Born before in Land van Waveren, Cabo de Goede Hoop
Ancestors 
Brother of
Helena Catherina (Bester) Lombard, Bernardus Jacobus Bester, Poùlùs Michiel Bester, Anna Remmertha (Bester) Botha, Catharina Susara (Bester) Lombard and Andries Engelbertus Bester
Husband of
Isabella Johanna (Lombard) Bester
— married
5 May 1811 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Elsje Johanna (Bester) de Bruin and Barend Jacobus Bester
Died
after age 56
in Groot Dam, Cradock, Cape Colony
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Biography
Name
Birth
Baptism
- Date: 15 May 1791[4]
- Place: [Cape Town], de Caep de Goede Hoop [South Africa][3]
- Name: Willem Abraham Bestert[3] / Willem Adriaan Bester[4]
- Father: Barend Jacobus Bestert[3] / Barend Jacobus Bester[4]
- Mother: Engela Helena de Klerck[4][3]
- Witnesses: Teunis Gertse Steenkamp, Catharina Willemina de Klerck, Willem Abraham de Klerck, Catharina van Aart[3]
- Additional notes: behoort onder het Land van Waveren[3]
Death
- Date: 5 March 1848 [5][6][1]
- Place: Groot [...], district Cradock[6] / Groot Dam, Cradock[2]
- Reference No.: 9511[6]
- Name : Willem Abraham Bester[6]
- Parents : Barend Jacobus Bester & E de Klerk[6]
- Age at death : 58y[6]
- Marital status : Married to Isabella Lombard[6]
- Children : [6]
- Barend Jac:s - major
Family
- b4c2 Bernhardus Barend Jacobus BESTER * 15.12.1764 = 23.12.1764 x 21.12.1788 Engela Helena DE KLERK
- d1 Willem Abraham = 15.5.1791 x Graaff-Reinet 5.5.1811 Isabella Elizabeth Johanna LOMBARD
- e1 Isabella Elizabeth * 28.3.1814 = George 27.4.1814
- e2 Barend Jacobus * 8.2.1817 = Graaff-Reinet 27.4.1817 [7]
- d1 Willem Abraham = 15.5.1791 x Graaff-Reinet 5.5.1811 Isabella Elizabeth Johanna LOMBARD
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 WikiTree profile Bester-1132 created by Wanda Bester 7 April 2019. Source:
- Annelene de Witt
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 WikiTree profile Bester-1448 created by Skye Coston 5 Jun 2020. Source:
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Source:
- Baptism Register - "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DZN4-4WY?cc=1478678&wc=M6GW-DZS%3A49605401%2C49605402%2C49605403%2C49624101 : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Cape Town > Baptisms 1780-1794 > image 157 of 199; State Archives, Cape Province.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Added by Ian McArthur 1 Apr 2022
- ↑ Source:
- His death notice, added by Ewald Schmidt on 30 April 2020.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Source:
- Probate transcription added 14 December 2021 by André Laubscher
- ↑ "Heese, J.A. & Lombard, R.T.J. “South African Genealogies 1” Human Sciences Research Council, 1992, ISBN 0-620-23962-1 v.1 p. 247" Added on 1 Apr 2022 by Ian McArthur
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Willem Abraham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Willem Abraham:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Willem Abraham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Willem Abraham:
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~3.12%
Ronell (Lombard) Pretorius
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch BK6781682 [compare], Ancestry member ronell_p
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Ali (Beichter) Bezuidenhout :
23andMe, GEDmatch M801207 [compare]
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~1.56%
Wanda Bester :
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
~6.25%
James Gardiner :
23andMe
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Stephanie Murphy :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch XV6049163 [compare], Ancestry member IKAPA
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~0.78%
Hendrik Graham :
MyHeritage DNA
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Changing LNAB to "Bestert" as per Baptism image
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André Laubscher
Incorrect mother. Will disconnect him from Catharina (van Aard) de Klerk (bef.1744-1835) (his grandmother) and attach him to Engela Helena (de Klerk) Bester (1773-1855) instead.
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