When Alberta Janse van Rensburg was born in 1770, in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, her father, Nicolaas Janse van Rensburg, was 39 and her mother, Albertha van Rooyen, was 42. She married Hendrik Oosthuizen on 18 November 1787, in Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 17 March 1838, in South Africa, at the age of 68.
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The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie) was a Dutch United East India Company (VOC) Colony in Southern Africa, centered on the Cape of Good Hope, whence it derived its name. The original colony and its successive states that the colony was incorporated into occupied much of modern South Africa. Between 1652 and 1691 a Commandment, and between 1691 and 1795 a Governorate of the United East India Company (VOC). Jan van Riebeeck established the colony as a re-supply and layover port for vessels of the VOC trading with Asia.[2] The Cape came under VOC rule from 1652 to 1795 and again from 1803 to 1806.[3] Much to the dismay of the shareholders of the VOC, who focused primarily on making profits from the Asian trade, the colony rapidly expanded into a Settler Colony in the years after its founding. In 1795, after the Battle of Muizenberg in present-day Cape Town, the British occupied the colony. Under the terms of the Peace of Amiens of 1802, Britain acceded the colony to the Dutch on 1 March 1803.
English: see Janes .
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