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Johann Jurgen Graaff, SV/PROG

Also Known As: "GRÄFF"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Reichelsheim, Dorn-Assenheim, Hessen, Germany
Death: 1822 (87-88)
Paarl, Cape Winelands, Western Cape, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Son of Johann Conrad Graff and Catherina Graff
Husband of Elsje Elizabeth Graaff and Elsje Graaff, SM
Father of Eva Louise van de Kaap, SM; Willem Graaff, b1; Maria Catharina Graaff, b2; Albertina Catharina Fritz; Elsje Elizabeth Frits. Deysel and 9 others

Managed by: Liesel Syfert Barnard
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About Johann Jurgen Graaff, SV/PROG

Marriage - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-69VB-X?i=111&...

GRAAFF JOHANN JüRGEN (S). - Dornassenheim. • 28.2.1734, son of Johann Conrad Gräff and Catharina Huther (W. Schmidt, p. 151). Arr. 1761 as so., mason 1761-66, b. 1766. Resident at Stellenbosch (1770), later (1794) in the district of Graaff-Reinet. ~ Elsie, also called Elsie Kriel. 11 children (2 sons, Willem, Johannes Jürgen and a daughter, Elisabeth not mentioned in G.R.). His widow died 1822 on the “Leningsplaas (loan-farm) Boemendaal,” dist. Graaff-Reinet and left the following children:

  • Anna Christina ~ 12.7.1801 Hendrik Textor of Schiedam,
  • Albertina Catharina ~ Joseph Fritz,
  • Elsje ~ Franz Dysel,
  • Johannes Jürgen ~ Johanna Botma,
  • Johan Adam Petrus,
  • Hendrik Christiaan ~ Johanna Botha,
  • Elsie Elisabeth ~ David Fritz.

(GMR 1761-66; Rq. 1766: 62; Test. CJ1184: 25; Stellenbosch Arch., vol. 660:8; Inv. O.C. 48: 36; G.R. nr. 141.) Among the baptised bastards of Graaff-Reinet (J 144 under 1799) are mentioned Joseph Fritz ~ Alberta Catharina Graaff, David Fritz ~Elsje Elisabeth Graaff.

In a letter of July 10, 1800 (Letters from Individuals from Graaff-Reinet), Graaff declared i.a. that he had “en wagen die 'k niet gebruyken kan, en 9 ossen waarvan 5 geen tanden in haar bek hebben, een paard met een oog, ouwd synde 14 jaar, een plaas die ik gehad heeft en hy's ook nog op myn naam, genaamd “Klaren Stroom”. Die heb ik uyt noot moeten verkopen”, that his cattle had been stolen, that he had “geen mond vol kost”, and that he was “oud, sat van dagen en vol onrust”.

- Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, 1652-1806, Archives Year Book for South African History (Cape Town: Government Printer, Union of South Africa, 1946)

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Johann Jurgen Graaff, SV/PROG's Timeline

1734
February 28, 1734
Reichelsheim, Dorn-Assenheim, Hessen, Germany
1740
1740
1779
June 13, 1779
1779
1780
March 20, 1780
Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
1781
May 26, 1781
Swartland, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
1783
1783
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
1784
1784
1785
February 11, 1785