Lilian Sophia Smith

South Africa, Methodist Parish Registers, 1822-1996

baptism: 2 June 1881 Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: Thomas Smith

mother: Caroline Emily Smith

 

 

Comments

A few more possibilities:

Aletta Sophia Smith

South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004

baptism: 16 April 1916 Transvaal, South Africa

parents: Aletta Smith, William Smith

 

Emma Sophia Smith

South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004

baptism: 1894 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

parents: Charles Edward Smith, Elizabeth Smith

 

Sophia Isabel Smith

South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004

baptism: 6 August 1911 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

parents: Francis Smith, Benedina Smith

 

Cecilia Martina Smit

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

birth: 6 November 1901

baptism: 29 December 1901 Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: Frederik Simon Smit

mother: Cecilia Francina Martina Slabber

 

Susanna Sophia Smith

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

birth: 11 May 1888

baptism: 11 July 1888 Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: Marthinus Pieter Smith

mother: Anna Elizabeth Jurgens Vos Smith

 

Francina Sophia Smith

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

birth: 4 December 1921

baptism: 5 March 1922 Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

father: Jacobus Johannes Smith

mother: Christina Johanna Valentyn

 

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Yes, that was my great grandfather Jurie, his son Jurie Jacobus was born in the 1910's...

my great grandfather married a Wessels (Martha) whom I also have no information for :)

Answer 2

:	According to few trees Jurie was born in 1887.

 

Jurie Jacobus Bezuidenhout

MyHeritage Family Trees

Family tree (169655) in Family site (BackupMyTree), managed by Carolyn Tucker

Birth:	Circa 1887 - Place
Death:	Day Month 1957 - Place
Wife:	Name of wife
Children:	<Private> Bezuidenhout and names of 2 more children

 

Answer 3

Hester Adriana Oosthuizen (born Bezuidenhout)
Geni World Family Tree

Birth:	Day Month 1913 - Place
Death:	Day Month 1982 - Place
Father:	Father's name
Mother:	Mother's name
Husband:	Name of husband
Children:	Hester Adriana Nortje (born Oosthuizen), 1 and names of 2 more children
Siblings:	Anna Margaretha Susanna Du Preez (born Bezuidenhout), h2i1 and names of 8 more siblings

Hester Aletta Van Zyl (born Bezuidenhout)

Geni World Family Tree

Birth:	Day Month 1905
Death:	Day Month 1995 - Place
Husband:	Name of husband
Children:	<Private> Van Lill (born Van Zyl) and name of one more

 

Hester Aletta De Villiers (born Bezuidenhout)

MyHeritage Family Trees

Engelbrecht Genealogy in Jan WF Engelbrecht Web Site, managed by Jan Engelbrecht

Birth:	Day Month 1883 - Place
Death:	Day Month 1950 - Place
Husband:	Name of husband
Husband:	Name of husband