Elizabeth Luytje Gildenhuys

d3 Johannes Jochemus gedoop: 24 Nov 1754, boer Ratelrivier (Bredasdorp); getroud: 8 Feb 1778 Maria Magdalena Brits, gedoop: 8 Feb 1754

e3 Elsabe Luytje ≈ 15.2.1784 † “Ghwarrie”, dist. Bredasdorp 3.11.1834 x Kaapstad 21.9.1800 Jurie Johannes GELDENHUYS ≈ 8.4.1776 xx Stellenbosch 7.6.1807 Johannes SWART ≈ 1.2.1761

The town of Bredasdorp was founded with the building of a Dutch Reformed Church in 1838 on the farm Langefontein. The town was named after Michiel van Breda, the first Mayor of Cape Town, who was also known as the father of South Africa's merino sheep industry. Van Breda and Pieter Voltelyn van der Byl could not agree on a location for the church; as a result two churches were built, and two towns, Bredasdorp and Napier, were established.