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Hans Jacob Brits

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kaapstad, Caap de Goede Hoop, Suid Afrika
Death: January 19, 1794 (67)
Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Son of Cornelis Ockerse (Ockert) Brits and Maria Magdalena (Mostert) Brits
Husband of Cornelia Susanna Brits; Aletta Brits; Dirkje Brits; Alleta Katrina Claasen and Private
Father of Sara Johanna Smal, b5c3d1; Maria Magdalena Swart, b5c3d2; Margaretha Maria Pieters; Dina Margaretha Beukes, b5c3d3; Cornelis Jacob Brits, b5c3d5 and 18 others
Brother of Maria Brits, (c2); Bernardus Brits, b5c4; Geertruyda Brits, i b5c5; Geertruida Swart, ii; Cornelius (Cornelis de Peronne) Brits, b5c7 and 2 others
Half brother of Sophia Elisabeth Carstens. Kock. Schutz; Alida Mostert; Cornelis Mostert; Maria Magdalena Franke / Gerritsz; Louis Mostert and 1 other

DVN: b5c3
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About Hans Jacob Brits

b5 Cornelis getroud: Alida Mostert; hertroud: 12 Mar 1724 Maria Magdalena de Peronne, weduwee van: Jacob Mostert

c3 Hans Jacob ≈ 21.7.1726 x 4.4.1751 Cornelia SWART xx 10.4.1774 Aletta CLAASEN

Eerste Huwelik

d1 Sara Johanna ≈ 30.4.1752 x J.U. SMAL

d2 Maria Magdalena ≈ 8.9.1754 x 8.2.1778 J.J. SWART

d3 Dina Margaretha ≈ 23.3.1761 x M.G. BEUKES

d4 Cornelia ≈ 22.1.1764 x J.J. HUMAN

d5 Cornelis Jacob ≈ 27.7.1766 x 19.2.1792 Judith ODENDAAL xx Swellendam 20.8.1831 Christina Fredrika STEYN (wed. v. M.P. Taute)

d6 Petrus Johannes ≈ 7 Maart 1768 x 24.5.1784 Anna Louisa BEUKES

d7 Geetruy ≈ 16.6.1771

d8 Hans Jacob ≈ 22.5.1774 x 19.1.1794 Magdalena Petronella ODENDAAL

Tweede Huwelik

d9 Johannes Jacobus * 23.7.1774 ≈ Swartland 5.11.1775 x 14.5.1797 Cornelia Aletta CLAASEN

d10 Cornelia * 23.12.1775 ≈ Swartland 7.1.1776 x Dirk VOOGD

d11 Johannes Christiaan ≈ 15.2.1778

d12 Aletta Alida ≈ 20.2.1780 x A.C. SMIT

d13 Johannes Barend ≈ 13.5.1781

d14 Johanna Maria ≈ 13.4.1783 x Graaff-Reinet 3.11.1816 Johannes Jacobus ROEPREG

d15 Dina Dorothea ≈ 5.7.1787 x Swellendam 5.1.1805 Christian Johannes F. ROERSTORF

d16 Ockert ≈ 5.7.1787 x Uitenhage 4.1.1817 Catharina Elizabeth CLAASEN

d17 Gerbrecht ≈ 7.3.1790 x Gerrit JACOBS

d18 Hester Engela ≈ 7.3.1790 x Swellendam 1.8.1807 Hendrik Johannes SWIEGELAAR

d19 Johan Abraham ≈ 9.2.1794

d20 Catharina Susanna ≈ 9.2.1794 x George 8.8.1813 Andries A. APPELGRYN

d21 Catharina ≈ 3.12.1797 x Uitenhage 9.12.1817 Anthonie SEVASKOWITZ

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Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl FRS[1] (23 November 1887 – 2 December 1948) was a South African electrical engineer and industrialist and is regarded as one of the greatest South Africans for his contribution to the country's development.[2] He was the driving force behind the establishment of the South African electricity utility company Eskom and the South African Steel and Iron Corporation ISCOR.

Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl
Born
23 November 1887
Pretoria
Died
2 December 1948 (aged 61)
Johannesburg
Citizenship
South African
Alma mater
Leipzig University
Spouses
Florence Wagner ​(m. 1915)​
Ethel Buxton ​(m. 1942)​
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Fields
Electrical engineering
Institutions
Western Electric
Eskom
ISCOR
University of Pretoria
Thesis
The behaviour of ionized liquid dielectrics during the passage of electric currents (1912)

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Hans Jacob Brits's Timeline

1726
July 7, 1726
Kaapstad, Caap de Goede Hoop, Suid Afrika
July 21, 1726
Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
July 21, 1726
July 21, 1726
1752
April 26, 1752
Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope
1754
1754
1754
1761
1761
1764
January 22, 1764
1766
July 27, 1766
This Colony, Caep de Goede Hoop, South Africa