Wilhelmina Magdalena van Niekerk

1832 - 1919  (86 years)

• Name	Wilhelmina Magdalena van Niekerk
  Nickname	Minnie
  Born	30 Nov 1832	Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Gender	Female
  Died	7 May 1919	"Rietfontein No. 110", Heidelberg district, Transvaal
  Person ID	I99	Van den Berg Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	Jacobus Gustavus van Niekerk,   b. 4 May 1806, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Mother	Johanna Helena Josina S. Pieterse
  Married	9 Oct 1825	Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Family ID	F80	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Samuel Liversage,   b. 3 Apr 1827, Glen Linden, Cape ,   d. 1902  (Age 74 years)
  Married	23 Jun 1851	Pietermaritzburg, Natal
  Children	1. Theodora Liversage,   b. 28 Sep 1857, Glen Linden, Cape ,   d. 24 Oct 1937, Winburg, Free State, South Africa  (Age 80 years)
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2019
  Family ID	F44	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Wilhelmina Magdalena van Niekerk

  
  

• Notes

  Participated in the Groot Trek from the Eastern Cape to Natal. She was a girl of five when her parents helped to found the town of Pietermaritzburg. Married #36 Samuel Liversage Jnr on 23 June 1851 in the house of J Boshoff (the local marriage officer) in Pietermaritzburg. He couldn't speak Afrikaans, and she couldn't speak English, but they understood each other well. Straffen Short