Market Street, Pretoria
Elizabetha Margaretha Booijzen, born Marais, died in A ZINC BUILDING IN MARKET STREET on 1 JUNE 1900 — the capital's main street, four days before Lord Roberts entered the town. Her husband David Schalk Booijzen, the direct ancestor's brother, did not file her death notice for three years and nine months, and against the question about movable property he wrote “none. Compensation claim filed.”
The place
| Name | Market Street, Pretoria |
| Kind | Street |
| Region | Pretoria, Transvaal |
| Standing | Documented |
Why it is here
Elizabetha Margaretha Booijzen, born Marais, died in A ZINC BUILDING IN MARKET STREET on 1 JUNE 1900 — the capital's main street, four days before Lord Roberts entered the town. Her husband David Schalk Booijzen, the direct ancestor's brother, did not file her death notice for three years and nine months, and against the question about movable property he wrote “none. Compensation claim filed.”
| When | What |
|---|---|
| 1 Jun 1900 | Elizabetha Margaretha Marais dies in a zinc building here |
| 5 Jun 1900 | Lord Roberts enters Pretoria |
| 18 Mar 1904 | her husband files the death notice, estate 4795 |
| 27 Nov 1905 | he remarries at Pretoria, the register citing estate 4795 |