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]
From the History of the De Villiers Family – D. P. De Villiers. Published 1960, Nasionale Boekhandel Bpk. Cape Town Bloemfontein Johannesburg. Page 125
↑ 3.03.13.23.3 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
↑ 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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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.
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.
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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.
edited by NC Brummer
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.
edited by NC Brummer
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