b3 Christoffel getroud: 24 Dec 1749 Anna Hasselaar

c8 Clara Susanna gedoop: 1 Dec 1743, getroud: Petrus F.M. Briers

Clara Susanna Groenewald in South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970

• Petrus Franciscus Melchior Briers
• Marriage: Feb 19 1775
• Stellenbosch, Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa
• Marital status: Single
• Wife: Clara Susanna Groenewald
• Entry Number: 55
• GS Film number: 2214092
• Digital Folder Number: 004434404
• Image Number: 00718 http://www.geni.com/discussions/153082?msg=1070538

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Clara Groenewald, wife of Petrus Briers (who was a retired surgeon), died in her seventies in 1817 (MOOCS/33.35) so this household was well appointed but perhaps old-fashioned. A particularly detailed list was taken of their possessions and so I have described it quite fully. In the voorhuis of gaandery - voor de glasen - were four old red chintz curtains. Aan de want were pictures, trays, mirrors, and another curtain pulled across the gable window als synde de gaanderye niet gesoldertF. Op de grond were eighteen chairs, a rustbank, two yellowwood and a stinkwood tea tables on which were green cloths, two tea urns and trays. There was a chestnutwood table and chestnutwood porcelain cupboard with glass doors (which contained porcelain, flowered and other earthenware, blue glass, a tin teapot, wine and other glasses) and an onderkast containing clay pipes and other things. The first voorkamer to the right had blue linen curtains. Op de grand was a stinkwood cabinet containing linen and clothes, a desk, an antique ambons wardrobe, mirror, table, bed, gueridon, three chairs and four foot-stoves. The second room to the right held kitchenware, irons, food preparation utensils and stores, as well as a kiaat bed with white linen hangings. On the left was a voorkamer like an 18th century room, with twelve stinkwood chairs, kiaat tea tables with green cloths and a red lacquered tray, a gueridon and fmally a kiaat curtained bed. The bedding and clothes were both described as being "in" the bed. A kitchen and pantry completed this inventory.

Reference: HOUSEHOLDS OF THE CAPE, 1750 TO 1850. INVENTORIES AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD. ANTONIA MALAN. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, 1993. (p.104)