[3]Dito [Den 10de Dito [Decemb]] jacob, zoon Steven Marais en Maria Eli
sabeth De Villiers, Getuijgen Cloete Marais
en Margarita Gardiol
Note: the original baptism date given here was 3 Dec 1719, as is recorded in de Villiers and Pama[4], but that is incorrect and should be 10 Dec 1719 as can be seen in the image[3].
The estate of Jacob Marais was inventoried at the family farm Le Plessis Marle, where Jacob built the surviving homestead in 1764[9]:
Inventaris van alle sodanige vaste en losse goederen als op den 17 Junij 1787 ab intestato metter doot ontruijmt en nagelaaten sijn door den oud Heemraad Sr. Jacob Marais ten voordeele sijner overgebleevene huijsvrouw Maria Elisabeth Blom en zijne bij wijlen dessels Eerste huijsvrouw Maria Elisabeth Booijens verwekte en nagelatene kinderen en kindskinderen in name
1. Jacob Marais de Jonge
2. Pieter Marais Jacobsz
3. Maria Elisabeth Marais, getrouwd met Jacob de Vielliers Jansz
4. Susanna Marais getrouwd met Willem Adolph Krige
5. Catharina Margaretha Marais getrouwd met Jacob de Villiers Jacobsz
6. de nagelatene Neegen kinderen van Geetruijd Marais getrouwd geweest met Daniel Malan in naame
a: Jacob Stephanus Malan oud 22 Jaaren
b: Lenora Elisabeth oud 20 jaaren
c: David Jacobus oud 18
d: Daniel Gerhardus oud 16
e: Maria Elisabeth oud 14
f: Stephanus Jacobus oud 12
g: Hester Catharina oud 10
h: Jacobus petrus oud 8
i: Pieter oud 3 Jaaren
7. het nagelaaten kind van wijlen Elisabeth Johanna Marais, door haar verwekt bij haare nagelatene man Hermanus Johannes van Brakel in naame Jacob Johannes van Brakel oud 6 Jaaren
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.6 WikiTree profile Marais-157 created through the import of Redelinghuys.ged on Jul 21, 2012 by {Stead-93} Humphrey Stead. Sources:
Malherbe, Juna and Malan, Alet, Genealogy of the De Villiers Family in South Africa, De Villiers Publication Fund, Franschoek. South Africa,1997 Page: Vol I, p. 294
de Villiers, C.C. and Pama, G., Genealogies of Old South African Families, Vol II, A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, South Africa, 1966, p526.
MOOC8/19.37, 1787. Added on 03 May 2022 Rachel Marais
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jacob by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
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