Lichtenburg
Where this family's western Transvaal branch is, and it is a branch rather than a lead now. Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen — fifth of the eight children on the 1876 Sterfkennis, born district Graaff-Reinet about 1818 — died on the farm Vaalbank in this district on 25 May 1885, estate TAB MHG O/2899. His daughter Magdalena Susanna Maria died on the same farm on 1 May 1920, and her Sterfkennis names him. Lichtenburg is one district west of Rustenburg, where his father died in 1876, and one district east of Marico.
The place
| Name | Lichtenburg |
| Kind | District |
| Region | Western Transvaal |
| Standing | Documented |
Why it is here
Where this family's western Transvaal branch is, and it is a branch rather than a lead now. Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen — fifth of the eight children on the 1876 Sterfkennis, born district Graaff-Reinet about 1818 — died on the farm Vaalbank in this district on 25 May 1885, estate TAB MHG O/2899. His daughter Magdalena Susanna Maria died on the same farm on 1 May 1920, and her Sterfkennis names him. Lichtenburg is one district west of Rustenburg, where his father died in 1876, and one district east of Marico.
| When | What |
|---|---|
| 25 May 1885 | Jan Gerthardus Lodewikus Booijsen dies at Vaalbank, aged 67 |
| 1 May 1920 | his daughter Magdalena Susanna Maria van den Berg, born Booyzen, dies on the same farm |