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Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe

THE ELEVENTH OF THE TWELVE, AND HE NEVER MARRIED. His civil death registration completes field 14 as JOHN GERSON ELIEZER KOLBE, FARMER and field 15 as ANNA JACOBA VAN DER MERWE — the Commandant and his wife, both named in full, the mother’s MAIDEN surname given correctly. A STOCK FARMER OF GEORGIA, DISTRICT BLOEMFONTEIN, entered as Dutch, born in the Orange Free State, buried at Georgia; the medical practitioner Dr S. A. de Kock; the informant signed from THABA’NCHU in the capacity of arranging the burial. Dead at sixty on 14 September 1923 after a last illness the form records in two columns at once — two days, and many years. HE IS ENTERED AS UNMARRIED AND THE FORM THEN GIVES AN AGE AT MARRIAGE OF 24. Both are on the page; field 6 says unmarried and field 7, which only applies if he was married, carries a number. This archive is not going to choose between them and does not need to — nothing here turns on it. TWO FORMS, ONE MOTHER, TWO ANSWERS. His sister Catharina Wilhelmina’s registration of 1909 was asked for the same mother’s MAIDEN surname and was given her MARRIED one, Kolbe, after a crossed-out word. His gives van der Merwe. The field is identical; the informants were not, and that is the whole difference between a document that closes a question and one that merely repeats a household.

Parents
John Gerson Eliezar Kolbe7 Jul 1822 – 3 Apr 1868recordAnna Jacoba van der Merwerecord
Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe1863 – 14 Sep 1923Kolbe
10 siblings
Catharina Wilhelmina Kolbe1844 – 3 Feb 1909George Augustus Kolbe of 1845b. 30 Sep 1845Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941Jan Hendrik Kolbe5 Jul 1849 – 1924Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 18524 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854b. 16 Feb 1854Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwbergb. 1856Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860b. 15 Aug 1860Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864b. 3 Nov 1864Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930

Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found. He is drawn in because two of his children were baptised to a McCabe mother in the same congregation, which is corroboration and not proof.

the direct line, argued on the line from a record this archive has read inferred, not stated from the family tree, unverified 12 of the 13 relationships shown are written in a record this archive has read. 1 comes from the family tree and is unverified. What Was Searched → Married 3 April 1843; he died on the same date twenty-five years later, leaving her with twelve children — eight sons and four daughters, which is his obituary's own count. NONE OF THE TWELVE WAS NAMED IN A DOCUMENT HERE UNTIL 27 SEPTEMBER 2026, when the Free State and Cape Dutch Reformed baptism registers were searched on HER name rather than on his. ELEVEN OF THE TWELVE ARE BELOW, and ten of them are named as this couple's by a baptism register or a civil death registration — not by a tree. THE TENTH CAME LAST AND IS THE FIRST IN ORDER: CATHARINA WILHELMINA, born 1844 in the Cape Colony, whose own 1909 death registration names this father and this mother and states that she had been married to a PIENAAR before the ANDERSON she died as — which is what turned a probable sixth child into the documented eldest. They are drawn in birth order, which is also the order the fonts move: Colesberg in 1846, Fauresmith in 1848 and 1849, then Bloemfontein from 1860, so the register records this household's move to the town without anybody writing it down. ONE IS STILL MISSING and the obituary is the authority for there being twelve. BOTH OF THE LAST TWO CAME OUT OF THE FREE STATE CIVIL DEATH REGISTERS ON ONE AFTERNOON, found by searching that index for their FATHER rather than for themselves — which is how a daughter filed under a married surname this archive had never heard of, and a son whose forenames run two of his brothers' together, were both reached.

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The record

NameJohan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe
Also writtenthe registrar runs two of this family’s names together — Jan Hendrik and Johan Casimir are both his brothers’
Born1863, Orange Free State
Died14 Sep 1923, Bloemfontein — aged 60
LineKolbe
ConfidenceDocumented

What the archive holds

THE ELEVENTH OF THE TWELVE, AND HE NEVER MARRIED. His civil death registration completes field 14 as JOHN GERSON ELIEZER KOLBE, FARMER and field 15 as ANNA JACOBA VAN DER MERWE — the Commandant and his wife, both named in full, the mother’s MAIDEN surname given correctly. A STOCK FARMER OF GEORGIA, DISTRICT BLOEMFONTEIN, entered as Dutch, born in the Orange Free State, buried at Georgia; the medical practitioner Dr S. A. de Kock; the informant signed from THABA’NCHU in the capacity of arranging the burial. Dead at sixty on 14 September 1923 after a last illness the form records in two columns at once — two days, and many years. HE IS ENTERED AS UNMARRIED AND THE FORM THEN GIVES AN AGE AT MARRIAGE OF 24. Both are on the page; field 6 says unmarried and field 7, which only applies if he was married, carries a number. This archive is not going to choose between them and does not need to — nothing here turns on it. TWO FORMS, ONE MOTHER, TWO ANSWERS. His sister Catharina Wilhelmina’s registration of 1909 was asked for the same mother’s MAIDEN surname and was given her MARRIED one, Kolbe, after a crossed-out word. His gives van der Merwe. The field is identical; the informants were not, and that is the whole difference between a document that closes a question and one that merely repeats a household.

The KolbesWhat Has Been Read

Households

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 the family tree James Jonathan Mountjoy and Maria Louisa Bertha Kumm 10 head born c. Jun 1854 – 22 Dec 1937 a record read here Married in community of property at Dordrecht.…

The Kolbes

…Colesberg in 1846, Fauresmith in 1848 and 1849, and Bloemfontein from 1860 onwards.…

The Marriages

…4 Jul 1819, ST ANNE’S SOHO — Johan Casimir Kolbe 1844 or 1845 — three sources give three years 11 Mar 1906, Smithfield, Orange River Colony Johan Gottlieb Kolbe c. 1764 18 Nov 1845, London Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863, Orange Free State 14 Sep 1923, Bloemfontein — aged 60 John Gerson Eliezar Kolbe 7 Jul 1822, Uitenhage 3 Apr 1868, the farm Leeuwberg — aged 45 John Gottlob Kolbe — — John Henry Kolbe bapt. 29 Jul 1800, St James, Westminster 13 Apr 1832, buried 22 Apr 1832, German Lutheran Church John Kolbe — — John Kolbe the younger — — Julia Kolbe — — Juliet Rosinia Kolbe bapt.…

The People

…AND IT RHYMES WITH THE FIRST LIST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER — in December 1799 one of 234 masters over the Combination Acts, a young man at 18 Broad-street; in April 1834 a firm with a partner and a Bond Street address, seventy years old, on the masters’ side of the same argument. The Kolbes Church Street South The Gazette His children Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe also written the registrar runs two of this family’s names together — Jan Hendrik and Johan Casimir are both his brothers’ Documented 1863, Orange Free State 14 Sep 1923, Bloemfontein — aged 60 THE ELEVENTH OF THE TWELVE, AND HE NEVER MARRIED.…

Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Anna Jacoba van der Merwe

…16 Feb 1854 record Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 record Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 record Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 record Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 record Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 family tree Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Catharina Wilhelmina Kolbe

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

George Augustus Kolbe of 1845

…16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Jan Hendrik Kolbe

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe

…His civil death registration completes field 14 as JOHN GERSON ELIEZER KOLBE, FARMER and field 15 as ANNA JACOBA VAN DER MERWE — the Commandant and his wife, both named in full, the mother’s MAIDEN surname given correctly.…

John Gerson Eliezar Kolbe

…16 Feb 1854 record Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 record Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 record Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 record Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 record Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 family tree Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852

…30 Sep 1845 Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein 2 Aug 1847 – 23 Apr 1941 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

Williem Johannes Kolbe of Panfontein

…30 Sep 1845 Jan Hendrik Kolbe 5 Jul 1849 – 1924 Petrus Jacobus Kolbe of 1852 4 May 1852 – 7 Nov 1919 Margaretha Elizabeth Kolbe of 1854 b. 16 Feb 1854 Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg b. 1856 Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860 b. 15 Aug 1860 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe 1863 – 14 Sep 1923 Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864 b. 3 Nov 1864 Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe of Bloemspruit 22 Oct 1859 – 18 Dec 1930 Frederik Fortunatus is here on a user tree's word and nothing else. His death registration names no parents — that line of the form is completed only for a deceased under ten — and the register of his baptism has not been found.…

The Register

…ree years · 11 Mar 1906, Smithfield, Orange River Colony no public link reconstructed by this archive Johan Gottlieb Kolbe reconstructed c. 1764 · 18 Nov 1845, London no public link reconstructed by this archive Johan Hendrik Casimir Kolbe Birth 1863 · with: Gertruida Jacomina Louw record ↗ South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1801-1974 Johan Hendrik Cassimir Kolbe reconstructed 1863, Orange Free State · 14 Sep 1923, Bloemfontein — aged 60 no public link reconstructed by this archive Johannas Kolbe Burial 27 Jan 1917 | Death Plumstead, Cape Province, South Africa record ↗ South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records, 1872-2011 Johannes Frederik Kolbe Death 18 Apr 1957 Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa | Birth 1899 Transvaal record ↗ South A…

Others on the Kolbe side

A.M. Kolbe of Piet Retief
4 May 1843 – 21 Sep 1907, Piet Retief
A Werdmuller child of 1857
14 Feb 1857, baptised 10 Apr 1857 at Burgersdorp – —
Adriana Henrietta Johanna Kolbe
12 Aug 1881, baptised 23 Oct 1881 at Bethulie – —
Amelia A. Kolbe
1816 – —
Amy Werdmuller
“MARTINEAU — WERDMULLER — On July 31 [1909], at EAST LONDON, HORACE RO
Andries Frederick Kolbe of Leeuwberg
1856 – —
Angeline Kolbe
c. 1872 – 15 Nov 1900, Wakkerstroom — aged 28
Anna Jacoba Kolbe of 1864
3 Nov 1864, baptised Bloemfontein 1 Jan 1865 – —
Anna Jacoba van der Merwe
SHE REMARRIED, AND HER SECOND HUSBAND IS WHY SHE WAS HARD TO FIND. The
Anna Johanna Kolbe of Burgersdorp
29 Dec 1863, baptised 28 Feb 1864 at Burgersdorp – —
Anna Maria Viljoen
A WOMAN THIS ARCHIVE DID NOT HOLD UNTIL THE LAST 214 IMAGES OF THE BUR
Anna Susanna Kolbe of 1860
15 Aug 1860, baptised Bloemfontein 7 Oct 1860 – —
Anna van der Merwe of Burgersdorp
The third godparent at the 1853 Barry font, and the only one who is no
Augusta Louisa Kolbe
1829, Graaff-Reinet – 1873 — death notice KAB MOOC 6/9/145, 9981

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