Brief Life History of Magdalena Catharina
When Magdalena Catharina Marais was born in October 1887, in South Africa, her father, Pieter Charl Or Sarel Marais, was 30 and her mother, Anna Maria Fouche or Voesee, was 30. She married Willem Johannes Kaltwasser on 13 February 1906, in Worcester, Worcester, Cape Colony, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died in October 1962, in Paarl, Paarl, Cape Colony, South Africa, at the age of 75.
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- Magdalene Knipe, "South Africa, Civil Death Registration, 1955-1966"
- Magdalena Catharina Marais, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 "
- Magdalena Catharina Marais, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 "
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World Events (8)
1897
Part of Zululand incorporated into British colony of Natal. King Solomon ka Dinizulu exiled.
1899
British troops gather on the Transvaal border and ignore an ultimatum to disperse. The second Anglo-Boer War begins.
1909
British Parliament enacts the South Africa Act, proposed constitution of Union of South Africa.
Name Meaning
French: habitational name from any of various minor places in northern France named Marais, from Old French mareis ‘marsh’. Alternatively, the name may simply have been topographic. This surname is also established in South Africa. Compare Demarais .
Altered form of French Desmarais , a cognate of 1 above.
History: The South African bearers of the surname Marais (see 1 above) trace their origin to Charles Marais, a Huguenot from France, who arrived with his wife and children in the Dutch Cape Colony via the Netherlands in 1688. He is recognized as a French Huguenot ancestor by the Huguenot Society of South Africa.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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