Cornelia Johanna Wessels

Reference no.: MOOC8/70.48a Testator(s): Cornelia Wessels

25 October 1827

Inventory and appraisement of the effects left by the intestate death of Cornelia Wessels to her surviving husband Pieter Charl de Bruijn

and to the minor children begotten in wedlock, named 1) Pieter Jacob de Bruyn born on the 15th November 1822 2) Cornelia Johanna Jurriena de Bruyn born on the 26th July 1825 3) Mattheus Henricus de Bruyn born on the 29th August 1827

as also to the children procreated in wedlock by her first deceased husband Pieter Arnoldus Badenhorst named 1) Geertruyda Jacomina Petronella Badenhorst born on the 29 January 1817 2) Johannes Wilhelmus Badenhorst born on the 14 December 1818 3) Pieter Arnoldus Badenhorst born on the 12 January 1821

the aforesaid estate having been inventoried and appraised by the undersigned Commissioners of the Board of Orphan Masters and consist in the following, viz:t

Rd:s £ The place called Drooge Kloof situated at the Kwartel Rivier, Rivier zonder Einde, in the district of Caledon 6666:32 500:--

In the parler Rd:s £ three tables 12:-- 0:18:-- one sofa 3:-- 0:4:6 one looking glass 0:6:-- 0:0:2 1/4 two waiters 2:-- 0:3:-- six wine glasses 0:36 0:1:1 1/2 four beer glasses 1:-- 0:1:6 a tin bread basket 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 two copper kettles 6:-- 0:9:-- a chafing dish 5:-- 0:7:6 two foot stools 0:12 0:0:4 1/2

In two wall cupboard’s Rd:s £ two tea pots 1:-- 0:1:6 two butter pots 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 two sauce pots 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 seventy two plates /:sorted:/ 6:-- 0:9:-- twelve dishes 3:-- 0:4:6 twelve forks 1:44 0:2:3 twelve spoons 1:44 0:2:3 a soupturrine with a tin soup ladle 1:-- 0:1:6 six cups and saucers 0:36 0:1:1 1/2 four candle sticks 1:24 0:2:3 a pair of snuffers 0:6 0:0:2 1/4 two earthen sugar pots 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 three silver tea spoons 3:-- 0:4:6 two silver tea forks 2:-- 0:3:-- two silver table spoons 5:-- 0:7:6

In the front room to the right Rd:s £ a chest 2:-- 0:3:-- a table 2:-- 0:3:-- a looking glass 1:-- 0:1:6 a wardrobe 30:-- 2:5:6 a bedstead with curtains 10:-- 0:15:-- a stretcher 1:24 0:2:3 a feather bed, bolster, 4 pillows and the blanket 15:-- 1:2:6 three cannisters 3:-- 0:4:6 a Bible 5:-- 0:7:6 eight books sorted 2:-- 0:3:-- a chamber pot 0:24 0:0:9

In the front room to the left Rd:s £ a corner cupboard 6:-- 0:9:-- a bedstead with curtains 10:-- 0:15:-- a stretcher 1:24 0:2:3 a featherbed, bolster, 4 pillows and one blanket 15:-- 1:2:6 a lanthorn 1:-- 0:1:6 a wash hand bason and jug 1:-- 0:1:6 a chamber pot 0:24 0:0:9

In a backroom to the left Rd:s £ a bedstead with curtains 10:-- 0:15:-- a stretcher 1:24 0:2:3 a chamber pot 0:24 0:0:9 a chest 2:-- 0:3:--

In the kitchen Rd:s £ a table 1:-- 0:1:6 three kettles 1:24 0:2:3 six iron pots 12:-- 0:18:-- a baking trough 5:-- 0:7:6 a pot rack 2:-- 0:3:-- a iron fork 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 a iron pot ladle 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 a tripod 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 a showel 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 two pot chain 2:-- 0:3:-- a washing tub 0:24 0:0:9 a cake pan 0:24 0:0:9 a pail 1:-- 0:1:6

In a store Rd:s £ two chests 5:-- 0:7:6 five earthen pots 2:-- 0:3:-- six bottles 0:24 0:0:9 nine flasks 1:12 0:1:10 1/2 two earthen jugs 0:24 0:0:9 two smoothing irons 1:-- 0:1:6 two churns 4:-- 0:6:-- two pails 2:-- 0:3:-- two butter tubs 1:-- 0:1:6 a mail sieve 2:-- 0:3:-- a half leaguer 5:-- 0:7:6 a bread knife 1:-- 0:1:6 two casks for salting meat 2:-- 0:3:--

Upstairs Rd:s £ a half piece of canvas 10:-- 0:15:-- twenty muid sacks 10:-- 0:15:-- a chest 1:24 0:2:3 twelve sickles and some lumber 1:24 0:2:3 an old wardrobe 5:-- 0:7:6 two salt chests 2:-- 0:3:--

In an outhouse Rd:s £ a set of smiths tools and a quantity of old iron 50:-- 3:15:-- a carpenters worktable 5:-- 0:7:6 two pick axes 1:-- 0:1:6 two pieces of stinkwood planks each ten feet long 2:-- 0:3:-- three borers 1:24 0:2:3 a [borers] 1:-- 0:1:6 a frame saw 1:-- 0:1:6 a hatchet 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 an addice 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 a cutting knife 0:12 0:0:4 1/2 some waggonmakers wood and some lumber 5:-- 0:7:6

In the waggon store Rd:s £ a horse waggon complete 180:-- 13:10:-- a horse waggon unfinish 150:-- 11:5:-- two ploughs 10:-- 0:15:-- a harrow 2:-- 0:3:-- a span of yokes and 2 ox traces 10:-- 0:15:--

Outside Rd:s £ a defective bullock waggon 50:-- 3:15:-- twenty geese twenty fowels two pigs a ladder and some wood 5:-- 0:7:6

In the stable Rd:s £ ten waggon and saddle horses 400 30

In the kraal Rd:s £ forty five breeding horses 450:-- 33:15:-- twenty seven draught oxen 405:-- 30:7:6 six kows and six calves 60:-- 4:10:-- four hundred breeding sheep 600:-- 45:--:-- one hundred and ninety lambs 190:-- 14:5:-- twenty ewes /:goats:/ 20:-- 1:10:-- ten kids 5:-- 0:7:6 ten heads breeding cattle at the place of M:r Matth:s H:s Wessels Jans son 50:-- 3:15:-- three oxen at M:r Hermanus Wessels 45:-- 3:7:6

Slaves Rd:s £ a male slave named Adam of this Colony 20 years of age 1000 75:--:-- a male slave named April of Mosambicque 30 years of age, labourer 1000 75:--:-- a male slave named September of this Colony 11 years of age /:blind in one eye:/ 300:-- 22:10:-- a female slave named Malatie of Mosambicque 51 years of age, housemaid 150:-- 11:5:-- a female slave named Dina of the Cape 16 year of age 600:-- 45:--

Debtors to the estate Rd:s £ from Joh:s Petrus Maree S:z for the purchase of a certain piece of the place Goudini situated in this district according to a contract 2333:16 175:--:-- from David Maree J:n son for the purchase of a certain piece of the place Wolffe Gat situated in this district according to a contract 2666:32 200:--:-- from John Gadney for the purchase of fourteen oxen according to a note of hand 392:-- 29:8:-- from Piet Pietersen according to a private bond 150:-- 11:5:-- from Michael Josias de Kock M: son according to a note of hand 90:-- 6:15:-- Rd:s18310:8 £1373:5:3

Creditors to the estate Rd:s £ Rd:s £ to Jacobus Theunissen J:z for the purchase of the beforementioned place Drooge Kloof 6666:32 500:--:-- to Philippus Lodewicus de Bruin, J:z by a note of hand 4050:-- 303:15 to the vendue master at Swellendam 92:-- 6:18:-- to Joh:s Wilh:s Wessels Jans son by private bond 2066:-- 154:19:-- to the wid: Michiel Josias de Kock by bond 1000:-- 75:--:-- to his beforementioned three steptchildren Geertruyda Jacomina, Jan Wilhelmus and Pieter Arnoldus Badenhorst for paternal inheritance 319:24 23:19:3 to his three children procreated in former wedlock by Anna Magdalena Wessels, named Wessel Johannes, Geertruyda Philippina and Philippus Lodewicus de Bruyn for maternal inheritance as per deed executed in the Orphan Chamber 1130:-- 84:15:-- to Jan Stephanus de Bruyn Philips son 100:-- 7:10:-- to Pieter Ulrich Fischer Pieter’s son 150:-- 11:5:-- to Mattheus Henricus Wessels Jan’s son 80:-- 6:--:-- still to the said vendue master at Swellendam for a vendue bill 50:-- 3:15:-- 15704:8 1177:16:3 So that the estate yields a clear sum of Rd:s2606 £195:9

Thus inventoried and appraised at the place called Drooge Kloof situated at the Kwartel Rivier, Rivier zonder Einde, in the district of Caledon on the 25th of October 1827, according to a statement delivered by the widower named in the premises, who declared to have acted with good faith in this respect and not to have kept any thing concealed belonging to the estate above mentioned, and the appearer further declared that he is and will at all times be ready and willing to confirm his statement by solemn oath if required, promising at the same time that if after the date of these presents any other property of this estate might be discovered, he shall faithfully communicate it to the Orphan Chamber in order to amplify this inventory with the property so discovered.

In witness whereof we the Commissioners together with the appearer and the Secretary to the Orphan Chamber have subscribed to these presents.

As Commissioners: J:F: Munnik, J: Horne

P:C: de Bruijn

In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts