Christina Margaretha was die dogter van Pieter Abraham van der Westhuizen en Magdalena Petronella Lambrechts.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1856.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle broer Pieter Abraham van der Westhuizen se sterfkennis van 1861.
Ongegunt
was a mixed wine and stock farm situated between Riebeeck Kasteel and Malmesbury.
First documented in 1708, the transfer of 1727 (T122 17.3.1727) indicated
that the 60 morgen property was left by their father to Jacobus and Andries van der
Heyde. It remained in the extended family line for another 105 years until being
sold to Michiel Nicolaas Smuts in 1813 (T 198 15 .10.1813), great -grandfather
of famous
South African statesman General Christian Smuts. Three inventories recorded the
contents of this farmstead in 1750 (Aletta Nobel and Sybrand, van Dyk MOOC817.51),
1788 (Sara van der Westhuysen and Johannes de Waal MOOC8/50.39) and
1812 (Johannes Burger and Margaretha Louw MOOC8/28.61). The inventoried layout of the house did not change from the four-roomed dwelling
first recorded
with voorhuis, rooms to right and left and kitchen. It was probably in the form of
the common T-plan house but may have been rebuilt. The inventories recorded a rural household of the middling sort of farmer.
Hendrik de Waal's father was certainly a rich man but the de Waals at Ongegunt were still a young couple when she apparently
died in childbirth with their second child- who survived. Farm labour was supplied
by eight male slaves in 1750 and there was only one woman slave, and similarly
in 1788 there were eleven men slaves and one woman. The 1812 list was more
descriptive so we learn that eight men slaves included a wagon driver,
coachman, shepherd
and gardener and there were four women slaves. Deeds
Office information showed that the farm was quickly passed on from person to person
in the 19th century. Andries Gobregt's daughters married Johannes Abraham Burger
and Jacobus Andries Louw and the farm passed from Gobregt first to Louw (T 163
26.8.1808) and then to Burger (T ll 2.2.1810) and then to Burger's brother Petrus
(T 164 18.9 .1812) and after his death it was sold to Michiel Smuts who had recently
married Maria Magdalena van der Byl (Tl98 15.10.1813). There was a dramatic
drop in price from f39500 in 1808 to f18000 in 1810, and then it shot up again
to f43000 in 1812. Fransen
and Cook (1980:253) suggested that an H-plan house was built by Smuts in about
1815 but it seems that rebuilding may already been started. For instance, a zolder
was first listed in 1812 and the number of farm outbuildings increased with the addition
of a stable, wagon house and buitenvenrek. The
voorhuis in a four-roomed farm house like this acted as entrance hall,
reception and
eating area. Racks on the wall held copper and pewter spoons in 1750 and porcelain
in 1788 but there were none in 1812. There were also wall-cupboards in the voorhuis
in 1788 that contained glassware, and twelve turned (gedraayde) chairs were particularly
pointed out by the appraisers. In 1812 the wall-cupboards were gone, or not
rebuilt, because they were presumably no longer in fashion as tableware was not displayed
here. A rustbank is listed both in 1750 and in 1812 in the voorhuis. The
front rooms were simply furnished with emphasis on the left-hand one. In 1750 the bed
was accompanied by a desk with silver spoons and forks and jewellery in it, a large
chest of clothes, two tables and eight chairs. There was a tea kettle there
too. In 1788 a
cabinet replaced the desk and chest, and two white earthen chamber pots were mentioned
but it is difficult to know if they were tin-glazed refmed earthenware or coarse
earthenware with pale glaze. It is unlikely that they were Staffordshire creamware
at this date. In 1812 the room had become more crowded. There were two beds,
two tables and nine chairs, a wardrobe held clothes and the tea machine was on
a table
but there was also much tableware of copper, pewter, dishes and plates, bowls and
pots and glasses. The most valuable items of furniture apart from beds were the groat
kist (with brass fittings) in the front room in 1750, a cajatonhoute cabinet in 1788,
and klederen kast in 1812. The
other front room may have been a smaller room, used as a store in 1750 and
1788, and
only by 1812 housing a couple of beds, gun rack and two chairs. The kitchen iri 1750
and 1788 contained the copper, pewter and iron utensils for food preparation
but in 1812
the tableware had been removed to the living room. Tablewares at Ongegunt in 1750
were dishes, plates and a bowl and were of pewter only and kept in the kitchen.
In 1788 a rack and wall-cupboard in the voorhuis held porcelain and glassware
but pewter was still in the kitchen, and in 1812 the voorhuis had a shelf with porcelain
pot and pewter coffee pot on it, but the (unspecified) tableware and glassware were in
the front room along with the tea machine. (https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/21617/thesis_sci_1993_malan_antonia.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)
eGGSA library
Gravestones in South Africa Weskaap : Western Cape Western Cape, MALMESBURY,
Urban area Western Cape, MALMESBURY, Old cemetery S - Surnames starting with
the letter S SMUTS vanne SMUTS J.M.L. 1821-1907 & C.M. v.d. WESTHUIZEN
1832-1901
Kinders:
g.1. Michiel Nicolaas SMUTS, geb. 24/10/1851, Riebeek Kasteel, ged. 02/11/1851, Swartland, oorl. 17/12/1934, Malmesbury x Maria Johanna Steyn, geb. 14/03/1887, oorl. 23/07/1942, Malmesbury.
g.2. Magdalena Petronella SMUTS, geb. 08/09/1853, Riebeek Kasteel, ged. 15/10/1853, Swartland, oorl. 22/11/1913, Paarl x Hendrik Albertyn, geb. 28/07/1850, Malmesbury, oorl. 24/12/1935, Paarl, s.v. Johannes Josephus albertyn en Magdalena Johanna Myburgh..
Kinders:
g.1. Michiel Nicolaas SMUTS, geb. 24/10/1851, Riebeek Kasteel, ged. 02/11/1851, Swartland, oorl. 17/12/1934, Malmesbury x Maria Johanna Steyn, geb. 14/03/1887, oorl. 23/07/1942, Malmesbury.
g.2. Magdalena Petronella SMUTS, geb. 08/09/1853, Riebeek Kasteel, ged. 15/10/1853, Swartland, oorl. 22/11/1913, Paarl x Hendrik Albertyn, geb. 28/07/1850, Malmesbury, oorl. 24/12/1935, Paarl, s.v. Johannes Josephus albertyn en Magdalena Johanna Myburgh..
g.3. Marthina SMUTS, geb. 12/06/1855, oorl. 04/02/1918 x Michiel Nicolaas Smit, geb.
03/11/1851, oorl. 23/09/1910, s.v. Hendrik Jacobus Smit en Gertruida Anna Smuts
xx Martin Johan Jasper Slabber, geb. 15/12/1844, Malmesbury, oorl. 04/03/1930,
Malmesbury, s.v Jacobus Hendrik Slabber en Cornelia Jacoba Louw
Tweede
Huwelik:
g.4. Pieter Abraham SMUTS
g.5. Johan Hendrik Loedolff SMUTS
g.6. Christina SMUTS
x Jacobus Lochner
g.7. Aletta SMUTS
x Albertus van Aarde
g.8. Johannes Petrus SMUTS
g.9. Ryk Johan Loedolff SMUTS
