Biography
Maria Petronella was born on 20 January 1818:[1]
- Name: Maria Petronella Van Eyssen
- Birth Date: 20 Jan 1818
- Father's Name: Matthys Coenraad Van Eyssen
- Mother's Name: Maria Christiana Loedolff
- Event Type: Baptism
- Event Date: 15 Feb 1818
- Event Place: Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
- Event Place (Original): Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
She was 26 years old when she married 27-year-old Andries Menso Horak in the Parsonage of the Stellenbosch Durch Reformed Church on 12 March 1844.[2]
There is no trace of her death other than a headstone on a farm cemetery near Potchefstroom indicating that she died on 1 February 1886.[3][4]
Sources
- ↑ "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VFT3-P2D : Thu Oct 26 04:34:53 UTC 2023), Entry for Maria Petronella Van Eyssen and Matthys Coenraad Van Eyssen, 15 Feb 1818
- ↑ "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1840-1973", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZHB-ZM68 : Fri Oct 20 10:22:32 UTC 2023), Entry for Andries Menro Hozak and Maria Petronella Van Eyssen, 12 Mar 1844
- ↑ SA Genealogical Society Graveyard Project
- ↑ Added by Des Lynch on 15 January 2024
- Added by Albert Kruger, 7 Jan 2016.