Cornelis Johannes Brits

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About Cornelis Johannes Brits

"BRITS, CORNELIS JOHANNES - Ongeklassifiseer (?) * 19/11/1810 gedoop Graaff-Reinet 10/2/1811, seun van Rudolph Cornelis en Hilletje Magdalena Brits, X Graaff-Reinet 6/8/1831 Elsie Johanna Clasina Spruyt. WOONPLEK: Dit is waarskynlik hy wat in Januarie 1836 saam met Johannes Jacobus Janse van Rensburg (Lang Hans) en andere aan die Rietrivier met hulle vee vertoef het. Brits was blykbaar vir baie jare voor die Groot Trek 'n trekboer oorkant die Oranje. Vestig hom in die Transoranje (Lys 50, 10/4/1842, no. 73; SAG 1, p. 453; CO 2764, pp. 43-63, KAB)." Uit: Voortrekkerstamouers, 1835-1845 / Jan C. Visagie, Pretoria : Protea Boekhuis, 2011, p. 93.

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Cornelis Johannes Brits's Timeline

1810
November 19, 1810
Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1811
October 2, 1811
Graaff-Reinet, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1832
April 4, 1832
1834
March 1834
1836
May 1836
1838
March 16, 1838
1842
1842
1843
October 9, 1843
1845
March 23, 1845