Christoffel Jurgens Antonie Johannes Renier Cordier

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Jacobus Cornelius Cordier by SmartCopy: Dec 30 2014, 13:40:14 UTC

From :Famnea Jaargang 10 Uitgawe 1

http://www.genza.org.za/index.php/en/nw-quarterly/cat_view/179-gssa...

"Ek kan onthou hoe opgewonde die NG Kerk (Kaapstad) argivaris destyds was toe hy ’n ene Jurgen Anthonie Johannes Reynier Cordier van Gamkaskloof se huwelik in die Colesberg se registers opgespoor het onder die naam “Korje”. Marriage1842 Widower Hy en Lydie Fouche (Voesee) het mekaar by Thaba Nchu ontmoet toe die Gamkaboere, omrede droogte in Prins Albert, agter weiding aan na die Vrystaat moes trek. Die kampkommadant het sy toestemming gegee dat Lydia by Jurie kon intrek, maar hulle moes by die eerste geordende gemeente waar hulle verby trek (Colesberg) die huwelik wettig."

There were actually two Cordier families in Gamkaskloof.

1) The Cordier genealogy of Gamkaskloof I had send you, as descibed by BM du Toit(People of the Valley and SA Tydskrif Kultuurgeskiedenis 1990 4,(3)). Consider that that is right, their timeline might look like:

I had still known Koos C.111 and his brother Bart C.114, is still alive. Koos was born ca1920, his father Koos(Koelie) C.33 must be *ca1890, his father Josop(Swart) Cordier C.14 *ca1870, his father Krisjan c.4 *ca1850, and then Josop(Joseph) C.1 might be the son of Jurgens Antonie(Johannes?) Reynier Christoffel(*1810) married to Jiedik(Judith) .Shown in SAG he was married to Johanna GM Oosthuizen. This family are not yet inserted on Geni.

2) The other Cordier family of Gamkaskloof(mainly with names Jacobus Cornelis), as already on my Geni registers, look like follows according to Carel Cordier:

Koot Cordier, my uncle(*1919), his father Petrus of Kleinberg  (*1885), his father Klein Koot of Elandspad *ca1850 and then his father Koot Stoffel might be Jacobus Cornelis SAG b8c7d8e8 (*1831). That means Christoffel Jurgens Antonie Johannes Renier Cordier rather belong to the first Cordier family(Krisjan C.4?).

3) The common ancester, Jacobus Cornelis Cordier(also spelled Coertje) SAG b8c7d8(*1774) become in 1857 the first Cordier land owner in Gamkaskloof. A family member of his wife, Danie Hartman was likely the first white man in Gamkaskloof