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Personal data Johannes Augustus /Dreyer (Johannes Augustus) Dreijer b2 


Household of Johannes Augustus /Dreyer (Johannes Augustus) Dreijer b2

He is married to Jacoba Elizabeth Greeff.

They got married on February 10, 1754 at Swartland, Malmesbury, Kaapprovinsie, Zuid-Afrika.


Child(ren):

  2. Susanna Maria Dreyer  1756-1847 
  7. Hendrik Dreyer  1766-1835 


Notes about Johannes Augustus /Dreyer (Johannes Augustus) Dreijer b2

Johannes Augustus DREIJER (b1), die oudste seun van die stamvader, is op 10 Februarie 1754 getroud met Jacoba GREEF(F). F. Masson, “Account of Three Journeys from Cape Town,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 66, pt. 1 (1776): 268–317, soos na verwys in Carl Peter Thunberg, Travels at the Cape of Good Hope, 1772–1775, ed. V. S. Forbes (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1986), p. 276 n19. verwys na J. A. Dreyer se landgoed by “Het Riebeeckcasteel”.

*Johannes Augustus, baptized July 6, 1721, Dutch Reformed Church Stellenbosch. Witnesses: Jacob Coetser and Sara van Wyk. He married Jacoba Greeff in 1754 and died around 1790. Johannes Augustus entered the service of the VIC in 1739, when he was eighteen, as an adelborst, with a monthly salary of 10 florins and was made assistant in 1745 at 24 florins. He applied for burger papers in 1753. By the 1770s, he had an estate near Riebeek Kasteel (a mountain in the Swartland named after Governor Jan van Riebeeck), where he was described as “a wealthy and generous host” by one of his visitors. (from the research by Peter R Dreyer)

Baptised: 06 Jul 1721
Father: Isaac Dalgue
Mother: Sara van Wyck 
Witnesses: Jacob Coetser, Sara van Wyk
Source: Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK), Stellenbosch, Baptism register, 1688-1732, page 98. Repository: NG Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, G2 4/1. Transcribed by Ockert Malan, Lorna Newcomb and others. See also Die Stellenbosse Heemkring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johannes Augustus (b1) en Jacoba Greeff het tien kinders gehad. (Sien Redelinghuys; ook Dreyer stamboom vir ’n volledige lys).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c1 Johannes Augustus (ged 1754) trou 25 November 1787 Elisabeth Jacomina MUNNIK (ged 16 Sept 1770, oorl 8 April 1833)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c2 Susanna Martha (ged 27 Junie 1756) trou Kaapstad met Izak DE VLAMINGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c3 Sara Johanna (ged 1 Jan 1758) trou op 18 Okt 1778 met Johannes Hendrik FRANKE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c4 Jacoba Elisabeth (ged 5 Aug1759) trou op 18 Okt 1778 met Hendrik Albertus VAN NIEKERK – check teen v N stamboom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c5 Anna Cornelia (ged 23 Aug 1761) trou op 29 Sept 1782 met Lambert VAN SITTERT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c6 Hester Alida (24 Julie 1763) ongetroud oorlede

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c7 Hendrik (ged 13 Julie 1766, oorl 3 Maart 1835) MOOC 6/9/4 nr 653

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

trou

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(i) op 21 Maart 1791Kaapstad met Susanna Anna GREEF(F)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(ii) op 8 Des 1829 Paarl met Wilhelmina Maria VAN NIEROP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c8 Gerhardus Christiaan (geb 13 Julie 1766) trou op 9 Okt 1791 Kaapstad met Helena Hester GREEF(F)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c9 Sophia Adriana (ged 29 Julie 1770)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c10 Johannes Augustus (ged 2 Aug 1772) ongetroud oorlede

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Die derde geslag in SA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johannes Augustus b1c1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Die oudste seun van Johannes (b1) en Jacoba Greeff, Johannes Augustus b1c1 (geb 1754) trou op 25 Nov 1787 met Elisabeth Jacomina MUNNIK. Hul vierde kind, Johannes Augustus b1c1d4, verdrink tragies op 1 Des 1824 as die skip Julia vergaan. Meer detail? Hul ander kinders, wat almal in die Lutherse Kerk Kaapstad gedoop is, woon meestal teen die eerste helfte van die 19de eeu in en om Kaapstad: d3 Thomas Frederik by Heerengragt 24, d4 Johannes Augustus (wat in1824 verdrink) by Houtstraat 19 en d5 Gerhardus of Gerrit Dreyer by Buitenkant straat 7.


Precis of Requesten (Memorials) to the VOC 1715-1806 Vol 1

(Annexures to the Minutes of the Council of Policy)

HCV Leibbrandt Cape Times Ltd Government Printers 1905

 

1791   Lutheran Church Council … nominate as deacon…. on behalf of the burghers… and Johannes Augustus Dreijer (No 180 9th December)

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