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Farm · Brak River, later Middelburg district

Zevenfontein

The family farm across two death notices twenty-one years apart — and the district boundary moved under it. Johanna Catharina died here in 1863 when it was reckoned Brak River, Port Elizabeth; her husband died here in 1884 when it was Middelburg.

The place

NameZevenfontein
KindFarm
RegionBrak River, later Middelburg district
StandingDocumented

Why it is here

The family farm across two death notices twenty-one years apart — and the district boundary moved under it. Johanna Catharina died here in 1863 when it was reckoned Brak River, Port Elizabeth; her husband died here in 1884 when it was Middelburg.

WhenWhat
19 May 1863Johanna Catharina Booysen née Montjoy dies
30 Mar 1884Petrus Jacobus Booysen dies, leaving moveables only

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