Anna Margaretha (Marais) Neethling (abt. 1799 - 1885)

Born about 1799 in Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Johannes Henoch Neethling — married 8 Dec 1822 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa

Descendants

Died 11 Jan 1885 at about age 86 in Neethlingshof, Stellenbosch, Cape Colony

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Biography

Anna Margaretha Marais (1799-1885)^[1] was the daughter of Charles Marais and Magdalena Maria de Villiers.

The Wolwedans, Neethlingshof Farm

In 1692, under Cape of Good Hope's Governor Simon van der Stel, the German immmigrant Willem Barend Lubbe received the grant for a farm on the Bottelarij hills overlooking False Bay. He named the farm "De Wolwedans", which means “The Dance of Wolves”, because he mistook the packs of jackals which roamed the countryside in those early days of European settlement for wolves. After he sold the farm in 1717, it changed hands a few times until 1788, when Charl Marais and his 18 year old wife Maria Magdalena de Villiers purchased it. They started improving the property by expanding the vineyards, building the cellars and planting tobacco. In 1802 they finished building a wine cellar. Maria and Charles had five children of whom two unfortunately died in infancy. They started to build the manor house but Charles died during 1813, just more than one year before the house was completed in 1814. The finishing of the house (where The Restaurant is currently housed) was personally supervised by Maria and the building was completed in 1814, with Maria adding the date as well as the 6 flower images with her own hands.

The two youngest children Anna Margaretha and her younger Petrus Johannes inherited the farm. She married Johannes Henoch Neethling, who bought out the portion of her brother, and changed the farm's name from "Wolwedans" to "Neethlingshof". When subsequently their youngest daugther Jeanne Francoise Neethling inherited the farm and married Jakobus Philippus Louw in 1870, they kept the name of the farm unchanged.. and it never changed since then. It is now the Neethlingshof Wine Estate^[2]

Sources

• WikiTree profile Marais-44 created through the import of My Family.Pretorius.Van_Wyk.DeWaal.Potgieter.2011.ged on Sep 19, 2011 by Judy Potgieter. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Judy and others.

1. ↑ Anna Margaretha Marais (1799-1885), ID MMB9-G4G at Familysearch.org
2. ↑ History at the website of Neethlingshof Wine Estate

• Baptism -

Anna Margaretha Marais South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers Name: Anna Margaretha Marais Event Type: Baptism Event Date: 26 Jan 1800 Event Place: Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa Father's Name: Sarel Marais Mother's Name: Magdalena Maria De Villiers Entry Number: 71 ,GS Film number:2214090 ,Digital Folder Number:004434402 ,Image Number: 00560 "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VFR1-CRW : accessed 21 December 2014), Anna Margaretha Marais, 26 Jan 1800, Baptism; citing p. , Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,090.

• Death Notice -

Anna Margaretha Marias Death Notice 100/85 Cape https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-HSCH-J?i=2150&cat=331262 Probates-D.N. 7821-9747 1884 1-100 1885

• Marriage -

Johannes Henoch Neetling South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives) Name Johannes Henoch Neetling Event Type Marriage Event Date 08 Dec 1822 Event Place Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa Gender Male Marital Status Single Spouse's Name Anna Margaretha Marais Spouse's Marital Status Single Spouse's Residence Place Kaapstad South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 Entry Number 18 GS Film number 2214093 Digital Folder Number 004434406 Image Number 00077 South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XK4Z-LMJ : 4 December 2014), Johannes Henoch Neetling and Anna Margaretha Marais, 08 Dec 1822, Marriage; citing p. , Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,093