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Persönliche Daten Nicolaas Myburgh b2c4d2e1f1g4 

• Er wurde geboren vor 1839.
• Er wurde getauft am 2. Januar 1839.
• Er ist verstorben am 7. Oktober 1922.
• Ein Kind von Philippus Albertus Myburgh und Emerentia Gerharda van Wielligh
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 13. Juni 2015.

Familie von Nicolaas Myburgh b2c4d2e1f1g4

Er hat eine Beziehung mit Susanna Maria Delport.

Kind(er):

1. Susarra Elizabeth Myburgh  1886-????
2. Philippus Albertus Myburgh  1888-1959 
3. Johannes Albertus  1890-????
4. Nicolaas Jacobus  1892-????
5. Ryk Hendrik  1897-????
6. Emerentia Gerharda Myburgh  1893-????

Notizen bei Nicolaas Myburgh b2c4d2e1f1g4

{geni:occupation} wine master

{geni:about_me} Nicolaas was the 5th Myburgh generation to be the Master at Meerlust. He took over after his father's death in 1883 when he was 44 years old. He was already married to Susanna Maria Delport, and was setteled in Caledon. Not much is documented by Niclaas nor his wife on the events at Meerlust. Meaning more Colonial vineyard history, and South African history appears here, as it affects all vineyards, including Meerlust.

The Cape vineyards again suffered a tragedy, as 'Phylloxera vastatrix' , an aphid-like insect, which infests in the roots of vines, and by sucking them, causes galls to form on the leaves, and nodules on the roots, so the entire plant eventually rots; had escaped from North America to Europe , France , and from Europe to Mowbray, where it was 1st seen. In 1880 the government banned the importation of all plants to the Colony. The populace was quickly upset, however the damage had already been done....
Inspections were done and found that phylloxera had moved from Mowbray to Constantia through Tokai, and well on its way to the interior. By 1886 the pest had reached Moddergat, not far from Meerlust, yet by 1895 it was established that the complete valley, including Meerlust had been infected. During this period scientific research to rid this pest had failed. So the wine masters had no choice but to uproot, and destroy, by burning all their plants. This was a drastic move to rid the insect, but it worked.
Many Cape wine masters lost everything.
Meerlust and Nicolaas Myburgh survived.
We are not sure how the Anglo Boer War, 1899 - 1902, the Union forming in 1910, & the 1st world war, starting in 1914 had on Meerlust; nor the catastrophic flu epidemic at its worst in the Cape in 1918 had influenced Meerlust business.
A lady named Alys Trotter, visited farms on her ladies bicycle drawing amazing sketches of the old houses, and writing stories, and making good notes about their architecture, and embellishment... The result of these were 2 books : Old Colonial Houses of the Cape of Good Hope, and Old Cape Colony: A Cronicle of her Men and Houses. Both were published in London, on her return to England. Naturally, Meerlust was visited, and written about.
A South African lady, Dorothea Fairbridge, do Charles Fairbridge, a well known Solicitor, followed her footsteps.
She however travelled by chauffeur driven car. She wrote a series of articles on Old Cape houses, published in 1911 by the periodical The State. Meerlust also covered here referring to the fact that the house still possessed '' much of its original dignity'' and also about the '' unusually fine out-buildings, with elaborate decorations in plaster work '', and that '' the pigeon house, the wine cellar, the graceful stairs leading to the lofts, the dignified bell-tower - all these things testify that Meerlust is no ordinary house''.
An America Born, one Arthur Elliot took photographs of 'Cape Dutch Houses'. He took photos of all of them. He spent a lot of time at Meerlust, taking photographs of wall textures, gables, details of the interior, and exterior, the bell-tower, Nicolaas Myburgh and his wife on the stoep, and so on....

On 8 November 1911, Nicolaas & Susanna made their last joint will.
He died at Meerlust, aged 83, on 07 October 1922.
Here they bequeathed Meerlust to their eldest son Philippus Albertus.
Their 2nd son Nicolaas Jacobus inherits neighbouring farm, Klein Welgemoed.
Their 3rd sonJohannes Albertus inherits Klawervlei, an adjourning farm.
Ryk Hendrik inherits 85 morgen and 345 sq. roods land at the Moddergat.
The total value of the estate was valued at 21 978 pounds.
Susanna dies in 1940 aged 84, and buried next to her husband in the family graveyard.
Plilippus Albertus lll now 52years old, becomes the 6th Myburgh wine master at Meerlust.

## Meerlust - 300 YEARS OF HOSPITALITY Phillida Brooke Simonds .

Farinaceous crops such as wheat and rye were still cultivated on a large scale at Meerlust at this time.
The last crops were replaced by vineyards in the late 1950's by Nicolaas Myburgh.

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