Aletta Cornelia Anna van Breda

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Aletta Cornelia Anna de Waal was born on 9/5/1808 in Koeberg, she was baptised on 28/8/1808 and died on 23/1/1856 in Cape Town aged 47.

Aletta was the wife of Johan Adam Michiel van Breda b1c5d10 (~8.11.1801), s/o Alexander van Breda, b1c5 and Helena Hendrina Michiels.

Aletta and Johan married in the Swartland on 30/7/1827. They had 7 children:

1. Aletta Cornelia *19.5.1828 ~ Durbanville 20.7.1828, died before 29/1/1856
2. Helena Hester Jacoba * 21.12.1830 x Jacob Pieter van Reenen, s/o Daniel
3. Adriaan de Waal *17/9/1832 ~ Durbanville 21.10.1832, shop owner, x Worcester 27.05.1856 Margaretha Catharina Justina SWANEVELDER * 26 09 1836 † 25 08 1898 d/o Hendrik Erhard Swanevelder and Catharina Johanna Stofberg
4. Elizabeth * 11.11.1834, ~ 14.12.1834 Cape Town, died before 29/1/1856
5. Alexander * 9.3.1836, ~ 17.4.1836 Cape Town, x Worcester 21.12.1858 Catharina Johanna Maria SWANEVELDER * c. 1839 † Kimberley 27 10 1878 d/o Hendrik Erhard Swanevelder and Catharina Johanna Stofberg.
6. Elizabeth Grundlingh *1.4.1839, ~ 5.5.1839 Cape Town. She had an illegitimate son Johan Hendrik van Breda *06.08.1869, ~Worcester 07.11.1869.
7. Jan Adam Michielse *20.4.1843 ~ Cape Town 21.5.1843, † Groot Zanddrift, Napier 22 03 1914 x Napier 26.2.1867 Maria Magdalena van Dyk *1847 d/o Michiel Burgert van Dyk

Johan Adam Michiel owned the farm Welgedaan in Table Valley. Its splendid georgianised homestead, Hatfield House, was unfortunately demolished by the Provincial Administration in the late 1960’s.

Welgedaan homestead as depicted in "De Kaap Stad of Tafel Valeij“ ca 1804 painting by an unknown artist (owned by Adriaan Smuts and later his widow, from before 1790 to 1809) – in the Koopmans de Wet House Museum:

References:

• De Villiers and Lombard genealogies
• DRC baptismal entries
• Data confirmed with van Breda researcher Johan van Breda (Cape Town).

Compiled by Martina Louw, néé van Breda [Em Lo] (Descendant of Pieter's grandson Alexander, and his great-grandson Johan Adam Michiel van Breda)