Magdalena Catharina Marais

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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Family Time Line

Willem Johannes Kaltwasser
1873–1929
Magdalena Catharina Marais
1887–1962
Marriage: 13 February 1906
Nicolaas Kaltwasser
1908–1984
Pieter Sarel Kaltwasser
1910–1980
Anna Maria Kaldwasser
1914–1995
Willem Johannes Kaltwasser
1916–1994
Hendrik Hermanus Kaltwasser
1919–1977
Johannes Christoffel Kaltwasser
1921–1982
Martha Maria Kaltwasser
1925–1967
Magdalena Katerina Kaltwasser
1927–1928
Abraham Petrus Kaltwasser
1929–

Sources (15)

  • 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 "

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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