Matthys Christiaan Calitz, b2c6

DN of Matthys Christiaan Calitz b2c6 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-D959-Q?i=1488&cat...

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b2 Frederik ≈ 23.2.1744 x 30.12.1770 Aletta COETZER xx 24.7.1774 Magdalena Josina PRETORIUS xxx 8.2.1795 Jannetje LABUSCHAGNE (wed. v. Jacobus van Zyl)

c6 Matthys Christiaan ≈ 5.10.1783 x Kaapstad 13.11.1803 Geertruyda Anna Magdalena STRYDOM

d1 Gesina ≈ 22.11.1804 x George 7.5.1820 Frederik Johannes PRETORIUS

d2 Mattheus Johannes Jacobus Christiaan ≈ 21.2.1809 x George 23.4.1832 Margaretha Aletta FOURIE

d3 Magdalena Josina ≈ 11.11.1810 † Gamka 30.8.1847 x Johannes Jacobus Stephanus GEYSER † Calitzdorp 23.6.1879

d4 Frederik ≈ 2.11.1812 x Swellendam 2.2.1834 Petronella Hermina STASSEN

d5 Geertruyda Anna Magdalena * c. 1814 x George 2.2.1834 Jan Jacob Anthonie SMIT

d6 Johannes Gerhardus * 11.8.1817 ≈ George 24.8.1817

d7 Jacobus Johannes * 12.6.1819 ≈ George 28.11.1819 x George 2.5.1842 Geertruyda Elizabeth BLOM

d8 Gerrit Andries * 11.12.1821 ≈ George 3.3.1822 x George 11.1.1841 Anna Margaretha Johanna CALITZ

  10 kinders saam -aangeteken Anna Geertruida CALITZ, b2c6d8e1; Geertruyda Anna Margaretha CALITZ, b2c6d8e2; Beatrix Margaretha CALITZ, b2c6d8e3; Gesina CALITZ, b2c6d8e4; Magdalena Susina CALITZ, b2c6d8E5;  Hermina Catharina CALITZ, b2c6d8E6; Johanna Susanna CALITZ, b2c6d8E7; Geertruida Anna Magdalena CALITZ, b2c6d8E8; Johanna Elizabeth CALITZ, b2c6d8E9; Matthys Christiaan CALITZ (G-zn) b2c6d8e10

d9 Jan Hendrik * 1.12.1823 ≈ Paarl 22.4.1824

d10 Pieter Cornelis * 26.1.1826 ≈ Paarl 17.9.1826

d11 Louis Lourens * 4.11.1830 ≈ George 12.6.1831 x Mosselbaai 10.1.1848 Judith Magdalena STIEMIE

Matthys Christiaan CALITZ b2c6 (≈ 5.10.1783 + 1.3.1860? Lyn) * April 7, 1782 ,  Swellendam, Kaap SA, + 01.Nov 1860 (78jr) Calitzdorp, SA

x Kaapstad 13.11.1803 Geertruyda Anna Magdalena STRYDOM * 14.2.1789 + Calitzdorp 19.2.1862 (73jr), dv Johannes STRIJDOM, b4c6d1 en Gesina VAN ZIJL, b3c3d1 (Geesje)

11 KINDERS AANGETEKEN Gesina Christina CALITZ, b2c6d1;Matthys Johannes Jacobus Christiaan CALITZ b2c6d2 ; Magdalena Josina CALITZ b2c6d3;Frederik CALITZ b2c6d4; Gertruida Anna Magdalena CALITZ b2c6d5 ; d6 Johannes Gerhardus, d7 Jacobus Johannes; Gert Andries CALITZ b2c6d8, d9 Jan-Hendrik; Pieter Cornelis CALITZ, b2c6d10

and Louis Lourens CALITZ, b2c6d11

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The farm Buffelsvallei, on which Calitzdorp stands, was granted to Jacobus Johannes and Matthys Christiaan Calitz in 1831. The brothers donated part of their farm for the establishment of a church in 1853 and in 1858 the church started the sale of plots to church members. In 1924 a railway line was opened, in 1937 electrification and a new cement road to Oudtshoorn was completed.

The Swartberg (in the North), Rooiberge (to the South) and the Mountains of the Huisrivier Pass (to the West) surrounds Calitzdorp's challenging landscape with floods, droughts and extreme weather, from very hot to snow clad mountaintops in the winter.

Summers are very hot during the day, mainly a dry heat, up to 40 °C. Wind from the sea every afternoon allows for moderate, cool evenings. Winters have sunny days, very cold nights with occasional frost and snow often falling on the surrounding Swartberg Mountain Range. Rainfall is approximately 200 mm per year, often with the changing of seasons. Prevailing winds are mainly from the south in summer and hot wind from the North in August.

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