Johanna Petronella Humphries

Brief Life History of Johanna Petronella

When Johanna Petronella Humphries was born on 14 March 1822, in Bosch Fontein, Cape Province, South Africa, her father, William Stephen Humphries SV, was 25 and her mother, Martha Louisa van der Nest, was 17. She married Wentzel Christoffel Coetzer on 23 December 1838, in Somerset, Somerset, Cape Colony, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 9 August 1897, in Western Cape, South Africa, at the age of 75.

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Family Time Line

Wentzel Christoffel Coetzer
1814–1901
Johanna Petronella Humphries
1822–1897
Marriage: 23 December 1838
Johannes Jacobus Coetzer
1840–1929
Martha Louisa Coetzer
1841–1907
Catharina Margaretha Elizabeth Coetzer
1844–1880
Johannes Petrus Coetzer
1845–1915
Hannah Pietronella Fredrika Coetzer
1845–
Willem Stephanus Coetzer
1847–
Wentzel Christoffel Coetzer
1849–1904
Helena Claudina Coetzer
1851–
Jacoba Susannah Coetzer
1854–1917
Willem Humphries Stefanis Coetzer
1855–1933
Cornelia Elizabeth Coetzer
1856–1930
Gideon Frederik Johannes Coetzer
1858–1959
Elsje Maria Alberta Louisa Coetzer
1860–
James John Coetzer
1862–1933
Petrus Jochemus Prinsloo Coetzer
1865–1940

Sources (38)

  • Johanna Peternella Coetzer, "South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972"
  • H***** Petronella Humphris, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 "
  • Johanna Petronella Humphries, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 "

World Events (6)

1852

Sand River Convention. Britain recognizes Transvaal as the independent Afrikaner South African Republic.

1856

Xhosa cattle sacrifices lead to famine.

1867

Diamonds discovered in Orange Free State and Kimberley.

Name Meaning

English (West Midlands): variant of Humphrey , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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