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Arend Moelich

1842.11.15 - 1923.02.12

Arend Moelich Age 81 Married to: Hester (Johanna?) Magdalena Claassen
Born 1842.11.15 Died 1923.02.12 Baptised 1849.12.25 Died 1937.10.18
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Parents Father Moelich Children Boys 3 Date of marriage:
  Mother ? 10 Girls 3 1

Arend Moelich was born in Germany. During unrest or war his parents fled to Holland when he was a baby. They lived at 10 Marx Street in Rotterdam. Age 17, Arend arrived in 1859 at the Cape and was a teacher at Kandelaarsrivier (Oudtshoorn).

Arend's son Gerrit Johannes Moelich moved to Bonnievale. When Arend Moelich retired from teaching he lived at on of his son's farms (Van der Merwe) in Bonnievale. Arend was an energetic gardener and brought many small trees in containers from Oudsthoorn. These he planted and in the 1980s they were still bearing fruit.

Hester Joubert (Gerrit's daughter) lived in the house.

List is an informal list, and divided into sons and daughters

Sons

  1. Arend Johannes, married Hendrika
  2. Gerrit Johannes 1873.02.06 - 1942.06.03, married Jacoba Hendrina Olivier 18??04.24 - 1924.07.18
  3. Louis, married Anna Fourie
  4. Nicholaas, married Elizabeth Wentzel
  5. Johannes, marreid Dolly (Isadore Irene) de Villiers
  6. David, married Colly Rabe
  7. Petrus, married Gertruida Wium

Daughters

  1. Hester Magdalena, married Ockert Johannes Fourie
  2. Kato (Catherina) married Danie Beneke (Kandelaarsrivier)

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