Dreyer Tree » Elisabetta (Elizabeth) Johanna Susanna du Plessis (1838-1914)

Personal data Elisabetta (Elizabeth) Johanna Susanna du Plessis 

  • She was born on February 9, 1838 in Pietermaritzburg.
  • She died on April 8, 1914 in Waterval, Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa, she was 76 years old.
    Oorzaak: inflamation stomach
  • She is buried in Waterval, Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa.

Household of Elisabetta (Elizabeth) Johanna Susanna du Plessis

(1) She is married to Barend Jacobus Frey.

They got married on February 25, 1871 at Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa, she was 33 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Jakobus Marthinus Frey  1871-1956 
  3. Anna Maria Frey  1875-????
  4. Daniellina Frey  1879-1916 


(2) She is married to Philippus Lodeicus Erasmus.

They got married

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Elisabetta (Elizabeth) Johanna Susanna du Plessis

Elisabetta (Elizabeth) Johanna Susanna du Plessis
1838-1914

(1) 1871

Barend Jacobus Frey
1825-1921

Jakobus Marthinus Frey
1871-1956
Helena Susara "Lenie" Frey
1873-1952
Anna Maria Frey
1875-????
Daniellina Frey
1879-1916
Magdalena Frey
(2) 

Philippus Lodeicus Erasmus


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Historical events

Birthday February 9, 1838

  • The temperature on February 9, 1838 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken winderig bui. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1838: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 6 » Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
    • January 26 » Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States.
    • February 17 » Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
    • July 4 » The Iowa Territory is organized.
    • September 3 » Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
    • December 16 » Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Day of marriage February 25, 1871

  • The temperature on February 25, 1871 was about 7.3 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
    • March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
    • March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
    • March 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
    • October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
    • December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

Day of death April 8, 1914

  • The temperature on April 8, 1914 was between 4.6 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
    • July 23 » Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
    • August 12 » World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
    • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
    • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
    • December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1834 » Felix Dahn, German lawyer, historian, and author († 1912)
  • 1837 » José Burgos, Filipino priest and revolutionary († 1872)
  • 1839 » Silas Adams, American colonel, lawyer, and politician († 1896)
  • 1846 » Whitaker Wright, English businessman and financier († 1904)
  • 1846 » Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach († 1929)
  • 1847 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh-English clergyman and theologian († 1902)

Source: Wikipedia


About the surname Du Plessis


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