Johannes Hermanus Bouwer

From research of Janet melville

d4 Johannes Hermanus Bouwer Born 15.02.1805, Bapt Swellendam (NG Kerk) 31.03.1805

Jan en sy vyf oudste seuns het in 1860 almal aansoek gedoen om grond in British Kaffraria (toe dit ’n Crown Colony geword het). Die gemeente wat later as Komgha bekend sou staan, se rekords dateer vanaf 1859. Die eerste Bouwer doop was in 1862, met Jeremias Jesaias en sy vrou Martha Ferreira. ’On 23 December 1847 the lands between the Keiskamma and Great Kei Rivers were annexed to the Cape Colony. The new territory, known as British Kaffraria, was divided into seven counties named Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Yorkshire, Sussex and Northumberland. These were roughly coincidental with the tribal divisions existing in the region before the war. Its seat of government was located at King William’s Town. The port of East London, as well as the land immediately about it, was annexed to the Cape in 1848, probably in an attempt to pre-empt the smuggling of goods through the port into the interior of the Colony. Following the frontier war from 1850 to 1853, the Governor of the Cape, Sir George Grey, instituted a series of measures aimed at bringing the indigenous residents of the region into the Cape economy. These included, among others, the establishment of missionary training institutions at Lovedale, Healdtown, Salem and Lesseyton. In 1857 the so-called “cattle killing” not only destroyed the indigenous agrarian economy of the region, but also resulted in widespread famine and the death of nearly 60% of its indigenous residents. It has been estimated that between January and July 1857 their numbers dropped from 105,000 to 37, 000. That same year veterans of the Anglo German Legion were brought out as military settlers to Kaffraria, resulting in the establishment of a number of new settlements, such as Berlin, Stutterheim and Hamburg. Shortly thereafter their number was supplemented by groups of unmarried Irish women. In 1859 East London was incorporated into British Kaffraria, and in 1860 the territory was proclaimed a Crown Colony with divisions at East London, King William’s Town, Stutterheim, Gonube, Keiskammahoek and Middledrift. In 1866 British Kaffraria was annexed to the Cape Colony and divided into two divisions, King William’s Town and East London. In 1877 these were fragmented further into the divisions of Komgha, Cathcart and Stutterheim. After 1910 British Kaffraria became known as the Border Region. ’ South African History online Married Grahamstown (Anglikaans St. George’s) 10.12.1826, Maria Dorothea Catharina Ferreira (d.v. Stefanus Engelbertus FErreiraA & Emerentia Botha), Bapt. 20.04.1806, Died ±1858

Hy is 1ste keern getroud te St George’s, Grahamstown (no 147) as ’bachelor of district of Albany’, deur Thomas NN (chaplain) met getuies Howard en JM Cromhout. 10 December 1826 1826, this 10th day of December 1826 Johannes Hermanus Bouwer marital status: Bachelor residence: of the District of Albany and Maria Dorothea Ferreira marital status: Spinster residence: of the same District were married here by Banns this 10th day of December 1826 by Thomas Ireland, Chaplain This marriage was solemnized between us groom signature:

Johannes Harmanis bouwer bride signature: Maria Dorothia Ferreira witnessed by: Wm. Howard, T N

Cromhout Source: Grahamstown - St George (Anglican), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. marriage register, 1826-1836, page 14, entry no 147. Repository:

Cory Library, MS 14 879-1. Transcribed by Lynn MacLeod as part of the eGGSA Project, from photographs by William Jervois, and proofread by Sue Mackay xx Albanie (NG kerk) 17.01.1859, Maria Magdalena Catharina Wilhelmina Dicjason (d.v. Frederick DIickason & Aletta Johanna Bouwer), born Albanie plaas Seven Fountains 30.12.1838, Bapt Grahamstown (Anglikaans St. George’s) 30.12.1838 - bruid aangeteken as Maria Magdalena Katharina Wilhelimna