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Maria de Buys (van der Horst)

Also Known As: "Maria de Buys", "Maria Trotsky", "Van der Ros", "Trotsky"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Caep de Goede Hoop, South Africa
Death: 1821 (50-59)
Soutpansberg, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Wife of Coenraad de Buys
Mother of Elizabeth Anna Sowietski; Maria Magdalena van der Horst, b3c1d4e1; Johannes du Buis, b3c1d4e3; Aletta Buys; Petrus du Buis, b3c1d4e7 and 6 others

Managed by: Hester Maria Christina Marx
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About Maria de Buys

Maria was a Baster Khoi Koi woman of slave descent who had 7 children with Coenraad de Buys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenraad_de_Buys



The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, By Hermann Giliomee


Referred to as Maria Trotsky on her son's Death Notice


Adult bap. Swartland 20/11/1815
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_der_Ros-1

On her son Theodorus Cornelis's baptism record she is indicated as "van der Ros". The well-known Professor Richard van der Ross, late rector of the University of the Western Cape, mentioned that he believed the surname should be Van der Horst. The genealogy should be interesting to research.

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Maria de Buys's Timeline

1766
1766
Caep de Goede Hoop, South Africa
1782
1782
Cape Colony, South Africa
1793
1793
Suid Afrika, Kaap
1794
September 29, 1794
Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa
1795
July 1, 1795
Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa
1798
1798
Suid Afrika, Kaap
1805
October 17, 1805
October 17, 1805
Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa
1810
March 26, 1810