Charles Marais
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Charl Marais (bef. 1761 - 1813)

Charl (Charles) "Carel, Sarel" Marais
Born before in Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
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Husband of — married 27 Jul 1788 (to 1813) [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died after age 51 in Stellenbosch, Cape Colonymap
Profile last modified | Created 10 May 2015
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Table Bay, South Africa (1762)
Charles Marais was part of the settlement of the Dutch Cape Colony.
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Biography

Name

Carel Marais[1] / Charles Marais[2]

Birth

Date: in 1761[2]

Baptism

Baptised: 31 May 1761[3]
Charl [3]
Father: Pieter MARAIS[3]
Mother: Anna Margaretha KRIGE[3]
Drakenstein baptisms: "1761", "31 dito [maij]"[4]
Charl
V. pieter marais
m. Anna Margaretha Krige
g. Charl marais, en margaritha bauer

Marriage

Married Magdalena Maria de Villiers 27 July 1788 [1]
NOTE - No marriage record found yet, but there is the baptism of one son Charl Gerhardus, on 23 December 1792[5]

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 . 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[6]

Death

Date: about 1816[2]
From death records: "1813", the first death and burial:[7][8]
Den 2 Februarij - Den Burger Sarel Maraijs, oud 51 Jaaren 8 Maanden
Den 4 dito [Feb] - Begrafen op het kerkhof
The given age exactly fits with the baptism.
His wife subsequently married his next younger brother Johannes Stefanus

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 WikiTree profile Marais-2504 created by Desireé Erasmus 19 Mar 2020. Source:
    • From the History of the De Villiers Family – D. P. De Villiers. Published 1960, Nasionale Boekhandel Bpk. Cape Town Bloemfontein Johannesburg. Page 125
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 WikiTree profile Marais-850 created by Hannes Marais 10 May 2015
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Source: Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK), Drakenstein, Baptism register, 1746-1775, page 85, entry number 2. Repository: NG Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, G3 3/2. Image 558 on FamilySearch film no. 008120997. Note: Witness names not transcribed 1756-1775.. Transcribed by Corney Keller, from photocopies of Cape Archives VC 645 and Cornel Viljoen from LDS film no. 008120997. http://www.eggsa.org/cgi-bin/dosearchBaptisms.pl Bygevoeg deur Bernard Heymann, 16 Mar 2019
  4. Transcribed by NC Brummer from Image of baptism page
  5. Image with two pages of Drakenstein baptisms, birth on the 12th:
    den 23 dito [baptised], Gebooren den 12 dito
    Charl Gerardus
    v. Charl Marais Ptr: zoon
    m. Magdalena Maria de Villiers
    g. Johannes Marais Ptr: zoon
    Susanna Maria de Villiers
    Pouwel de Villiers
    Johanna Aletta Marais
    Transcribed from baptism record by NC Brummer
  6. History at the website of Neethlingshof Wine Estate
  7. Transcribed by NC Brummer from Image of death notice
  8. Identical death for "Charl Marais" copied to the list at MOOC6-Vol2-p194 (added at end of 1812!), link plus righthand page




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same spouse...........

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posted by Desireé Erasmus
Marais-2504 and Marais-850 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate profiles
posted by Desireé Erasmus
Marais-2504 and Marais-850 are not ready to be merged because: Separate individuals with the same name are still a possibility. One individual may have the siblings mentioned in the one profile and the other individual may have children as mentioned in the other profile.
posted by Schalk Wilhelm Pienaar
But the de Villiers Pama book says all these children belong together, with the same mother. How many Charles Gerhardus Marais' died at Jonkershoek in 1854? The child defines who this father must be. Same for the other one.
posted by NC Brummer
Marais-2504 and Marais-850 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate. Same parents, date of birth and siblings
posted by Desireé Erasmus
In the De Villiers Pama register of old Cape families, this Charles is b2.c2.d4.e6:

a1: Charles Marais x Catherine Taboureux, came in 1688 on "Voorschoten"

b2: Charles, *1688 x Anna de Ruelle

c2: Daniel ~ 1698-6-8, Drakenstein x 1720-2-25 Aletta Rossouw

d4: Petrus ~ 1726-3-24, Swellendam x 1752-11-12 Anna Margaretha Krige

e6: Charles ~ 1761-4-31, Stellenbosch x 1788-7-27 Magdalena Maria de Villiers

f1: Susanna Johanna ~ 1787-7-5 x Wynand Victor

f2: Petrus Johannes ~1791-3-20, died young, name reused for later brother

f3: Charles Gerhardus *1792-12-12 +1854-9-5, Nectar, Jonkershoek x Helena Johanna Krynauw xx 1821-9-1 Petronella Elisabeth Nielen

f4: Cornelis Ernestus, ~ 1794-9-7 x Christina Helena Krynauw, wed Watts

f5: Anna Margaretha ~ 1796-12-4, short lived, name reused for next daughter

f6: Anna Margaretha ~1800-1-26 x Jan Henoch Neethling

f7: Petrus Johannes ~ 1802-4-4 x 1833-5-4 Johanna Susanna Neethling

The children make this Carel/Charles a duplicate of Charles Marais-850, where we only find Charles Gerhardus

The two clearly need to be merged, so I've added the children needed to make it complete.

posted on Marais-2504 (merged) by NC Brummer
edited by NC Brummer
I have no proof from images or transcriptions, but in my books..

this Charles Marais-850 had as daughter Susanna Johanna Marais-1856, with his wife De_Villiers-3058, who he married on 27 july 1788.

This makes Carel Marais-2504 a duplicate of Charles Marais-850.

Since I could not add the remaining children here, I've added them to Marais-2504, based on de Villiers Pama.

posted by NC Brummer
edited by NC Brummer
In the De Villiers Pama register of old Cape families, this Charles is b2.c2.d4.e6:

a1: Charles Marais x Catherine Taboureux, came in 1688 on "Voorschoten"

b2: Charles, *1688 x Anna de Ruelle

c2: Daniel ~ 1698-6-8, Drakenstein x 1720-2-25 Aletta Rossouw

d4: Petrus ~ 1726-3-24, Swellendam x 1752-11-12 Anna Margaretha Krige

e6: Charles ~ 1761-4-31, Stellenbosch x 1788-7-27 Magdalena Maria de Villiers

f1: Susanna Johanna ~ 1787-7-5 x Wynand Victor

f2: Petrus Johannes ~1791-3-20

f3: Charles Gerhardus *1792-12-12 +1854-9-5, Nectar, Jonkershoek x Helena Johanna Krynauw xx 1821-9-1 Petronella Elisabeth Nielen

f4: Cornelis Ernestus, ~ 1794-9-7 x Christina Helena Krynauw, wed Watts

f5: Anna Margaretha ~ 1796--12-4, short lived

f6: Anna Margaretha ~1800-1-26 x Jan Henoch Neethling

f7: Petrus Johannes ~ 1802-4-4 x 1833-5-4 Johanna Susanna Neethling

posted by NC Brummer

Rejected matches › Charles Morris (1762-)