Christoffel Carolus Johannes
Bester
Born in Cape Colony
Ancestors 
Brother of
Paul Michiel (Besterd) Bester
Husband of
Johanna Petronella (du Plessis) Bester
— married
2 Jan 1848 [location unknown]
Husband of
Hester Maria Isabella (Meyer) Bester
— married
17 Oct 1852 in Ladysmith, Kliprivier, Natal, South Africa
Descendants 
Father of
Paul Christoffel Dirk Bester, Cecilia Johanna (Bester) Potgieter, Hester Maria Jacomina (Bester) du Plessis, Izabella Elizabeth (Bester) Wepener, Elsie Josina (Bester) Swanepoel and Pauline Lavina (Bester) de Villiers
Died about
at about age 69
in Bestershoek, Kliprivier, Natal
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Jul 2019
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Biography
Son of Paul Bester and Isabella ?
- b4c3 Paulus Michiel BESTER = 7.9.1766 d. 16.5.1832 (65.10.28)
- x Hilletje Levina DE KLERK = 1771
- d1 Paul Dirk = 15.12.1788
- x Graaff-Reinet 18.4.1808 Isabella Elizabeth LOMBARD = 1795
- e6 Christoffel Carolus Johannes * 28.4.1828 = Somerset-Oos 15.5.1828 d. 18.8.1897
- x 2.1.1848 Johanna PetroneIIa DU PLESSIS
- xx Hester Maria Isabella MEYER. Trek na Natal.
- Net een kind uit eerste huwelik
- f1 Paul Christoffel Dirk * 22.3.1849
- x 19.8.1872 Maria Elizabeth Margaretha DEKKER
- f2 Isaak Johannes * 3.9.1853
- x Margaretha Magdalena VAN DER MERWE
- f3 Christoffel Carolus Johannes * 9.5 1855
- f4 Cecilia Johanna * 17.2.1857
- x 15.9.1873 Frederik Johannes POTGIETER
- f5 Isabella Elisabeth * 18.7.1859
- x 22.11.1880 Willem Jacobus WEPENER
- f6 Hester Maria Johanna * 19.7.1861
- f7 Willem Abraham Lodewyk * 21.5.1863
- x 18.10.1887 Rachel Maria Jacomina BESTER
- f8 Philippus Jacobus Johannes * 1.8.1865 d. 17.3.1960
- x 10.1.1893 Gesina Dorothea POTGIETER
- f9 Hester Maria Jacomina * 10.8.1867
- x 18.1.1887 Petrus Johannes DU PLESSIS
- f10 Christoffel Carolus Johannes * 22.7.1869 d. 27.5.1946
- x 27.7.1896 Susanna Johanna Catharina VAN DER MERWE
- f11 Elzie Jocina * 6.10.1871
- x 11.6.1894 Wessel Jacobus WESSELS
- f12 Anna Margarietha * 13.11.1873
- x 10.11.1891 Benjamin Josef POTGIETER
- f13 Paulina Lavina * 5.2.1876
- x 8.6.1904 Pieter Hendrik DE VILLIERS [1]
- South Africa, Natal Province, Civil Marriages, 1845-1955
- Cristoffel Carolus Johannes Bester
- Marriage Date: 17 Oct 1852 at Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa
- Age: 24, widower
- Spouse's Name: Hester Maria Isabella Meyer
- Spouse's Age: 19 [2]
Sources
- ↑ "Heese, J.A. & Lombard, R.T.J. “South African Genealogies 1” Human Sciences Research Council, 1992, ISBN 0-620-23962-1 v.1 p. 248" Added on 1 May 2020 by Ian McArthur
- ↑ "South Africa, Natal Province, Civil Marriages, 1845-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDCL-Z8Y : 19 February 2021), Cristoffel Jacobus Johannes Bester and Hester Maria Isabella Meyer, 17 Oct 1852; citing Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa; 00665; National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Pretoria; 1,259,327. Added on 12 Apr 2021 by Ian McArthur
- https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS7P-RQX9-8?i=33&cc=2573604 Death notice added on 19/08/2019 by Stephanus Scheepers
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